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Google Appeals Fine Over Privacy In France
Last week, CNIL, France's data protection watchdog, fined Google as much as is in its power...
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EU Gives Google ‘Weeks’ To Offer New Concessions
The big European Google antitrust probe continues, but may be getting closer to a resolution. Either that or we may be getting closer to formal charges being brought against the In...
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Secure Search Is Now On Bing, But It’s Completely Optional For Now
In September of last year, Google began to enabl...
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Microsoft Scroogles Danny Sullivan Out Of A Scroogled Mug
It looks like Microsoft is "scroogling" the people that are actually buying into its "Scroogled" campaign. Back in Nov...
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This Is How Dumb We Must Sound To Google
College Humor has put out a pretty humorous video pointing out how stupid search queries would sound if you spoke them aloud to a person. In this case, Google is a person,...
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Detroit Lions Head Coach Hire Highlights Google’s Struggle With Real Time
Once again, Google is showing that its Knowledge Graph does not update fast enough. During the World Series last fall, somebody vandalized the Wikipedia page for the St. Louis...
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Google Maps Renames Street After Adolf Hitler
Google Maps reportedly renamed Berlin street Theodor Heuss Platz "Adolf Hitler Platz" in an apparently brief blunder, which wasn't brief enough to escape the public eye. Nico H...
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Google Tweaks Guidance On Link Schemes
Google has made a subtle, but noteworthy change to its help center article on link schemes, which is part of...
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Biz Stone’s Jelly Launches, And It’s ‘A New Way To Search’
We've been hearing little bits about Jelly, the latest startup from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone for about a year, but the pro...
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Bing Launches Interactive Awards Site For Golden Globes, The Oscars And More
Are you an awards show fan? Do the thought of the Golden Globes just fill you with glee? If that's the case, you might want to check out what Bing has cooking for this year's award...
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This Guy Wrote 1,712 Yelp Reviews Last Year Alone, Receives Praise From Yelp
Oakland Yelp user Victor G. received some recognition from Yelp for posting the most reviews of 2013 with a total of 1,712 during the year. That's a lot of reviews (about five a da...
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Google Webmaster Tools ‘Search Queries’ Feature Gets Some New Tweaks
Google has announced a couple of changes to the Search Queries feature in Webmaster Tools, improving stats for mobile sites and getting rid of rounding. For webmasters who manag...
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Zora Neale Hurston Gets A Google Doodle
Zora Neale Hurston is the subject of a doodle appearing on Google's homepage today, which marks what would have been the writer and anthropologist's 123rd birthday. She was born in...
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Google Accused Of ‘Double Standard’ Over Rap Genius Penalty Lift
Google is being accused of employing a double standard for its handling of web spam and enabling one penalized site to recover speedily from a manual action. While the search giant...
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Pinterest Acquires VisualGraph And Its Visual Search Technology
Pinterest announced today that it has acquired VisualGraph, an image recognition and visual search technology startup. "VisualGraph’s two employees -- founder Kevin Jing and co...
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