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Google is releasing some new Street View imagery from the abandoned Hashima Island, which is known by "Dead Island" or "Dead City" from the James Bond flick Skyfall. G...

Google Lends Out Its Street View Trekker

Google has launched a pilot program for third-party organizations to borrow its Street View Trekker camera backpack device, to enable them to cont...

Google Tests Authorship-Like Results For Brands

Google is reportedly testing authorship-like search results for brands, where it shows company logos and Google+ circle information for the results, similar to how it shows author...

Google Adds Gmail Contacts To Search Field Trial

Last summer, Google launched the search field trial for users...

DuckDuckGo Launches New ‘Search & Stories’ App

DuckDuckGo has had an Android app available for a couple years, and now it has finally launched an update, calling the app Search & Stories, and launced it for iOS too. The ap...

Yahoo News Gets A Redesign To Go With New Homepage

Yahoo continues to push out redesigns of its major properties. In recent months, we've seen the company release new versions of its...

Street View Hits Google Earth Apps For Android, iOS

Google announced a new Google Earth update today (7.1) for Android and iOS, which brings Street View to the experience. Somehow this wasn't already a part of it. "Whether you'r...

Google Search Android App Gets New Google Now, Voice And Offers Features

Google has launched an update to the Google Search app for Android with some new Google Now features, Voice actions and Offers integration. There are new Google Now TV cards. G...

Google Launches New ‘Cloud-Free’ Satellite Imagery For Maps, Earth

Google announced that it's launching new satellite imagery for Google Maps and Google Earth, and says it's "virtually cloud-free". This, of course, means clearer and more accurate...

Square Directory Goes Away With Launch Of Square Market

Square has apparently shut down the Square Directory in favor of the new Square Market. The URL for the former is now redirecting to the l...

eBay Ups Its Search Game With Cassini

eBay has a new search engine powering the results on its site, and from the sound of it, it's a huge step up from the search experience of years past. It's called Cassini, and...

FTC Updates Search Engine Ad Disclosure Guidelines

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has updated is guidance to the search engine industry regarding the need to distinguish between advertisements and search results. Search indu...

European Court Says Google Does Not Have To Remove Search Results

Often, when people find undesirable search results about themselves, they want Google to remove them. On the surface, this is understandable. You found it on Google, so Google shou...

FairSearch On Google’s Proposals In Europe: It Would Be Better To Do Nothing

This week, Google wrote a post on its Europe Policy blog defending the proposals it recently s...

Google Gets Around Having To Pay German Publishers By Making Google News Opt-In

A law was passed in Germany several weeks ago that would require search engines like Google to pay publishers to license content to include links and snippets in aggregation servic...

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