Yesterday we posted an article about the issue of privacy in relation to the internet. Worryingly the UK are only 5th (out of 25) on a league table of internet freedom. Obviously this doesn’t mean the MI5 are watching all our computer screens all of the time in a big room in London, but innocent [...]

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Reactions to Google instant were mixed. Some loved it; some found it a little annoying. Despite your personal feelings towards it though you can’t deny that it’s an impressive feature which cuts down on search times. The casual Googler may not notice the difference but if you’re a hardcore web surfer instant can be your [...]

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Though, naturally Microsoft are denying this, it seems their internet search engine (yes the one with the annoying adverts) has been copying its results off Google. In an operation called Bing Sting, now this is all a little convoluted but… Google crafted one-time code that would allow it to manually rank a page for a [...]

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Blekko, a new $24 million search engine designed to eliminate spam search results has been launched in public beta after three years in the making. Using ‘slashtag’ technology the engine attempts to separate queries into one of seven categories: health, colleges, autos, personal finance, lyrics, recipes and hotels. Every time a Blekko user’s query is [...]

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Microsoft’s “decision engine”, is looking to take on iTunes with a some clever intergregration with their Zune Marketplace, from today searches of music, lyrics, games, TV shows, and movies will all get a special place in the search engine. You’ll be able play 100 basic games from the your search results, along with the ability [...]

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Earlier on this month GadgetGirl reported that the Wall Street Journal had revealed Google’s plans to close its Chinese search engine in reaction to ongoing censorship issues between the communist country and the ‘anti-censorship’ Google. Just over a week later and Google who back in January said on their official blog that they were not [...]

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The iPhone app, Bing from Microsoft has been updated with a whole host of new feature and changes. As well as aesthetic changes and tweaks to the stability of the app, more features to the app include the ability to copy and paste URLs, sharing search results via email and also offering parental controls which [...]

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Google have been working secretly to update the core infrastructure of their search engine. The project code-named “Caffeine” is designed to let Google increase the indexing speed, accuracy and the comprehensiveness of search results.

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