Microsoft’s Bing and Yahoo search engines suffered a temporary outage on Friday, all because of a bad code update. While Bing recovered from the outage in less than half an hour time,…
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Google search results now display song lyrics as well
Google has begun displaying snippets of song lyrics right at the top of its search results pages. This means users can now search for song lyrics without leaving Google’s search results page….
Facebook stops powering search results via Microsoft Bing
Facebook has stopped using Microsoft’s Bing search engine to power search results on its social network. The move follows the social juggernaut’s recent revamping of its own search offerings which includes introduction…
Ebola is the most searched term of 2014 on Yahoo
Ebola is the most searched topic on Yahoo for the current year, a new report has claimed. The topic has managed to outdo all celebrities and gadgets to win for itself the…
European Parliament waves green at resolution calling out for Google’s split-up
The European Parliament on Thursday voted in favour of a resolution that called for splitting up of Google’s search engine business from the rest of its commercial operations as a potential solution…
Apple could ditch Google as default search engine on Safari, report claims
Recent reports suggest Apple, like Mozilla, could soon ditch Google as its default search engine on the Safari browser as early as next year. According to The Information, as the deal between…
US: EU’s antitrust probe on Google shouldn’t be politically motivated
The United States on Tuesday noted that it is against European Parliament’s call for splitting up Google’s search engine business from the rest of its commercial operations as it is of the…
Mozilla Firefox ditches Google in favour of Yahoo as default search engine
Mozilla and Yahoo have inked a deal that will see the former replacing Google as its default search engine on Firefox’s Web browser in the US on desktop as well as mobile…
Amazon is Google’s biggest threat says Eric Schmidt
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is of the opinion that e-commerce giant Amazon is Google’s biggest competition as a search engine. Speaking in Berlin, Schmidt, who currently serves as chairman of Google’s…
Microsoft Bing now lets users access full lyrics of songs
Microsoft has just added a new feature to its search engine Bing enabling users to see full lyrics of their favourite songs on the search results page. Previously, any query regarding a…
EU regulators pick on Google over the ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling
Google is removing links only on the search results page for Europe while they are still available on the international site Google.com.
Microsoft’s Bing aiming at 75 more international markets
Bing is likely gearing up to compete head-to-head with Google as a true competitor with its “most ambitious geographic and product expansion in its history.”
Google to flag ‘right to be forgotten’ results
Google feels European users will have to know that certain search results have been removed!
Apple bags social search engine ‘Spotsetter’; shutters it
Apple is seemingly gearing up to enrich its maps app that will give users personalised recommendations on great venues to “eat, play, drink, and shop”.
Over 41,000 forget-me-Google requests received in 4 days
Europeans are registering on an average 7 requests a minute through Google’s right to be forgotten web page.