Search engine Yahoo has released its results for the top 10 search terms of 2011. This year, the most popular search were dominated by the usual news stories, celebrities and natural disasters, but there was also one big surprise. A gadget (see slideshow) topped Yahoo’s list of the top ten most-searched terms, a rare occurrence, according
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Microsoft and Mozilla have teamed up to create a new browsing option: A version of the popular Firefox browser will be available for download with Bing as the integrated search engine. Mozilla announced the partnership in a blog post, describing the new browser as “a customized version of Firefox that sets Bing as the default search
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Google announced on Friday that Google+ users will soon begin to see Google+ posts in their Google Search results. This feature is activated only when you’re signed in to your Google Account, according Product Manager Sagar Kamdar, who posted the announcement on the Google Search Blog. When you’re searching Google for, say, a restaurant, you
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Google Inc. has bought about 1,000 pending and issued patents from IBM Corp. in its quest to shore up its defenses against suits by other technology companies, according to documents filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Google and IBM spokesmen wouldn’t comment Friday on the purchase. The patent transfers were recorded two weeks
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It’s only been a few weeks since the world’s web users woke up to discover a big black bar at the top of their Google search results (introduced when Google+ was launched). Now, some users of Google search might start seeing something else close to the top of the world’s most famous home page. The
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Google has taken down over 11 million sites it has deemed “spammy.” According to The Register, the .co.cc subdomain, owned independently by a Korean company, is not an authorized second-level domain (such as .co.uk). Google classified it as a “freehost,” meaning that it allows users to register single sites for free. Oliver Fisher, a member
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