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Yahoo’s Top 10 Search Terms Of 2011

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Search engine Yahoo has released its results for the top 10 search terms of 2011.

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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 to Yahoo.

“In the 11 years that Yahoo! has compiled its annual list of top searches, PlayStation 2 (2001 and 2002) is the only other device to have captured the top slot,” Yahoo wrote in a post accompanying the list. “This year, [a gadget again] led the queries, bypassing a reality TV divorcee and America’s most wanted terrorist.”

Firefox With Bing Search

Category: Social, Technology Tags: bing, Bing Firefox, EBay, firefox, Firefox Bing, Firefox Bing Download, Firefox With Bing, google, microsoft, Microsoft Bing, mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Video, Web search engine, yahoo Leave a Comment

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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 engine in the search box and AwesomeBar and makes Bing.com the default home page.”

The Bing team, in a blog post, said they are “excited to make it even easier for members of the Mozilla Firefox community to use Bing.” Members of the Mozilla Firefox community who do wish to use Bing can download it here, at firefoxwithbing.com

Google+ Public Posts Appear In Google Social Search Results

Category: Social, Technology Tags: comScore, google, Google Account, google plus, Google Plus Social Network, Google Search, Google Social Network, Google Social Search, Google+ Posts, Predict The News, Prediction, Search Engine Land, Social Search, twitter, Web search engine, youtube 1 Comment

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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 might see that some results include content shared publicly by members of your Google+ Circles.

Google Buys About 1,000 IBM Patents

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Android, Android Patents, Apple, google, Google Android Patents, Google Ibm Patetns, Google Patents, IBM, Lawsuit, microsoft, Motorola, Patent, Patents, Technology News, U.S. Patent And Trademark Office, Verizon Communications, Web search engine Leave a Comment

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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 ago and cover a range of technologies, many of which have little to do with Google’s Internet search and advertising business. One covers ways of automatically adjusting a clock, another deals with surface treatments for electrical contacts.

Google: ‘Your computer appears to be infected’

Category: Social, Technology Tags: AntiVirus, Confidence trick, google, Malware, Microsoft Windows, social media blog, Tobacco packaging warning messages, User (computing), Web search engine, Windows, youtube Leave a Comment

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 warning message reads:

Your computer appears to be infected.
It appears that your computer is infected with software that intercepts your connection to Google and other sites. Learn how to fix this.

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Jul
7

By pratyushkp

Google Takes Down Over 11 Million CO.CC Sites

Category: Social, Technology Tags: co.cc, google, Korean language, Malware, Oliver Fisher, Register, Search Engine Land, Second-level domain, Subdomain, Web search engine Leave a Comment

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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 of the Google Anti-Malware Team, wrote a post on the search engine‘s Online Security Blog to explain the massive take-down.

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