eBook pirates use Google’s search engine to attract downloaders, and scammers use it (along with fake pirated ebook pages) to find their next victim. Until today authors...Continue reading
DuckDuckGo was in the press last week, touting its epic growth rate, but I think there’s more hype here than substance. Fast Company covered the seven-year-old search...Continue reading
Google will show different results which differ based on your search topic. Look for a location, and Google will likely return a Google Map entry as the...Continue reading
Google’s policy of letting advertisers pay to appear next to specific search terms is coming back to haunt it. A user on Slashdot noticed yesterday that the lead...Continue reading
A little over two weeks ago I proposed that we should all switch from Google to a little known search engine called DuckDuckGo. Having never used DDG myself,...Continue reading
When Spain passed its new copyright laws last October, many feared that the license fees imposed on snippets would imperil aggregators like Google News, social networks like...Continue reading
Google has long been using subtle tricks to suggest that web users switch to its browser, and now it has adopted less than subtle techniques to...Continue reading
Remember that Disney patent for a search engine which would return official marketing material ahead of useful results from independent sources? Apparently Google thought that was...Continue reading
With Libre Office offering many of the same features as MS Office, there’s not much of a reason for me to pay Microsoft. But I think...Continue reading
CultofMac has discovered a new job listing at Apple which suggests that it is getting into the search engine business. Apple is currently looking to hire...Continue reading
Beit on Amazon or their own sites, indie bookstores have long been able to list their stock online and find new customers, but that hasn’t stopped...Continue reading
Disney is not known for their work in search engines, and after looking over their latest patent I can understand why. Torrentfreak reported on Friday that Disney...Continue reading
The American Library Association held one of their two annual conferences this past weekend, and OverDrive was there to show off their latest projects. There are...Continue reading