search engine

Blasty Vaporizes Pirated Content in Google Search Results

15 September, 2015 // 2 Comments

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 and publishers had two [Read More ...]

DuckDuckGo May Be Growing By Leaps and Bounds, But 600% Growth from Nothing is Still Nothing

22 June, 2015 // 4 Comments

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 engine, writing that: Over the [Read More ...]

Google Features Book, Movie Reviews in Search Results

19 May, 2015 // 1 Comment

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 first result. Search for a hotel or vacation, [Read More ...]

Are Google’s Search Results Promoting Genocide Denial?

29 April, 2015 // 3 Comments

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 result in the Google search results [Read More ...]

DuckDuckGo(ogle)

25 April, 2015 // 8 Comments

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, I made the switch blind and today I [Read More ...]

I Think it’s Time We DuckDuckWent to DuckDuckGo

8 April, 2015 // 24 Comments

Google has given us a hundred reasons to switch to a new search engine, but I've stuck with the ad network because I found the big name competition, Bing and Yahoo, to be equally useless. But now a [Read More ...]

Google News Shutdown in Spain Not Having Much of an Impact

18 March, 2015 // 3 Comments

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 Twitter, and online [Read More ...]

Google Hits Back at Mozilla, Urges Firefox Users to Switch Their Default Search Engine to Google

16 March, 2015 // 11 Comments

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 get Firefox users to switch their default search [Read More ...]

Google Now Puts Press Releases in Top Spot in News Search Results

12 March, 2015 // 6 Comments

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 a great idea, [Read More ...]

Microsoft to Stage a Clippy Revival? Could Add Cortana to Office

6 February, 2015 // 2 Comments

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 Redmond may have found one. The Verge is reporting that Microsoft [Read More ...]

Apple’s Hiring a Manager to Run Its Search Engine Program

4 February, 2015 // 0 Comments

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 an engineering project manager for something [Read More ...]

CityShelf Makes It More Difficult For People To Skip Amazon And Buy At Indie Bookstores

25 January, 2015 // 3 Comments

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 some from finding new and less convenient ways for [Read More ...]

MPAA’s WhereToWatch is a Search Engine for TV, Movies

12 November, 2014 // 4 Comments

If you want to find an obscure or old book, you can head to either WorldCat (to look for a library copy) or to Bookfinder (to search bookstores). Finding a movie or TV show, on the other hand, is [Read More ...]

Disney Patents a Search Engine Which Makes it Harder to Find and Read Relevant Info

4 November, 2014 // 9 Comments

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 had been awarded a patent for a [Read More ...]

OverDrive Shows Off Embedded eBooks, Bing Integration at ALA 2014

30 June, 2014 // 8 Comments

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 many projects which OverDrive has [Read More ...]

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