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Google Now Update Basically Makes It Passbook (and So Much More)
Google Now is awesome, and the best bit is that it’s getting even smarter, fast. Google’s just rolled out a Now update that basically makes it Passbook for Android. It’ll automatically pull boarding...
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Google’s Zeitgeist Report is Here: The All-Seeing Eye Takes a Long, Hard Look...
Like a mum trawling through her teenage son’s internet history, there’s nothing more revealing than peeking under Google’s covers at what Britain’s been searching for this year. 2012′s been eventful,...
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Grokr is Basically Google Now for the iPhone
Google Now is awesome. Predicting what you’ll want by tracking your every move and search might seem creepy, but in practice it’s great. I wish it was on the iPhone too. Thankfully someone’s thought of...
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Google Is Blocking Porn (Duh, NSFW)
We didn’t see this coming: Google Image Search is no longer showing sexually explicit images for many popular queries. What the hell is going on? Searching for “tits” brings up a grid of busty women in...
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The Web We Lost
The tech industry and its press have treated the rise of billion-scale social networks and ubiquitous smartphone apps as an unadulterated win for regular people, a triumph of usability and empowerment....
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Torrent Site With Zero Users Gets Founders Booted out of Australia
Three Canadian travelers who met each other in Australia decided to become the next big thing in torrent tracking, setting up their own search site at the end of November. And even though it had no...
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Apple Products Were the UK’s Most ‘Unwanted’ Christmas Gifts
Ever bought someone the wrong book, or DVD for Christmas? Or how about the wrong gadget? According to Britain’s search results, loads and loads of people just plain bought the wrong Apple product for...
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YouView Can Now Search Live TV as Well as VOD
Here’s something that you might have thought was obvious, but wasn’t actually included in the first run. YouView’s killer unified search now processes the live TV EPG up to 7 days in advance, as well...
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Yahoo Tries to Use Its Bitch Flickr to Take on Google Images
No one who’s actually found how to change default search provider in Internet Explorer actually uses Yahoo search, but now the Google competitor is trying to win our hearts back…by bunging Flickr...
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Facebook’s Big Announcement Is a Google-Killing Search Engine (and No One...
So, not content with merely having our souls, it looks like Lord Zuck wants to rule the world of search as well. By now, you’ve probably heard that Facebook is holding a big dramatic press conference...
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Facebook Just Declared War on Google: Meet Your New Search Engine
Today’s big bad Facebook revelation is a search engine—not for the web, but for your life. And it’s just another step in Facebook’s attempt to conquer the entire Internet. Meet Graph Search. Facebook’s...
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Here’s What Using the New Facebook Search Looks Like
Facebook Graph Search is an amazing feature with a terrible name. It takes the massive, inordinate amount of personal information and experiences you’ve charted over the years, and pulls them up with a...
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These People Are Now Sharing Horrible Things About Themselves Thanks to...
FB’s glistening new search engine makes finding interesting things about yourself, your past, and all of your friends excitingly easy. It also makes it a cinch to find strangers who are openly racist,...
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Who Does Facebook Search Screw the Most?
Graph Search, which we’re going to call Facebook search from here on out because nobody wants to read or write “Graph Search,” is a dramatic new way to browse Facebook. But its implications spill over...
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Google Images Just Got a Whole Lot More Slick
Google has just announced that it’s given Images an overhaul. Placing an emphasis on speed, metadata and slick looks, image previews will now appear in an inline panel to make it easier to browse large...
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Print To 86,000 Random Printers Around the World Thanks to Google
Cool new prank idea: print a bunch of pictures of arses to a random printer. Seriously, you can do it—Google has indexed somewhere around 86,800 publicly available HP printers. A little savvy searching...
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10m UK Apple Users Could Claim Against Google for Secret Snooping
Google’s about to be hit by a huge privacy storm in the UK, thanks to a group legal case that claims it ignored privacy rules to track up to 10 million iPhone, iPad and Safari users. Dan Tench, a...
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The First GIF Search Engine Is Hilariously Bad
There’s a Google specifically for GIFs now. Giphy is a great and noble cause, and we hope it gets better some day. But as it stands now, it’s humorously awful and painfully slow. For example, for some...
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How Much Does that Little Search Box On Your iPhone Cost Google?
If you’d said about £600 million a year, you wouldn’t be too far off. Apparently Google pays Apple some ungodly sum each year to stay put as the default search provider for the mobile Safari search...
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Google Is Adding Animated GIF Search
Finding the perfect animated GIF to describe your feelings is about to get easier—Google is adding new filters to image search that let you designate the specific file type you’re looking for. On the...
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