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Google threatened by Apple’s Siri

The voice-activated search assistant, Siri, on Apple’s iPhone 4S has made Google concerned about its competition in the market.

By Rebecca Merrett | 07 November, 2011 15:02

Tags: Siri, search, google search, competition, Apple iPhone 4S
Google search tweak alters 35% of searches, focuses on newer results

Thirty-five percent of searches will now look a lot different--and focus on fresher search results--thanks to a change in Google's algorithm.

By Jared Newman | 04 November, 2011 08:04

Tags: search engines, search, internet, Google
Yahoo sale buzz mounts as Google said to be possibly interested

Yahoo's improving stock price following a CEO shakeup makes the Internet portal ripe for a sale, and speculation is flying about industry titans that may bid for the company.

By Christina DesMarais | 24 October, 2011 03:13

Tags: Yahoo, web legal issues, web, software, social networks, Skype, search engines, search, Seagate Technology, Portals, Microsoft, internet, Google, Facebook, applications
Yahoo has no easy way to make consumers interested again

For Yahoo, firing Carol Bartz was easy -- Chairman Roy Bostock gave her the news over the phone -- but turning the company around under new leadership will be a lot harder.

By Jared Newman | 08 September, 2011 08:54

Tags: Yahoo, search engines, search, internet
Google's war against scraper sites continues

Google appears to be getting ready to launch another offensive against website scrapers.

By John P. Mello Jr. | 28 August, 2011 04:03

Tags: spam blockers, spam, security, search engines, search, internet, Google, best of the web, antispam

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Google management shuffle: Right move, wrong guy?

Today's announcement that Google co-founder Larry Page would replace Eric Schmidt as the company's CEO was a surprise, but maybe it shouldn't have been. While the company's earnings are still stellar, Schmidt has made a series of embarrassing statements and the company has had some very public failures.

By Edward N. Albro | 21 January, 2011 13:41

Tags: Stanford University, search engines, search, Phones, internet, Google, consumer electronics, Android
Google's Realtime Search update does what Twitter won't

Searching for status updates is not Twitter's forte, so leave it to Google to make its own Realtime Search engine more powerful instead.

By Jared Newman | 27 August, 2010 08:10

Tags: twitter, search engines, search, internet, Google, Facebook
Ask.com bets on semantic search, targeting special audiences

In the past eight months, Ask.com has unfurled a set of changes to its search engine that the IAC unit calls a success, although its share of U.S. search queries has actually shrunk during that time period.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 03 July, 2009 04:31

Tags: Ask.com, search, search engines
China warns Google over porn links

Google promised to step up control of "vulgar" online search results in China late Thursday, after a government-backed arbiter warned that its filtering of pornography was too weak.

By Owen Fletcher | 19 June, 2009 18:13

Tags: China, filtering, Google, search
China orders Google to suspend foreign site searches

China has ordered Google to suspend its foreign Web site search service after warning that the company's filtering of pornography was too weak, state media said Friday.

By Owen Fletcher | 19 June, 2009 21:20

Tags: China, Google, search

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