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- Technology
Key staff driving Apple search engine leave, rejoin Google
San Francisco: Four years after Apple acquired Laserlike to boost its web search technology, the founders have quit to rejoin Google. ‘Laserlike’ is a startup founded by a trio of former Google…
- World
Google search service restored after facing outage
Google search service was down in many countries on Tuesday. Searchers were seeing an error message for a brief period. The error message, ‘The server encountered an error and could not complete…
- Technology
Apple prepares to launch its new search engine at WWDC 2022 next week
Washington: Apple is planning to launch its own search engine as it prepares for its annual WWDC event. A tweet from writer Robert Scoble, which appears after a thread summarizing the Apple surprises he expects…
- Technology
Microsoft brings back option to delete default search engines in Edge
San Francisco: Tech giant Microsoft’s Edge Canary has reportedly restored the option to delete default search engines. Until recently, it was possible to set different search engines as the default, but it…
- India
Google Trends: Here’s what India searched for in 2021
Hyderabad: Aside from searching for truth in politics and progress in the country, Indians spend a lot of time searching for things on Google. Google trends of 2021 take us through a…
- Technology
Google TV could soon start offering free TV channels
San Francisco: Google TV, the smart TV platform from the search engine giant, could soon get support for free TV channels. According to a report from Protocol, Google is in talks with free…
- Technology
Google tweaking its search algorithms to deal with harassers
Washington: Tech giant Google has revealed that it will be enhancing its Search experience in a bid to protect people from harassment of different kinds. As per Mashable, at I/O last month,…
- Technology
DuckDuckGo surpasses 100 million daily search queries
New Delhi: As people move on to secure messaging apps like Telegram and Signal, privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has surpassed 100 million daily search queries for the first time in its 12-year-old history.…
- Technology
Google officially closes controversial Dragonfly project
California: Google’s controversial Dragonfly project, aimed at launching a search engine customised for China, has been officially shut down. Google’s VP of Public Policy Karan Bhatia told the US Senate that the…
- Technology
China blocks Microsoft’s Bing search engine
Beijing: The Chinese government has reportedly blocked Microsoft’s search engine Bing – the only global search platform that was open for use in the country, the company announced on Thursday. According to…
- Technology
Google’s censored China search engine project triggers protests
San Francisco: Google’s offices in the US, UK, Canada, India, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Sweden, Switzerland, and Denmark witnessed renewed protests by human rights groups over its plan to re-enter China through a…
