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• Article | 9/03/2012 In Pictures: How to get more honest search results

  Google's search results are now suspect due to Google+-related manipulations. Here's how to get purer results in your browser.
• Article | 24/10/2011 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 ...
• Article | 8/09/2011 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...
• Article | 5/09/2011 Google kills Maps for Flash, Aardvark social search, others in product restructuring

  Google is trimming its offerings, following a season of big changes for the Internet search leader.
• Article | 28/08/2011 Google's war against scraper sites continues

  Google appears to be getting ready to launch another offensive against website scrapers.
• Article | 6/08/2011 Free Firefox Tool Fights Search Hijacking

  A free tool for the Mozilla Firefox Web browser that can counter search hijacking on computer networks in the United States has been released by the E...
• Article | 6/08/2011 Microsoft and Google's 5 Most Ridiculous Fights

  This week's war of words over software patents and Android has seen both Microsoft and Google get off some pretty good shots about Android and softwar...
• Article | 2/08/2011 How Microsoft plans to beat Google with Bing

  Bing is a big money-loser for Microsoft, shedding billions of dollars per year, but the company is far from giving up on beating Google in the search ...
• Article | 30/07/2011 Google Search now friendlier for tablets

  Google Friday unveiled a simplified search interface for Apple iPad and Android 3.1 tablets. The changes, which are being rolling out over the next se...
• Article | 25/07/2011 Google under fire for not playing fair

  Google is being scrutinized by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for allegedly deceptive practices when it comes to online search and search advertis...
• Article | 17/07/2011 Search engines ruin our memory, make us smarter

  By now you've probably heard that Google and other search engines are making us think differently. Columbia University researcher Betsy Sparrow said w...
• Article | 18/07/2011 Twitter won't fly as high if it flubs Bing deal

  Twitter stands to lose a lot of clout -- and money -- if it flubs its social search deal with Microsoft's Bing like it did with Google.
• Article | 18/07/2011 Google quietly pulls flawed travel times from Maps

  Google has removed a service that predicted travel times with traffic from the browser-based version of Google Maps.
• Article | 17/06/2011 Yahoo app search gets through iOS, Android clutter

  Yahoo is lumbering into the app search game, years behind smaller, nimbler competitors.
• Article | 9/06/2011 Say goodbye to Google Search portals for Linux, Mac and more

  Fans of Linux, Microsoft and Macs used to be able to search for information about those topics on Google using specialized search tools that narrowed ...