Tag: Search
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Boxee Spotify App Updated With Search, Revamped Inbox and Shuffle Features
Boxee has today rolled out a new update for their Spotify app on the Boxee Box. The new update brings a selection of new features, the mains ones being the ability for users to directly search Spotify’s entire library of music within the app. Previously (as you may be aware) you could only play tracks…
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Google Play (Formerly Android Market) Now Appears on Google Navigation Bar
Everyday we’re Googling – and sometimes something subtle changes, but you can’t quite put your finger on it. Helpfully, this time Google has stuck a little “NEW” tag next to its latest addition to the webpage’s navigation bar. So if you head on over to the popular search site (after you’ve read this article, of…
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Yahoo Sues Facebook Over 10 Alleged Patent Infringements
Yahoo will be seeing Facebook in court after the search engine giant slammed the social network over infringing on copyright patents. We don’t remember the last time we thought of Yahoo as a buzzing hive of online social activity and the last time we logged into a “group” is probably in the last millennium! But…
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Google Pays Apple $1 Billion To Be Search Default
The online search market is big business, and we know that the likes of Google are prepared to spend big money to ensure that they can get the maximum amount of user search queries possible, resulting in users hopefully clicking on ads when displaying results in the process. Therefore, it may or may not come…
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200 Years of Charles Dickens Celebrated in Today’s Google Doodle
Check out Google today and you’ll find the latest in the popular trend of Google Doodles, today celebrating the 200th year since the birth of legendary English writer Charles Dickens. When you mention Charles Dickens, who was born on February 7th in 1812, many of us uncultured types can only think of The Great Gonzo,…
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Google Announces 2011 Zeitgeist: Top Searches From The Past Year
With the year drawing to a close, Google has announced its annual zeitgeist – a rundown of the people and topics most frequently ‘Googled’ in the past 12 months. The top 10 searched items in the UK are for websites, perhaps proving that far too many people are unsure how to add a favourite…
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Google Doodle Celebrates American Writer Mark Twain
Literary types may like to check out today’s Google Doodle which features the colourful likenesses of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in celebration of what would be iconic American author Mark Twain’s 176th birthday. The Doodle is unmissable, spanning the entire page at the top of your Google Chrome, Internet Explorer or surfing software of…
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Google officially launches new Gmail interface
We’ve known for a while now that Google intended to update the Gmail interface thus giving a better overall experience for its users when it demoed it back in early July. Since then Google has added even more updates and other improvements to the new Gmail ,and feels like now’s the time to release the new…
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Google makes web search more secure
Search giant Google has announced its intentions to give users the ability to make secure safe web searches using the Google search engine. Google say in a blog post that they have worked hard over the past few years to increase the use of encryption in its services using the SSL protocol, in addition to…
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iPhone 4S: Siri will not do Directions or Place Searches in the UK – yet
Those lucky people who have pre-ordered or queued up for hours to get their hands on an iPhone 4S today may be left feeling a little disappointed when they get around to trying out Siri, the new voice controlled personal assistant software. When Apple demonstrated Siri at their ‘Let’s Talk iPhone’ event last Tuesday, the…
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Microsoft’s Bing Events tells you where the party’s at!
Microsoft’s online and mobile-based location-finding software Bing introduces ‘Bing Events’ today. Dare we say, it’s a little like Facebook Events, but making the most of the dedicated places-of-interest search platform Bing will provide a “fully comprehensive listing with all details need to ensure a fun night out” – Sounds good to us! A fellow blog…