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You Can Now Search For Vine Videos On The Web

Vine isn't just for your phone anymore: The six-second video service Vine, owned by Twitter, now lets you search for videos and browse categories on the Web, just like you would on your mobile device....

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Apple Hits Google Where It Hurts With Bing Integration In iOS 8 And Mac OS X

Apple has picked a new favorite search engine and Google is feeling the cold shoulder. At Monday’s Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple unveiled its new Mac operating system, OS X Yosemite and with it...

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Google To Europe: Sometimes It's Not So Easy To Forget

Turns out there are a lot of people who want the Internet to forget about them—whether they deserve it or not.In May, a European court ruled that Google must remove "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer...

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Watch Out: Mobile Search Will Make Facebook Stalking Easier Than Ever

You may want to take a quick gander through your entire Facebook history, because Facebook is testing a feature that makes your status updates searchable on mobile. And I bet there are some updates you...

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Search All The Tweets! Twitter Now Indexed All The Way Back To 2006

Twitter gave its search function a major upgrade, indexing the hundreds of billions of public tweets sent since 2006, the company announced on Tuesday.  Currently, Twitter's search feature is fairly...

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Here Comes the iPhone Safari Browser, Starring … Bing?

iPhone and Mac users, brace yourself for change: Google’s tenure as the Safari default search engine for Apple’s phones, tablets and computers will expire next year, sources tell The Information. If...

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Google Now Gives Hypochrondriacs What They Want

Google has now made it easier for armchair physicians to find things to freak out about.The tech giant just announced the inclusion of medical information to its Knowledge Graph searches, allowing...

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In Challenge To Google, Pinterest Launches Guided Search

Pinterest confirmed our suspicions that the visual social network is ready to take on Google when it comes to search. See also: Why Pinterest Is The Google Competitor You Weren't ExpectingAt an event...

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Thanks To Google's Mobilegeddon, Your Search Rank May Be Toast

It's not as if you haven't been warned. Google has said for years it was going to get serious about mobile. Now, on April 21, it is.As it announced back in February, on April 21 Google will "expand...

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Why The EU Hates Google: Its End Game Is Still A Single Search Result

This post first appeared on the Ferenstein Wire, a syndicated news service; it has been edited. For inquires, please email author and publisher Gregory Ferenstein.Back to the futureGoogle’s entire...

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What A Facebook Social Search Engine May Look Like

When it comes to search strategy, Google and Facebook both seek to give users the best possible result. While Google will continue to trust technical data over social data, though, Facebook is likely...

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Sorry, Google: Why Yahoo Remains Stuck With Microsoft's Bing

It all makes sense: prominent ex-Googler Marissa Mayer takes over Yahoo, which uses Microsoft's Bing as its search provider. But Microsoft has failed to live up to its contract with Yahoo, leaving...

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The First .XXX Search Engine - It's Surprisingly Demure

It was bound to happen at some point: Search.xxx, a new search engine from ICM Registry, the operator for .xxx domains, has made its debut. So why does it look so much like other search...

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Court Rules -- Wrongly -- That Google Is A Publisher

An Australian court made a huge mistake Monday. It ruled that Google can be treated as a publisher for the content of its search results -- and therefore be found guilty of libel. If the ruling stands,...

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The Kardashians Won Big On Bing Searches In 2012

Somewhere in Hollywood, the publicists for Kim Kardashian and her sisters are raising a toast. According to Microsoft's Bing search engine, the Kardashian sisters were easily among the most...

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Microsoft: Don't Get 'Scroogled' By Google Search Results

On Wednesday, Microsoft began running a national ad campaign to warn users to avoid being “Scroogled” by Google search results that have been influenced by paid placement.Specifically, Microsoft’s...

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Cheating DeathWatch: Microsoft Isn't Dead Yet

The ReadWrite DeathWatch is known for serving up plenty of doom, gloom and grumpiness. But for the Holiday Season, we're going to take a slightly different tack, and highlight companies and...

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Google Changes SafeSearch Filtering Of Explicit Results

Internet porn surfers everywhere were crying foul last week over Google's decision to change its "SafeSearch" feature to exclude adult content from searches. Anyone that uses Google to find adult...

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Google's FTC Settlement Is An Epic Fail For Microsoft

Microsoft had a pretty lousy year in 2012, putting out a string of big products – Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and the Surface tablet – that all turned out to be be disappointing.But those pale in...

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Facebook Debuts Graph Search, A Natural Language Powered Social Search Engine

Now we know what Facebook's mysterious announcement is. Today at its Menlo Park, California, headquarters, Facebook took the wraps off Graph Search, an instant smart search that sifts through the...

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Facebook Graph Search Is Boring: We Need A Unified Search AI

The big Facebook news tech blogs were all freaking out about turned out to be just another shot in the platform wars.There's nothing exciting about Facebook's Graph Search. It's just another way to...

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Facebook's Graph Search = The Ultimate Online Dating Service?

If you've ever run the virtual gauntlet of online dating, you're well aware that most people are creepy. But the stigma of online dating is fast dissolving - and starting with Graph Search, Facebook is...

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Microsoft's Bing Wins With Facebook's Graph Search - Or Does It?

Microsoft's Bing search engine will ride the coattails of Facebook's Graph Search for years to come, gaining knowledge and possibly ad revenue as Facebook expands Graph Search's capabilities.That can...

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Facebook Graph Search Starts Rolling Out - And Awkward Queries Abound!

Get ready for the social explosion. Facebook Graph Search has begun to roll out to earlybirds who opted into the beta of the new social search bar, which was announced last week at the company's Menlo...

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Apple Wishes It Knew How To Quit Google's Money

How much would you pay to be the default search engine in the iOS mobile operating system?According to a report at TechCrunch on Tuesday, the magic figure that Google will be paying Apple for the...

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RIAA Slams Google For Anti-Piracy Fail

Frustrated and bitter that laws like SOPA and PIPA have yet to get pushed through Congress without those pesky constituents objecting to turning the U.S. government into muscle for entertainment...

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Undeterred By Failure, Microsoft Vows To 'Scroogle' Google Some More

Microsoft's latest attempt to drag down Google has again fallen flat. But that hasn't deterred Redmond, which insists it will press on with its high-profile "Scroogled" attack-ad campaign on Google's...

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Roku 3: There's A Great Video Search Engine In That Box

Roku debuted its next-generation streaming set-top box, the $99.99 Roku 3, on Tuesday night, complete with a faster processor, an updated interface, plus an innovative remote control that hides a...

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Forget Searching For Content - Content Is About To Start Searching For You

The world of search is about to be flipped completely on its head. As part of that sea change, today's reactive Web-based searches are about to give way to proactive, geo-fenced answers that will pop...

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How The Internet Of Things Will Revolutionize Search

As mobile devices dictate the terms of search and how results are being conveyed to end users, there's another phenomenon that will greatly influence the future of search - very soon, we're going to be...

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Google Now Opens Up To iPhone And iPad Users

Today, Google's Googliest project makes the leap from Android to iOS. Google Now, announced last June at the company's I/O 2012 conference, is part smart search and part personal assistant — but don't...

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Next-Generation Search: Software Bots Will Anticipate Your Needs

Contextual search and the Internet of Things are two key factors in how search is evolving from users actively searching for information to users receiving information as they need it.But there is...

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Google Is Turning Search Into The Planet's Biggest Anticipatory System

Amid a blizzard of announcements at its I/O conference, Google unveiled a major change to its core search product in singularly low-key fashion.Amit Singhal, a senior Google executive in charge of its...

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Google Search Learns To Listen & Understand Context

In all of the razzle-dazzle coming out of Google I/O Wednesday morning, it's easy to forget about the company's core product: Search. But Google didn't forget about Search, showing off a number of...

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Searching Hadoop Data Just Got A Lot Easier

The story of Hadoop is about two things: storing data and getting actionable information about that data. One way to mine Hadoop for information has been with enterprise search, which enables...

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With Windows 8.1, Microsoft Steps Back Toward Operating System Relevance

Microsoft officially released a preview of Windows 8.1 this morning, coinciding with the opening of Microsoft Build, the company's annual developer to-do here in San Francisco.The preview release (get...

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Google Search Gets Even More Personal

Google Now fans have been hoping for a desktop version of the intelligent mobile personal assistant, and now ... well, it still isn't quite here. But something similar is coming to desktops,...

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Microsoft Cries Google Monopoly, Irony Meters Spike

Is Google really the monopoly Steve Ballmer says it is, or was Ballmer throwing the verbal equivalent of a chair when he told Microsoft's analyst conference Thursday that the search company was playing...

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Now You Can Ask Google Search To Compare, Filter And Play

As a lead-in to its 15th anniversary tomorrow, Google announced changes to its search platform that expand its "knowledge graph"—that is, its ability to answer your questions directly instead of simply...

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Why Google’s App Indexing In Android KitKat Is A Game Changer

Guest author John Milinovich is the CEO of URX. See also: Google Search Extends Deep Into Apps With Android 4.4 KitKatIn October, Google unveiled KitKat, the newest addition to the Android family. One...

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Twitter Tweaks Its Homepage Search

Twitter rolled out new search filters on Twitter.com that allow you to limit searches with categories such as "people you follow," videos, news, and photos. The update also makes Twitter's advanced...

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How Yahoo Can Get Its Search Mojo Back From Microsoft

Yahoo reportedly wants out of a deal that ties its search services to Microsoft, and is preparing new technological initiatives to reclaim its position in the search market. According to Kara Swisher...

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Pinterest Cofounder Evan Sharp: How The Visual Web Helps You See The Future

ReadWriteBuilders is a series of interviews with developers, designers and other architects of the programmable future.Evan Sharp was still an architecture student at Columbia University when he and...

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Yahoo: Destroyer Of Startups

Another day, another Yahoo acquisition.Yesterday the search giant swiped up the five-man Vizify team, a data visualization startup that turns your social media posts into interactive infographics and...

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Yahoo Partners With Yelp To Bring Reviews To Search

Today Yahoo announced a partnership with the business review site Yelp that will display user reviews and similar information in search results. Searching Yahoo for a specific restaurant or other...

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Why Pinterest Is The Google Competitor You Weren't Expecting

There are now nearly one billion "Place Pins" on Pinterest, the company said in an email Monday. And with that announcement, Pinterest moves one step closer to becoming a true search engine alternative...

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How Yahoo Could Get Back In The Search Game

Google is the clear winner in Web search, but Yahoo still thinks it can make a dent in the market—even though Yahoo Web search technically doesn't exist since the company handed over its search...

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Apple’s iOS 9 Search API Is Huge For App Developers

On stage at WWDC, Apple’s Craig Federighi announced new developer tools to give app makers deeper search powers in iOS 9. The new search API (application programming interface) will offer developers...

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Google Shows How Fast America Rushed To Learn About Gay Marriage

This post first appeared on the Ferenstein Wire, a syndicated news service; it has been edited. For inquiries, please email author and publisher Gregory Ferenstein. Just 3 minutes after the Supreme...

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What Made Google Great May Be Its Biggest Risk

Guest author Steffon Davis is head of product and founder of Curalytics, a social engineering and curation-data startup. Google’s stated mission is to “organize the world’s information,” but when it...

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