Internet searches can be broken into two categories – informational (news, Wikipedia, trivia questions) and commercial ones (products and services). While the internet is a key destination for commercial queries,…
Google has expanded the list of default search engines in a recent update to the chromium engine, which powers its popular Chrome browser, to give users more choice when deciding…
Dragonfly on the Wall Google’s Chinese search engine project that would censor parts of the web — codenamed Dragonfly — might not be dead just yet. In December, Google CEO Sundar…
[ad_1] Just before Valentine’s Day last week, Belgian security researcher Inti De Ceukelaire noticed something strange on Facebook. He found the social network’s search function treated pictures of men and…
[ad_1] If you had visited the Cambridge University Library in the late 1990s, you might have observed a skinny young man, his face illuminated by the glow of a laptop…
Scrubbed Search Google has begun the process of scrubbing its search engine to comply with Russian censorship laws. After years of pressure, Russians using Google will no longer see search results…
Time to Outsource If we ever want to find habitable planets far away from Earth, spot whatever extraterrestrial life be out there, or fly crewed missions out into deeper space,…
Long Day It took a little longer than expected, but by all accounts, Tuesday’s spacewalk was a success. At around 11 am ET, International Space Station (ISS) cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Sergei…
Google’s Chief Executive Sundar Pichai has said that the search giant has “no plans” to relaunch a search engine in China though the company is still exploring the idea. Both…
Grilling Executives Another day, another tech executive being grilled in front of Congress. On the menu today: Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Pichai had a lot of questions to answer at a…
