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Yahoo unveils app search page for Android and iOS, because we need it

Ahmet — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:16:00 +0000

Yahoo may be sliding down the search engine totem pole, but the company is doing its best to climb back up, with a new space dedicated to apps.

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Yahoo’s Jerry Yang quits the company he co-founded, walks away from Alibaba as well

Ahmet — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:08:00 +0000

The long, drawn-out, oftentimes melodramatic saga revolving around Yahoo itself and co-founder Jerry Yang is well-documented. Perhaps too well. Thankfully for us all, that ends today

Google Search app for Android gets revamped with streamlined UI, speedier results

Ahmet — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:11:00 +0000

Google rolled out a revamped version of its Search app for pre-ICS versions of Android today, with an emphasis on speed and simplicity. Compatible with Android 2.2, 2.3, or 3-point-anything, this upgraded app sports a streamlined UI, with categorized search suggestions displayed at the top of a device’s screen.

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Microsoft tops Yahoo in US search results for first time, according to ComScore

Ahmet — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:58:00 +0000

It very nearly caught up to Yahoo in the last round of ComScore figures, and Microsoft has now finally done it — it can officially claim to be the number two search engine in the US. According to the research firm, Microsoft’s Bing search engine and other websites fielded a total of 2.75 billion search requests in December of 2011, compared to 2.65 billion search requests handled by Yahoo — translating to a market share of 15.1 percent and 14.5 percent, respectively. As you’d expect, that still leaves Microsoft far behind Google, which processed a whopping 12 billion search requests during the month, representing a still-dominant market share of 65.9 percent.

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Firefox and Google renew revenue agreement, stick it out for at least three more years

Ahmet — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:47:00 +0000

There was a moment there, where things were starting to look a bit shaky for Mozilla . With the Firefox creators facing increasing competition from Google, in the form of Chrome , rumor had it that the organization’s revenue sharing deal with the search giant had expired and may not be renewed. Well, those rumblings can finally be cast aside as Mozilla announced today that it had signed an agreement with the Mountain View crew that is “significant and mutually beneficial.” The three-year revenue sharing deal should help keep Mozilla a float just long enough to permanently put IE under water — at least we assume that’s what the two are hoping for

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Google launches revamped doodle website, store, self-celebration ensues

Ahmet — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:02:00 +0000

Google is inviting users to take a trip down Memory Lane, with a new web archive on one of its most celebrated traditions — the Google doodle . Last week, the search giant unveiled a revamped doodle website, replete with an interactive gallery of over 1,000 homepage designs from around the world. On the new site, users can browse, watch or play with any of Google’s myriad doodles, all of which are organized by date and location

Google buys Alfred-maker Clever Sense, brings us closer to personal Batphones

Ahmet — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:08:00 +0000

Google has nabbed yet another software company. This time out, Mountain View has gotten its mitts on Clever Sense, the makers of Alfred, a location-based restaurant / bar / club recommendation app for the iPhone and Android handsets.

Google brings graphing calculator functionality to search, still can’t play ‘Snake’

Ahmet — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:29:00 +0000

Well, Google’s gone an done it, turning the Internet into one giant graphing calculator. The software behemoth has brought graphing capabilities to search, letting users input a mathematical function into the engine — or multiple functions, separated by commas.

YaCy’s gunning for Google with free-software bullets

Ahmet — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:21:00 +0000

YaCy’s a new free-software search engine aiming to wrest control of your private data back from the Googles and Bings of this world. There’s no targeted advertising here, just a global network of peers all connected with the site’s software. It currently has 600 peer operators servicing 130,000 queries monthly, with each user able to create individual search rankings so results improve over time

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Google continues its massive facelift, intros new persistent nav bar (video)

Ahmet — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:24:00 +0000

We hope you’re enjoying that new Gmail and Reader interface, because Google isn’t done repainting every nook and cranny just yet. The next bit to get a facelift is the Google Bar. The thin dark gray strip of text is going away, and in its place is a new persistent UI element that combines search and Google+ tools, including a share button and notifications

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