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Recursive Google Image Search Is Nuts

5:00AM January 15, 2012 | Jesus Diaz

As you may know, you can search for photos by dropping a picture on Google Images. It shows you images that are equal or similar to yours. This is what happens when you feed one search with the result of the previous search. 2951 times. More »


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Google Tells US Senate That iOS Dominates Mobile Search

8:30AM September 24, 2011 | Roberto Baldwin

While Google continues to crow about Android market share, it’s got to be pretty embarrassing for them to testify under oath that iOS owns their mobile search traffic. More »


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Here’s How US Spies Will Find You Through Your Pics

1:10PM July 30, 2011 | Richard Wheeler - Wired

IARPA, the intelligence community’s way-out research shop (aka DARPA for spies), wants to know where you took that snapshot with your friends at that New Year’s Eve party. Oh yeah, and if you happen to be a terrorist taking phots with buddies while prepping for a raid, the agency definitely wants to know where you took that picture… More »


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Wolfram Alpha Sings The Theme From Shaft

6:00AM July 11, 2011 | Jack Loftus

Perhaps humanity has peaked. The signs are all there, right? Like when a search engine is singing lyrics from Shaft, one has to think that maybe, just maybe, there’s still something to all that human doomsday talk. More »


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China Gets A Search Engine Of Its Own

8:40AM February 23, 2011 | Adrian Covert

Google may have shut down its China-approved search engine, but the Chinese government isn’t losing any sleep over it. The largest news agency in China (which is government run) is launching a search engine of their own, Panguso, to provide citizens with results approved by the Communist powers that be. If you’re interested in freeing Tibet, you probably don’t wanna start here. [PhysOrg] More »


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Google On Bing Stealing Search Results: ‘We’d Like This To Stop’

8:00PM February 2, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

The catty slapping between Google and Microsoft has reached a crescendo today, with Google’s Amit Singhal taking to the official Google blog to expand more on yesterday’s shocking revelation that Bing is stealing their search results. More »


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Google Caught Bing Stealing Its Search Results

3:20AM February 2, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

As a boatload more people use Google to search for results than Bing could ever possibly dream of, it’s not surprising the Bing team has been caught copying and correcting misspelled search terms, with data mined from Google search results. More »


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The Best Ways To Tweak Your Search When Google Doesn’t Give You What You Want

11:20AM January 26, 2011 | Adam Dachis

Ideally, a simple Google search will give you exactly the results you need. When it doesn’t, here are the best ways to tweak your web searches to help you get relevant results. More »


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Google Shows Why The World Is Screwed

5:00AM January 13, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

Women squirting, women sports, business women, want women, naked women, flashing women, men eating, men underwear, jerking men, men rape, beast men, micro men… this is what people have in mind while googling for women or men. It gets worserer. More »


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Why Was Nearly Every Yahoo Search Suddenly Resulting in Porn?

1:18PM December 15, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

Uh oh! Something very odd and naughty is going on over at Yahoo right now. Any searches which result in thumbnails will wind up showing you an unrelated and rather pornographic image. More »