I’m sure Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos doesn’t know about this, but he’s funding a seemingly ultra-Christian search engine that is anti-abortion and anti-evolution. It’s called ChaCha, and it powers Android’s most popular Siri competitor, Iris. More »
Wolfram Alpha may or may not be one of my favourite things in tech right now. It’ll spew movie times, compare NFL stats, help you cheat in Words With Friends and tell you exactly what aeroplane you’re staring at in the sky. And now with tomorrow’s arrival of Wolfram Alpha Pro, the company, in its founder’s words, begins “step 2″. More »
If you were hanging around the internet yesterday afternoon, you probably noticed some hubbub around Google’s new, unified Terms of Service Agreement. Let’s step back from the emotion (and one writer’s opinion), and take a cool-headed, analytical look at what the new policies might actually mean for you: More »
In a radical privacy policy shift, Google announced today that it will begin tracking users across all services — email, search, YouTube and more — sharing information with no option to opt out. More »
Facebook, Twitter and MySpace engineers have developed a browser plug-in that helps you skirt the horrible intrusion that is Google’s new Search Plus Your World. It should send a pretty clear message: it’s called “Don’t Be Evil”. More »
Google+ users just got a pretty horrible new feature: search your name, and instead of finding out information about yourself, you’re asked to provide it. Quite simply, Google won’t give you information until you give it information. Guh. More »
Google just reported its earnings results from the most recent financial quarter, and while there’s not too much to go on yet, it’s notable that for the first time, the company took in over $US10 billion of revenue in a single three-month period. More »
Yahoo! board member Jerry Yang has apparently been forced out of the company he founded. In a statement released today, Yahoo announced he had resigned from its board of directors and all other positions at the company. More »
I just switched the default search engine in my browser from Google to Bing. And if you care about working efficiently, or getting the right results when you search, then maybe you should too. Don’t laugh! More »
