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Brave and DuckDuckGo Now Let You Block Google’s Tracking on Articles
When Google first rolled out its Accelerated Mobile Page (or AMP) protocol back in 2015, the search company promised that the tech would bring faster surfing to handheld gadgets everywhere. That may be the case, but what has also become clear in the years since is that AMP has become less about speed and more…
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Google Says It’s Bing’s Most Popular Search Term
It’s getting harder and harder for Google to pretend it’s not the anticompetitive bully we all know it to be. Case in point: as part of the company’s ongoing battle to fend off the largest antitrust fine ever imposed by the European Union, the company argued in an EU court on Tuesday that it’s… the most-searched-for…
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Search Atlas Shows How Google Results Differ Around the Globe
How does a search engine like Google quantify, analyse, and rank information? What factors does it take into account, and how are they weighted? The algorithms that handle queries may be opaque, but the end results are clearly visible.
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We’re Archiving Yahoo Answers So You’ll Always Know How Babby Is Formed
When the internet was mourning the impending shutdown of Yahoo Answers, announced earlier this week, there was a sentiment that you saw over and over again: that shutting the site down was akin to the library of Alexandria burning down.