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Yahoo gives search a redesign, unveils Google-esque nav bar
Yahoo has been a busy little bee recently, updating its various properties and snatching up new ones. Now its giving its Bing-powered search page a facelift. The redesign is actually quite subtle. The...
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Windows 8 Music update brings in-app searching, login-free trial streaming
Believe it or not, the Music app in Windows 8 hasn’t let users easily search for music from within the app itself — they’ve had to search using OS-level tools. Microsoft is mending that gap in logic...
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Facebook rolling out Graph Search to US users this week
Remember that profile-specific social network search tool Mark Zuckerberg announced back in January? It’s finally ready for the general public. According to the New York Times and ABC News, Facebook...
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Bing updates autosuggest categories, gussies up your vague search parameters
Having a hard time finding something on the internet? You’re probably doing it wrong — at least that seems to be Microsoft’s supposition. The company has recently revised its Bing autosuggest...
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New Jersey now requires search warrants for cellphone location data
For all the worries about sweeping US surveillance programs, Americans are claiming at least a few victories in the fight for privacy. Just look to New Jersey’s Supreme Court for an example — it has...
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Twitter search upgraded with photo results, recent query suggestions
In case you haven’t noticed, text-based search results simply don’t cut it anymore — users are looking for people, pictures and social context. Naturally, Twitter is keeping up with the times,...
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Google Now updated with car rentals, concert tickets and more
Traffic and weather updates are great, but Google Now never shines better than when you’re on vacation. To that end, Mountain View has taught the feature a few new tricks, equipping it with cards for...
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Google expands word definition box, makes looking up ten-dollar words easier
Here’s one for the logophiles and the voracious readers: searching for words on Google now returns more than their definitions. So, next time you look up a fancy term, the definition box will also...
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Bing intros robust product results for snappier impulse shopping
If you can’t even remember when you’ve last used Bing, you’ll find a deluge of new features next time you visit. The latest among these perks is a more elaborate result page for product searches,...
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Topsy lets you search tweets from 2006, look up old cringeworthy posts
Next time you’re feeling nostalgic and want to peruse old Twitter posts — such as in 2006, when Pluto was demoted to dwarf planet status — you might want to pay Topsy a visit. The social search...
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