News tagged with web searches


Google rolled out an experimental new search product on Wednesday called "Google Squared"

Google launches search tool 'Google Squared'

Technology / Internet

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Google, already the king of Internet search, rolled out an experimental new search product on Wednesday called "Google Squared."


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Web founder makes online privacy plea

Technology / Internet

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Plans by Internet service providers to deliver targeted adverts to consumers based on their Web searches threaten online privacy and should be opposed, the founder of the Web said Wednesday.





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Free e-samples of prescription drugs: At what cost?

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Search the Internet to learn about your asthma, high cholesterol or other common disorder, and odds are you'll be directed to a pharmaceutical company-sponsored Web homepage. There you'll often find an offer for a free sample ...


Suit over search-engine keywords tries new angle

Technology / Internet

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- A lawsuit in Wisconsin is bringing a fresh challenge to the practice of paying for keywords on Google and other search engines to boost one company's link over a rival's.


The court will now call its expert witness: the brain

The court will now call its expert witness: the brain

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Will advances in neuroscience make the justice system more accurate and unbiased? Or could brain-based testing wrongly condemn some and trample the civil liberties of others? The new field ...


Patients often turn first to 'Dr. Google'

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The Internet's power to make something "go viral" has surpassed the phrase's original meaning. Sneeze once, you might pass a virus to the person next to you. Post something online, the entire world might get infected.


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Microsoft brings more Web data to Bing results; teams up with WolframAlpha

Technology / Internet

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- Microsoft's Bing search service will pull more information and tools from other Web sites as the company tries to distinguish itself as part of its challenge to market leader Google.


LinkedIn was launched in 2003 as an online community for people to advance career and job prospects

Twitter links to LinkedIn

Technology / Internet

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Twitter on Tuesday linked to LinkedIn, letting people share updates and tweets between the hot microblogging service and the career-oriented online social networking website.


Google says its news approach is "fully consistent with copyright law"

Google says Murdoch stories can be taken off

Technology / Internet

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Google said on Tuesday, in response to threats by Rupert Murdoch to ban the search engine from listing content from his news empire, that any company could ask to have stories taken off. ...


Video fingerprinting offers search solution

Video fingerprinting offers search solution

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The explosive growth of video on the internet calls for new ways of sorting and searching audiovisual content. A team of European researchers has developed a groundbreaking solution that is ...


A new system preserves the right to privacy in Internet searches

A new system preserves the right to privacy in Internet searches

Technology / Other

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A team of Catalan researchers has developed a protocol to distort the user profile generated by Internet search engines, in such a way that they cannot save the searches undertaken by Internet users and thus ...


Internet search process affects cognition, emotion

Internet search process affects cognition, emotion

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Nearly 73 percent of all American adults use the Internet on a daily basis, according to a 2009 Pew Internet and American Life Project survey. Half of these adults use the Web to find information via search ...



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