Google Search Engine

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  6 Search Engines To Try As Google Starts Losing Its Edge

  As Google shifts to an AI-first platform, frustrated users are turning to six privacy-focused alternatives to rediscover a more traditional search experience.

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  How A Wrong Spelling Led To Google Getting Its Name

  Computer scientists Sergey Brin and Larry Page launched the company in 1998 while pursuing their doctorates at Stanford University.

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  Google Launches New Appeal To Overturn $2.8 Billion Fine At Top EU Court

  Google on Thursday appealed an EU court decision to uphold the bloc's 2.4-billion-euro ($2.8-billion) fine for abusing its search engine dominance.

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  Google Says "External" Reason Behind Outage, To Probe "Malicious" Attack

  Google has launched its external investigation owing to allegations from its users that its services like Youtube are unable to be accessed. Internet research firm Thousand Eyes, however, claimed that "traffic to certain Google destinations appears to be routed through an ISP in Russia and black-holed at a China Telecom gateway router".

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  Google Search Wants To Answer Your Questions Even Before You Ask Them

  Google unveiled changes Monday aimed at making the leading search engine more visual and intuitive to the point it can answer questions before being asked.

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  Why Google Once Claimed That Barack Obama Was Staging A Coup

  Google's reputation is built on its algorithms, which are increasingly being used to give answers out of the search engine's index of results. But what used to be a list - the first page of results - has become simpler over the past couple of years: Sometimes, Google extracts one result that it thinks will best answer whatever it is you're asking, ...

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  Behind Google's Europe Woes: American Accents

  Behind the EU antitrust probe of Google stand not only Europeans, but US competitors.

• Google Says 'Forgetting' Isn't Easy, As European Requests Mount

  Google on Thursday told European officials that forgetting isn't easy, especially when details are few and guidelines are murky regarding when personal privacy trumps public interest.

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  New Lumia Phones Lose Option to Set Google as Default Search: Report

  The option for making Google the default search engine on Internet Explorer was spotted as missing on Lumia 630 and Lumia 930 phones in some regions.

• The content Google removed, and didn't, in last 6 months

  Google has received more than 1,000 requests from authorities to take down content from its search results or YouTube video in the last six months of 2011, the company said on Monday, denouncing what it said was an alarming trend.

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  Bing and Google in a race for search features

  Edwin Perello discovered that Bing, the Microsoft search engine, could find addresses in his rural Indiana town when Google could not. Laura Michelson, an administrative assistant in San Francisco, was lured by Bing's flight fare tracker. Paul Callan, a photography...

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  Microsoft's Bing leans more heavily on Facebook

  Bing is increasing its emphasis on the recommendations shared within Facebook to give people what they can't find on Google's dominant search engine

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  British Library, Google put thousands of books online

  Internet users will be able to consult the texts dating from 1700 to 1870, which have been digitised by Google

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  India third 'snoopiest' country: Google Transparency Report

  While Google is blamed for supplying users' private information to the governments, the search engine giant also attempts to balance out by releasing a Transparency Report. The report reveals the countries and governments that request Google to remove content and...

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  Japan court orders Google to halt auto-complete

  A Japanese court has ordered Google to suspend its auto-complete function because it breaches one man's privacy.