After withdrawing its search services in China for a number of years, Google has been making effort to re-enter the market with a censored version of Google Search known as Dragonfly. Speaking about the project for the first time, Google CEO Sundar Pichai has revealed that tests are going “very …
Read More »Google add a ‘hacked site’ alarm into search results
Google have recently added a new feature to their search engine algorithm – a new warning to try and steer users away from compromised sites in their search results. Google now have a system in place that can tell if a site has been hacked, and a sentence will appear …
Read More »Google to demote poor web sellers via search
Google said yesterday that it plans to change the way it ranks search results so that dodgy dealers will find it harder to appear high in the listing via their search algorithms. This change started after an article in the New York Times, detailing a Brooklyn based online seller of …
Read More »Google Instant vets sexual searches, well sometimes
Hacker quarterly magazine 2600 has listed blocked words in Google Instant, many of which are sexual. If you have been using Google recently (and we all do) then you may have noticed a change in their search functionality, now when you type in a search term you will generally see …
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