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TorrentFreak reported that sites like The Pirate Bay,1337x, and Fmovies no longer appear when searched on DuckDuckGo’s search engine. According to TorrentFreak, several YouTube ripping services have disappeared, and the homepage of the open-source software YouTube-mp3 is “unfindable”. Gabriel Weinberg, CEO & Founder of DuckDuckGo, posted a thread of tweets in response to not only the TorrentFreak article, but other websites
Back in 2012 Google announced that its computers learned to recognize pictures of cats. Technology doesn’t stand still. Today in 2016 Google’s computers can now recognize many other things besides disinterested feline faces. What comes from this machine recognition ability goes far beyond facial recognition. About a year ago, I uploaded my entire library of photos and many of my
Back in 2005 Google created an enhanced strategic partnership with AOL, which caused some rumblings. Google's blog (a post by Marissa Meyer, who was VP of Search Products & User Experience at the time) cleared up some misconceptions - including not putting banner ads on their search site. However, times are changing and Google has to look at all possibilities for
The new version of the Google search algorithm is called “Hummingbird”. It has already been released. For whatever reason, Google decided not to make a specific announcement about the release of the new algorithm before switching over to it. For good or ill, it has already affected how your blog is placed in order of the results that appear whenever
Remember AltaVista? I was quite surprised to learn that it was still in existence. Many of us have moved on to other search engines since AltaVista was created. If you are feeling a sense of nostalgia about AltaVista, you should probably go use it soon. Its days are numbered. Yahoo! acquired AltaVista in 2003. Yahoo! has announced several of the
When I opened up Google search page this morning I noticed that on the right hand side of the screen are the words Gmail results. I had signed up for this when it was offered back in the beginning of August. First a little background, I work from home and I am the only one that uses the computer. So
Perhaps Google's most famous button, and there aren't many on their stark homepage, is the "I'm feeling lucky" option. The option has been with the search engine since pretty much the beginning of their existence, way back at Stanford in the 1990's. Thanks to modern browser updates like "instant", the "I'm feeling lucky" option has become nothing more than a nostalgic option.