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Google celebrates 15 years with new Easter Egg

15 years ago two Stamford students launched their project -- a search engine built on new algorithms and with a goal of organizing the quickly growing piles of information appearing on the web. At the time, rivals like Yahoo, AltaVista, Lycos, Hotbot, Dogpile and more were all ahead of the California-based startup. It did not take long for that change, as

Gmail in Google Search

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

Have You Noticed Google’s New “I’m Feeling Lucky” Button?

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.

Google New Search Policy Punishes Copyright Infringing Sites

Starting soon if your site is hit by numerous DMCA takedown notices it may affect your listing in google search. Google stated in their post “Starting next week, we will begin taking into account a new signal in our ranking: the number of valid copyright removal notices we receive for any given site. Sites with high numbers of removal notices

Yahoo Updates Image and Video Search

You may have written off Yahoo search, but the company themselves haven't yet given up, even though they have outsourced most everything to Bing.  Today the former leader of the industry rolled out a brand new version of their video and image search.  Yahoo has strengthened their partnership with Getty Images to help power the new features. Getty brings with

Lionel Richie is the Latest Google Search Easter Egg

Over the past several weeks a number Easter eggs have popped up in Google search, such as the "barrel roll", "let it snow", and "zerg rush" - if you don't understand then do a search for each of those phrases, although the first two seem to no longer be active.  The latest one has to do with 80's singing icon