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5 Opinions on the Great Google-Bing 'Hiybbprqag' Search Spat

Apparently there are not enough search queries to go around. Google and Bing are trading some harsh words after Google publicly accused Microsoft and its search engine on Tuesday of copying query results. Mashable's Stan Schroeder explains: "Google created a synthetic query linking the non-sensical word 'hiybbprqag' to...

Google Thinks Christine O'Donnell Is a Witch

(Oct. 12) -- What's the first thing that pops into your mind when you think of Christine O'Donnell? For a big percentage of Google users, the number one answer turns out to be "witch." Don't believe it? Go to Google's homepage, and start typing in "Christine O'Donnell." Immediately after hitting the "O" key in...

Google Convicted of Defaming French Sex Offender

(Sept. 27) -- Here is one way that Google was not hoping to celebrate its 12th birthday. The Mountain View, Calif., tech giant has been convicted of defaming a French user after the search engine's Autocomplete function (aka Search Suggest) linked a convicted sex offender's name to words including "rapist," "satanist,"...

Six Surprising Things You Can Learn From 2009's Most Popular Google Searches

Contrary to popular belief, the world is not searching the Internet mostly for porn. On Tuesday, Google published its ninth annual Zeitgeist survey, a collection of rankings of search term trends that the company calls its "view into the spirit of the times." Many of the results, which are grouped into categories ranging...

Background on google search

Google Search (or Google Web Search) is a web search engine owned by Google Inc. Google Search, is the most-used search engine on the World Wide Web, receiving several hundred million queries each day through its various services.

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