The odds are stacked against Google if the reports are true and the company is trying to bring its services back to China, according to the former head of Google China. News reports last month uncovered details of internal plans to introduce a search product and a news app in China, moves that would mark […]
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Google launches Cameos, a video Q&A app aimed at celebs
Google has launched a new video-based Q&A app called Cameos on the App Store, which allows people to answer questions about themselves, then share those answers directly on Google. The app appears to be aimed at celebrities and other public figures, who are often the subject of people’s Google searches. With the Cameos app, they […]
View More Google launches Cameos, a video Q&A app aimed at celebsGoogle revamps local events search to include personalized suggestions
Last May, Google launched a new events feature designed to help web searchers more easily find things to do nearby, while also challenging Facebook’s dominance in the local events space. Today, Google is updating event search with personalized event suggestions, and well as a new design that puts more event information directly in the search […]
View More Google revamps local events search to include personalized suggestionsGoogle brings its search technology to the enterprise
One of Google’s first hardware products was its search appliance, a custom-built server that allowed businesses to bring Google’s search tools to the data behind their firewalls. That appliance is no more, but Google today announced the spiritual successor to it with an update to Cloud Search. Until today, Cloud Search only indexed G Suite […]
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Twitter may not be outright banning its most toxic users, but it appears to be making it harder for you to find them.
According to a new report by Gizmodo, Twitter may be downgrading some of its most controversial users in search results.
Now, several prominent far-fight Twitter accounts no longer appear in the dropdown search results on mobile, even when you search their exact handles.
White nationalist Richard Spencer and far-right conspiracy theorists like Laura Loomer and “Pizzagate” promoter Mike Cernovich are some the people who’s accounts appear to be affected by these recent changes to Twitter search. Other accounts that appear to be demoted in Twitter’s search results include the organizer of last summer’s Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville and Paul Joseph Watson of Infowars. Read more…
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Box announced today that it has acquired Butter.ai, a startup that helps customers search for content intelligently in the cloud. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the Butter.AI team will be joining Box. Butter.AI was started by two ex-Evernote employees, Jack Hirsch and Adam Walz. The company was partly funded by Evernote […]
View More Box acquires Butter.ai to make search smarterGoogle is quietly formulating a new strategy for China
Google is slowing piecing together a strategy for China to ensure that it doesn’t miss out on the growth of technology in the world’s largest country. It’s been months in the making through a series of gradual plays, but further evidence of those plans comes today via a product launch. Files Go — a file manager for […]
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Node, an AI-driven search tool designed to surface the information that matters most to you, announced today that it was bringing on a couple of AI research heavy hitters. It also announced $5 million in additional funding. For starters, the company hired Louis Mornier, one of the founders of early internet search engine, Alta Vista, and […]
View More Node snags two top AI researchers to advance AI-fueled search toolGoogle rolls out a better way to search for movies
Google is rolling out a new feature today that will help you better plan your night at the movies. While the company has supported displaying movie showtimes within Google Search results following the closure of its standalone movie site in 2016, this update will help you narrow down your options more efficiently, thanks to the additions […]
View More Google rolls out a better way to search for moviesGoogle begins to roll out mobile-first indexing
Google announced this morning its “mobile -first” indexing of the web is now starting to roll out, after a year and a half of testing and experimentation. Back in 2016, Google first detailed its plan to change the way its search index operates, explaining how its algorithms would eventually be shifted to use the mobile […]
View More Google begins to roll out mobile-first indexingTyping these two words into Facebook’s search is currently NSFW
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Predictive search results are often hit and miss, but Facebook’s search bar is seriously playing up.
Typing the phrase “video of” into Facebook’s search bar is prompting some users to see sexually explicit and violent autocomplete suggestions.
Clicking on these results doesn’t bring up content of exactly what is being searched for, but nonetheless, it’s a bizarre occurrence that raises questions about how Facebook’s search bar autocomplete works.
Very normal predictions when you type “video of” in Facebook’s search bar pic.twitter.com/6jm0j696O0
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View More Typing these two words into Facebook’s search is currently NSFWLucidworks launches site search as a service tool
Lucidworks has been helping large organizations like Reddit with complex content build search tools that reach across massive content stores, but the company wanted to make the underlying search technology available to a wider market. Today, it r…
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