News articles for Search

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  Firms widely confused over EU e-privacy rules

  1st May 2012

  Confusion and even panic are starting to spread among companies which are worried about the ramifications of having to comply with upcoming EU legislation on the storage of customers' data.
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  Google search changes bring quality content to the fore

  27th April 2012

  Website-builders and content-producers are facing close scrutiny from Google as the search giant reconfigures its algorithms in an effort to counter spam and low-quality or valueless content.
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  Boss lays out plans to revive Yahoo

  18th April 2012

  Yahoo has had its finger in too many pies, and in future will focus on the best-performing areas of its business, according to its chief executive.
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  E-store searches from mobile devices more than double

  17th April 2012

  Britons' love of online shopping is continuing to grow rapidly, with the number of retail-related searches in the first quarter of this year leaping by 11 per cent.
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  Sports sites score with nearly two-thirds of UK's web users

  13th April 2012

  Britons might seem to be by and large sports-mad, but new research shows that they are only fourth in the European league table of the proportion of connected citizens who regularly visit online sports websites.
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  Google is US' favourite tech company survey suggests

  10th April 2012

  More than eight out of 10 Americans like Google, and 53 per cent support the company "strongly", according to a poll for ABC News and the Washington Post.
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  Microsoft eyes Google with IE9 campaign

  29th March 2012

  The next-generation version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser is being given a significant marketing push in a bid to counter the supremacy of Google's rival Chrome.
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  Google reviews options after Japanese court orders removal of auto-complete search terms

  28th March 2012

  Google has said that it will review its practices after a Japanese court upheld a case of defamation against the company.
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  Smartphone users' thirst for news growing

  23rd March 2012

  The number of smartphone users who use their devices to keep up with the latest news has jumped by 74 per cent in the past year.
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  Ask Jeeves launches first UK app

  20th March 2012

  Question-and-answer search engine Ask Jeeves is aiming to revive interest in the UK by launching its first mobile phone app.