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In today’s time, the worst nightmare of a website is not showing up in Google Search results. Google is mostly the internet for many people, in fact, the whole SEO industry we have right now is built around Google’s search engine. The sad dream became true for some websites earlier this year when a nasty […]
A nasty search hijacking malware which targets Apple MacOS devices, was spotted in the wild by security firm AiroAV last week. It can be used for MITM attacks on these devices. What’s different about the malware is its love for Microsoft, which is more than Google. It injects results from Bing when the user searches […]
Having the Google search engine is a blessing for many people who are searching for answers to whatever questions they may have. However, for the telecommunication conglomerate TalkTalk, having Google is a nightmare, as their data breach that they kept secret from their customers was inadvertently exposed by just a simple Google Search. An estimated […]
Google Search results are going to improve with better news coverage and podcast indexing. CEO Sundar Pichai started the Google I/O event 2019 with the announcement of the “Complete Coverage” feature in Google News. Complete Coverage and Podcasts The complete coverage feature, which made its debut last year, will now be available directly on Google Search to improve […]
We’ve come across the human bias factor seeping into AI algorithms from time-to-time — the latest being Google Images showing pictures of a chimpanzee using Instagram when one searched for “Black Person Scrolling Instagram.” Just last year, we came across another incident of a Google search showing addresses of girls’ schools and hostels when users […]
Medical files, containing personal data of patients of University of Washington Medicine, were mistakenly exposed following a data error. UW Medicine, in a press release dated February 20, 2019, has revealed the detection of “…an error in a database configuration that made certain protected internal files temporarily available on the internet and visible by search.” […]
In the recent past, Google has brought changes in the privacy controls and search history that makes it possible to review and delete search history. But it wasn’t that simple and obvious. This is why Google is bringing new changes that will let you review and delete recent search history within Google search itself. As we […]
U.S lawmakers, a bipartisan group of them, have joined hands in slamming Google’s CEO for declining to testify at the Senate hearing next week. Fox News reports- “On the same day that President Trump slammed social media companies for what he claimed was a bias against conservative media, a bipartisan group of lawmakers went after […]
In early 2018, Google’s move of removing the “View Image” button from the image search results might have broken the hearts of many. Particularly those who rely on the platform to source images for their different needs. The change was the result of an agreement Google had with Getty Images over the display of copyrighted […]
How do you remove your sins from Google Search? Ask Google or go to the court if they don’t listen to your request. A UK businessman did the same and won a lawsuit against the search giant. The man whose name is not revealed spent six months in prison for conspiring to intercept communications. That was […]
Until now, people have used country-specific domains to receive Google search results optimized for that particular region. For instance, it’s Google.co.in for India and Google.co.uk for the United Kingdom. Now, Google has announced a small change; they’ll now localize search results by default. So, if you’re in the US, you’ll get the country service for […]
Short Bytes: The Edina Police Department is running after an unknown suspect responsible for a wire transfer fraud. According to the reports, the police obtained a search warrant to ask Google for names and details of the people in the town of Edina who searched for the victim’s name on Google between December and January. […]
Google tracks our activity for all of its services we use. Although we are the ones to criticize government agencies like NSA when they peak into our digital lives, we are just fine with all the logging and tracking by companies like Google on a daily basis. Probably because we are aware of it in advance, […]
Short Bytes: Google has released global top 10 lists of people, movies, tv shows, news, and consumer tech which trended in the year 2016. The lists include popular names like Pokemon GO, Donald Trump, Deadpool, Westworld, etc. When you need to know something, for instance, about a new shake recipe or some DIY hack, you […]
Short Bytes: Copyright holders running after pirates is not a new tune to our ears. Google, the biggest search engine provider on the planet, publishes regular reports of their fight against removing pirated content. They’ve managed to blank out around 523 million links from Google Search this year and will continue to remove more of […]
Short Bytes: Our innocent habit of copy-paste is reflected when we send the URLs of search pages as some reference to our friends. But, it comes with the risks of exposing your previous searches, if done carelessly. Read the post to know the risk involved and how to avoid it. Using the Google search to […]
If you search for ‘Top 10 Criminals’ on Google Image Search, you will find Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’ topping the list and Indians are not happy with this. There are currently three pictures of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi featuring in top 10 criminals of the world in Google search engine and some reports suggest the […]
Ever paid attention to how much info Google Search has about you? Well, if you haven’t done so, now you can check it because Google has added a new function to its search engine that allows users to download, view and even delete their complete search history. Google has added a new function on its […]
Short Bytes: Here is this handy operator developed by Daniel Russell who comes in as a handy trick when you are googling stuff. It’s a handy trick, particularly when you’re looking for the combination of search terms (containing two or more search keywords) when one dominates the results, but you’re interested in the relationship between two query terms. […]
Google is back in the news for all the wrong reasons! According to reports from BBC, a European Court of Justice ruled that an individual can force a search engine for removing “irrelevant and out-dated” search results. After the ruling the multinational US-based search engine Google has received new takedown requests. This ruling was an […]
An emotional Google Search advertisement has become a massive hit in both India and Pakistan, talking about a reunion of two best friends, now elderly men, who lived together before sub-continent’s partition in 1947 from the old British empire. The Google Search Reunion ad shows how the two friends were able to meet each other after more […]