A number of United States lawmakers have dropped their support for the anti-piracy legislation as Wikipedia, Google Inc., and other tech companies protested the measures. Wikipedia, the world’s sixth most-visited website, has blacked out its English website in protest to the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA), which is currently passing through the Senate, and the Stop Online Piracy Act, which is getting passed through the House of Representatives. The protest gained momentum when Florida Senator Marco Rubio, co-sponsor of...
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British Telecom (BT) has filed a lawsuit against search engine giant Google, alleging that its Android mobile operating system and its other services violate the telecommunications company’s patents. BT, who filed the lawsuit in Delaware in the United States, said that Google’s Android infringed six of its key patents, including Google Music, location-based advertising, Google Maps and other products found in the Android Marketplace. This lawsuit means that the British telco company is the new addition to a number of companies...
After the recent Google Panda search algorithm update many users have been experiencing odd search results but nothing compares to the search results on the new novelty search engine, wacko search. Loyaltynet LTD, have made it their business to create the worlds quirkiest search engine because it delivers completely wrong results that don’t even relate to the keyword being used. The website looks and works like a traditional search engine, it even has a random ‘are you feeling ducky’ search button mimicking Google’s. The founders...
I am sure that everyone reading this has had the same experience at some point when they have looked for something online. The first sites that come back from Google, or any search engine for that matter, look promising on the results page. Then you go into the site and discover nothing more than links to other sites, ads and maybe some badly written articles. You are left wondering how on earth such a useless site got to number one on Google, before you head off to look for a site which might actually contain the information you need. While...