DuckDuckGo's CEO has announced that the search engine will now down-rank websites linked to Russian disinformation. The move comes two weeks after Russia began its invasion of Ukraine.
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Those on Twitter might notice that the company has started rolling out a new feature for replies that does not require a dedicated modal window. Icons for recent searches have been made bigger too.
The mass shooting in Las Vegas and the NFL anthem protests have given rise to lots of conspiracy theories. YouTube has been criticized for promoting them, and is making changes to list better sources.
According to sources, Apple has changed the default provider of its web searches from Bing to Google. This change applies for web searches on Siri, Spotlight for Mac, and Search inside iOS.
The Supreme Court of Canada has ordered Google to remove search results from its worldwide service following an intellectual property case decision. Google can't appeal to the top court's order.
A new report claims that RealID, on behalf of Microsoft, mistakenly asked Google to remove web pages owned by Microsoft from Google's search results due to copyright violations.
Google faces allegations of anti-competitive behaviour yet again, as a UK mapping company says its products are now "harder to find" due to Google's "cynical manipulation of search results".
Microsoft has released a list of the top searches on Bing for 2012, with the iPhone 5 on top of the list for the most searched news stories and Kim Kardashian on top of the most searched person.
Google seems to have introduced some new functionality for their main search engine, adding additional clarification to famous names and what they are most primarily celebrated for.
Google has announced that, starting next week, it will push down websites that have received high amounts of removal notices for copyright infringements in its search results.
