Neowin News Feed for: Searches

Microsoft showcases top web searches of 2014 with Bing Trends

Andy Weir — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 09:00:01 +0000

Microsoft's new Bing Trends 2014 site reveals some of the year's top web searches in various categories, with popular searches from several parts of the world, including the US, UK, India and Japan. Read more...

US House passes an amendment which would remove funding from the NSA's backdoor searches

Jett Goldsmith — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 05:20:35 +0000

The US House of Representatives has pushed forward an amendment that would cut funding from the NSA's controversial backdoor searches and stop the NSA from adding backdoors to encryption standards. Read more...

German Federal Court decides Google auto-complete can violate privacy

Paul Ferson — Tue, 14 May 2013 21:26:43 +0000

Germany's federal court has decided the Google auto-complete function can violate user privacy and former President Christian Wulff's wife is being used as the key example of this problem. Read more...

California bill could require warrant for cell phone searches

John Callaham — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:52:48 +0000

If you own a mobile phone in the state of California, a proposed state bill would require the police to get a warrant to search the contents of your phone or other devices if it becomes law. Read more...

Google denies filtering Microsoft related searches

Zoe Austin — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 07:16:54 +0000

The popular UK price comparison website Ciao.co.uk has been deeply affected by Google's recent changes to it's search system. According to BBC News, Ciao's parent Company, Microsoft, claims that Google is involved in rigging searches... Read more...

Charter To Begin Tracking Users' Searches And Inserting Ads

Steven Parker — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:16:09 +0000

Charter Communications is sending letters to its customers informing them of an "enhanced online experience" that involves Charter monitoring its users' searches and the websites they visit, and inserting targeted third-party ads based on their... Read more...

Yahoo tops Google in quality of searches, study says

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:30:59 +0000

According to a study released this week by Compete Incorporated, 67% of the 7.5 billion monthly searches done by the U.S. online population in August were done using Google and 65% of those prompted a... Read more...

EU Searches for Galileo Funding Source

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:33:39 +0000

The European Union will decide this week where the €2.4bn shortfall in funding for the Galileo GPS satellite system will come from. A meeting on September 19th is expected to suggest that the cost is... Read more...

TorrentSpy Blocks Searches From US Visitors

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:32:36 +0000

In what appears to be a preventative measure to protect its users, popular Bittorrent search site TorrentSpy has begun to block all search from US visitors, starting today. The site has been caught up in... Read more...

Google logs half of all US searches

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:46:09 +0000

Overall, Americans are searching more than they did a year ago: queries have increased by 11% since 2006. Google, the only search engine among the top five to gain market share, logged more than half... Read more...

Microsoft Testing Multiple Searches on One Page

Sat, 19 May 2007 16:59:00 +0000

It seems Google isn't the only one that has decided to redirect a handful of users to test a different approach to web search. Microsoft is redirecting a small number of random users who use... Read more...

Similarity searches accelerate P2P downloads by 30-70%

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:23:38 +0000

I know you've all searched for a file, only to see it be displayed over and over in a P2P client's search results. The file name or description may be different, but you can... Read more...

Google searches for $135 per share

Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:52:57 +0000

Google has finally setup a price range of $108 to $135 for shares of its company. With these high prices Google hopes to make $2.7 billion and $3.3 billion dollars. Eventually you can... Read more...

Porn 3X more popular than searches

Sat, 05 Jun 2004 00:40:46 +0000

Online porn sites get about three times more visits than the top Web search engines, including market leader Google Inc., a research firm said Thursday. Web sites categorized as "adult" accounted for about... Read more...

New Tool Searches and Replaces SCO Code

Mon, 11 Aug 2003 06:27:04 +0000

Linux developer Aduva released a tool at this week's LinuxWorld that will allow companies looking over their shoulder for lawyers to replace offending Linux code with code that doesn't infringe on what SCO alleges is... Read more...

Bungie Searches For America's Biggest Halo Fan

Marcel Klum — Sun, 06 Apr 2003 10:59:13 +0000

Microsoft Game Studios recently announced a new contest aimed at Halo fans eager to attend the upcoming Bungie Fan Fest and check out Halo 2, as well as try out the PC port of the... Read more...

Microsoft searches for Ms. M.o.X.i.e.

Tue, 08 Oct 2002 18:42:36 +0000

Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) on Tuesday announced the Search for Ms. M.o.X.i.e. (Microsoft Office v. X Integrated Experience) contest. The MacBU is looking for the most "nimble, determined, Mac-wielding businesswoman around to take... Read more...

Netscape Navigator browser snoops on web searches

Fri, 08 Mar 2002 04:04:22 +0000

AOL's Netscape unit is snooping on searches performed by users of its latest Navigator browser at Google and other search sites. According to a network traffic analysis performed by Newsbytes, Netscape is... Read more...

Yahoo! puts a price on searches

Thu, 24 Jan 2002 09:28:55 +0000

Thanks Paul Piovesan for the heads up :D "Yahoo Premium Document Search," is designed to expand on a previous agreement with search technology provider Northern Light Technology, which Tuesday was acquired by enterprise... Read more...