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Brave Search leaves beta, offers Goggles for filtering, personalizing results

Freedom or echo chamber?

Personal Tech23 Jun 2022 | 8

Bing! Microsoft tests search box in the middle of Windows 11 desktop

Attempt to be interactive meets cries of 'Someone dumped a text box right in the center of my desktop!'

OSes19 May 2022 | 49

Alternative search providers write letter to EU complaining that Google antitrust action achieved diddly-squat

Interview 'There's no independent search engine really, other than Google and Bing'

Applications07 Oct 2021 | 26

Wikimedia Foundation to offer community's free content via paid-for Enterprise API

Looking for a service-level agreement? Have we got a deal for you

SaaS17 Mar 2021 | 9

Australia picks third fight with Big Tech, this time over browser and search on mobile devices

Regulator keen to know how Android Choice works in the EU, what makes the Google/Apple relationship tick, and if Salesforce buying Slack is a problem

Legal12 Mar 2021 | 4

Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling – and may even offer a paid-for, no-ad version

Pitches pro-privacy platform with customizable results filter dubbed Goggles

Applications03 Mar 2021 | 30

How do we combat mass global misinformation? How about making the internet a little harder to use

Column We’re blinded by our trust of the Search box and its inscrutability

Networks08 Feb 2021 | 162

Wait ages for an antitrust battle and three come along at once: Google sued by 38 US states over search monopoly

Silicon Valley titan allegedly screwed rivals with exclusionary agreements

Personal Tech17 Dec 2020 | 15

DuckDuckGo cries fowl after being expunged from Google's Android search preferences menu for most of Europe

Pro-privacy upstart claims EU antitrust remedy is not fit for purpose

Security29 Sep 2020 | 35

Google creates $10bn 'digitisation fund' for India

Localisation and transformation plan wins prime ministerial approval, but as usual has as much upside for Google as for its generous hosts

Legal14 Jul 2020 | 3

'Google cannot stop it, control it or curtail it...' Inside the murky world of fake addiction treatment center search spam

Special report Is that listed phone number going direct to a professional or a call center?

Personal Tech02 Jul 2020 | 20

Google Australia says government pulled pin on content-for-cash talks, hands in its homework anyway

And fires back with 'we do for free what meatspace distributors charge for' argument

Personal Tech04 May 2020 | 8

Australia to make Google and Facebook disclose ranking algorithms and pay for local content

Months of negotiation on voluntary code of conduct didn’t make progress

Personal Tech20 Apr 2020 | 35

French monopoly watchdog orders Google to talk payment terms with French publishers

Copying article snippets could get costly, if web giant doesn't ditch them altogether

Personal Tech10 Apr 2020 | 38

Yelp finally gets its chance to tell US Congress how Google screws its listings service every minute of every day

Testimony claims search engine giant favours own products and services, even when they're rubbish

Personal Tech11 Mar 2020 | 38

Everyone loves our new desktop web search design so much – the one with ads that look like links – that we're tweaking it, says Google

Updated Unpopular opinion: Adverts are a bit more distinct with this new style, but OK, internet, you win

Personal Tech24 Jan 2020 | 45

No Mo'zilla for about 100 techies today: Firefox maker lays off staff as boss talks of 'difficult choices' and funding

Enjoy that new version 72? Donate.mozilla.org is a thing, folks

Software16 Jan 2020 | 76

Google goes full Anti-Flash-ist, boots Adobe's insecure monstrosity out of web search index

Crawler bots to snub animated content starting this year

Personal Tech29 Oct 2019 | 55

Tinfoil-hat search engine DuckDuckGo gifts more options, dark theme and other toys for the 0.43%

Includes setting to turn ads off – stop hissing at the back, Google

Software16 Oct 2019 | 139

Breaking, literally: Microsoft's fix for CPU-hogging Windows bug wrecks desktop search

One step forward, er, one step back. Nobody gets too far like that

OSes11 Sep 2019 | 80

Google may have taken this whole 'serverless' thing too far: Outage caused by bandwidth-killing config blunder

Engineers struggled to restore own packet-starved systems during four-hour SNAFU

SaaS04 Jun 2019 | 69

Have you always wanted an algorithm that can search like Bing? Well, if you change your mind, one's on GitHub now

Make your app answer all the easy questions, like, 'Where can I download Chrome?'

Software15 May 2019 | 15

Everything's just fine at Google's mothership: $1.7bn EU fine, slower growth take their toll

Alphabet quiet on cloud business results, other bets lose a small fortune

SaaS30 Apr 2019 | 10

Comparison sites cry foul over Google Shopping service

Original complainants say pay-to-play remedy has left them in the cold

Legal22 Nov 2018 | 17

Google: All right, screw it, from this Christmas, Chrome will block ALL adverts on dodgy sites

Enough with the abusive ads, says ad-dependent biz

Personal Tech05 Nov 2018 | 40

Sure, Europe. Here's our Android suite without Search, Chrome apps. Now pay the Google tax

Ad giant to charge for key applications amid license shakeup and antitrust fine

Personal Tech17 Oct 2018 | 180

Google keeps tracking you even when you specifically tell it not to: Maps, Search won't take no for an answer

Location, location, location!

Software13 Aug 2018 | 175

Amnesty slaps Google amid crippled censored China search claims

Chocolate Factory kowtows to Middle Kingdom mandarins, according to leaked info

Legal01 Aug 2018 | 45

Infosec bod wagers web bookie BetVictor is lax on password protection

Updated Thought your gambling site was secure? Don't bet on it

Security27 Jun 2018 | 4

We need baby Googles, say search specialists… and one surprising VC

Break 'em up, nothing else works

Legal01 Mar 2018 | 39

How Google's black box Knowledge Graph can kill you

Comment Factoid flu

Bootnotes19 Dec 2017 | 26

Mozilla and Yahoo! trade sueballs over Firefox-Google search deal

'Your search is trash and you stopped paying ' vs. 'we had a deal you can't walk away from'

Software06 Dec 2017 | 15

Bing fling sting: Apple dumps Microsoft search engine for Google

Safari, Spotlight to be powered by the Chocolate Factory

Personal Tech25 Sep 2017 | 45

Google parks old pay-to-play auction in front of European Commission – reports

You want a remedy? Here's our remedy

Legal19 Sep 2017 | 25

Google, Bing, Yahoo! data hoarding is like homeopathy. It doesn't work – new study claims

Boffins find search quality unaffected

Legal19 Sep 2017 | 48

I say, BING DONG! Microsoft's search engine literally cocks up on front page for hours

SFW Johnson, get a load of this

Bootnotes17 Aug 2017 | 82

Outage outed: Bing dinged, Microsoft portal mortal, DuckDuckGo becomes DuckDuckNo

Updated Like it or not, it's back to Google for now

SaaS15 Aug 2017 | 38

Google paying Apple BEEELLIONS to stay search top dog on iDevices, say analysts

But it could turn off taps at any moment

Software15 Aug 2017 | 33

Search results suddenly missing from Google? Well, BLAME CANADA!

It seems that everything's gone wrong since Canada came along

Legal28 Jun 2017 | 68

Big-in-Russia's Yandex launches itself at a Google world

First Look We slap Google-y eyes on the launcher

Software17 Mar 2017 |

Google, what the hell? Search giant wrongly said shop closed down, refused to list the truth

Poultry peddler pleads Page's peeps: Precision, please

Bootnotes03 Mar 2017 | 49

Dying! Yahoo! writes! off! half! of! the! $1bn! it! paid! for! Tumblr!

'Still some value there' Gartner analyst tells El Reg as web biz writhes in pain

Legal19 Jul 2016 | 30

Bold stance: Microsoft says terrorism is bad

Redmond vows to pull terror content from services

On-Prem21 May 2016 | 53

Google kneecaps payday loan ads

Leave the AdWords. Take the cannoli.

On-Prem11 May 2016 | 62

When is making $20bn in three months not enough? When your name is Google

Wall Street hammers Chocolate Factory for not hitting targets

Channel21 Apr 2016 | 16

Google gives ringing endorsement to US VPN providers with 'right to be forgotten' expansion

Chocolate Factory rolls out geolocation filter on search results

Legal04 Mar 2016 | 31

Layoffs! Lawsuits! Losses! ... Yahoo! is! in! an! L! of! a! mess!

15 per cent of staff axed, bits likely to be sold off, $4bn loss for the year

On-Prem02 Feb 2016 | 51

Google and HMRC face Parliamentary grilling over £130m tax deal

Puts fire under taxman's 'sweetheart' settlement with Alphabet Inc

Legal25 Jan 2016 | 24

Google API spring cleaning ends after four and a half years

Five search APIs to die in mid-February after June 2011 death notice

Software17 Jan 2016 | 9

Who! would! want! Yahoo!? How! about! Verizon!?

CFO says telecom giant could swoop in if the price is right

On-Prem07 Dec 2015 | 9

Google extends search tendrils to cover data in apps

And allows app 'streaming' to test services out

Applications18 Nov 2015 | 21

Google stock buy-back: You'll groan when you realize where that $5,099,019,513.59 figure came from

Your 30-second guide to ad giant's third quarter financials

Channel22 Oct 2015 | 21

Google wins book scan battle. Again. Can post pages online. Again

Appeals court brushes off Authors Guild, says snippet searches are just fine

Legal16 Oct 2015 | 48

'Miracle weight-loss' biz sued for trying to silence bad online reviews

US watchdog drags Roca Labs to court over Ts and Cs

Legal28 Sep 2015 | 16

KREMLIN: Google is ABUSING ITSELF, misusing its mighty market position

Muscovite monopolo-cops get ready to move against Chocolate Factory

On-Prem14 Sep 2015 | 9

Sky still blue, above the ocean: Google still raking it in

Turns out automated small ads is a great way to pile up cash

Channel17 Jul 2015 | 9