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REVEALED: The World’s Busiest Websites

A new report from Fasthosts.co.uk reveals the busiest websites on the internet; from search engines to social media platforms, news sites to entertainment and everything in between. Unsurprisingly, Google is crowned the world’s busiest website on the internet. In just one hour, Google receives 116,892,361 visits, the equivalent of the population of London 13 times over.…

30 July 202030 July 2020 Chris Price News, Websites

Apple boss defends taking billions from Google to use its search engine

Apple recently added the iPhone XS, XS Max and XR to its line-up (Kirsty O’Connor/PA) Apple chief executive Tim Cook has defended the company accepting billions from Google to make its search engine the iPhone default, despite its commitment to privacy. The boss of the world’s first trillion dollar company…

19 November 201819 November 2018 Chris Price Apple, Gadgets, Google

Google’s share of search traffic falls slightly

Has Google taken its eye off the ball? The dominant search providers numbers have fallen slightly in the US, in December. According to

9 January 2015 James O'Malley Web 2.0, Websites

Google says its anti-piracy algorithm will now visibly affect file-sharing sites’ rankings

Google is tweaking its search engine to make sure that the most "notorious" piracy sites are less likely to appear when people search for music, films and other copyrighted content. The changes were revealed in a blogpost by Katherine Oyama, the company's senior copyright policy counsel, and they include new ad formats that are designed…

20 October 2014 Stuart Google, Intellectual Property, Internet, Piracy

Bing follows Google to give Europeans ‘right to be forgotten’ online

When you think of search, the word Google instantly springs to mind – the Microsoft search engine Bing has been largely forgotten by web users. Now it seems that Bing is trying to make its presence felt by joining Google in giving Europeans the "right to be forgotten". Microsoft has started taking requests from users who…

17 July 2014 Stuart Google, Microsoft

Google working on a tool to remove personal data following EU court ruling

Google is working on a new tool that will give internet users the ability to delete outdated or unwanted search results about themselves. This follows the judgement by the European Union Court of Justice last week. According to a Computerworld…

20 May 2014 Nicholas Fearn Google

Zuckerberg: No to a Facebook phone, YES to a Facebook search engine

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had laid to rest rumours that his social network will be developing their own-branded smartphone, stating that "the phone just doesn't make any sense." Speaking at a TechCrunch Disrupt "fireside chat", Zuckerberg instead stressed that his…

12 September 2012 Gerald Lynch Facebook, Social Media, Tech Digest news

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