Tag: search
Pac-Man's 30th birthday celebrated with playable Google doodle!
How cool is this?! To mark retro gaming icon Pac-Man's 30th birthday, Google have not only turned their doodle logo over to the little yellow pill-popper, but have also made it the first ever playable Google doodle. Head on over…
Google to launch online "Editions" e-book store this summer
Google are set to launch their own e-book store this year called "Editions". Due in June or early July, will rival Apple's iBookstore and Amazon's Kindle by offering around half a million titles not restricted to any one device. "It…
Qualcomm product causes butterfly attacks — The best tech April Fools?
April Fools day is a big deal for tech companies. Google have turned the annual day of japery and tomfoolerly into an art form — last year announcing Gmail's autoreply feature which analysed the way you replied to your emails…
Twitter homepage gets a redesign
The Twitter homepage has been spruced-up, or had "re-design," if you're that way inclined. Not that you'd probably noticed. Most hardened tweeps haven't seen the Twitter homepage since they signed up. But that was the problem in Twitter's eyes. They…
Auto-Trader app brings augmented reality features to second-hand car hunting
On the hunt for a second hand car and happen to have an iPhone 3GS at your disposal? Then you should check out the brand new Auto-Trader app, which packs in a few nifty augmented reality features to help…
Hamptons International launch UK's first residential property iPhone app
You'd assume it had already been done (RightMove?), but apparently not; Hamptons International claim to have become the first UK residential property agent to launch an app for the iPhone. Buyers and sellers can use the app to search for…
Britney Spears is the most searched for celebrity of the decade
Ask Jeeves have revealed the details of the most searched for public figures of the decade. In at number one is popstar Britney Spears, whose meteoric rise to fame, mental collapse and comeback has spanned the entirety of the decade,…
Kids search for "sex", "porn" and "YouTube" in 2009, according to Symantec.
Security software company and owners of Norton Anti Virus Symantec have revealed the far-from-innocent terms that youngsters aged below 18 have most searched for in 2009. Tracking the terms used in their OnlineFamily.Norton service, Symantec compiled the list from over…
Microsoft apologise for Bing outage
The problem meant that thousands of search queries were unanswered, with users instead issued an error message.
Five reasons why Facebook bought FriendFeed
By buying FriendFeed Mark Zuckerberg is acknowledging that in many ways Twitter has stolen a march on Facebook and that the uber social networking site needs to catch up.
