In a way, Google already is a porn machine; it is what you make of it. But it turns out that a handful of bizarre, technically impossible search queries turn the raunchiness up like 20 notches and cause the engine to return porn results almost exclusively. The searches themselves aren't dirty in the slightest, either. It's ridiculous. Read More >>
Featured comment by g3f:
"Facebook came first, so I don't see how Google+ got slaughtered by anything, it's still going just fine if you ask me.
In either case, things rarel..." More »
If Google's angle is that it actually works really well, Bing's is that it's a "social search engine." And the latter's new Friend Tagging feature lives up to that promise, tapping the social network you actually use to aide your search results. Read More >>
Wolfram Alpha may or may not be one of my favourite things in tech right now. It'll spew movie times; compare football stats; help you cheat in Words With Friends and tell you exactly what aeroplane you're staring at in the sky. And now with tomorrow's arrival of Wolfram Alpha Pro, the company, in its founder's words, begins "step 2." Read More >>
Featured comment by johnvarghese1:
"Siri uses WA. And Siri is just plain awesome. I use it a lot to interact with my phone. It seems very natural to just ask Siri to do things for me. He..." More »