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Here’s Everything Google Unveiled Last Night at I/O

Although this year's Google I/O is all about developers and tools, Google unveiled a lot for the users too. No sign of Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie, just a 4.3 Jelly Bean update, but everything from search, chat, gaming, Maps, Music, and Google+ got a feature-filled refresh. We even got a bloat-free Samsung Galaxy S4 "Google Edition" to call our own. Here's everything Google fired out into the ether last night. Read More >>

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Did Google Just Try to Totally Change How Search Works?

Google might have just added a huge feature to Search. It's trying to make it conversational, like a Google Now for the desktop. Read More >>

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The Secret NSA Search Tips That Will Make You a Spy

Following a Freedom of Information Act request by MuckRock, America's National Security Agency has been forced to make public a book it produced called Untangling the Web: A Guide to Internet Research. Understandably, it's full of gems. Read More >>

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Google Now for iPhone and iPad Is Great: This is Why You Should Get It

Rumours have been swirling that Google Now (the Big G's super-useful personal assistant application) would be coming to the search page on Google.com, but surprise! Our friends on iOS are getting the love first. Starting today, Google Now will be rolled into the Google Search app for iPhone and iPad. Read More >>

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Fancy New Porn Discovery Engine Attempts to Modernise an Age Old Tradition

Canadian startup PaintBottle (100-per-cent-certified NSFW), is looking to bring a bit of modern programming and UI design to the online porn world, because, why not? Differentiating itself by providing a slick-looking interface and increased, err, usability, PaintBottle is notably devoid of grating flashing banner ads, and shoves high-quality, properly licensed content front and centre for your enjoyment. Read More >>

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Google Experimenting With Ditching the Omnipresent Black Bar for Chrome-Like Launcher

There's a new, cleaner Google web interface being tested out there right now, which does away with the black bar in favour of nicking the Chrome OS and Android grid icon and using it to to populate a nice little white dropdown. Read More >>

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Bing Serves Up Five Times More Malicious Sites Than Google

Not all search engines are created equal—and when it comes to Microsoft's Bing, it seems that means malicious websites are happily returned far more often than by Google. Read More >>

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Google Is Adding Animated GIF Search

Finding the perfect animated GIF to describe your feelings is about to get easier—Google is adding new filters to image search that let you designate the specific file type you're looking for. Read More >>

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How Much Does that Little Search Box On Your iPhone Cost Google?

If you'd said about £600 million a year, you wouldn't be too far off. Apparently Google pays Apple some ungodly sum each year to stay put as the default search provider for the mobile Safari search box. Search really does cost the Earth. Read More >>

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The First GIF Search Engine Is Hilariously Bad

There's a Google specifically for GIFs now. Giphy is a great and noble cause, and we hope it gets better some day. But as it stands now, it's humorously awful and painfully slow. Read More >>

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10m UK Apple Users Could Claim Against Google for Secret Snooping

Google's about to be hit by a huge privacy storm in the UK, thanks to a group legal case that claims it ignored privacy rules to track up to 10 million iPhone, iPad and Safari users. Read More >>

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Print To 86,000 Random Printers Around the World Thanks to Google

Cool new prank idea: print a bunch of pictures of arses to a random printer. Seriously, you can do it—Google has indexed somewhere around 86,800 publicly available HP printers. Read More >>

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Google Images Just Got a Whole Lot More Slick

Google has just announced that it's given Images an overhaul. Placing an emphasis on speed, metadata and slick looks, image previews will now appear in an inline panel to make it easier to browse large previews. Read More >>

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Who Does Facebook Search Screw the Most?

Graph Search, which we're going to call Facebook search from here on out because nobody wants to read or write "Graph Search," is a dramatic new way to browse Facebook. But its implications spill over onto its rivals—which companies lose the most? Read More >>

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These People Are Now Sharing Horrible Things About Themselves Thanks to Facebook Search

FB's glistening new search engine makes finding interesting things about yourself, your past, and all of your friends excitingly easy. It also makes it a cinch to find strangers who are openly racist, sexist, and generally embarrassing. This is fun! Read More >>