Tag Archive for: search

Google to offer encrypted search next week (Tom Krazit/Relevant Results)

Tom Krazit / Relevant Results:
Google to offer encrypted search next week  —  Google plans to offer encrypted search next week, it announced Friday in disclosing an embarrassing Street View privacy gaffe.  —  Google’s Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience, hinted that such a feature …

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Silicon Valley Buzz: Apple Paid More Than $200 Million For Siri To Get Into Mobile Search (Erick Schonfeld/TechCrunch)

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Silicon Valley Buzz: Apple Paid More Than $200 Million For Siri To Get Into Mobile Search  —  How much did Apple pay for the acquisition of Siri, the maker of a mobile virtual personal assistant app?  Apple won’t say, and neither will the company or its investors.

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Google Search Results Manipulated?  Clooney Clue Tips Off Researchers (Donna Howell/IBD Click)

Donna Howell / IBD Click:
Google Search Results Manipulated?  Clooney Clue Tips Off Researchers  —  Security researchers say attackers have gotten into Google’s PageRank system to boost their own sites in search results, to reach more victims.  And by similar means, attackers have infected major online ad systems.

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Dragon iPhone app tweaked, search tool released (Lance Whitney/CNET News)

Lance Whitney / CNET News:
Dragon iPhone app tweaked, search tool released  —  Nuance, which makes Dragon voice-to-text software, is forging ahead in the iPhone app market.  —  Over the weekend, the company updated its Dragon voice dictation app for the Apple iPhone and unveiled a new Dragon Search app to let you find info via voice.

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