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Google Enables Personalizes Search for Signed-Out Users

When Google launched personalized search, it was for signed-in users only (and then only when Web History was enabled for the account). Now, guests or signed-out users at Google will get personalization.

If you don't want the personalized experience - you can opt out.

Google uses an anonymous... more »

Microsoft and Yahoo! Make It Official, Now Time for Some Good Ol' Fashioned Politicking

Microsoft and Yahoo! have finalized the search agreement initially announced last July. Originally, they had planned to finalize things by late October. When they didn't meet that deadline, they assured everyone that progress had been made.

Here's the joint statement released by both parties... more »

Bing Explains Yesterday's Blackout

Yesterday, Bing went down for about 30 minutes between 6:30pm and 7pm PST. Microsoft's Senior Vice President of Online Services, Satya Nadella, took to the Bing Search blog to explain:

The cause of the outage was a configuration change during some internal testing that had unfortunate and... more »

17 Google Updates We Ran Out of Time For

This was one of those weeks where Google unleashed a google of updates. Try as we might, sometimes we just run out of time at the end of the week. So, occasionally, we have to compile a list of the leftovers at the end of the week. Here's what we haven't yet covered that you'll still want to know... more »

New Google Analytics Code Snippet Part of Effort to Speed Up the Web

This week, Google has been pushing out features as part of its campaign to make the Internet faster. Webmaster Central released the Site Performance tool where developers can get suggestions on making their sites run more efficiently. And Google launched its own Public DNS service, to help browsers... more »

It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas: Changes At Google to Increase Ad Spends

With a decrease in overall advertising, Google looks to help offset some lost ad revenue by increasing the amount they get from existing advertisers. ... more »