Google uses search data to predict this year’s Oscar winners

With the Oscar's around the corner, Google has made its own predictions of the winners on a new destination website.

Google’s Gmail integration with search trial adds purchases, reservations, and events

Google's unified search dreams are beginning to take shape.

Google Now gets boarding passes, starts acting more like Apple’s Passbook

Google has taken inspiration from Apple's Passbook to give its Android customers a more instantaneous way to pull up their boarding passes with Google Now.

Voice search shoot-out: Google’s new voice search vs Apple’s Siri, hands-on

Siri is an idiot savante, sometimes more savante, and sometimes more idiot: she doesn't know where Washington DC is. On the other hand, Google seems to have a bigger brain.

Google gets better at answering your questions on mobile

Google is updating its handy-dandy instant results to make them more attractive, more engaging, and more readily available on mobile.

Google finally does something with Zagat, adds reviews with launch of Google+ Local

Google surprised a lot of people last fall when it announced that it was buying restaurant ratings company Zagat. Now, Google is finally making some moves with the buy via Google+ Local, an overhaul of Google’s local search.

With the …

Tour the updated Google Search iPhone app… with bunnies

Google released an update to its Google Search iPhone app today, adding a few small features and tweaks that should make searching faster and more intuitive. Let’s take a visual tour of what’s new in the app by searching for …

Google search is in for some drastic changes

Google is planning to roll out several changes to its search engine over the next few months that will give people more than just the standard list of links and supplemental media, according to top Google Search executive Amit Singhal.…

How to turn off Google’s social search features

Do you hate change? Loathe disruption of your normal routines? Are you mad as a wet hen over the new Google+ results showing up when you try to do a simple Google search?

Then this post is for you. We’re …

Google search gets its biggest change in a decade with a dose of Google+

Well, it’s finally happened. Google web search has been Google-Plus-ified.

Today, Google is bringing some specific new features to Google web search, its flagship and most widely used product. In addition to the usual assortment of links, pictures, news items …

Google paying nearly $1B for Firefox search deal

The prominent search box atop the popular Firefox browser played the coveted prize jewel in a Christie’s-like bidding war between the web’s wealthiest whales.

Google competed in an aggressive auction with Microsoft and Yahoo to maintain its place as the …

White is the new black — on all Google products

Leave it to Google to dispel the myth that one shouldn’t wear white after Labor Day. The search giant and social network contender has stripped off the ominous, horizontal black bar hovering atop its pages to reveal a milky-fresh new …

Baidu adds English search results from Microsoft’s Bing

Chinese search giant Baidu announced on Monday that it would add English results from Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, to its own search engine.

The results from Baidu are currently primarily in Chinese. That includes search queries that users type in …

What do you love? Google knows.

Reactions to Google’s new “What do you love?” service are going to be mixed. That’s probably why the site wdyl.com was rolled out quietly, at night, with no more fanfare than an anonymous ”tip” going to Techcrunch.com.

Wdyl.com essentially takes …