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Thought that Google rules the world? Apparently not.  In China, the search engine Baidu controls around 80% of the search market. And Google? A mere 19%.  That is because Google abandoned their attempt to do serious business in China last year. Google's reasoning was that the Chinese government's extreme level of online state censorship violated their company ethics and goal to share information openly worldwide.  Now, Microsoft's search engine Bing has stepped up...

Since the majority of us go on Google everyday, I guess we all realised the look of the homepage has changed recently.  The navigation bar has become a dark grey, standing out from the page.  All the links are either at the bottom or top of the page to give it a cleaner look. [caption id="attachment_3920" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Google 2011"][/caption] Why has it been changed? Google is wanting to improve the...

Have you ever wanted to search for a certain picture, but can't find the right words to describe it? Google Images may be able to help. You can discover all sorts of content relating to a specific image, whether you find it online or upload it from your own computer. So how do you do this? It's an amazingly easy process! Drag and drop an image from your computer or the...

Yet another new tool has been introduced by Google.  Google is constantly creating tools that are aimed at benefiting the user, and are definitely makeing them more and more user friendly. So what has Google got installed for us now?  Those with Internet Explorer 7 and 8 (those who aren't already on IE9) can now use and experience the same functions a Chrome user can! The...