Google has announced its Zeitgeist 2012 list of most popular search terms as seen through 1.2 trillion searches in 146 languages worldwide on Google Search over the past year.
This year’s world list, Google’s 12th annual year-end zeitgeist, followed the hottest trends and most popular search terms across the globe.
Google, the world’s largest online search company, had exactly 838 lists from 55 countries in a year when it included several new features, such as its interactive map for the …

Google plans to revolutionize its search engine services, adding to the results returned in searches also useful information, which we had not thought to look on the internet.
In preparation for implementation of the new search system, Google is waging an experiment in which about 150 participants are asked to respond in eight random times of the day to a simple question: What else do you want to know lately? Responses of participants are recorded and used to better understand what information …

Microsoft has warned consumers about risks in Google Shopping’s alleged ‘pay-to-rank’ practice and highlighted its commitment to deliver reliable search results on its Bing search engine.
The software giant claims that Google’s shopping search results are ranked according to the highest payer and thus are dishonest and unreliable.
“Instead of showing you the most relevant shopping search results for the latest coffee maker you’re looking to buy mom, Google’s new redesigned …

Google changes the appearance of the Google Search result page, simplifying the way we access the search parameters list.
If until now we could chose the desired result category and parameters used for searching the left list of results, this menu has been relocated under the search box, leaving more room for the list of results, and the Knowlege Graph section, which displays information from the archives Wikipedia.

The new Google Search menu displayed horizontally is more breezy than before …

Google has failed on its promise to reduce the ranking of alleged piracy websites, accuse the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) of the UK and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).
The search and online advertising giant previously swore to stop so-called piracy websites from appearing in its search results, which would have helped media consortiums shoot down infringements on their sacred copyrights.
After it gave Google time to take action, the UK’s DCMS is now accusing it of …

Google, in coordination with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), launched on November 1 a service for abducted children on its google.org project Public Alerts.
Google Public Alerts is a platform that provides emergency alerts from across the Internet whenever and wherever they are most relevant. The new addition, AMBER Alerts, aims to help take home safely all the missing children.
Visitors of Google Search or Maps on desktop, laptop, and mobile devices will …

After, in January, gave way to pressure from large corporations, censoring searches that have as subject materials under the protection of copyright law, Google has now created a real embargo, completely censoring The PirateBay portal.
Thus, in addition to censoring autocomplete lists and results presented in Instant Search, a search containing certain keywords (BitTorrent, uTorrent, torrent, rapidshare, Megaupload, Mediafire, etc..), Google exclude all entries that refer to The PrateBay …

Microsoft has launched a contest to help demonstrate how its Bing Search will fare against main rival Google Search.
The software giant is calling for people to test both online search engines in a side-by-side comparison with such confidence that its Bing service will emerge victorious.
A blog post from Mike Nichols, Corporate VP and Chief Marketing Officer for Microsoft Bing, says Bing Bing regularly outperforms Google in web search results quality based on its tests.
“Since relevancy …

Google has rolled out changes to the curiously popular “I’m feeling lucky” option on its homepage for users to change “lucky” into something that suits their sentiments.
Starting today, users will have the ability to choose from different options for “I’m feeling…”, which allows the “I’m feeling hungry” option to hunt for local restaurants if you are in the mood to dine out.
“I’m feeling lucky” certainly has many …

The search giant has recently announced a tweak to their search engine as a bid to diminish piracy and access to copyright-violating web pages on the internet.
Starting next week, the company will be changing their search results algorithms to make possibly pirated material appear later when users search on their search engine, as mentioned by Google on their own blog.

Google search will be enhanced to prioritize sites with legit content. (Image: via