Swedish software firm takes Pirate Bay on board

The sensational Pirate Bay court case drew attention from all around the world earlier this year, and the guilty verdict could have dealt a deadly blow to the file sharing organisation. However, Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X AB has offered the beleaguered pirates an unexpected lifeline

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Google SMS launches in Africa

In an attempt to give everyone access to the world’s information, Google is launching a series of SMS-based services aimed at the African market. It has always been Google’s mission to simplify the way people seek knowledge and information, but while countries like the UK and the USA have succumbed to its charms, states with limited internet access have hindered this mission in a global context. Africa is a classic example of this problem

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Aardvark helps you search for friendly answers

With recent changes in the searchiverse like the release of Microsoft’s ‘decision engine’ Bing , the re-rebranding of Ask Jeeves and the launch of Hunch - a search engine that helps you find what you’re looking for by asking a series of questions - you’d be forgiven for thinking that the search market is looking particularly flooded at the moment. And that’s before we even mention Twitter’s new search functions, Google’s recent preoccupation with real-time search and Facebook’s experimentation in the same vein. However, a busy playing field never stopped any business bent on success, and so new search service Aardvark has waded into the battleground

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Michael Jackson’s death challenges the net

The death of pop legend Michael Jackson has served to illustrate just how many people now turn to the internet for information on breaking news stories. Last week, the big mouth media news team covered Twitter’s struggles under the pressure of fans tweeting and searching for information on the death of the superstar.

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Pirate Bay judge found to be not biased

The four founders of Pirate Bay have been denied a retrial by courts in Sweden after the site claimed the judge in their first trial was biased. Pirate Bay’s founders were found guilty of copyright infringement in April but they claimed that the judge, Tomas Norstrom, was biased against the site as he is a member of several copyright organisations

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Michael Jackson death causes Twitter to buckle under traffic

Last night, the news that the “King of Pop”, Michael Jackson, had been rushed to hospital following a cardiac arrest broke out. Entertainment site TMZ broke the story at around 10.20pm GMT, but the death was not confirmed by other new sources until around half an hour later.

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Google searches for Chinese compromise

The Chinese search space was void of the world’s favourite engine for over an hour last night as authorities lashed out at Google when it failed to scale back its operations in the region.

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Spezify sets new boundaries for visual search?

Google may be the online king but it’s certainly had its fair share of mishaps during the first half of 2009. From problems with its malware detector in January - when every search result was deemed harmful to a user’s computer - to last month’s search outage due to traffic being re-routed to a data centre in Asia, it’s no wonder that Microsoft’s new search offering Bing is seeing rising user uptake. Add to that the recent coverage given to new players like WolphramAlpha, Hunch and the newly re-re-branded Ask Jeeves in the UK, and it looks like Mountain View may be surrounded by potential threats.

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Microsoft turns eco-friendly to get users on Bing

A new competition by Microsoft is revealing the softer side of the computing giant as it announces prize money of $10,000 for the winning application in its Will Code for Green contest. Developers are invited to code a new application for search engine Bing, conforming to Bing APIs, with the theme of “economy or ecology”, a timely topic given the current push for ecological awareness in the corporate world, as well as the economic crisis currently taking place. Applications must be designed to either benefit the environment or help people deal with the poor economy, with winners to be chosen at tech conference Gnomedex in August

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Stop the Press! Google says Wikipedia’s a more credible source

As part of an ongoing experiment, Google has begun adding Wikipedia links to its news service, Google News . Originally the experiment began with a much smaller number of users; however it looks like the experiment has been a success in Google’s eyes as they are now rolling out the idea across all English language editions of Google News.

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