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  Google Search starts indexing HTTPS pages by default

  VentureBeat - Emil Protalinski

  Google today announced its search engine has started indexing HTTPS pages by default. More specifically, Google Search now crawls HTTPS equivalents of HTTP pages, even when the former are not linked to from any page. HTTPS is a more secure version of the HTTP protocol used on the Internet to connect …

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  Apple’s App Store Gets A Smarter Search Engine

  TechCrunch - Sarah Perez

  A number of mobile app developers and industry observers recently noticed a significant change in the way the Apple App Store’s search algorithms are returning results. Developers say that, following a series of shifts that took place beginning on November 3, app search results now appear to be …

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  Yahoo launches redesigned search results exclusively for U.S. Firefox users

  VentureBeat - Jordan Novet

  Yahoo today announced that it has launched an exclusive new user interface for people using its search engine with the Mozilla Firefox browser in the U.S. The deal is exclusive, so it’s not showing up in Yahoo searches in, say, the Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge browsers. “We saw a unique …

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  Pinterest Unveils New Image Search

  Fast Company - By Neal Ungerleider

  Click on an image of clothing or furniture inside a Pinterest image, and the social network will search its archives for you. Pinterest is making big changes to its search functionality that involve machine learning and image recognition techniques. In a blog post, engineering manager Kevin Jing …

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  Google taken to court by Streetmap over 'anticompetitive' search abuse

  The Guardian - Samuel Gibbs and agencies

  Early UK-based internet mapping company Streetmap suing Google over alleged conduct that led to ‘dramatic loss of traffic’ Google has been accused of abusing its search dominance to promote Google Maps over rivals by UK-based Streetmap. Streetmap, one of the first online mapping providers that …

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  6 Ways Google's Artificial Intelligence Could Impact Search Engine Marketing

  Adweek - Marty Swant

  Google is now using artificial intelligence (AI) to better understand search queries, so what implications will machine learning have for …