Type in “Maya” and “ Doomsday ,” and search engines dredge up a ready supply of millennial bunkum. According to some fear mongers and fantasists, 2012 marks the end of one of the long cycles of the ancient Maya calendar and this naturally means we are in the end days of time. Forget Nostradamus, forget Y2K, forget that octogenarian evangelist who pegged the rapture to May 21, 2011 , then updated it to Oct. 21, 2011 and then, well, ate some crow. This is the real thing. Read full article > >

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‘Maya 2012’ exhibit at Penn Museum focuses on the people, their calendar and the myths

Google revamps its search engine in an attempt to offer instant answers to search questions with a new function, the Knowledge Graph.

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Google makes search ‘more human’

With search engine ‘doodle.’

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Google Marks Keith Haring’s Birth

Shares in Chinese search engine Baidu fall more than 10% in after hours trading after a weaker-than-expected revenue forecast.

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Baidu slides on revenue forecast

Google's search engine was created when most of the Web's information was open and available to anyone willing to capture it. In today's more restrictive environment, Google co-founder Sergey Brin and CEO Larry Page may not have even tried to start the company.

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Google founder: Open Web under threat

Last week, Google tracked the Web sites I visited and, like most technology companies, tried to guess who I was based on the places I visited. Its goal: to target advertising to me. The result? The search engine thought I was a 70-year-old man based in Atlanta. Read full article > >

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Beware of privacy policies: Time to clean up your digital footprint

Last week, Google tracked the Web sites I visited and, like most technology companies, tried to guess who I was based on the places I visited. Its goal: to target advertising to me. The result? The search engine thought I was a 70-year-old man based in Atlanta. Read full article > >

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Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, faced a barrage of questions from lawmakers Wednesday about whether his company’s search engine stifles competition as he insisted it has not violated its famous “don’t be evil” motto. Schmidt, who had never testified on Capitol Hill, began his highly anticipated testimony by invoking the memory of Microsoft’s Bill Gates, who walked the same gantlet before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel during the 1990s. Read full article > >

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Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, faced a barrage of questions from lawmakers Wednesday about whether his company’s search engine stifles competition as he insisted it has not violated its famous “don’t be evil” motto. Schmidt, who had never testified on Capitol Hill, began his highly anticipated testimony by invoking the memory of Microsoft’s Bill Gates, who walked the same gantlet before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel during the 1990s. Read full article > >

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Ashton Kutcher — the King of Twitter — has suddenly gone all coy over reports that his entourage is putting the final touches on a deal to have him replace Charlie Sheen on CBS’s “Two and a Half Men.” “I’m starting to become convinced that people put my name in articles just to improve their SEO [search engine optimization] or hoping I’ll tweet it,” Kutcher tweeted peevishly Thursday night. Poor baby! His reference is to published reports that he is in talks to take a role on the country’s most popular sitcom, which suddenly found itself one man short when Warner Bros., which produces the show, sacked Sheen back in March. The studio cited his erratic behavior and screeds against show creator Chuck Lorre. Read full article > >

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The TV Column: Ashton Kutcher reportedly ready to take Charlie Sheen’s CBS role

NEW YORK — Saying Google Inc. had overstretched, a federal judge on Tuesday rejected a deal between the giant search engine and lawyers for authors and publishers that would have let the company make money presiding over the world’s largest digital library.

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NYC judge rejects Google settlement with authors, publishers over firm’s huge digital library

Time for all those search engine experts to learn a new algorithm: Google announced Friday they had tweaked the way the search engine sifts through content so that “low-quality” content will not be featured so prominently. “It will provide better…

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The parent company of a search engine which accused Google of anti-competitive practices has issued fresh complaints.

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Google faces new search complaint

Glenn Beck thinks Google’s “in bed” with the U.S. government. So much so that you shouldn’t Google anymore. One wonders if Beck’s next venture will be a Beck-approved right-wing search engine. If Google is making you stupid, one can only dream what Beck’s search engine would do to your brain. You’d need a full New Yorker feature to get to the bottom of the damage, co-authored by Nicholas Carr and Chris Mooney, of course. Encouraging people to investigate hypothetical ties between the government and the media, Beck said: “May I recommend if you’re doing your own homework, don’t do a Google search. It seems to me that Google is pretty deeply in bed with the government.” His basis for this argument was instances of antagonism between Google and foreign countries. He may have been referring to China authorities who threatened to revoke the company’s license to operate there last year. Read the full story at The Hill .

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Glenn Beck: ‘Don’t Do a Google Search’

Corporate espionage in Silicon Valley: Google has accused Microsoft’s search engine Bing of copying its search results. On Tuesday, Google revealed a “sting” operation, in which it altered its search-results algorithm to see if Microsoft would do the…

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