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While Google and Bing have spent the past 12 months building social sites and claiming that they’re really good at search, honest, Yahoo have quietly been biding their time.

Buoyed by the recent takedown of MegaUpload, the entertainment industry in the UK have set their sights on the biggest suppliers of pirated material in the world. The search engines Google and Bing.

He might be the first Pontiff to embrace social media, but it looks like Pope Benedict XVI hasn’t yet decided whether using Twitter is a vice or a virtue.

Bing on the March

16, Jan 2012

It’s not been a good week for Google. First, Google+’s integration into search went down like a lead balloon, then the continuing anti-trust probe announced that they’d be investigating social search, before Rupert Murdoch decided to make the papers by calling Google pirates. So after seven days like that, you can imagine that Google wouldn’t [...]

Yesterday, we mentioned that Google have decided to show you social results when you search Google.com. But only from their own social network. Somewhat unsurprisingly, it took the internet about an eighth of a second to decide that this was a stupid idea.

In their infinite wisdom, Google’s search team have decided that when you search Google.com, you really want to search Google+. So as of today, they’re beginning to drop your social data into your search results.

the strange clicking noise was yesterday, you’ll be happy to find out that it wasn’t a swarm of crickets outside your house. No, it was every SEO in the world tutting loudly after Google was found to have breached Google’s own rules on buying links.

We’ve pretended to be interested in Bing, Facebook and Twitter, but we no longer need to stifle our yawns. Because Google Zeitgeist 2011 is here.

November’s almost done, so it’s about time for the search engines to release their 2011 top searches lists. And for once, Bing have beaten Google to the punch.

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