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Google has turned us into idiots

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I love Google. I might not own an Android phone, but I can’t get enough of their Gmail service, fall back on Google Docs constantly and am still a big fan of Google Reader, despite Twitter now being my main source for breaking news and comment.

But there’s a problem: Google is making me stupid. I’ve stopped thinking, or trying to work simple stuff out without resorting to the Big G’s ever improving search engine. Mountain View is offering me too much information and it’s becoming an issue. So, short of unplugging the internet, what can we do?

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One of the Bing bait terms used by Google in its sting operation to catch the Microsoft search engine copying results has been whipped up into a domain name by a Google employee, and cheekily redirected to Google’s jobs page.

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The Google/Bing search controversy is still bubbling along nicely with Google’s Matt Cutts taking to his blog to further poke Microsoft about what Google claims is its policy of baking info from Google search results into its process. After being rather nice about Bing and the crew that works there, Cutts gets to the meat of the issue saying that he is surprised with how vehemently Microsoft has denied using any Google info and showing a raft of screenshots to prove his point…

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Electricpig isn’t just strutting around with a shiny new Social Networking Tux and the same grubby old underpants underneath. As well as adding new sharing tools and an upgraded commenting system, we’ve had a fiddle under the bonnet and grafted on a new search engine too.

Take it for a spin above, and take a rummage through our back catalogue. iPhone 4.0 makes particularly interesting reading, or you could read on for some more searches that’re worth a peep.

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Google branding has been scrubbed from iPhone OS 4 with the search giant no longer mentioned on the iPhone onscreen keyboard. Is Apple getting ready to ditch Google search entirely or are the iPhone OS 4 design changes just a spot of tidying up?

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Google pushes out real time search

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Google has rolled-out real time search results for all users, bringing updates from news sites as well as Facebook and Twitter which will appear within seconds of being posted. Read more

Google‘s rolled out personalised search for everyone. In the past, people who’d signed using their Google Account would get results based on their web browsing. Now Google’s using cookies to tweak everyone’s results.
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Google search redesign 1

Google is testing a new redesigned search page but it’s only popping up randomly for most people. Want to take a look for yourself? Read to find out how you can take a peek at the new Google Search…

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