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Many people run searches for their own names, or the names of people they know, on google.com. Last year, Christopher Viatafa, who resides in California did the same thing, but interestingly, he found himself in 'most wanted' list and surrendered to police!

Apple caused a revolution in the arena of voice-based commands when it unveiled Siri. Since then, other tech giants have been trying to catch up. The new Google Now app has finally matched the competition by offering quality voice-based assistance on Android. Below are 10 awesome things you can get Google Now to do for you.

Search giant Google is always eager to test new things for its search results. Now the company is testing banner-like ads in search results.

When using Google search for different topics, every once in a while, we want to get straight to the top-quality articles. To help us with it, Google is now bringing 'in-depth articles' to its search results.

We have reported when Google introduced larger size Cover photo in Google+ profile, and Fecebook announced their updated home feed. Today Dave Cohen, from Google+ Technical Lead announced a new very easy Photo filter on Google+ search. Take a look inside.

The landscape of the computing world has sharply changed in recent years. With the rise of tablets and decline in PC sales, advertisers as well as companies such as Google are now more interested in capturing the mobile platform. According to a report, Google is all set to bag an estimated $5 billion from its ads on tablets alone during the current…

Google takes pride in being the quickest and most reliable search engine online. That doesn't mean it's security is fool-proof. A Quora member has recently revealed that a Google bug makes the search engine treat different equations as impossible queries and then return porn links in search results.

Devices connected to internal organizational networks need a bare minimum level of security. But what happens when they are not set up with that minimum security? The consequences are manifest in the fact that Google's search reveals more than 86000 HP printers, some of which don't even have a password to stop an outsider from using it.

Currently, the web search arena is predominantly occupied by Google. Microsoft's Bing also has a sizeable share of the market. Both Google and Bing primarily follow directory-oriented format, being meant for desktop PCs at the time of their inception. Blekko now intends to compete with them by launching Izik, the first tablet-oriented search…

Chinese government is known for actively controlling and censoring the internet, including Google search. The internal filters of the government root out any 'undesired' keywords from the search query. Hence, Google used to notify the users when a keyword would be censored, but it has abandoned the warning system now.