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Google - one of the largest, richest, and most influential technology companies in the world - is only 15 years old. In celebration, Google is revealing an upgrade to its first and most pervasive product: search.
Google just announced a new addition to its handy knowledge graph, the little side bar on the right that pops up for your searches from time to time, often with the perfect piece of information you were searching for. Now, the next time you're looking to find out whether a certain type of food fits into your diet, the right results may pop up before you even check out the list of websites.
Google has quietly discontinued its SMS Google Search service. Previously, customers with old-school feature phones could text a query to 466453 (GOOGLE) and receive a text version of top Google searches.
In an unannounced update to its Image Search algorithms on Wednesday, Google has made it more difficult to stumble across explicit or pornographic images.
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