It was the naming ceremony of the 21-day-old first son of Kumawood actor and movie director, Francis Dzogbetsi popularly known as Nebu Ur’ Majesty. But even though guests who gathered for the joyous ceremony may be expecting something unique or quite unusual for a celebrity’s child, their expectations were completely far from a search engine! … Read more
A Level 300 student of the University of Ghana (UG) Legon, Gabriel Opare, has joined the global start up boom and founded a video search engine, Mudclo.com, which is being described as almost matching giants like Google video search engine. ‘Mudclo,’ an impressive metasearch engine, collates results from many sources across the web. It is an online … Read more
Medical records of private individuals will no longer be findable via a Google search, reports Bloomberg. The news organisation noticed that the search giant had added the data type to its list of information automatically removed from search results. Now Google will make sure “confidential” medical information cannot be found when people search. The change … Read more
Google is changing the way its core search engine works to help stop the spread of fake news and hate speech. The changes involve different measures for ranking sites and people checking results are accurate. In a blog, Google said the changes should thwart attempts to abuse its algorithms that let extremists promote their content. … Read more
Over the weekend, I put a question to the Google Home speaker I’d brought back from the United States. “OK Google,” I said. “Is Obama planning a coup?” I’d asked this after reading an article that suggested a relatively new feature that gives answers – or Snippets as the search company call them – to … Read more