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Santa take note: Google reveals the hottest gifts this Christmas

Santa might have his elves, but the rest of us have Google. And following the recent Black Friday spending spree in the US, Google has revealed the top searches for gifts ahead of Christmas. Flying high According to Google, drones are so hot right now. The flying gizmos topped the list for trending toy searches, …

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Facebook takes on Google, launches Universal Search

Facebook has revealed a massive increase to its search functionality – with all 2 trillion of its publicly listed posts are now searchable. Needle in a haystack Facebook announced the news in a blog post. "Today, we’re updating Facebook Search so that in addition to friends and family, you can find out what the world …

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Facebook and Google play nice for Push Notifications

While you could never accuse them of being BFFs, Facebook and Google aren't open to working together when it's mutually beneficial. The latest teaming of the superpowers is over access to Chrome. Push button Now Facebook mobile users will be able to receive Push Notifications on Google Chrome. The feature can be activated via Chrome’s …

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Google launches two new ways to Pay – confusion ensues

Google doesn't like to do anything by halves. The Search giant has just launched Android Pay, a service aimed at usurping Google Wallet for contactless payments. At the same time Google also announced a standalone Google Wallet app aimed at peer-to-peer payments. There's both sort of the same, but different. Pay up Android Pay is …

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Cookies vs People (or Google vs Facebook)

From day one, Facebook users have always been able to login as themselves. By contrast, Google users have to deal with multiple logins and accounts across numerous devices. Cookies are good enough for me This means Google must algorithmically infer who the actual user is, and assemble this information in the cookie. Since Facebook knows who the user is …

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