DuckDuckGo, the privacy search engine, that was also recently added as a search option on iOS 8, has been blocked by China. Gabriel Weinberg, the founder of DuckDuckGo, confirmed it on Twitter yesterday when Steven Millward asked him. Using the blockedinchina..

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For two and a half years Google has required its users to sign up to the Google+ social network. Now it appears Google is easing up on this requirement and giving new users the choice to opt out of Google+ when signing up for Gmail or other Google services

DuckDuckGo has been blocked in China, according to Tech in Asia who reported on this after noticing first hand over the weekend. On Sunday, DuckDuckGo founder and CEO Gabriel Weinberg confirmed on Twitter that they did get blocked in China. Ever since DuckDuckGo launched it had been working fine in mainland China

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Will Ask.com Google Arbitrage Ever Stop? Google has been steadily cracking down on sites with poor quality content, both on the organic and the paid side.

Bing Ads has revealed a new feature dubbed “dynamic sitelinks” which creates annotations for ads that haven’t specifically set up sitelink extensions.

Bing announced a new feature within Bing Ads named Campaign Planner. Campaign Planner enables advertisers to see marketplace insights by vertical, product, and keyword…

Google has been steadily cracking down on sites with poor quality content, both on the organic and the paid side. So why does Ask.com continue to get away with it, and what’s it getting out of the relationship? The post Will Ask.com Google Arbitrage Ever Stop?

Earlier this month, we caught Google testing a form of knowledge graph data within the search results snippet. This feature is now officially being confirmed by Google on the Google Research Blog. Google calls these “structured snippets,” where Google will show snippets of data,…