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Reddit has announced a new feature that gives users the ability to search comments, alongside a few other search-related features.According to Tech Crunch, the new feature helps users in searching for comments directly via a new 'comments' tab in the search bar, rather than having to click on several comments to find threads while looking for a particular conversation. As per Reddit's surveys conducted last year, the 'comment search' feature was one of the top requested ones.While testing the new feature, more than 26,000…

DuckDuckGo, a popular privacy-focused search engine, was recently called out in media reports for tampering with search results and purging independent media sources. This week, DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg took to Twitter to refute the allegations. He said the claims the search engine purges independent media outlets are completely made up, and went on to detail how the search engine shows results, and possible reasons why certain results didn't immediately show up. The clarification comes days after DuckDuckGo was…

Google will introduce changes to the way it handles cookies for users living in the European Union (EU) in order to better comply with guidance from regulators, the company said on Thursday. Google will display an updated cookie banner — a requirement for all websites serving users in the EU — informing users how cookies are used, adding a new button to quickly reject all non-essential cookies. The changes will affect all users in the EU accessing the company's search engine and video sharing platform YouTube, according…