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You can now listen to and search for podcasts within Google Search

If you want to listen to podcasts but don’t subscribe to any audio-streaming services, Google’s got you covered. The company on Friday revealed that…

Trips is dead, but Google’s travel feature ambitions are only just beginning

Now that Google Trips is officially dead for mobiles, Google’s looking elsewhere to beef up its travel offerings. As promised, a bevy of new…

Google Trips is dead, its features are moving to Google Maps and Search

It’s been a long time coming, but Google Trips is officially dead after support for the app came to an end on Monday. Google’s…

Google News to getting a redesigned UI for Search on desktop

Google News is getting a new look for Search on desktop in the coming weeks, Google revealed on Thursday. “The refreshed design makes publisher…

Google lets you pin live Cricket World Cup scores to your phone’s screen

Google on Wednesday debuted a new ICC Cricket World Cup information portal available from within the Google Search app. “Over the next six weeks,…

Google gives Search a ‘visual refresh’ on mobile

Google on Wednesday revealed a new look for Search on mobile and the way that search results appear on the platform. The “visual refresh”…

BLF, ANC and EFF most popular parties on Google after 2019 elections

Google search trends have revealed what South Africans have been querying 48 hours since the 2019 election results were announced by the IEC. Along…

Update: EFF remains a hot topic on Election Day, Google reveals

Update, 5pm: South Africans have gone from wondering where their voting stations are, to the results of the 2019 Elections. They’re jumping the gun…

Google reveals South Africa’s mindset before 2019 elections

It’s election week, South Africa. Do you know who you’re crossing on your ballot? Well, if you don’t, you still have a few days…

Enjoy Eskom’s growing load shedding crisis visualised by Google

You’re probably sick to death of hearing about Eskom’s woes and load shedding, the government’s floundering attempts to fix the ailing enterprise, and what…

Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters tops US Google Search after Tebow engagement

On Thursday former NFL player Tim Tebow announced his engagement to South Africa’s former Miss Universe Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters. Tebow broke the news on Instagram…

New activity cards feature groups and remembers your Google searches

A new Google Search feature will let you save your search history in categories for you to revisit at a later date. “To help…

South Africa searched for the strangest things this year on Google

Google has released its 2018’s Year in Search report, a look at the most searched for terms, queries, and trends that took place around…

Future Google Search will answer questions you haven’t even asked yet

This year googlegle celebrated its 20 year milestone. Now it seems to be looking forward to the next 20 in the form of Google…

Google searches for South Africa spike after Fox News video, Trump tweet

Google Searches for South Africa has spiked after Fox News ran a segment, anchored by Tucker Carlson, addressing the country’s land expropriation debate. The…

5 interesting Google Search blips after the World Cup semi-finals

So… my World Cup predictions are out the window. France will play Croatia in the final after the teams beat Belgium and England respectively….

The United States still thinks Mexico’s in the World Cup

The United States isn’t the world’s foremost footballing nation — unless you’re talking about their variant using a rugby ball and “end zones”. But…

England asks Google if England can win the World Cup

England — especially England — just can’t believe how well its football team is doing at the World Cup. After smacking Panama 6-1 during…

Robbie Williams (and his World Cup middle finger) spikes Google Search traffic

If you were expecting Will Smith to open the 2018 World Cup in Russia this evening, don’t worry, we were too. Instead a British…

Fanny pack searches are trending so hard in 2018 (but why?)

Like movies and music, fashion is a cyclical internet culture phenomenon. As the online world influences it, fashion itself fuels sentiment online. And as…

Google now owns GIF platform and search engine Tenor

Here at Memeburn, we love a good GIF. And it seems Google does too. The company on Tuesday announced its purchase of GIF platform…

Polony, football and The Oscars: SA’s biggest Google searches this week

According to internet giant Google, polony, football and The Oscars were the most searched-for subjects in South Africa this week. Taking a break from…

Google Search now available on Apple’s iMessage

Even the fiercest of rivals can become the best of friends. Take Google and Apple for instance. The internet giant this week announced that…

VR entertainment could be coming to a British Airways flight near you

Google updates Chrome OS with better navigation and audio control

YouTube to stop monetisation of ‘unfair’ manual copyright claims

Top startup events in South Africa, Africa you should know about this week [18/8/2019]

Five SA fintechs that service the growing market of SME lending

AlphaCode awards R16m in grants, support services to eight black-owned SA fintechs

Some older Nokia smartphones to receive an extra year of updates

The foldable Huawei Mate X is now delayed until November

Open-world Need for Speed Heat is launching in November

Audi’s new cars in Germany will count you down, pace you to green lights

Two Ford Focus trim levels also found to have lock issues

South Africa’s govt ministers really love German cars and big Toyotas report reveals