The popular blogging platform now offers a search tool through which you can spice up your posts with animated GIF files from other users. Here's how to do it. Lance Whitney Contributing Writer Lance ...

I'll be the first one to admit that I'm not the biggest Twitter gal. I use it in a mostly voyeuristic way, ingesting all the major headlines and comedians' goofs and celebrities' thoughts, and then ...

Tweeting GIFs just got easier. Twitter rolled out a new native GIF search bar that lets user share their favorite GIFs on tweets and Direct Messages. The search database will be powered by Giphy and ...

Because GIFs are all popular and stuff — or at least they were — Google has confirmed that it's rolling out special Google Images search filters for finding the moveable images, a trick that was ...

Even if you’re more of a still photo kind of person, there’s no denying the amusing, occasionally captivating quality of an animated GIF file. Graphics Interchange Format files are a manifestation of ...

A piece of cardboard paper has just sliced through your index right finger. As you suck on the wound, you begin to think of a way you can accurately capture the agony of a papercut with more than just ...

Google is acquiring the mobile GIF keyboard and search engine Tenor in a move that should help the advertising giant bolster its search data and offer its marketers an increasingly popular advertising ...

Here come the GIFs. We noticed Twitter testing an in-app GIF button on Android a few weeks ago, and now the company has formally announced that it is turning the feature on for all users. The test ...

Long before Giphy existed, Tumblr was a home for our animated treasures. Now, the blogging platform is making it easier for us to comb through its vast collection of GIFs and add them to our posts ...

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Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on tech since learning BASIC in the late '70s. When not cleaning up after his daughter and son, Steven can be found pedaling around ...