Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) and Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) are so well established in my daily Internet search routine that I wasn't expecting to find anything new with a beta engine from a start-up search company. But ubExact had more ...Read More
Do a search for Google Wave on the App Store from your iPhone or desktop client, and you'll see an application called just that pop up, ready to be installed as soon as you fork over $0.99 (or ?0.79 in ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. is jumping on the Twitter bandwagon in its latest attempt to get people to use its Internet search engine more frequently.Beginning Thursday, Yahoo will mine the short messages posted on Twitter to find fresher information ...Read More
Yahoo continues to lose share in the search market, as Google and Microsoft pick up the difference.
Comscore's measurement of the U.S. search market in October shows that Google--as usual--still dominates the search landscape. It now watches 65.4 percent of all ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO—Internet search leader Google will ease its control over millions of copyright-protected books earmarked for its digital library if a court approves a revised lawsuit settlement that addresses objections of antitrust regulators.
The offer comes two months after the U.S. ...Read More
Google announced the latest in a barrage of free Wi-Fi promotions from the three online search engine giants--Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. This promotion provides free Wi-Fi at 47 airports around the country for weary travelers. The Wi-Fi altruism from Google ...Read More
Best Buy is offering to install Google mobile applications on smartphones sold at its stores as the electronics retailer steps up services to lure shoppers and tackle competition. As part of the deal, associates at the mobile retail unit of Best ...Read More
Google has finally taken the wraps off its music search program, enabling users to check out full versions of songs within Google search.
A search for Taylor Swift, for instance, returns links to her website and fan pages, plus songs ...Read More
Looking to apply their powerful search engine to the world of music, Google officially launched their new music discovery service. Not so much a new site as it is a new set of integrated options added to normal search results, ...Read More
So far, Google's Music service is only available in the US.
Search giant Google has entered the online music market with a new service for finding and buying music online.
OneBox is an alliance with music sites Lala and MySpace-owned iLike.
The ...Read More
Google Inc. started out 13 years ago as a simple search engine, but it has grown into a behemoth that has shaken up dozens of industries, including computers and cellphones.
On Wednesday, it jumped into the music industry.
The Mountain View, Calif., ...Read More
Is Google playing catch-up to Microsoft's Bing? How's that for a role reversal!
While Microsoft's Bing has been trying hard to capture the success of rival search engine Google, Google now appears to be copying Bing when it comes to innovations ...Read More
Google faces a new controversy in China after a website run by the Communist Party's main newspaper accused the US search giant of trying to keep internet users away following its reports on a copyright dispute. The online People's Daily book ...Read More
Google on Tuesday announced that its similar-images feature is now a standard part of the company's image search technology.
The feature was originally launched in late-April, alongside the visual-news timeline, as a way for users to find images that share certain ...Read More
last week, Google has introduced a new Google Labs experiement called Google Social Search, a way to find online content authored by friends and personal contacts using a search.To try it out, visit Google Labs and click the designated button to ...Read More
Google is pouring personalized social data into search results with its new Google Social Search, launching in experimental mode today. Google Social Search, announced at last week's Web 2.0 Summit, adds content from your friends right into your Google searches.
Unlike ...Read More
Google cofounder and President of Technology Sergey Brin made a surprise appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit on Thursday, answering a variety of questions on hot-button issues affecting the search company. Interviewed on stage by conference chairman John Battelle, Brin lamented ...Read More
Love them or hate them, indifferent to them, whatever, Twitter's 140 character "screams of consciousness" look like they're here to stay.
And so yesterday Microsoft with its Bing search engine and Google with its, er, Google search engine decided separately and ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Twitter Inc. is selling the rights to mine its communications hotbed to both Internet search leader Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. in dueling deals that underscore the growing importance of being able to show what's on ...Read More
Twitter Inc. is selling the rights to mine its communications hotbed to both Internet search leader Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. in dueling deals that underscore the growing importance of being able to show what's on people's minds at any ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has sealed agreements to access real-time content on social networking sites Facebook and Twitter, a boost for its fledgling Bing search engine.
Bing, which hopes to take on current dominant search leader Google Inc, will ...Read More
