Mon, Oct 6th, 2008 | Archive |
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
Nov 5, 2009
Thu, Nov 5th, 2009 | SciTech |
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
Oct 29, 2009
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
Oct 29, 2009
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
Oct 29, 2009
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
Oct 29, 2009
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
Oct 28, 2009
Wed, Oct 28th, 2009 | SciTech |
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
Oct 28, 2009
Wed, Oct 28th, 2009 | SciTech |
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
Oct 27, 2009
Tue, Oct 27th, 2009 | SciTech |
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
Oct 27, 2009
Tue, Oct 27th, 2009 | SciTech |
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
Oct 26, 2009
Mon, Oct 26th, 2009 | SciTech |
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
Oct 22, 2009
Thu, Oct 22nd, 2009 | SciTech |
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
Oct 22, 2009
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
Oct 22, 2009
Thu, Oct 22nd, 2009 | Top Stories |
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
Oct 21, 2009
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
Oct 21, 2009
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
Oct 21, 2009
LOS ANGELES -- Google will launch music search pages next week that will come with the ability to purchase songs for download.
That's according to people familiar with the matter. They spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because ...Read More
Oct 21, 2009
Wed, Oct 21st, 2009 | SciTech |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc is partnering with major music labels to launch a new feature to make it easier for music fans to discover, sample and buy songs on the search engine, according to two people familiar with ...Read More
Oct 21, 2009
Wed, Oct 21st, 2009 | SciTech |
A Chinese group is accusing search engine powerhouse Google of illegally copying Chinese-language works for its digital library, adding to disquiet about a project to scan millions of books.
The China Written Works Copyright Society, based in Beijing, posted a notice ...Read More
Oct 19, 2009
Mon, Oct 19th, 2009 | Business |
When Google and Yahoo proposed to team up on search ads last year, large swaths of the advertising industry balked, saying it would give Google too much power and would forestall competition.
The Association of National Advertisers, which represents some of ...Read More
Oct 19, 2009
Search giant Google will today introduce a mass marketing campaign across the world in a bid to draw customers away from Microsoft and IBM office apps into its own application web.
Google claims that it has over two million businesses using ...Read More