Twitter Enhances Homepage with Search and Trends
When Twitter launched it’s own search engine that crawls through all user postings which were set for public viewing, many wondered why it was hosted...
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Arnold Zafra writes daily on the announcements by Google, Ask.com, Yahoo & MSN along with how these announcements effect web publishers. He is currently building three niche blogs covering iPad News, Google Android Phones and E-Book Readers.
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Yahoo To Launch its New Mobile Website
Yahoo just announced that it will soon be launching a new mobile service which it describes as a highly-personalized mobile starting point to the Internet. ...
Yahoo to Shut Down MyWeb Bookmarking Service
To be honest, I didn’t know that Yahoo has another bookmark service called MyWeb. Yes, I know there is MyYahoo which serves as a personalized...
Top 3 Search Engines Unite on Canonical URL
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft join hands in the drive to clean up the web of duplicate contents. The top three search engines are implementing support...
Google Friend Connect Launches its Social Bar
Fresh from initial launch, the Official Google Social Web Blog has posted it’s first official post announcing a new feature of Google Friend Connect –...
Gmail Continues to Grow as Hotmail Falters, and Yahoo! Mail Stagnates
If we are to take into account ComScore’s data on Gmail’s number of unique visitors between December 2007 and December 2008 vis-a-vis Windows Live Hotmail,...
IBM & Google Partner for Google Health Records
IBM and Google has just reached an agreement allowing an IBM software to stream medical and health records of patients to their Google Health record,...
Google Presses AOL To Buy Back its Investment
Sometime in 2005, Google took a $1 billion to 5 percent stake in AOL. This put AOL’s owner, Time Warner into a $20 billion unit...
Google Maps Now has a Location-Aware Feature, called Latitude
The Official Google Blog has just put out an announcement regarding the new feature of Google Maps called Latitude. Although Google Maps Latitude was intended...
Hackers Attack Google Video Search
If last Saturday’s glitch on Google Search was a simple human error which didn’t really have anything to do with Google Search getting attacked by...
Wikianswers Q&A Site Launched by Wikia
Coming from the founder of Wikipedia, Wikianswers is using the same foundation and technology that made Wikipedia the most successful open online encyclopedia. Wikianswers aims...
Google is Broken, the 2009 Edition
I thought there was something wrong with my PC’s setting or something, or Firefox maybe experiencing some problem or my Internet connection has been attacked....
Yahoo to Shut Off Briefcase Online Storage Service
Quite frankly, I already forgot about Yahoo’s online storage service despite the fact that it was the first online storage service that I used way...
Google Gives its Firefox Toolbar a Chrome-Like New Tab Page
When Google released its Chrome browser not so long ago, one of its major feature was its ability to display thumbnail images of 9 websites...
Use Twitter to Submit News to Techmeme
My favorite tech news aggregator Techmeme has just rolled out a new feature aimed at helping anyone make sure that interesting tech news are published...
Gmail Turns On Offline Mode through Google Gears
Gmail Labs has just activated a new feature which it should have rolled out a long time ago – offline access. That means that if...
Google Rolls Out Measurement Lab for Gauging Internet Performance
…At Google, we care deeply about sustaining the Internet as an open platform for consumer choice and innovation. No matter your views on net neutrality...
Despite 4Q Revenue Losses, Yahoo’s New Chief is Still Optimistic
First some highlights of the Yahoo numbers for 4Q 2009 and Full-Year 2009 financial report. Total revenues decreased by 1 percent in Q4 with $1,806...
As the World’s Internet Population Grows to More than 1B, Google is Still No.1
There are some interesting points that were revealed by the latest comScore statistics on the total global internet audience in December 2008. First, there are...
Against All Odds of 2008, Google Still Gains in Q4
Google has just announced its Q4 2008 financial results and amidst all the numbers and figures, one thing is clear – Google is still earning...
Britannica 2.0 Adapts Wikipedia Model, Attacks Google SERPs
Britannica president Jorge Cauz is very displeased with the way Google has been displaying pages from Wikipedia on top of its SERPs. Mr. Cauz even...
Google Stops Print Ads Program
Google has just announced that it is closing one of Adwords’ not so popular revenue generating (or the lack of) stream – Google Print Ads....
Windows Live Search Rolls Out News Alerts Service
The Windows Live Search blog has just announced a new feature that allows users to have news delivered to their email, either daily, twice daily...
YouTube Video Comes to TV via PS3 and Wii
Console gamers who are also fond of watching YouTube videos can now do both activities on their TV sets. YouTube has just rolled YouTube TV...
Google Shuts Down Stale Products, Cuts 100 Jobs
As Google announces some changes in its recruitment policy, it also made some successive announcements regarding the shutting down of several of its products. While...
Google Introduces Some New Features to Adwords Local Business Ads
To make it faster and easier for customers to find businesses when searching on Google Maps, Google Adwords is implementing some new features to its...
Google Launches Apps Authorized Reseller Program
Google is rolling out a new strategy aimed at better marketing of their Google Apps products. Dubbed Google Apps Authorized Reseller Program, this strategy is...
It’s Official, Carol Bartz is the New Yahoo CEO as Sue Decker Resigns
So, Yahoo has officially announced the appointment of Ms. Carol Bartz as the new CEO filling up the slot vacated by Jerry Yang. And as...
Carol Bartz Closer to Becoming the Next Yahoo CEO
Following up on our coverage last week that Yahoo is close to naming a new CEO to replace Jerry Yang, the WSJ is reporting that...
One Search Produces Only 0.2 Grams of CO2, says Google
The Official Google Blog has just a published a brief explanation of the company’s environmental footprint. Saying that, contrary to the recent report, one Google...