Google Maps Used to Track Down Street View Car
Do you hate the Google Street View car for its supposed invasion of your privacy? Looks like this is what drove members of the group...
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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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Google Lowers Nexus One’s Early Termination Fee to $150
Well, what do you know? After the FCC formally sent letters to various mobile operators including Google about the high early termination fees that they...
Google to Air Search Stories Ad During Super Bowl
It’s a few hours before the Super Bowl XLIV kicks-off but aside from the game later, fans are also looking forward to the commercials that...
Microsoft, Facebook Expands Search Cooperation
Microsoft and Facebook are expanding their mutual cooperation some more as announced on the Bing Search blog. Specifically Microsoft will continue to provide Facebook users...
Watch Super Bowl XLIV Online
It’s a few minutes before the official kick-off of Super Bowl XLIV. If you’re not at the Dolphin Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida and prefer...
Yahoo Finds a Buyer for HotJobs, Which Property is Next?
Yahoo and Monster Worldwide has just announced that Yahoo HotJobs will be acquired by Monster for a $225 million buy-out. Yahoo has been looking to...
Google to Compete Against Apple Again?
Is Google preparing to launch its tablet PC that would go up against the Apple iPad? I mean isn’t it enough for Google to have...
Google Adds Personalized Suggestions to Nexus One Maps
See? Here’s one of the many reasons why the Nexus One phone could become a better Google-centric smartphone than the iPhone. Being a Google property,...
Google Now Lets You Add Stars on News Easily
Noticed something different from Google News lately? Nope? Go ahead and check out Google News site. You’d notice those “un-highlighted” star icons before the title...
Google, Too, Will Launch an Online Apps Store
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google is preparing its online apps store, with the hopes of giving its Google Apps business some much...
Google Adds Click-to-Call Phone Numbers
The Official Google Mobile Blog announced that phone numbers featured on some mobile ads are now clickable. This means that when you see a business...
Google Makes Social Search Available in Beta
Sometime last year, Google rolled out its social search experiement with the aim of making search, well, more social. No, specifically to make relevant web...
Google Adds More Extensions to Latest Chrome Browser
Google has just released the latest and most stable release build of its Chrome browser for Windows. Most notable features are the additional of more...
Google Highlights Answers to Factual Search and Events
In a bid to make search results more relevant, Google is introducing two new features which were actually based from two of its experiemental products...
Google Becomes Richer by $6.7 Billion in Q4 2009
Google just released its Fourth Quarter 2009 Earnings Report and never mind if it didn’t exceed expectations of the Wall Street Journal, it’s still quite...
Google to Serve Better Ads in Gmail
So, it seems that ad serving is the order of the day for Google. Aside from introducing new targeting options for mobile ads, Google is...
Google Rolls Out New Targeting Options for Mobile Ads
Google AdWords has just rolled out a new targeting options for mobile ads. If you’re an AdWords publisher running ads on iPhones and other mobile...
Bing Maps Leaves Beta, New Features Added
Microsoft has just announced that its Bing Maps service is finally leaving the beta state. And as it prepares to become a full-pledged Microsoft geo-mapping...
Bing to Replace Google as iPhone’s Default Search Engine?
Business Week is running quite an interesting story regarding ongoing talks between Apple and Microsoft that would make Bing as the default search engine on...
Bing Makes its Autosuggest Feature More Timely
Microsoft has quietly rolled out a minor enhancement to its search autosuggest feature. In fact it is so quiet that you wouldn’t really notice it,...
Google Cancels Nexus One Phone Launch in China
Amidst the issues that’s happening right now between Google and China, Google decided to cancel the scheduled launch of its Nexus One phone in the...
Google Makes Mobile Search Suggestion Location Aware
The Google Mobile Blog has just posted a short note announcing a new feature of its search suggestion on Google.com for mobile phones. Currently working...
Google Gets 72% of Searches in December 2009 (Hitwise)
Following up Nielsen search market share data, Hitwise has also released their search metrics for December 2009. And just like Nielsen’s stats, Google is also...
Yahoo Gears Up for 2010’s Search Battle
It seems that one of the first order of battle for Yahoo is to spike up its search product. As early as now, Yahoo is...
Google Tracks Flu Trends in 121 US Cities
We all know by now how bad the strain of influenza that hit the world last year was. And if the CDC warning is to...
VMware Acquires Zimbra from Yahoo
So, VMware has officially annonunced that it is buying email and collaboration software vendor Zimbra which was acquired by Yahoo in 2007. Although financial terms...
Google Will Stop Censoring Search Results in China
Google has issued an official statement regarding its business operations in China, specifically its Chinese search portal – Google.cn. Google told Chinese authorities that it...
Google Makes Google Docs a Cloud Storage Service
It has been quite awhile since Google’s GDrive project has been talked about. In fact it seems that Google may have shelved the project already....
AdMob Metrics Show Surge on Android Ad Impressions
Admob just released a new metrics showing a significant spike on ad impressions for Google Android. AdMob’s report was based on the ad requests received...
Apple Tablet: Apple Bites Back at Google
Is Apple trying to disrupt the anticipation, hype and excitement over Google’s announcement of the Nexus One by announcing their own announcement of the Apple...