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Since its debut earlier this month, Answers.com has garnered rave reviews across the Web and, apparently, Google agrees. Read the rest of this entry »

Google Inc. has launched a test program to let external developers build applications that interact directly with the search giant’s advertising servers, the company announced Thursday.The beta service is free of charge and more information, sample code, a developers’ forum and a guide can be found at http://www.google.com/apis/adwords/.
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Yahoo Inc. is now offering a new tool that allows users of its local search service to send restaurant or business information in the form of a text message from a computer to a mobile phone. Read the rest of this entry »

Mark Jen this week got a gentle schooling in the dos and don’ts of blogging at Google after posting and then temporarily pulling from the Web some mild criticisms of his new employer. Read the rest of this entry »

Fasthosts launches Webmonkey.co.uk, quality assured directory of web professionals , the UK directory of web professionals. Read the rest of this entry »

Google has hired the lead programmer of the Firefox web browser, the newest step in the search engine powerhouse’s encroachment on Microsoft’s turf. Read the rest of this entry »

Google has officially unveiled a prototype video search that scours the closed captioning text of television shows. Results are displayed with a still image of the video, along with snippets of text that contain the search terms. Read the rest of this entry »

America Online Inc., seeking to boost traffic to its free Web site and generate more advertising dollars as its paid subscriber base declines, said Thursday it is enhancing its search functions. Read the rest of this entry »

Web search leader Google Inc said late on Monday it has added a variety of new features to its Picasa digital photo service, including the ability to e-mail pictures via its Gmail service. Read the rest of this entry »

Search engines Google, MSN and Yahoo are working with blog software developers to combat “comment spam” — commercial messages placed in the comment sections of Weblogs. Read the rest of this entry »

Eleven new countries - territories now have their own version of Google. Google now has over 100 country or region specific Google’s. Read the rest of this entry »

Is Google planning to build a global fibre optic network from scratch? And, if so, why? Read the rest of this entry »

Google said it has fixed a bug in its web-based Gmail e-mail service that allowed users to read the contents of other people’s messages. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft’s MSN is slowly According to turning up the dial on its Web search beta, sending more and more visitors home-baked results over results from partner Yahoo. Read the rest of this entry »

Search engine giant Google has settled a dispute with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding the improper issuance of stock options prior to the company’s $1.8 billion IPO last year. Read the rest of this entry »

Google remains the search leader but its fierce competitors Microsoft and Yahoo are narrowing the gap through improvements in customer loyalty and perception in the quality of search results, a research firm said. Read the rest of this entry »

Google Inc. has improved its enterprise Search Appliance so that it can now index documents that aren’t accessible via the Web protocol HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), thus significantly expanding the range of data the product can search for and retrieve. Read the rest of this entry »

In a bid to catch up with desktop search applications from MSN and Google, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has highlighted the firm’s forthcoming search technology, dubbed Spotlight. Read the rest of this entry »

Google’s release of an API has been heralded as a bright moment for web services. It is an exciting development, but at the same time there is a subset of the programmer community that is disappointed. Read the rest of this entry »

NHN Corp., operator of Korea’s largest search engine Naver , released a desktop search service yesterday Read the rest of this entry »