Microsoft today directly challenged Google in the burgeoning internet telephony market by buying Teleo, a firm that allows users to make calls from their computers to normal telephones. Read the rest of this entry »
South Korea is the latest country to raise its concerns over Google’s satellite photo service, Google Earth. Read the rest of this entry »
Google is expanding its lucrative Internet advertising network into the print world in a bold attempt to capture traditional ad dollars. Read the rest of this entry »
Yahoo is implementing improved search features for users of its mail services. New features include the capacity to search the full text of message attachments. It enhances the existing basic search facilities available through Yahoo Mail. Read the rest of this entry »
A survey by a Chinese Internet research group has found that Google is losing market share to its biggest Chinese rival, Web search engine Baidu.com. Read the rest of this entry »
Internet authority ICANN has announced that it has entered into commercial and technical negotiations with the potential registrars of two new top level domains - .post and .travel. Read the rest of this entry »
The Link Selling O’Reilly Debate continues and a new thread popped up at WebmasterWorld with the catchy title, Google Says: Buying links not allowed? In that thread, he the thread creator quotes a statement by Matt Cutts; top Google engineer as saying; “Google’s view on this…Selling links muddies the quality of the web and makes it harder for many search engines (not just Google) to return relevant results.“ Read the rest of this entry »
ZabaSearch.com, a search engine that specializes in disseminating free personal information, is poised to append a blogging feature to search results, which would enable unsubstantiated gossip to be appended to people’s personal information. Read the rest of this entry »
Google’s entry this week into the IM space gave a high-profile shot in the arm to the open IM protocol XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol). Read the rest of this entry »
Google taps legal muscle for Microsoft case.In its fight with Microsoft over an executive’s defection, Google has enlisted attorneys from a small but high-powered law firm. Read the rest of this entry »
The publisher of a US men’s magazine has sued Google, alleging that the Internet search company is infringing on copyright by displaying thousands of pictures of nude women. Read the rest of this entry »
Google Talk on. Google Inc. is set to introduce its own instant messaging system, the Los Angeles Times reported on Tuesday, marking the expansion by the Web search leader into not just text but also voice communications. Read the rest of this entry »
Google has banned release of PR to CNET .Google says Cnet went too far in googling. Last week, a CNet reporter apparently used Google to dig up some semi-personal information on Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google. Google didn’t like this and reportedly placed a one year ban on speaking to anyone from CNet. Read the rest of this entry »
Google Maps Hybrid Mode.We’ve got Maps, we’ve got Earth, and now we’ve got a way to view satellite images with map data. It’s the “Hybrid” mode. Very handy for seeing the lay of the land with, for example, street names on top. Look in the upper right hand corner of the map image to switch your view from Map to Satellite to Hybrid.
Google Inc. stepped up the pace of its expansion in China, and competition with new equity-market star Baidu.com Inc., by tapping three Chinese companies to sell keyword-based advertisements for its China site. Read the rest of this entry »
Google says Cnet went too far in googling.Google has blackballed online technology news service Cnet News.com for googling Eric Schmidt, CEO of the Mountain View company, and including some personal information about him in a story last month. Read the rest of this entry »
Consumers will now be able to receive updates from Google’s News service over the Web, via RSS or Atom feeds. Read the rest of this entry »
Nokia, the global leader in mobile communications, has made the web search on its smartphones all the more easy. Read the rest of this entry »
Google Inc., a company that had long employed the former cook for one of the world’s most famous rock bands to keeps its employees well fed, launched a worldwide search on Thursday for two new chefs. Read the rest of this entry »
Ask Jeeves, Inc., a property of InterActiveCorp, today announced Ask Jeeves Sponsored Listings, a new search advertising product that will allow advertisers to more effectively purchase, manage and optimize campaigns on Ask Jeeves (Ask.com) and its advertising syndication network. Ask Jeeves Sponsored Listings is replacing the Company’s Premier Listings product with an open-auction system that provides easier access for a diverse range of search advertisers. Read the rest of this entry »