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Google Doing Its Bit For Clean Energy
With concerns regarding the environment, global warming and pollution gaining momentum worldwide, Google has decided to lead by example and do what is expected of a socially conscientious company. More »
Posted on October 7th, 2008 in News.
Google Blog Search Becomes Content Aggregator
Google Blog Search has a new homepage that makes it look more like a memetracker. Rather than being a pure search page, the service now resembles the Google News page, where search is combined with content aggregation. More »
Posted on October 6th, 2008 in Blogs, Social Media, Google.
Live Search Maps Tries To Turn The Heat On Google
The Virtual Earth team at Microsoft has updated their platform and also added some interesting and useful new features to it in an attempt to improve the Live Search Maps offering and make it more competitive with Google Maps. More »
Posted on October 3rd, 2008 in Mobile, Internet, Search.
Google Has The Best Maps
According to the results of a survey conducted by analysts, Cowen & Co., which were released on Monday, Google Maps has left its competitors far behind in the race. More »
Posted on October 2nd, 2008 in Mobile, Internet, Search.
Nokia Expands Mobile Media Network
Nokia recently announced that they will expand the Nokia Media Network and will now deal with some of the heavy-weights from the European media industry. More »
Posted on October 1st, 2008 in PPC, Mobile.
Google Takes A Pro-Gay Stance On Proposition 8
Google, as a company, tends not to take sides on matters not concerning their domain; i.e. issues other than those related to information access, technology and energy. However, they made an exception to this rule and have spoken out against the constitutional amendment banning the marriage between individuals of the same sex. More »
Posted on September 30th, 2008 in News.
Google Tries to Explain Their Deal With Yahoo!
The Google–Yahoo! deal has ruffled the feathers of several advertisers and publishers. In an attempt to try and smoothen things Google has launched a ‘facts site’ and a presentation consisting of 17 slides, which try to explain the significance of this deal. More »
Posted on September 29th, 2008 in PPC, Business, SEM.
Yahoo! Announces New Ad Platform - APT
Yahoo! has just unveiled a new advertising platform called APT, which they had announced was in development last year under the name AMP. The announcement was made on Wednesday, during the Advertising Week media event held in New York City. More »
Posted on September 26th, 2008 in PPC, Marketing.
Yahoo! Talking Merger With AOL
Following all the hullabaloo after the Yahoo! board of directors refused Microsoft’s offer to buy them over, and the threats led by investor Carl Icahn, to replace the entire board of Yahoo!, the headless chicken that is Yahoo! is now looking at merging with another collossal sinker, AOL. More »
Posted on September 25th, 2008 in Internet, Business, Search.
Google Maps Street Views Now On Mobile
In keeping with their aim to make information available to all, at all times, Google has now added another feature to their repertoire. Street Views on Google Maps will now be accessible to mobile phone users. More »
Posted on September 24th, 2008 in Mobile.
Yahoo! To Shut Down Mash
Hardly one year after it was launched, Yahoo! Mash will be shutting down. The experimental social network aspired to be a potential competitor to the hugely popular social sites such as Facebook and MySpace, but fell far short of this lofty target. More »
Posted on September 23rd, 2008 in Social Media.
Microsoft Live Search Gets Semantic Query Processing
Microsoft has now integrated Powerset into the Live Search platform, since last month. The Redmond-based software giant is believed to have paid $100 million for Powerset’s semantic search capabilities in an attempt to improve their position in the search engine market after the failed attempt to acquire Yahoo! earlier in the year. More »
Posted on September 22nd, 2008 in SEO.
Google Starts Indexing Audio Content
With the manifold increase that audio and video have recently gained on the Internet, it is becoming extremely difficult for users to find exactly whatever it is that they are looking for. In order to make the task simpler, Google has launched a speech recognition tool that enables searching within audio and video files. More »
Posted on September 19th, 2008 in Video.
Google Improves Internet Access In Developing Nations
In keeping with their goal to make information available easily, all over the world, Google has decided to invest in a O3b Networks, an organisation that aims to provide Internet connectivity all over the world, especially to people in developing nations. More »
Posted on September 18th, 2008 in Multilingual, Technology, Internet, Google.
3G And Mobile Search Gain Momentum
The U.S.A. has now caught up with Western Europe in adoption of 3G technoloy. A new report from comScore has found that it is a neck and neck race between the two regions now, with 28.4% of U.S. mobile users and 28.3% European mobile consumers using 3G technology. More »
Posted on September 17th, 2008 in Mobile.
Google Android Phone To Release Shortly
After the recent successful launch of their web browser, Google Chrome, the search giant is now getting ready to release another long awaited, but not as surprising new product - the new Android mobile phone, by the last quarter of the year. More »
Posted on September 16th, 2008 in Mobile, Technology.
Google Showing 2 Videos On Single Listing
Google seems to be capitalising on its results pages real estate by now showing two video listings side-by-side in the space normally occupied by a single search result. More »
Posted on September 13th, 2008 in Google, Video.
One Week On - User Reviews Of Google Chrome
As first impressions go, most people seem to be satisfied with Google Chrome, the browser launched by the search giant only last week, which they claim now accounts for 3-6% of browser market share. More »
Posted on September 12th, 2008 in Technology, Google.
Internet Advertising On The Upswing
If forecasts made by various media communications companies are to be believed, the amount of money spent on internet advertising is poised to increase considerably. More »
Posted on September 11th, 2008 in PPC, Internet, SEM.
Google-Yahoo! Deal Upsets Advertisers
The Google-Yahoo! partnership, which was announced in June, does not seem to be finding favour with advertisers. Though advertisers have refrained from speaking out against the deal individually, they do not seem to be for it as a whole. More »
Posted on September 10th, 2008 in PPC.
