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Google Trials Movie Rental Service

2nd September 2010

A recent report in The Financial Times indicates that Google is in talks with some big studios in Hollywood, to show their movies on YouTube on a pay-per-view basis. More »

Tracking User Interaction With Search Results

1st September 2010

Results of a recent eye-tracking study conducted at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona sheds light on interesting user behavior on a universal search results page. More »

Facebook Bumps Orkut From Top Spot In India

31st August 2010

Facebook was on its way to overtaking Orkut to become the most popular social networking site in India. Recent research from comScore has revealed that Facebook managed to bump Orkut off the top spot in July 2010. More »

Google And Facebook Get Ridiculously High Brand Exposure

27th August 2010

Recently released reports by various online analytic sites have shown that both Google and Facebook get extremely high rates of exposure in the U.K. More »

Yahoo! Search Now Powered By Bing

26th August 2010

The Microsoft – Yahoo! Search deal has finally reached the stage of implementation. More »

Mobile Is The Best Route To Some Markets

25th August 2010

A recent report on the Nielsen Blog indicates that the growth of the information and communications sectors is showing a changing trend across the world. This is especially true in countries with a growing middle-class population such as India, China, Russia, Bangladesh, Turkey and Egypt. More »

Facebook Places – Location Networking Service Launched

24th August 2010

Facebook has launched it’s much anticipated location-based netwrking service last week. The service, called Facebook Places, has been rolled out to users in the U.S.A. only for now. The service will be made available in other countries soon. More »

Model Suing Google To Unmask Cyber-Bully

23rd August 2010

Former model, Carla Franklin, has been called some very unsavoury names in comments posted on a Columbia Business School website and in comments on videos posted by anonymous users on YouTube. She has decided not to take things lying down, and is suing the parent company Google in order to unmask the bully. More »

Bing Mobile Enhances Local Search

20th August 2010

Mobile search and local search are both gaining in importance. The convergence of the two is expected by many to be the ultimate use of mobile search. Bing mobile is working hard to ensure that they don’t miss out when that happens. More »

Voice Search Is The Future

19th August 2010

While Google’s Android Operating System is giving the Apple iPhone a run for its money, Google has already started concentrating on voice search, which is likely to be the next “big thing”. More »

Growth In Android Use Fuels Smartphone Market

18th August 2010

Recently released reports from IDC indicate that the smart phone market has grown about 50% worldwide during the second quarter of 2010, compared to the second quarter of 2009. The highest growth has been seen by Google Android partners. More »

Quasi-CPA Bidding From Google AdWords

17th August 2010

Google has introduced a new tool, known as Enhanced CPC, which will help AdWords advertisers who don’t qualify for full CPA bidding to get better ROI by reducing the cost per conversion on their advertising campaigns. More »

Microsoft, Yahoo! Allow Users To Choose Ads

16th August 2010

Internet users often have to wait through pre-roll ads or look past overlay ads when they want to watch online video. This can be quite irritating to some users. Microsoft and Yahoo! are reportedly thinking of ways to make this less of an irritation. More »