Search Daily News
Add the AccuraCast News gadget to iGoogle: 
Live Search Comes To Facebook
July 25th, 2008
Microsoft and Facebook have reportedly come to an agreement and signed a deal that will bring Microsoft’s Live Search and Advertising operations to Facebook. Read the rest of this entry »
Facebook To Be Redesigned
July 14th, 2008
Last year, social network Facebook opened itself up to third party applications developers. Due to this move, they have been facing a problem - the user profile page, which used to be neat and clean is now very cluttered, and looks similar to that of their competitor, MySpace. Read the rest of this entry »
Microsoft To Acquire Mobicomp
July 3rd, 2008
Only last month Microsoft had announced that they were going to stop acquiring new companies. Now, however, they have decided to make an exception, and will acquire the Portugal-based company Mobicomp. Read the rest of this entry »
Facebook Races Ahead Of MySpace
June 27th, 2008
The results of a worldwide survey, conducted by comScore, are out, and they show that for the first time ever, Facebook has raced ahead of MySpace, in the number of unique visitors both sites had in the month of May. Read the rest of this entry »
Facebook To Go The OpenSocial Way
May 28th, 2008
Michael Arrington at TechCrunch first broke news about Facebook turning into an open source platform, and the possibility that this could be happening within the next few days. Facebook confirmed this soon after. Read the rest of this entry »
Microsoft Opens Messenger Friends To Social Networks
April 1st, 2008
Microsoft announced last week that it has partnered with the most popular social networks including Bebo, Hi5, Facebook, LinkedIn and Tagged to allow its users to easily move contacts in both directions, while protecting the user’s privacy. Read the rest of this entry »
Buzz Overkill From Yahoo!
February 27th, 2008
Does the world really need yet another Digg clone? Yahoo! seems to think so. They have launched Buzz, yet another social news site where the most popular stories are determined by user votes. Read the rest of this entry »
Yahoo! Open Search Brings New Meaning To Universal Search
February 26th, 2008
Having realised that they cannot compete with Google on the basis of algorithmic quality any more, Yahoo! have adopted a new approach to search - openness. Yahoo! Open Search was officially announced yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
Yahoo! oneConnect Brings Mobile Social Networking To Life
February 18th, 2008
After having been in the limelight for all the wrong reasons - announcing layoffs for a 1,000 people and then receiving an unsolicited take-over offer by Microsoft - Yahoo! is trying to revive its sagging fortunes by introducing a new service which promises to revolutionise the way users will communicate. Read the rest of this entry »
Facebook Apps Can Now Be Hosted Outside Facebook
January 29th, 2008
In what is clearly a very smart move, Facebook has leapt ahead of its competitors by announcing a new JavaScript client library that will allow Facebook apps to run on all websites. Application providers can now create applications that will run within Facebook and can also be added by webmasters onto regular HTML websites. Read the rest of this entry »
