Yahoo throws in the towels in another front, it is giving up on its version of the Adsense. First it throws in the towels on search, now its Adsense. What’s going to be left of Yahoo? Dear Publisher, Yahoo! continuously evaluates and prioritizes our products and services, in alignment with business goals and our...
Google announced it is pulling out of the Chinese search market because it no longer wants to censor search results. Most in the West applaud this decision, but our view is that it is a bad and immature decision. I hope Google does not “censor” this dissenting voice by burying this article in its...
Microsoft today launches Bing Visual Search. You can play with it here http://www.bing.com/visualsearch For example, when you search digital cameras, it shows the images of 1,562 digital cameras in an semi-3D array, see image on the left. You can scroll up and down to pick the ones that look nice to you, or you...
Facebook have shocked the world by acquiring feed aggregators Friendfeed and also hiring the social networking sites four founders to important positions inside the newly purchased company. The four founders of Friendfeed were ex-google staff Paul Buchheit, Sanjeev Singh, Jim Norris and Bret Taylor. Most notably, Buchheit was the mastermind behind creating gmail, launching...
The biggest advantage FireFox has over other browsers such as Chrome, is the vast collection of free add-ons there are on offer! Over the last five years, FireFox has been developing and growing at a substantial rate, establishing itself as the most used open source browser. Why has it come such a long way?...
Chip makers Intel, have announced publicly that they have been participating in the development of Chrome OS. With the highly anticipated release of Google’s own operating system, many of us considered that Google couldn’t launch an operating on their own. Thus, Google’s Sundar Pichai confirmed this rumour and unveiled a list on Wednesday quoting,...
We were all speculating about this, but finally, in a surprise announcement this morning on July 8th, Google said that it was planning to release a new open source operating system, based on the Chrome browser. Interviewed by the New York Times, Sundar Pichai (vice president of product management), said “Speed, simplicity and security...
In May, Google held 1 million phone numbers for future use, possibly preparing the unveiling of its highly anticipated VoIP service. Google Voice was unveiled back in March but still has a huge impact on internet users! The Skype-like service enables users to manage all their voice communication devices via one “Googlevoiced” number which...
Search engines, such as Google, which help us find useful information on the World Wide Web, are taken by granted by most of us. There are an astounding 150 million+ websites on the internet currently, according to Netcraft. So, how exactly does Google sift through this astounding number of websites, and find information relevant...
As you all know, Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google with extremely fast loading time. Google have now unveiled a much more improved edition of their highly thought of web browser. The issue many of us had with Version 1 was that it seemed to lack some vital tools, such as...