A woman sued Google because searching for her name directed users to websites offering male erectile dysfunction treatments. ...
07:39 AM, Mar 07, 2013
Google's 66.7 per cent share of the US market in December is almost unchanged from its 66.6 per cent share two years earlier. ...
06:20 AM, Feb 13, 2013
Users are more likely to fall prey to cyber crime through search engines, online ads and social networking websites than pornographic or gambling sites, according to a report by technology giant Cisco. ...
04:20 PM, Feb 07, 2013
Search giant Google is set to kill off passwords and is experimenting with USB keys, mobile phones and even jewellery that can act as a physical 'key' to give users access to their account. ...
01:40 PM, Jan 22, 2013
Blekko hopes to exploit with a new product called Izik - a search engine designed especially for Apple Inc.'s iPads and tablets running Google's Android software. ...
12:17 PM, Jan 05, 2013
The Federal Trade Commission did, however, win promises from Google that it would end the practice of 'scraping' content. ...
06:57 AM, Jan 04, 2013
Kerala stood at number one position and Taj Mahal at number two followed by Wagah Border. ...
05:45 PM, Dec 28, 2012
San Francisco: Google Inc's mobile ad revenue in the United States will be roughly $4 billion next year, while Facebook Inc's nascent mobile advertising business will more than double, according to a new study by research firm eMarketer. Marketers are boosting spending on ads that reach consumers on smartphones and tablet PCs at a much faster than expected pace, eMarketer said on Monday. The firm said it expects that overall...
11:16 AM, Dec 18, 2012
New Delhi: To prevent users unwittingly stumbling on pornographic content on its image search engine, Google has tweaked its algorithm to make pornographic images a little harder to find, reports CNET. "We are not censoring any adult content, and want to show users exactly what they are looking for - but we aim not to show sexually-explicit results unless a user is specifically searching for them," the report quotes a...
01:38 PM, Dec 14, 2012
New Delhi: Google released its year-end Zeitgeist list for 2012. Google's annual list is an indicator of what's hot and happening in the online world. The search engine leader, each year, analyses billions of search queries to come up with the Zeitgeist - the spirit of the time. This year Google studied 1.2 trillion searches for its Zeitgeist report. While the world's attention wavered between the tragic and the silly...
08:35 AM, Dec 13, 2012
Los Angeles: The world's attention wavered between the tragic and the silly in 2012, and along the way, Web surfers searched in huge numbers to find out about a royal princess, the latest iPad, and a record-breaking skydiver. Whitney Houston was the "top trending" search of the year, according to Google's year-end zeitgeist report. Google's 12th annual roundup is "an in-depth look at the spirit of the times as seen...
07:39 AM, Dec 13, 2012
San Francisco: You're apt to discover more useful apps for your smartphone or tablet computer at Ask.com. At least that's the thinking behind a licensing agreement that Ask's search engine has forged with Silicon Valley startup Quixey, which has spent the past three years refining a technology to analyze the services offered through millions of applications designed for iPhones, iPads, Android gadgets, Windows devices and BlackBerrys. Results from Quixey's database...
07:45 AM, Dec 05, 2012
Los Angeles: The US presidential election became the most-searched item and Kim Kardashian was the most-searched person on Yahoo in a year when online searches were dominated by big news stories and pop culture obsessions, the search engine company said on Monday. The search term "election" topped the list of searches, led not only by extensive media coverage but also widening conversation on online social media platforms. The term "political...
01:09 PM, Dec 03, 2012
Dubmin: Russia's leading internet search engine, Yandex, will take the fight to Google in emerging markets like Turkey in a bid to offset the inroads made by the US giant in its home market. Yandex founder and chief executive Arkady Volozh told Reuters on Friday the firm was likely to use its own experts to expand into new countries, but would not rule out acquisitions or partnership deals. "We are...
01:37 PM, Oct 20, 2012
New Delhi: ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX top-level domain for online adult entertainment, has launched a new porn search engine, Search.xxx. According to ICM Registry, the new search engine will deliver porn-only results and which will be scanned for malware. Many pornographic websites are known to infect users' computers with malware, therefore ICM Registry has made malware scanned results a USP of its porn search engine. Search.xxx...
06:18 AM, Sep 27, 2012
New Delhi: On September 27, 2012 Google turns 14 and the search giant celebrates the occasion with a doodle on its home page. The animated doodle shows a chocolate cake with 14 candles on it and the Google logo etched on the cake. The cake then gets covered in Google colours and the 14 candles rearrange themselves as tally marks to denote the number 14. Interestingly, the selection of September...
05:39 PM, Sep 26, 2012
New Delhi: The government launched a search engine that will help people in searching tourism-related queries across websites in five Indian languages. The search engine, Sandhan (http://www.tdil-dc.in/sandhan/), was launched by Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DEITY) Secretary J Satyanarayana here. "This will fill the wide gap that exists in fulfilling the information needs of Indians not conversant with English- estimated at 90 per cent of the population," an official...
06:39 PM, Sep 21, 2012
Shanghai: Google said on Friday it will shut its once-popular China music download service next month, in a sign of how far the fortunes of the world's biggest search engine have fallen in China. Launched in 2009 with a local partner, the Google Music Search was meant to be a legal music search competitor to Baidu Inc's popular music service, which at the time was providing users with links to...
12:19 PM, Sep 21, 2012
San Francisco: Microsoft has launched a nationwide campaign called 'Bing It On' in the US, trying to show web users the quality of its Bing search engine is better than Google's. The software company unveiled the site bingiton.com where users can input five search queries and the unbranded search results of Bing and Google will be shown in two columns. For each query, users can choose a winner (or a...
03:00 PM, Sep 07, 2012
Beijing: Baidu Inc., which operates China's most popular search engine, has released a mobile browser and says it will invest in a cloud computing center as growth in Internet use shifts to mobile phones. Baidu dominates China's Internet search market but has been slower than some competitors such as Tencent and UCWeb to expand in mobile Web access. China has the world's most populous Internet market and the number of...
11:26 AM, Sep 04, 2012
