San Francisco: Google's Internet search engine receives more complaints about websites believed to be infringing on Microsoft's copyrights than it does about material produced by entertainment companies pushing for tougher online piracy laws. A snapshot of Microsoft's apparently chronic copyright headaches emerged in new data that Google released Thursday to provide a better understanding of the intellectual property abuses on the Internet. Google has a good vantage point on the...
11:56 AM, May 25, 2012
San Francisco: Joining the battle to redefine Internet search, Yahoo is taking aim with a new browser enhancement it calls "Axis". It alters browsers made by other companies to display search results in a more convenient and visual format. The troubled Internet company Yahoo Inc. released Axis in Apple's app store late Wednesday. That version will work only on Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The software also can be...
07:14 AM, May 25, 2012
San Francisco: Google is introducing a new tool, designed to make its search engine smarter. The new feature debuting Wednesday draws from a Google-built database of more than 500 million people, places and commonly requested things to provide a summary of vital information alongside the main search results. Google Inc. spent the past two years poring through online encyclopedia Wikipedia, the CIA Factbook and other sources to expand a database...
06:53 AM, May 17, 2012
Seattle: Microsoft Corp unveiled a new design on Thursday for its second-ranked Bing search engine, introducing elements from Facebook and other social networks, as it tries to claw market share from leader Google Inc. Slow off the mark in Internet search, Microsoft has racked up losses of more than $6 billion in its online unit since launching Bing three years ago, but has yet to make a mark on Google's...
11:30 AM, May 11, 2012
Beijing: The size of China's search engine market hit 5.53 billion yuan ($877 million) in the first quarter of 2012, according to new statistics. The figure represents a 70.4 per cent year-on-year increase, but a 4.7 per cent decline compared to the last quarter of 2011, showed the statistics from Analysys International, a Beijing-based tech and internet information provider. Dong Xu, an analyst with the firm, attributed the quarter-on-quarter decline...
11:19 AM, Apr 29, 2012
New Delhi: Gideon Sundback invented the zip, a product that has been holding together much of the parts of our lives for about a century now. And Google has paid a tribute to the man with a an unzippable doodle on this 132nd birthday. Google Gideon Sundback's 132nd birthday doodle gives the appearance of a jacket front that has the Google logo embroidered on it and a zip runs through...
03:00 PM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: As you click on the doodle on the Google home page, honouring Gideon Sundback, the page unzips to reveal a search engine results page on the Swedish-born engineer. Sundback's invention, the zipper, has been holding together much of the parts of our lives for about a century now. Sundback (born April 24, 1880) had emigrated to the United States a job switch later, he started working for a...
08:31 AM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: The names of Academy Awards winners are a closely guarded secret until the envelope is opened during the Oscar night. But Google, armed with its search statistics takes a go at predicting the winners at the 84th Annual Academy Awards. The search engine giant has closely analysed the search trends over the last three years to identify indications that point towards the actual winners who took the gold...
01:47 PM, Feb 25, 2012
London: London Stock Exchange Group said on Tuesday it had struck a deal with Google to provide realtime quotes for trades on the London Stock Exchange and Borsa Italiana, information that traders currently pay a premium for. LSE said the move would make data that was previously available to Google users on a 15-minute delay as accessible as possible for retail investors. Jarod Hillman, Head of Real-Time Data at the...
05:44 PM, Feb 21, 2012
London: Twitter and Russian search engine Yandex have agreed a partnership that will allow Yandex to show new tweets in its search results almost instantly, as Twitter becomes an increasingly important source of realtime information. Twitter will give Yandex access to its so-called firehose of all public tweets, the two companies said on Tuesday, in an agreement similar to the one the social short-messaging site has with Microsoft's search engine,...
05:40 PM, Feb 21, 2012
San Francisco: Microsoft Corp. has finally reached a long-sought and expensive goal - its Bing search engine now ranks second behind Google in the Internet's most lucrative market. Bing and Microsoft's other websites fielded 2.75 billion search requests in the US during December, catapulting in front of Yahoo Inc. for the first time in the jockeying for runner up to Google Inc., according to statistics released Wednesday by comScore Inc....
10:19 AM, Jan 12, 2012
San Francisco: Google is sifting through the photos and commentary on its blossoming social network so its Internet search results can include more personal information. The additional personal touches that began to roll out Tuesday mark another step toward one of Google's most ambitious goals. The Internet search leader eventually hopes to know enough about each of its users so it can tailor its results to fit the unique interests...
07:05 AM, Jan 11, 2012
Shanghai: The Chinese government is working with domestic Internet search engines like Baidu Inc and Sohu.com, and financial institutions to prevent phishing attacks on unsuspecting Chinese web users. The Ministry of Public Security said on Friday it would work with 10 Chinese search engines to protect the website rankings of financial institutions to lessen the chances that Internet users will be duped by phishing websites. A phishing attack occurs when...
12:01 PM, Dec 30, 2011
New Delhi: Google released its year-end Zeitgeist list for 2011. 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. 13-year-old American eighth grader Rebecca Black was the queen of search queries in 2011. She became an overnight sensation when Comedy Central...
06:17 PM, Dec 16, 2011
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