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
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
San Francisco: Google believes it can make more money by placing some of its ads below its search results instead of alongside them. The reshuffling began appearing on Google's website on Wednesday. The shift won't preclude ads from still appearing in the right column next to the search results. Google found that certain ads generate more clicks when they appear at the bottom of the page. That's important to Google...
07:56 AM, Nov 04, 2011
Seattle: Microsoft Corp's flagship operating system made only slight gains last quarter, largely due to business and emerging market spending, holding back profit growth for the world's largest software company. Sales of Windows, which still runs more than 90 per cent of the world's personal computers, edged up only 2 per cent from the year-ago quarter, in line with limp PC sales across the board. That broke the streak of...
12:11 PM, Oct 21, 2011
New Delhi: Many Google users have reported receiving a 502 error while trying to access any Google service. Google products which seem to have been affected include Google.com, YouTube, Gmail, Google Talk and Blogger. Tweets from users reporting the error seem to indicate that it is users from India who are facing a problem. There is still no word from Google on its official communication channels regarding the glitch. "502....
01:37 PM, Oct 19, 2011
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04:12 PM, Oct 11, 2011
b>San Francisco: Blekko, a Silicon Valley startup trying to build a spam-free search engine, is getting some love from Russia. Yandex, the most popular search engine in Russia, is expressing its affinity with a $15 million investment in Blekko and a commitment to share some of its computing power and other technology with its new US partner. Blekko is getting an additional $15 million from another group consisting mostly of...
04:19 PM, Sep 30, 2011
New Delhi: It's been 13 years since 1998 when two Stanford university students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, got together to form a company that would change the face of the Internet, for ever. As Google enters its teenage years the company is well entrenched as the leader in the search engine market with more than 90 per cent of the search share, according to Internet statistics firm StatCounter. Its...
07:56 AM, Sep 27, 2011
Brussels: EU regulators are still undecided whether Google dominates in Internet search and if it has abused rivals in breach of competition rules, the EU's antitrust chief said on Friday. The European Commission opened an investigation into Google in November last year after rivals, including Microsoft, accused the company of abusing its dominant position in the market for web search services. "As part of our current investigation, we are trying...
01:39 PM, Sep 17, 2011
Shanghai: Chinese search engine Baidu Inc may face tighter regulations after facing a barrage of criticism from state media over its business practices at a time when it is cementing its dominance of the booming Internet market. Analysts and various state media have suggested tougher rules could be imposed on the company in the wake of an investigative report by China Central Television (CCTV) which exposed how easy it was...
04:37 PM, Aug 17, 2011
