Washington: Yahoo plans to extend the amount of time it retains records on what its users search for online, less than two and a half years after breaking from the other big Internet search engines and promising to delete such data promptly. The new policy brings the company in line with Google Inc., which dominates the industry and failed to follow Yahoo Inc.'s lead when it shortened the amount of...
11:38 AM, Apr 19, 2011
Seoul: South Korea's top internet portals filed a complaint on Friday with antitrust regulators against Google Inc, alleging the search giant was unfairly stifling competition in the domestic mobile internet search market. The move comes after Microsoft Corp filed a similar complaint against the world's top internet firm with European Commission regulators last month. In their joint complaint to South Korea's Fair Trade Commission, NHN Corp and Daum Communications Corp,...
11:29 AM, Apr 15, 2011
Shanghai: Baidu Inc, China's top search engine, will launch a licenced music search service in May, in a move to legitimise its current music search that critics say enables music piracy. Baidu will launch Baidu Ting sometime in May, said Kaiser Kuo, a Baidu spokesman told Reuters on Wednesday. The service will allow users to stream, download, create libraries of licenced music and will have a social-networking aspect. Music piracy...
04:44 PM, Apr 06, 2011
San Francisco: Google Inc will begin allowing users to personally endorse search results and Web pages, its latest attempt to stave off rival Facebook Inc while trying to jump onboard a social networking boom. The so-called "+1" button will start to appear alongside Google search results for select users from Wednesday, letting people recommend specific search results to friends and contacts by clicking on that button. Eventually, the feature may...
01:50 PM, Mar 31, 2011
San Francisco: Yahoo Inc has revamped its Internet search service to sense queries and showcase answers from movie listings to weather forecasts, even as users are typing in a word. The upgrade comes as Yahoo tries to regain market share in Web search and counter new features on Google Inc's website. "People are looking for answers; they're not looking for links," Yahoo executive Shashi Seth told reporters in San Francisco...
11:22 AM, Mar 24, 2011
New York: Google Inc made substantial changes to its search engine in a direct attack on companies that churn out low-quality stories and videos. The results of the improvements to Google's algorithms used to list search rankings over the past few days affected nearly 12 per cent of searches, Google said in a blog post on Thursday. Google launched the clean-up after users urged stronger action against so-called content farms,...
12:18 PM, Feb 26, 2011
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05:51 PM, Feb 08, 2011
San Francisco: Google Inc. is getting closer to releasing a version of the Android software meant for tablet computers, one that will include a fresh look and updated Web browser and keyboard. The online search leader said Wednesday that it released a preview version of the software development kit for Honeycomb, also known as Android 3.0. It's for developers to test out their applications on the software and learn about...
11:40 AM, Jan 28, 2011
New York: Google's Voice calling application is adding a long-promised feature: the ability to move a phone number from a cell phone to Google's service. Previously, Google Voice assigned each user a new number. That made it more difficult to take advantage of its features, which include cheaper international calls and the ability to answer calls on several different phones and computers. Google Inc. announced Tuesday that users can request...
01:03 PM, Jan 27, 2011
San Francisco: A small Silicon Valley company with some big name backers has released a test version of a new search engine that the company says has a key ingredient that is missing from Google, the human touch. According to Blekko, the Web has increasingly become saturated with spam-like websites, specially designed to pop up in Google's search results but whose content is heavier on marketing pitches than substantive information....
12:48 PM, Nov 01, 2010
San Francisco: Google Inc., world's most popular search engine, started rolling out a new way to show information about local businesses on Wednesday. When Google detects that a search is for merchants or things to do in a specific city, it will now devote the entire results page to key data about the places mentioned in the request. For example, a query such as "San Francisco Mexican restaurants" might produce...
11:13 AM, Oct 28, 2010
New Delhi: Google has launched its online music service in India that enables users to search for legal music streams and downloads. For its Indian music search service (http://www.google.co.in/music) Google has partnered with In.com, Saregama and Saavn. The three digital music providers, hold rights to hundreds of thousands of Indian tracks - ranging from old and new Bollywood hits to Indian classical music. The music search service currently indexes only...
05:59 PM, Oct 22, 2010
Bangalore: Google Inc plans to launch an online music service in India that would enable users to search for legal music streams and downloads, the Wall Street Journal said. Google would soon add a music feature in its search service, which will allow users in India to search for songs. The top search results would be from Google's partners, according to the Journal. The US web search giant will partner...
10:34 AM, Oct 22, 2010
Mountain View: Microsoft Corp deepened its ties with social networking company Facebook on Wednesday, bolstering its fledgling Bing search engine to catch up with Google Inc. Starting on Wednesday, Bing will take data posted on Facebook - such as users' "likes" or preferences - and use that information to provide more relevant search results. The tie-up between the world's largest software company and the largest social network potentially pushes Web...
12:46 PM, Oct 14, 2010
New Delhi: Had Mark David Chapman not fired that fatal shot on December 8, 1980 and John Lennon was alive today, he would have been pleased to see the Google doodle marking his 70th birth anniversary. While John Lennon's birthday is on 9 October, Google started celebrating the singer-songwriter's birthday a day in advance with an innovative doodle. On clicking on the logo a 32 second of Imagine, considered to...
06:09 PM, Oct 08, 2010
London: Google has been convicted of defaming a sex offender in France after the search engine giant linked his name to the word "rapist" in automatic web searches. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found to have been defamed by Google's "suggest" function, the Daily Telegraph reported Monday. The Superior Court of Paris found Google and its chief executive Eric Schmidt guilty of the "public slandering...
12:26 PM, Sep 28, 2010
