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Google seems to be slowly rolling out new features into some of their services. Google, which originally began as a search engine, has now become a giant on the interwebs, trying its hand at every possible area. As of today, the giant has a 70% Market Share in the total search queries from the US.
 
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Yahoo has once again rejected a new offer by Microsoft to acquire Yahoo’s search business. Previously Yahoo shareholder Icahn and MS CEO, Steve Ballmer had been discussing about various possible transactions. During the transaction Steve Ballmer had made it clear that if a new board were elected, he would be interested in discussing a major [...]

 
Here is an innovation from GMail that every single email user in the world is guaranteed to love! How many times have you wondered if you had signed out of your email after accessing it from a public computer? Have you ever been a victim of password theft? We all love the fact that Google [...]

 
A few days back, we had reported about Google’s YouTube being sued by Viacom, which owns brands like MTV, Nickelodeon and Paramount, for almost 1 billion dollars, claiming that several of Viacom’s video shows had been illegally broadcast on YouTube. Viacom had also asked for access to YouTube’s source code and its search API but [...]

In what seems to be an unfortunate incident, personal data of some of Google’s employees was stolen in a burglary along with employees’ data of CNET Networks.
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Google outsources much of its human resources functions to Colt Express Outsourcing Services, an external company which handles such jobs for various other companies too. On [...]

Microsoft has now announced that it has bought the linguistic web search company Powerset for an undisclosed sum. Powerset is a web search company that is building a natural language search engine using semantic language software that reads and understands every sentence on the Web.

It was back in March 2007 that Viacom had filed a lawsuit against the search-engine giant Google, over copyright infringement. In the lawsuit that was filed against YouTube and its parent company, Google, Viacom had claimed that more than 150,000 unauthorized clips have been viewed for an astonishing 1.5 billion times.

The US Department of Justice plans to launch a formal antitrust investigation on the Yahoo-Google advertising deal, which was signed last month. According to the deal, Google will have its advertising displayed on search queries on Yahoo’s sites, which would earn Yahoo upto $800 million a year for four years.

OK, all the SEO advices apart, I have always maintained that the best looking websites that I have ever seen were all Flash websites. Flash is a tricky tool, if used well, it can create wonders for your website, but if not handled properly, it can completely ruin the experience. Many of the so-called experts in web have, at times, offered their opinions on how a particular website is doomed just because it used Flash. Time for all of them to eat the humble pie.

Google, even after being immensely popular in services like search and email, has failed to popularize its Photo Management Service - Picasa Web Albums. Founded in 2001, Picasa, Inc. was an independent digital photo management company, which Google acquired in 2004. However, ever since the acquisition, Google has not been able to make its mark into the Digital Photo Management scenario.

Google will soon tie up with Seth MacFarlane, creator of “Family Guy”, to create original content, to be distributed through its AdSense advertising platform. “Family Guy” is a popular animated sitcom which airs on Fox network in the United States.

Hail the latest development deployed by the Google search team. While digging for some information on Adobe AIR using Google search (yes, WATBlog too relies on Google for searching), Ankit spotted a brand new feature. It seems Google has started to place cookies in the users’ computers to let them know if they had already visited a link from the search result, when it was last visited and also how many times was it visited.

Gone are the days when you visit YouTube and then keep wondering what to watch next. The homepage of Youtube has been completely revamped and now YouTube suggests you the videos you might like to watch, on the basis of the previous data and your viewing history.

“In addition,” reads Yahoo’s press release, “Yahoo and Google agreed to enable interoperability between their respective instant messaging services, bringing easier and broader communication to users.”

Nowadays, everyone is yelling “Social Media is the next BIG thing…“. Again, if you look at the social media, search is an important aspect in the process of Social Media optimization.
 

 
 
Now, when you talk about search, how can you forget Google! Recently, Dr. Vinton G. Cerf, “The Father Of The Internet” and VP, Chief Internet [...]