Yahoo has just launched its search portal in India a couple of days ago. And to coincide with the launch, it is being reported that Yahoo India has been displaying a new search result that combines text, image and video results in one search results page. The new search results run alongside the usual search […]
Yahoo is Testing Glue Page Search Result in Yahoo! India
May 8th, 2008 by Arnold Zafra | No Comments
Live Search Gets a Clean Up, Looks More Like Google Search
May 7th, 2008 by Arnold Zafra | 3 Comments
The good thing when you’re into the search engine business and you’re up against only two competitors is that you can do away with copying their site’s format. And it looks like, that’s just what the Live Search team is doing when they redesigned the Live Search site.
The Live Search blog highlighted the changes on […]
Yahoo and McAfee Offer a Safer Way to Search with SearchScan
May 6th, 2008 by Arnold Zafra | 4 Comments
Yahoo! Search has teamed up with McAfee to bring a safer way of doing search at Yahoo with a new security feature called, SearchScan. SearcScan uses McAfee’s SiteAdvisor technology to warn users if a particular website that appears on Yahoo SERP pose any form of risk to the users. This new feature will be initially […]
Google Reader Gets More Social with New Sharing Features, and we love it
May 5th, 2008 by Arnold Zafra | 2 Comments
Google Reader has just rolled out some new features, which obviously is geared towards making Google’s RSS aggregator more social. So, here’s a run down of each of the new features.
Google Reader now lets us share anything using the handy bookmarklet “Note in Reader”. Just drag the bookmarklet into your browser’s bookmark bar and you […]
Microsoft Cancels the Yahoo Acquisition Deal, Finally!
May 3rd, 2008 by Arnold Zafra | 4 Comments
So, what do we have here? Finally, Balmer and his guys walk off the long-standing acquisition deal after finally not agreeing on the terms. TechCrunch got the scoop on the final meeting held today at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond between Jerry Yang, David Filo, Kevin Johnson and Steve Ballmer, with Ballmer withdrawing the offer. And […]
Tom Cruise promotes his site using AdWords?
May 3rd, 2008 by Arnold Zafra | 3 Comments
It’s time for a little bit of Sunday fun reading. Remember that hotly contested tomcruise.com domain which was later on given to actor Tom Cruise, the site is apparently gearing up for full launch as evidenced by some sponsored ads appearing on Google when you search for the keyword “Tom Cruise”. The Holywood Newsroom’s […]
Google TV Ads now available for US-based advertisers
May 1st, 2008 by Arnold Zafra | No Comments
Google Adwords’s take on TV advertising is going full blast as Google TV Ads which has been in by invitation-only beta mode becomes available for US-based advertisers.
Google TV Ads is a flexible, all-digital system for buying more accountable and measurable TV advertising. Using the familiar AdWords interface, you can launch a TV advertising campaign in […]
Feedburner-Google Integration under way, Adsense on RSS to push through
April 29th, 2008 by Arnold Zafra | 2 Comments
When Google acquired Feedburner last year, one of the changes that were announced was the integration of Adsense ad units into Feedburner members’ RSS feeds. Nothing much has been heard about this since then, until now.
The official Feeburner blog has announced that as part of the full integration of Feedburner into Google applications and services, […]
Windows Live Search Mobile intros Shop and Search on the Go
April 28th, 2008 by Arnold Zafra | 2 Comments
Windows Live Search is on th roll the past couple of days. It’s latest offering, a convenient mobile application for product search. Product search on mobile phones provide a listings of popular products, user ratings and price comparison from different online stores. It could come in handy when you passed by a gadget store and […]
Google’s Vision of the Future of Image Search
April 28th, 2008 by Arnold Zafra | 6 Comments
Can Google’s technology automatically analyze what’s inside an image? I mean is it really possible to automatically analyze an image subject then rank it according to the derived description without human intervention? Well for Google’s two scientists who presented a research paper in China last week, it might be possible.
During the International WWW Conference in […]







