With the ever growing site traffic of of YouTube mobile site, it is not surprising that Google will take advantage of this to serve advertisements. In 2009, YouTube mobile’s site traffic increased by 160%. You can just imagine how good this site traffic will be in terms of potential for more ad clicks and brand …
While you are pondering on the points made by Todd about online retirement, here’s a worthwile albeit healthy activity that you may want to consider – biking. And to help you navigate your way through U.S. cities on your bike, Google has just added useful biking directions and bike trail data to Google Maps. Google …
I pretty much remember when talks about Google launching its own store for web apps started circulating before. But Google remained mum about it until now. The Google Apps Marketplace has been launched and is now open for business. So what’s this all about really? According to the Official Google Blog, the Google Apps Marketplace …
How does searching on your TV using Google sounds like to you? Isn’t it enough that Google has conquered the web and the mobile devices and now it wants to try its luck on TV sets as well? According to a WSJ report, Google has been testing out a new TV search service in cooperation …
The Guardian UK is reporting that Microsoft Bing is preparing to launch a massive TV ad campaign aimed at challenging Google’s dominance in the UK search market. According to the report, the series of Bing promotional TV ads is set to begin airing this week and will be promoting Bing as a “decision engine.” Microsoft …
Google seems to be prepping up its online collaboration and cloud computing tools – Google Docs for the big league. Just recently, Google Docs supported uploading fo files from your computer and sharing that files with people you collaborate with via Google Docs. Now, something good is about to happen with Google’s cloud computing service …
Google announced a pretty cool feature that most of us Android phone users would surely find useful and innovative – gesture search. Basically, what this does is to free you of the task of typing your search terms. With gesture search, all you have to do is to draw alphabet gestures on your Android phones …
Google’s long-standing effort on making its search engine results pages more personalized continue with the roll out of a new feature – marking search results with cutesy, yellow star icons. Actually, Stars are replacing the SearchWiki, which according to the Official Google blog didn’t get to be appreciated by users especially since it changes the …
Google has just released a new beta feature for Chrome browser – a translation prompt that automatically appears whenever you are visiting a site which is in a language different from your preferred language setting. This is an instant feature that don’t require you to download any plug-ins or extensions. Previously, you need to go …
The Bing Search Blog has just announced that starting today, your query history will now be part of its search autosuggest feature. Meaning, Bing does not only analyze your usual search behavior based on previous searches but now will use your actual previous searches to suggest search terms for your current search. This could be …
