Google Makes World Bank Data Available in Search
It doesn’t matter whether Google took this long to do this, it is definitely all worth the wait. I’m talking about the integration World Bank...
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Arnold Zafra writes daily on the announcements by Google, Ask.com, Yahoo & MSN along with how these announcements effect web publishers. He is currently building three niche blogs covering iPad News, Google Android Phones and E-Book Readers.
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Bing Integrates Wolfram Alpha in Search Results
As if integrating Twitter to its search results was not enough, Microsoft announced today that it is also collaborating with Wolfram Alpha – thus bringing...
Google Latitude Rolls Out Location History and Alerts
Again, Google has launched a new service that will either please or scare you. It’s Google’s Latitude’s Location History and Location Alerts. Location History tracks...
Google Street View Arrives in Hawaii
Street View in Google Maps has completed capturing all 50 U.S. states as it has finally added street view imagery of Oahu and Maui in...
Search Engines Battle for Users via Free WiFi
The order of business for the three major search engines this coming Holiday Season is none other than – Free Wi-Fi Internet access. Google, Microsoft...
Google Buys AdMob for $750 Million
Google has officially announced that it is taking mobile display advertising provider in exchange for $750 million. This deal completes Google’s mobile ad platform as...
Google is Testing a New AdSense Interface
Google is currently beta testing a better and sleeker interface of its AdSense account management. The new interface answers the top three suggestions provided by...
Google Dashboard Exposes How Google Controls Your Online Life
Sorry about the long title but I just couldn’t think of a better way of expressing my amazement at how much Google knows about my...
Google Unveils E-Commerce Search Solution
What an opportune time for Google to launch another business enteprise solution geared for big e-commerce site than right now? Just in time for the...
Google Makes it Easier to Add Custom Section to Google News
Google has just made it easier to monitor news items from the Google News stream. Now, you can create your own topical news streams based...
What’s Up with Google Dashboard?
Did anybody from Google just leaked out information about a new service called Google Dashboard? GOS blog was reporting about Google Dashboard and even pointed...
Google Makes Friend Connect “Friendlier” with New Features
If you have implemented Google Friend Connect on your blogs or websites, you’d either be glad or get annoyed by the new features that Google...
Microsoft Previews a Cleaner, More Social MSN Portal
Microsoft is previewing a newly redesigned MSN portal starting tomorrow. The new MSN.com will now have a simpler, cleaner and sleeker look. And as if...
Let the Music Begin! Google Makes Search Musical
There you go, what has been buzzing around for the couple of days is now finally official. Google has just rolled a new search feature...
Similar Images Search Feature Graduates from Google Labs
Google has just graduated the Similar Images feature from Google Labs. If you will recall, the Similar Images feature was introduced sometime in April as...
Should Ask.com Sell Out Now?
If you are Barry Diller and you know that Ask.com has been running at a distant fourth place against the third major search engine, would...
Google Voice Now Lets You Use Your Existing Number
If the reason why you won’t use Google Voice is because you need to a new number to use it’s features, that changes right now....
Google Custom Search Turns 3, Rolls Out 3 New Features
With it its 3 years of existence, Google Custom Search now has more than a million users serving many tens of millions of search queries...
Google Rolls Out Social Option in Search Results
Google has just rolled out a new experiment in Google Labs that brings a new option in search results -Social. This new Social results option...
Bing Twitter Search Goes Live
Yesterday we reported about the Bing-Twitter integration. And now, the official words are out coming from Microsoft’s President of Online Service Groups Qi Lu. The...
Looks Like Bing Will Strike a Deal with Both Twitter and Facebook
How about about this, all your Facebook public updates and Twitter tweets becoming searchable on Bing search engine? Or another way at looking at it...
Google Set to Launch a Music Service
Music service has not been Google’s cup of tea for such a long time now. While others have successfully (or otherwise) implemented their music downloading...
Yahoo Q3 Earnings Report Card – Slightly Positive
After Google reported its Q3 earnings, it’s now Yahoo’s turn to report. Yahoo’s Q3 revenues registered a slight increase from last quarter’s data despite being...
Google Analytics Becomes More Powerful, Flexible and Intelligent
Google is rolling out some useful enhancements to its already useful and powerful Google Analytics tool. These new features give the Analytics tools more power,...
Measure Your Display Ad’s Impact with AdWords Campaign Insights
Following the view-through reporting campaign it rolled out recently, Google AdWords is launching a new ad campaign impact measurement tool called Campaign Insights. Campaign Insights...
Microsoft, Yahoo Deal Gets Support from Ad Agencies
While the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal is pending scrutiny from the government, here comes a group of advertising agencies issuing an open letter in support of...
Waveboard Brings Google Wave to the Mac Desktop, iPhone App to Follow
If you’re one of the many who already received their Google Wave invites, you are probably exploring the new Google communication tool right now. Or...
Want to See What’s in Timbuktu? Submit it to Google Trike
We’re all familiar here with the Google Street View car, right? It’s that roving Google vehicle equipped with a satellite camera that drives around major...
The Future is Bright as Google Reports on 3rdQ Earnings
The numbers are out for Google’s 3Q revenue performance. And quite what many analysts have predicted, Google’s earnings are actually all in the positive note....
Google Officially Joins the Flourishing e-Book Era
The whole e-Book market which is just starting to get excited right now due to Amazon’s Kindle and various e-book readers that are coming out...