Bing’s answer to Google Trends, xRank, is officially no more. The search service that was launched in 2007 has been on the back-burner, so to speak, since Microsoft Live Search became Bing. xRank was described as “a cultural snapshot of who’s hot and who’s not!” and highlighted what the hottest search queries of the moment …
Visual search engine, Quintura, announces that it has sold its patent technology to an unnamed buy for $600,000. According to CEO Yakov Sadchikov, the price is four times the amount they had initially invested in the company. He also says, “we invested the cash from the patent sale into developing mobile apps as well as …
Google’s URL shortening service, Goo.gl, has added new features and launched it’s open service and companion site today for public use. When the feature first went into action in December of last year, it was not a stand-alone one. It was only accessible through the Google Toolbar and FeedBurner. However, now is it openly available …
Three years after its launch, Google announces that Street View is now available for all seven continents. This mapping layer was created to allow users the opportunity to “explore street-level imagery” and is incredibly useful for a number of things. I personally use it every time I am going somewhere new because I function much …
Today the Google logo has been replaced by a doodle, as it often is. This one is a graphic of the wildly popular animated sitcom, The Flintstones. This doodle is to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the show that brought the town of bedrock into our lives and introduced us to so many classic characters …
Google announced on their official blog that they were rolling out a couple of new features for Instant, to make it even faster and easier for users to find exactly what they are looking for. To help with easy navigation, users will be able to explore their results using their keyboards; trackpads and mouses are …
Gmail users who are NOT a fan of the conversation view in their emails have the option to turn it off. Google’s Wiltse Carpenter (technical lead) took to the Gmail Blog to explain that, even though he is a fan of the feature, not everyone is. Mr. Carpenter likens conversation view to cilantro, stating “you …
Yesterday the news broke that AOL had acquired TechCrunch, the technology-oriented and web properties community. A lot of speculation has been going around as to what will happen to the soul of TC and all the people that work there. In the post, Mike Arrington lays it all out on the line. Arrington explains that …
Despite the fact that Apple blocked the official Google Voice app last July, rumor has it that within the next few weeks that very application will be making its way back to the iTunes store. In September after Apple released their set of guidelines that shows developers which applications will and won’t be allowed into …
Could another acquisition have been added to the long list already amassed by Google? The search giant is said to have purchased Plannr, a mobile planning startup that allows for the messaging of friends with plans. With the social planning tool, friends are instantly updated whenever plans have changed by receiving text messages. Rumors have …
