Today Google announces Demo Slam. Demo Slam is a place were creative and tech-savvy people can create videos to help the rest of the world understand all the newest and greatest technology out there. Characteristically, tech demos are not very fun to watch. A lot of the time those people that are the best at …
In the wake of mistakenly collecting Wi-Fi payload information, Google announced that they would no longer use their Street View cars to collect information on the locations of Wi-Fi networks. Yesterday, the company released a report on Street View and it stated that “collection is discontinued and Google has no plans to resume it.” The …
Making good on their promises to add social layers to its search platform, Google has added “shared by” and “recent updates” links to the bottom of some of its results in Google News. The features, however, are merely tests as of right now and both Malcolm Coles and Barry Schwartz can view these features. According …
In an interview with SeekingAlpha.com Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt and VP Jonathan Rosenberg discuss many topics including the company’s third quarter earnings. The company announced them for the first time ever (and believed to be the last time). Among the the subjects that were touched on briefly was the matter of Google Instant coming to …
Over the weekend Google announced on their LatLong blog that they redesigned the look of the Places page. A couple of months ago we noticed that Google had removed Yelp reviews from search results, but were trying to find a way to work with the user generated review site to incorporate their content in Google …
Rumors abound that AOL and several other private equity firms are in talks to buy Yahoo. Though the details of the deal are complex and limited, it has been said that in order for it to happen there will, most likely, be a sale of Yahoo’s stake in Alibaba. Moreover, Yahoo has yet to be …
Yesterday, comScore released its “Search Share Report” for September. The chart, which reflects last month’s scores in comparison to August’s, shows that there has been very little change across the board. Google is up 0.7%, while Yahoo is down that same number. Microsoft is up 0.1% and Ask is down that same number; AOL shows …
In the wake of the Bing-Facebook press event, major announcements have been made by the companies; some that will be going into effect almost immediately and some that will start to happen in the coming weeks and months. The idea behind this search and social networking partnership is to make searching more social and more …
Looking for a little traction in China, Microsoft has partnered with the country’s largest online retailer, Taobao.com (whose parent company is Alibaba Group, owners of Yahoo China). The site, Etao, has launched in a public beta version and is a shopping search engine that will display results on a range of categories and will be …
Yesterday Sony held a press event to unveil their new line up of Google TV products. As has been previously mentioned these Internet ready devices will be powered by Google’s open source browser, Chrome and will allow for search through your DVR, TV and the web. The Sony models will be available for the holiday …
