On Monday, Microsoft Corp. began placing advertisements on the U.S. version of the MSN Mobile page, marking the Redmond giant’s foray into the U.S. mobile phone advertising business. While mobile phone internet usage is nowhere near as high as computer-based internet use, tech giants like Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo see mobile advertising as the next [...]

YouTube has expanded their partner program to include all YouTube members who are based in the US or Canada, so those video publishers can earn revenue through their YouTube advertising & rev share program. From the YouTube Blog: Today we’re announcing that we are expanding the YouTube Partner Program. Now, anyone living in the United [...]

Yahoo Finance is arguably one of the most widely used and successful financial websites. Access to streaming quotes, SEC filings, company data, and more make it a very helpful place to visit when you want to get an overall look at a company’s finances. For those who invest in, or even just follow, the technology [...]

Google News has been tweaking its algorithm to show more updated and fresh stories as well as identifying the local news media which would be covering stories which may become global events writes Sharad Jain on the Google News Blog. We are constantly improving our algorithms to bring you a better organized, more relevant selection [...]

On Thursday, Google rolled out the new Google Charts API, which makes putting stunning, dynamic charts into your web pages easier than you’d think. And don’t let the term “API” scare you off with this one. The new Google Charts API is perhaps one of the simplest Google APIs to learn to date, and you [...]

Founded by two engineering students at the beginning of this millennium, PicSearch is a multi-language, image search engine that rivals Google’s and Yahoo’s image search service, with a database of more than 1.7 billion images. The engine also indexes video and audio files. As always, the firm uses patented technology for measuring relevancy and “family-friendliness” [...]

Earlier this week, Google launched the Google Mac Developer Playground, a place where Google Engineers can showcase their Mac-oriented projects. In addition to their regular duties at the Googleplex, many Googlers get something called 20% time where they are allowed to work on projects of interest to them. Many spend their time working on open-source [...]

Google search engine rankings seem to be undertaking an update or change over the past week as some sites and publishers are noticing a trend in rankings skyrocketing. On the other hand, some publishers are experiencing dramatic drops. Personally, I have witnessed some sites gain rather high Google rankings which have been the target of [...]