So while Microsoft is busy giving us a new Visual way of searching, Google for its part is busy tinkering with Google News. Announced just now via the Official Google Blog is Fast Flip, a new feature in Google Labs that lets you browse sequentially through bundles of recent news, headlines and popular topics, as [...]

Some Engineering crew at Google have banded together to form a new Google team called the Data Liberation Front. Their main goal? – to make it easy for users to “liberate”  their personal data out of Google products. The Data Liberation Front’s motto: Users own the data they store in any of Google’s products. Our [...]

Bing has just taken web search into  new heights via a beta feature called Visual Search. Launched today at the TechCrunch50 event, “Visual Search is a new way to refine search queries through imagery, particularly for sets of results that tend to be more structured.”

Two months after the Yahoo-Microsoft deal was sealed, it’s now time to scrutinize the said deal. The US Justice Department has just asked the two companies to provide more details about the search ad deal. This latest development officially puts the controversial partnership agreement under a long procedure to determine whether is should push through [...]

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said in an interview with CNBC that she would have accepted Microsoft’s offer that former CEO Jerry Yang and Yahoo rejected last year. In an interview Thursday on CNBC, when asked about the $40 Billion offer to buy Yahoo last year, Bartz replied, “Well, sure. You think I’m stupid?” She calculated [...]

Bing has been up and about for a couple of months now and despite not gaining considerable search market share, Microsoft is still determine to push it further. And so if the tweets posted by some Microsoft people right after their annual meeting is any indication of a soon to be launch, we might be [...]