Delicious Freshens Up a Bit by Adding Real-Time Feature
Yahoo’s order of battle for today must b “re-engineering” its neglected property. Aside from the enhancements to Flickr’s search result page, Yahoo is also revitalizing...
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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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Flickr Enhances Its Search Results Page
Despite being one of Yahoo’s most successful acquisition, Flickr rarely gets the love and attention from Yahoo. Probably because the Yahoo folks know that Flickr...
Google’s Eric Schmidt Resigns from Apple’s Board
Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt has just stepped down from his position in Apple’s Board. Mr. Schmidt has been with the Apple Board since 2006, five...
Bing Gains 1% Market Share in July, Google’s Share Goes Down
If you’re Google and you know that two of your fiercest rivals have joined forces to beat you, and you just found out that one...
Google Targets Microsoft Office with Go Google Campaign
Here’s what could possibly be Google’s biggest offensive yet against Microsoft. Knowing pretty well that the combined search property of Microsoft and Yahoo will surely...
Google Image Search Gets Some Useful Options
Following up the search options feature which was introduced recently, Google is has now implemented similar option feature to its Image Search property. It’s a...
Create an Online Store in a Snap Using Google Docs and Checkout
Google has just rolled out the new Checkout Store Gadget currently running under Google Labs. This gadget lets users create their own online stores using...
Yahoo Makes Local Search Results More Useful
Location-based search results are more useful if it provides more information about a specific location. And that’s what Yahoo Local Search is trying to fulfill...
What the Yahoo-Microsoft Search Deal Means to Everyone
Google’s Marissa Mayer said the Yahoo-Microsoft search deal will not be good to industry competition. Specifically, she says that it will hamper innovation. But the...
First Reaction from Google Camp – Search Deal is not Good
With the first step of the much publicized Yahoo-Microsoft search deal already taken, it’s now time to gather up various reactions coming from those who...
Microsoft, Yahoo Search Deal is Official
As expected, the Yahoo-Microsoft search and online advertising deal is now official. In simple terms, the deal is all about Microsoft powering Yahoo search while Yahoo...
Twitter Highlights Search on New Home Page
We all knew that Twitter is about to launch its redesigned home page. But we didn’t expect it to be this fast and neither did...
Microsoft and Yahoo Inch Closer to a Search Deal
It looks like Microsoft and Yahoo have finally agreed to a search and advertising deal. AllThingsD is reporting that an announcement will be made between...
Yahoo! Rolls Out Travel Image Search Refiner
Yahoo is also responding to the challenges posed by search refinements being carried out by its competitors. So, it just introduced a refinement to its...
YouTube Now Lets You Share Insight Stats
YouTube is now letting video owners share stats from its analytics tool YouTube Insights. This includes stats on total views, number of ratings and other...
Yahoo Acquires XoopIt, But Why?
The word is out, Yahoo has acquired XoopIt. Well for those of us who have heard of XoopIt just now, it’s a third-party app that...
As Yahoo Reports Q2 Finances, Bartz Kudos Bing
Yahoo has just reported its Q2 Financial Standings. And despite the negative trend in almost all of its online business, Yahoo’s CEO Carol Bartz expressed...
Yahoo Rolls Out New Portal Design
I remember Loren asking me if I have seen the new Yahoo portal when it was still in close beta. Well, I would have seen...
Court Says: Google is Not Liable for Contents on its Search Results
A high court judge in London has just ruled in favor of Google over a landmark case that could perhaps set the precedent for future...
Google Introduces Search with My Location for the iPhone
Google has just rolled out its Search with My Location for iPhone running OS 3.0. What this nifty feature does is to allow iPhone users...
Google Voice Mobile App Goes to Blackberry and Android Devices
Google has just announced the availability of Google Voice mobile app specifically for Blackberry and Android devices. This new feature allows users to make calls...
BingTweets Integrates Twitter and Bing Search, Literally
Bing in partnership with Federated Media and of course Twitter has rolled out BingTweets which is described as: BingTweets combines Twitter trends with Bing search...
After One Month, Bing Reports Positive Trend
We’ve been reporting about various gains and milestones that Bing was able to achieve during its first months, all of them coming from third party...
Google Gets a New Lawsuit, This Time from Rosetta Stone
Since it changed one of its trademark policies for AdWords, Google had earned nine lawsuits concerning patent infringement from various companies. Now, Google is facing...
Google Image Search Now Features License Filter
Google has just launched a new feature of Image Search which is aimed at helping users find images that are free to use based on...
Bing is Now the 13th Most Visited Website
So while we are all recovering from Google’s announcement of the Chrome OS, let’s get back to one of hottest pre-Google Chrome OS items –...
Gmail & Other Google Apps Finally Out of Beta
Finally, Google has noticed that its Gmail service has been lingering on the beta mode and finally decided to declare them as out of beta...
Oh Snap! Google Launching Chrome OS, Lookout Microsoft Windows
By now you must have read about today’s biggest news – Google Chrome OS. The Official Google Blog just broke the news, Google Chrome is...
Yahoo to Launch Search Pad Feature
Yahoo is about to launch a new search-related product called Search Pad. This search feature which may be mistaken for Google’s now defunct Notebook service...
IE Losing Market Share to Other Browsers
With Firefox 3.5 already at its 14 million downloads, and both Safari and Chrome gaining significant download numbers as well, it looks like Microsoft has...