Picasa Web Albums Updates, New API Features
Google’s free web album, Picasa introduces some great new features which were the top requests of Picasa Web Album users. Google’s Data API blog enumerated...
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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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Ask.com Will Give Users Control of Privacy Information
So while Google is reducing the retention of cookie information it gets from users who use its search engine, Ask.com is giving their users more...
Users Don’t Want Search Engine to Keep Their Information
A survey of 295 readers of technology related blogs by Hakia.com, a new meaning-based search engine, shows that 62% (166 votes) percent of those surveyed...
Google Launches Custom Search Business Edition
Google launches a new feature of its custom search engine which is geared for corporate clients which has the need to have a search engine...
Google Leads the Search Engine Pack Again
comScore just released its search engine analysis results for June and data shows that Google once again is ahead of the pack with 49.5% of...
Google Gives NonProfit Organizations More Free Apps
Perhaps in order to promote its committment to upholding its social responsibility, Google is extending premium tools of its online communication and collaboration tool, Google...
The Ultimate Search for Bourne with Google
That is the title of the new online game that Universal Pictures and Google are releasing to prep up the publicity blitz of the third...
Soon Patients Will Just Google their Sickness and Diagnose Themselves
U.K based analyst firm Wireless Healthcare predicts that Google and Microsoft are on the brink of making their presence felt in the healthcare sector. The...
Introducing Google Mapplets, A Mashup of Mashups on Google Maps
I know that’s a lot of “maps” there in the title. It’s a bit of an exaggeration actually but that’s how I see this new...
Google Acquires Security and Enterprise Solutions Company – Postini
The latest company to join Google is on-demand communications security and compliance solutions Postini. The deal was sealed today with Google purchasing Postini for a...
Yahoo! Tops Asia-Pacific Internet Usage Study
Based on the comprehensive survey conducted by comScore on the Internet behavior of Asia-Pacific countries, Yahoo emerged as the most visited site in the Asia-Pacific...
Google Adwords’ Impression Share: Discovering Your Ad Campaigns Performance
Impression Share is a new Adwords performance metrics which shows the percentage of impressions where your ads were shown out of the total available impressions...
Yahoo! Steps Up Online Advertising with SmartAds
Yahoo is stepping up its online advertising program with the launch of SmartAds, a behavioral targeting ad campaign which display ads that are tailored for...
Sharing the Sights and Sounds of Europe through YouTube
The European Commission in cooperation with YouTube has launched EUTube, a video portal showcasting the works of the European Union. The EC hopes to disseminate...
Adsense Referral 2.0 Gets Out of Beta, Now Available for All Publishers (?)
Inside Adsense announces that the recently launched (for beta testing) referral scheme for Adwords advertisers’ products will soon be available to all Adsense publishers in...
Google Introduces Google Gadget Ventures
Ever wanted to develop your own useful and fully functional Google gadget but could not push through with your ideas due to time and financial...
Google Enterprise Search Teams Up with Ingram Micro
Google is expanding the usage of its enterprise search solutions by teaming up with Ingram Micro, one of the world’s largest technology products distributors. Google...
Google Earth Goes Socially Relevant, Reaches Out to Non-Profit Organizations
Showing that it is not only a profit-oriented company, Google launches its own socially relevant program called Google Earth Outreach. Utilizing the power of its...
Google Further Explains Why It Is Buying DoubleClick
Today in Google’s Public Policy Blog, Alex Kinnear, Group Product Manager traces the history why Google decided on buying out ad serving company, Double Click....
YouTube Goes Multilingual
With the current localization thrust among web 2.0 applications, it was but normal that the number one video sharing and uploading site, YouTube, makes its...
Google Adwords Partners with Network Solutions
PPC search marketing specialist Network Solutions joins Google’s stable of Adwords reseller giving the company full service Adwords management for their PPC marketing clients. Network...
MSN Mobile Sports a New Look
Microsoft optimizes its portal for the mobile phone with a new interface and loads of information mashups. The new MSN mobile portal can be accessed...
Search Engine Advocates Metasearch for Search Result Accuracy
According to an updated study of search engines’ result overlap conducted by Dogpile.com, there was a staggering 0.6 percent average difference in the first page...
Google Announces Adwords Placement Reporting System
To give advertisers better ROI with their ad campaigns running on Adwords, Google is providing advertisers with a new Placement Performance Report. This new reporting...
Google Ranked the Lowest in Privacy Protection Study
In what could be yet another blow on Google’s current web standing, Privacy International, an independent internet watchgroup has ranked Google in the bottom of...
And the Safest Search Engine is? AOL
If you thought Google is the be all and end all of web search, well at least on the security side, Google is second only...
Are You Ready for Some Video Ripping Frenzy?
RealNetworks is set to launch the new version of its Real Media player on June. The new version will of all updates possible, enable one-click...
Gear Up for Google Apps Offline
After conquering the web search engine niche, the big G is now gearing up to conquer its users’ lives even when they are offline. Introducing...
Windows’ Live’s Virtual Earth 3D Beta
MSN Live Search is testing its 3D map facility called Virtual Earth 3D. Obviously a spin off of Google’s 3D mapping service, Google Earth. From...
Google Searches Increased by 42%
Time for some trivial search engine statistics courtesy of Nielsen/NetRatings published by the Register. Based on the data released by Nielsen, Google searches increased by...