San Francisco — Google plans to introduce a new policy segment called “Google Ideas,” which appears to be a Googley take on the think tank. To head this division, the search engine titan has tapped a former State Department official “Jared Cohen” who is credited with assisting to bring social networking and other Web 2.0 […]

Mountain View, California — Internet search engine titan Google over the weekend, unveiled a new phone call feature in Gmail as well as “Google Voice” integration to keep track of your calls by adding a “missed calls” notification to inbox, e-mail inbox, or both the service.

Mountain View, California — A price has been put on Google’s mistakes surrounding the launch of Google Buzz: Internet search engine behemoth Google has agreed to shell out US $8.5 million to settle a class-

Palo Alto, California — In today’s fast paced world of real-time status updates, search is spreading to account for the social nature of the web. And in tune with that

San Francisco — After a cartoon video portraying Google’s chief giving away ice cream to snoop on children aired on a giant screen in Times Square, the Internet search engine giant Google, over the weekend announced that it has streamlined its privacy policy, and that the new version will come in effect starting October 3rd.

Mountain View, California — Every time AOL is expected to fade into obscurity, something crazy happens to make it relevant again. Today it has signed on for another tour with search engine seraph Google, the far-and-away market leader. Google and AOL have inked a new five-year deal to let Google continue powering the search results served […]

Sunnyvale, California — Local business is an online revenue stream dying to be tapped — And since 2007 Yahoo and big directory publisher Dex One have gotten a boost from hub Yahoo and search site DexKnows, are now expanding their local advertising partnership, which lets advertisers who buy listings on Dex One’s search site place […]

Los Angeles — MySpace, struggling to reclaim its reverence, is now cozying with Facebook, announced that it now allows users to synchronize updates with Facebook, the social networking superstar that supplanted the firm that once ruled in that arena, following a tie-in between the two social networks.

Beijing, China — Aiming to capture market share from arch rival Google, global software behemoth Microsoft said search engine giant Google”s departure from the mainland has provided a good opportunity for the company to expand its Bing search engine in China. The company unfurled its adCenter advertising platform in China, an effort to seize some […]

Mountain View, California — Google has took the wraps off a new tool late Monday for its free Web-based Gmail service that helps users sorts incoming email into three sections, based on their perceived importance and steer clear of drowning in the floods of digital messages that have become part of modern life.