Mountain View, California — In the online world, security has always been a concern and, as the techniques of attackers get more sophisticated, so do the tools to combat them. Search engine titan, Google has updated Gmail on Wednesday with new code designed to alert users when the system detects suspicious activity that might indicate […]

Redmond, Washington — Microsoft has garnered some new weapons to its arsenal in its battle against rival Google. The Redmond Vole earlier this week announced that it will be introducing several updates to its Bing search engine including Quick Tabs, an Answer box, and new mapping tools powered by Foursquare to deliver real-time data embedded […]

San Francisco — Say you clicked on an online ad from Google’s paid search listing. But while on the landing page, you suddenly withdrew from the site in a confused state as whether to finalize an ad conversion or not. To facilitate AdWords publishers, Google has rolled out a new “Remarketing” feature designed to make […]

San Francisco — Well, it appears as though Facebook is not only resolutely dethroning Google in terms of being the most trafficked website in the U.S., but the social networking behemoth threatens to take over yet another category. A recent survey shows that Facebook is driving traffic to news and media sites, and according to […]

Mountain View, California — In its relentless quest to be more than just the world’s preferred search engine, Google Inc. announced on its official blog posting that soon it will be developing a “global browser based plug-in” for its Google Analytics service that will allow users with an alternative choice to opt-out of being tracked […]

San Francisco — Although Microsoft’s Bing search engine was welcomed with a healthy dose of skepticism when it was first unveiled almost a year ago, but while tracking web-search habits, research groups are indicating that market shares for Bing search engine share has moved up to 12.5 percent from 10.9 percent in January in the […]

Sunnyvale, California — Yahoo may have lost its search deal with T-Mobile in the U.S. earlier this month, but the Internet pioneer on Thursday said that Yahoo and Spanish telecommunications network operator Telefónica España entered into an alliance as the exclusive search provider to power mobile searches and sponsored-search advertising on Telefonica’s emocion mobile portal […]

Mountain View, California — Nothing ruins an admin’s day swiftly than suddenly needing to reschedule the boss’ afternoon meetings. In an attempt to resolve the scheduling conflicts that unavoidably arise when busy people try to get together, Google on Thursday introduce a new Google Calendar Labs experiment called “Smart Rescheduler” that brings some search smarts […]

Redmond, Washington — Astronomy geeks will get a kick out of a new Bing Maps application that was introduced today in conjunction with Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope. A Microsoft architect who formulated an application that lets you stargaze from Bing Map’s street level view. The Microsoft search engine already assists consumers to find their way […]

Sunnyvale, California — Yahoo Inc., on Wednesday beefed up its efforts to lure more sports fans with the announcement that it has agreed to buy Citizen Sports, a U.S. startup company that develops sports-related applications for social networking sites such as Facebook and Apple’s iPhone devices. Citizen Sports is joining Yahoo, likely in part to […]