Los Angeles — Search engine titan Google just announced that it is now bringing personalized search suggestions, a lovely feature fomented on Google.com’s core search, to Google Maps.

San Francisco — For the longest time, the default search provider in Ubuntu Linux has been Google, but this is going to change in the next release — Rick Spencer of Canonical, the group behind the most-popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, disclosed today that it has forged a revenue sharing alliance with Yahoo, which will become […]

Mountain View, California — Late last year, Google introduced its social search experiment with the aim of making search more social, but the search giant has kept it pretty much under wraps from the general public, choosing to make it an opt-in Google Labs feature. Though it still have beta tag on it, it is […]

Los Angeles — Twitter has announced that they have now added a new “Local Trends” feature last week that can make the service more relevant, and now the company reports Local Trends is live to all. Local Trends utilizes the geolocation data to generate a list of popular terms as per different regions.

Mountain View, California — The quarrel that broke out last summer among Google, Apple and AT&T over Google Voice remains unresolved, But global search leader Google is not waiting for a thaw in the frosty standoff. On Tuesday, the company unveiled a spruced-up mobile Web version of Google Voice tailored for the iPhone, as well […]

San Francisco — AOL, which became a publicly traded, autonomous company in December after getting spun off by former parent Time Warner, on Monday said that it has acquired Nashville, Tenn.-based video firm StudioNow, a company that delivers an online platform for creating, storing, and distributing video, for $36.5 million in cash and stock, a […]

London — Google and the National Trust have teamed up to add a collection of the UK’s as many as twenty 360-degree picturesque landscapes, country houses and fascinating castles from the nation’s most prominent and historic sites have now been added to Google Street View service so that people around the world can take virtual […]

Mountain View, California — In a bid to let users find the information they are looking for as fast and make search results more relevant, global search leader Google last week introduced two new features in its search technology that is based on two of its experimental products — Google Squared — highlighting of answers […]

Mountain View, California — Google may have defined advertising with its search engine, but its online video site YouTube just jumped out in the opposite direction with the announcement that it will make movies from the 2009 and 2010 Sundance film festivals available for online rental that will generate money without relying on advertising to […]

San Francisco — In an effort to improve its mobile ad network, the Norwegian browser maker Opera Software announced that it has jumped onto the mobile advertising bandwagon with the acquisition of AdMarvel, a small privately-owned mobile advertising company situated in San Mateo, California, which has developed a product suite that manages how ads are […]