San Francisco — Google clearly wants users to have a smooth experience when using its search engine. The search titan has just unfolded a novel option to view PDF files in search results — by providing the Quick View facility that would display these PDFs right onto the browser with all the PDF formating features […]

Mountain View, California — Google launched its “search options” feature earlier this year for desktop users, which included features such as: visited pages, not yet visited, books, blogs, news and much more. But in today’s bustling world of smartphone apps, the search giant is not limiting these admirable features to desktop only. Google on Thursday […]

Sunnyvale, California — Yahoo has been persistently pulling down many of its underperforming services and products for a while now and shows no signs of stopping anytime soon. The internet pioneer has released a “final notice” on Wednesday reminding GeoCities users that the free site creation service will be closing up shop later this month. […]

San Francisco — Microsoft’s aggressive assault on Google’s domination of internet searches does not appear to be paying off. Internet tracking firm Hitwise reported that Bing and Yahoo! online search engines lost ground in the United States in September while Google inched ahead slightly. The report, however, showed that Ask.com had made a biggest gain, […]

Mountain View, California — Attempting to win over its rival Yahoo’s local ad unit model, Google has finally introduced a more novel and simplified version of short ad unit for local businesses called Local Listing Ads. These Local Listing Ads are configured to display when users search for a business in its local area and […]

San Francisco — Search engine behemoth Google Inc. earlier this week upgraded its AdSense support for high end smartphones like the iPhone 3GS. Publishers would now be able to show up much larger ads on their mobile sites to visitors using smartphones. Previously only small text and image ads could be displayed. The enhancement helped […]

Sunnyvale, California — Yahoo Inc which acquired Xoopit, a startup for $20 million in July this year, announced just last week that it will discontinue support for a popular Gmail plug-in with Xoopit, but said it would continue support for open accounts. Xoopit, which combines media files from users’ Gmail accounts, has now been integrated […]

San Francisco — IBM today officially plans to release an inexpensive Web-based enterprise collaboration a basic “cloud computing” email service based on its LotusLive platform, at a price that will compete with rich offerings by search engine giant Google Inc, which has recently suffered several high-profile outages. IBM plans to take advantage of the damage […]

Los Angeles — Adobe Systems Inc. is poised to unwrap its Flash 10.1 player, which has widely earned the support of top notch mobile makers such as Google, Motorola, Nvidia, Palm, RIM, and Qualcomm that would enable Adobe Flash based contents to be accessible on smartphones, Netbooks, and other mobile devices. The company plans to […]

San Francisco — Google made two significant enhancements to Google.com on mobile phones on Wednesday. Performing searches on mobile phones — especially on phones that are without readily accessible QWERTY keyboards — can be a tedious task with thumb. But the folks over at Google are, once again, Google announced an enhanced interface for its […]