San Francisco — Aiming to eliminate the cumbersome process of typing for its users, search engine titan Google has recently added its predictive Google Suggest feature to Google News. “We are delighted to announce that we have enabled Suggest in all of our Google News editions in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish versions,” Google […]

San Francisco — In an attempt to lure entertainment business that has so far remained aloof from search advertising, and to win over entertainment advertising dollars, search engine giant Google has teamed up with self-service video creation company “SpotMixer” to offer small and medium sized businesses a chance to win $25,000 worth of free national […]

Sunnyvale, California — Yahoo has recently launched Meme a Twitter-wannabe service in Portugese, and then Spanish. Today, the web pioneer announced that it is preparing to launch an English-language version of its Yahoo Meme micro-blogging platform. Yahoo had previously launched a Portuguese language micro-blogging product, Yahoo Meme, that drew similarities to Twitter and Tumblr. And […]

Mountain View, California — Millions of Google’s free e-mail service users were handicapped for about two-hour from accessing Gmail as it failed again on Tuesday afternoon, when users attempted to log on to find the service is no longer operational, seems to be the result of overloaded servers, a problem that Google acknowledged.   Gmail […]

New York — Adobe Systems has acquired Business Catalyst, maker of the GoodBarry online business suite for web professionals, the part American, part Australian company, for an undisclosed amount, Adobe confirmed on Monday. Details are pretty insufficient, but according to reports it seems that the GoodBarry e-commerce suite brand will be shut down as of […]

San Francisco — Search and advertising behemoth Google Inc., has inked a deal to distribute Chrome Web browser in Sony Computers to be sold in North America, clamping the company’s first such deal with a PC vendor since it introduced the Web browser last year to compete with Microsoft. Sony began installing Chrome in PCs […]

Mountain View, California — Although Google Translate certainly need to polish up to become more perfect in many of its translations, nevertheless, the site offers an incredibly useful tool when trying to interpret a word, phrase or entire site in a foreign language. Internet giant Google on Monday announced that it had added nine new […]

New York — Google, being a champion behind efforts to make the world’s information “universally accessible and useful” and Creative Commons, a nonprofit Copyright campaign advocacy group, last week announced that it has received a gift from Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife, Anne Wojcicki, co-founder of 23andMe — to the tune of $500,000. […]

London — With the mounting pressure from competitors and various organizations, regulators in Italy have initiated an inquiry into Google News at the behest of publishers who allege the Mountain View giant of dropping their sites from its search results unless they agreed to be part of Google News. The inquiry has been initiated in […]

Sunnyvale, California — Ever since formally announcing a 10 year deal last month that Microsoft’s Bing search engine will be powering Yahoo search, pending approval, many of the tidbits from Yahoo and different developers have been working on as part of the SearchMonkey effort are becoming available to normal searchers and site owners, its program […]