Redmond, Washington — The Redmond, Washington, software giant Microsoft capturing the ground by establishing Bing as its core search engine, the company has now been contemplating with different search box designs to see which ones lead to the most queries in an attempt to integrate Bing with other Microsoft products and services. One of these […]

San Francisco — Since last year, Google initiated crawling and indexing Flash content, though it failed to appeal the users. Nevertheless, Google today announced that it has enhanced its search engine’s capabilities to index Adobe’s Flash files, which are very popular on the Web but tricky for search engine spiders. Additionally, Google says it can […]

Beijing, China — Search engine behemoth Google pledged to step-up its efforts to fight Internet pornography in China, following China’s massive campaign on Friday to eradicate pornography from its Chinese Web pages as state media reported authorities had shut down some of its search services, and it now has Google in its crosshairs. The engineering […]

New York — So far many different search engines have attemped to bring more visual experience to search such as Quintura and Viewzi, but Google has been very cautious when it comes to visual search. Youtube is supposedly the second largest search engine that has just added an interesting new feature called “Wonder Wheer” that […]

Mountain View, California — Search engine giant’s one of the most ambitions project is Google Books, which empowers readers and researchers alike to sift through more than seven million books online. Google today introduced seven new features to its digital library — Google Books, in an attempt to make the site easier to navigate and […]

Redmond, Washington — Microsoft Advertising on Thursday announced that it has made an alliance with NBC Universal, utilizing Microsoft’s Admira software to manage and sell national and local broadcast and cable television advertising. NBC is seeking Microsoft’s help to identify the best potential audience for the lowest cost. At the beginning of this fall, NBC […]

San Francisco — Breaking a barrier from being a traditional search engine to reflect it brand name: “Ask” following the very recent trend, that is finding answers to your questions or problems. Well, according to Ask.com, they have the answer. At one of the search industry’s leading annual conferences, SemTech 2009, in San Jose, California, […]

Sunnyvale, California — Yahoo today announced the release of its new browser toolbar for Internet Explorer 6+ and Firefox (as a beta), bundled with some new features that lets you add icons for your favorite Yahoo apps and Websites. The polished plug-in offers a number of new features, including access to Yahoo’s My Apps, with […]

New York — Facebook on Tuesday evening announced that it has begun beta testing a new feature of its search engine that would enable its members to search the site for content from friends, organizations and public figures and sharing about particular topics — from links and comments to photos and videos — all in […]

Sunnyvale, California — The Yahoo Newspaper Consortium list has grown by another five new members. The new papers joining the advertising pool are: Freedom Communications’ California flagship, The Orange County Register of Santa Ana, Calif.; as well as The Gazette in Colorado Springs; the North Jersey Media Group’s The Record of Hackensack and Herald News […]