Mountain View, California — Barely less than a week after suffering a large outage that impacted users around the world, a “Google News” aggregation site suffered another outage Monday morning, that affected an as-yet unknown number of users, within days after a traffic routing issue hampered several of the search engine giant’s main properties. Google […]

London — Yell, the UK based international directories company, has entered into an strategic alliance with Google, targeted at small and medium businesses to resell AdWords in the UK, further expanding the properties on which it can sell advertising beyond its own sites.

New York — Microsoft touched headlines at the end of last year when it snatched up just about every domain name variant with “Kumo” in it, has now broaden the testing of its next-generation search technology publicly. For the past two months, Microsoft has been running an internal test of the technology, which is code-named […]

San Francisco — Users of free webmail service of Google, which last week announced an update to its Gmail with an impressive migration feature that allows viewing and importing contacts and e-mails from other competing services to their Gmail accounts including Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, and some others. Gmail’s new “migration feature” enables users to transfer […]

Mountain View, California — Google Inc.’s search engine suffered a widespread crash for several hours, when a technical glitch rendered the web search company’s Google Search, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Analytics, YouTube, AdSense, and Blogger experienced sluggish or unavailable to millions of users across the globe for about an hour Thursday morning. The technical glitch […]

New York — Get set for an avalanche of brand names in Google keyword ads. The search titan, which so far has banned the use of trademarked brand terms in ad text on its search-results page, now plans on lifting restrictions on the use of trademarked keyword terms, except when permitted by the brand itself […]

San Francisco — Google’s exodus continues: Ien Cheng, the executive who has served Google Inc. as a director for product management for the past one year, and accredited with his past experience as newspaper editor, is leaving the Internet titan to help it run the multimedia arm of Bloomberg LP, the WSJ reports. Cheng, at […]

Mountain View, California — Internet behemoth Google Inc. has once again been chased by privacy advocates in Japan and Greece over its Google Maps feature, Street View. Google on Wednesday bowing to pressure from privacy groups, said it will it will “lower the cameras on its vehicles by 40 centimetres” after complaints in Japan that […]

San Francisco — Hardly a month later a trademark lawsuit filed in the appeals court against Google’s keyword sales, another suit has surfaced in Texas. Search engine titan Google is slammed with a new lawsuit for allowing companies to use trademarks that does not belonged them to trigger their pay-per-click ads. Firepond, a software company […]

London — Seeking to reclaim its laurels, AOL UK today has launched a beta version of its new homepage that include access to third-party multiple email accounts and social networking services from a single online destination. The beta site launched effective today (12 May), allows AOL users for the first time, to access multiple email […]