San Francisco — Ask.com, a unit of Internet business company InterActiveCorp., on Tuesday said that its Chief Executive Office, Jim Safka, has suddenly decided to step down from his position with the company due to personal reasons, after serving the company for 18 months, according to reports from Wall Street Journal. The current President of […]

Mountain View, California — In an attempt to outdo the shortly planned launch of the Wolfram Alpha search engine, Google on Tuesday demonstrated a new set of features dubbed “Search Options,” aimed at providing improved search results that it believes will make the “Internet Smarter.” The new offerings include Google Search Options, Google Squared, Rich […]

London — With the combination of broadcast and broadband, video-only search engine service Blinkx has entered into a deal with interactive TV (iTV) company “Miniweb” that will add its video search, syndication, recommendations, targeting services to become available on digital set-top boxes across the UK. The new Miniweb interactive television platform will now integrate the […]

New York — In the battle to conquer the local online market, AOL and Yahoo have adopted a model that is heavy on listings and ratings. But, Microsoft is trying a different route. The company is rolling out a revamped version of its MSN City Guides site this week, in a move the company calls […]

San Francisco — Search engine giant Google Inc. desperately trying to compete the browser market, according to the official Google Blog announced that the Internet company has introduced its first television advertising campaign across a large networks in the US to promote its Chrome browser, in a bid to capture users away from a market […]

Redmond, Washington — Microsoft Corp. last week introduced a Facebook application especially for Windows Mobile smartphones 6, which it claims is the first application that lets users to keep up with their friends and upload videos directly from their handsets to their Facebook pages — the Palo Alto, Calif.-based social networking site. For those of […]

Mountain View, California — For those sites that uses Google Friend Connect and its comment widget, Google has just rolled out a novel new feature called: comment translation. With the gadget, users can now unify the language of any comment thread, translating any and all comments easily into their native language. Once the comment widget […]

San Francisco — After mapping out every inch of the planet earth via Google Earth, the search engine titan would soon empower Stargazers with a new pioneering software which can identify distant planets and galaxies in the night sky from a photo taken on a mobile. The new Google Earth application, dubbed “Star Droid,” employs […]

New York — Google Inc., continue to lead the search ranking, capturing 72.74% share of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending April 25, 2009, representing a 7% increase in market share year-over-year, according to search data provider Hitwise. During the same period in April, Yahoo Inc. was leading at the number two […]

San Francisco — Well it has been a shocking experience once again on Friday morning: No access to Gmail account, Google’s popular beta email service has suffered yet another cross-continental outage, leaving users across the world with inability to access the service, and has been unavailable for at least about 20 minutes. Users were greeted […]