New York — Beginning from May 1, 2009, online retail giant Amazon has decided to bring about some changes to its Associates affiliate program, which will stop payment of referral fees to Associates that use pay-per-click programs on search engines to send traffic to amazon.com, amazon.ca or endless.com. Crucially, the change only affects the Associates […]

New York — Recapturing its lost charm, search portal Yahoo has quietly revealed major changes to its Yahoo Image Search service this morning with a friendlier interface that displays larger images, and makes it easier to browse related thumbnails and the user experience is now better than Google Image Search. The image search home pages, […]

San Francisco — The blogosphere is buzzing with rumors from “people close to the negotiations” report that Google may be brooding to acquire the trendy microblogging site Twitter, but under the guise Google is trying to stream its AdSense units. Companies seeking to boost their twitter trails now have a fresh option: Google is now […]

San Francisco — Competing to make it more tempting for users, Google has released a new labs add-on for Gmail today that fine-tunes the services’ search tool, providing suggestions for contacts and search modifiers as you type. The new Search Autocomplete feature is similar to Google Suggest for your inbox. Start typing in the search […]

Hamburg, Germany — Music lovers in German hoping to get a glimpse of their idols’ latest hits on video-sharing website YouTube, lost access Wednesday to a vast collection of contemporary music in Europe’s biggest nation after a licensing dispute with a German fees agency escalated. “This video is not available in your country,” said a […]

Sunnyvale, California — Yahoo is continually busy overhauling its entire team under the new CEO, while its user interface engineers ventured onto try out something that is little different and experimental. Yahoo today released a new Adobe-powered application called “Sideline,” that brings Twitter’s real-time search engine to the desktop. Sideline, announced on the Yahoo user […]

San Francisco — A lawsuit that was originally filed in Santa Clara in 2005 by large number of companies and individuals accusing Google for the way it runs its search ad business is a long one: including everyone from bigwigs like American Airlines to one-off advertiser lawsuits, which claimed Google overcharged search marketers by charging […]

New York — In a dwindling economy that has seen IPOs disappear, search titan Google, which has funded many innovative start-ups over the years, is venturing out for “the next big thing” in technology as it announces its latest effort, Google Ventures. The new venture capitalist arm, announced Tuesday, whose main goal will be to […]

San Francisco — Yahoo today unveiled a revamped mobile portal, an open and highly-personalized mobile starting point to the Internet, on both the mobile Web and as an Apple iPhone app, designed to help consumers stay up to date on the latest events, stay connected and stay informed through their mobile devices on a number […]

Redmond, Washington — One of the digital world’s best and oldest sources of knowledge, Microsoft’s online encyclopedia Encarta, which dates back to the pre-Internet era as a CD-ROM-only product, is now geared up to shutter the service. Microsoft on Tuesday itself announced that it would discontinue the online version of Encarta by October as well […]