San Francisco— Search engine titan Google Inc., on Thursday announced plans to ditch its three-year-old affair with radio-advertising business and hacks as many as 40 jobs, saying the investment did not reaped enough of a payoff.  The announcement illustrates Google’s failure to maneuver its dominance in Internet-search ads into offline media, as the company abandons […]

New York — When Yahoo launched BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service) last year, the company mentioned that it expect to generate money from the service. On Wednesday, Yahoo has announced several new developer innovations to its Yahoo Search BOSS API, allowing increased access to structured data and longer abstracts, and is also imposing fees […]

San Francisco — Google on Wednesday embarked on a social networking race to supplant Facebook as the dominant social graph, launched a new Google Friend Connect feature that is designed to help web site publishers and users to add a collection of social widgets to their pages via an embedded navigation bar. FriendConnect, the Google […]

Los Angeles — Search engine goliath Google Inc. on Tuesday said it is experimenting with a new software called PowerMeter to help families keep track of their home energy usage and informs residents which devices in their homes are electricity hogs and which are being frugal with energy and thereby reduce their consumption and the […]

San Francisco — Software behemoth Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced an agreement to license its mobile software to rival Google Inc., that will allow iPhone and Windows Mobile users synchronize the devices with their Gmail contacts and Google Calendar events, a move that emphasizes the increasing ability of large technology companies to use intellectual property […]

New York — Are you aware that your eyes are helping Google decide what their search results page should look like? What captivates a user’s engrossment on their screen can play a vital role in whether or not they click through to a search engine result. Now Google’s User Experience Research Team has introduced some […]

San Francisco — Developing awareness and attracting Web site traffic can be very challenging besides being losing finances, which is even greater for non-profits organizations. Google Grants program is a scheme that offers free AdWords advertising to such non-profit organizations since the past couple years, has recently introduced some new changes to the program which […]

San Francisco — Google Inc., owner of the world’s most popular Internet search engine, is slowly but surely rolling out the voice-activated search feature in a system update to its Android mobile operating system — the one powering the G1, in a bid to provide an edge over rival devices. The long wait for owners […]

New York — Want to sit back, relax, and watch comedic cat videos? Consorting to the likeness of consumer behavior, video search company Blinkx is poised to introduce a new way to search video clips that makes it easier to discover new content and an enhanced viewing platform with a cleaner interface and new discovery […]

Mountain View, California — Just less than a month after introducing an offline version of Gmail, Google last week tossed in a new enhancement that pumps up filters and labels to help keep your e-mail organized. The new feature called “Multiple Inboxes,” which allows users to see up to four lists of e-mail messages in […]