New York — Search portal Ask.com , a division of the New York based Inter Active Corp., Tuesday announced a multi-year, strategic alliance with anti-virus software solution provider Symantec to deliver malware-vetted search results with color-coded ratings in an attempt to gain more traffic from security conscious surfers. Ask and Symantec formulated Safe Search that […]

Redmond, Washington — Microsoft’s advertising developers have created a new gadget that imitates an analogous feature on Yahoo pages and launches a small window of information when users hover over or click on an underlined word on a Web page. A sneak preview of Microsoft Gaze is now available courtesy of the Redmond company, however […]

New York — On the eve of Christmas, hordes of internet surfers joined the social networking site such as Facebook and Google ahead of watching the Queen’s speech, according to research data. Figures revealed that one in 22 website viewings in Britain on 25 December were of the site.

San Francisco — Search engine giant’s unrelenting effort in offering the best of products and services is again set to launch the Google Reader API — that is possibly just months away from being released to the public. Web-cracker and blogger Niall Kennedy — recently posted on his site several details covering the earlier undocumented […]

New York — Yahoo has instantly closed its Ads in RSS service, with effect from February 2, 2009, the service which allowed network publishers to place contextual advertising into syndicated content and get a portion of the action thanks to a revenue-sharing program. However, there is not much information as to why — although this […]

San Francisco — Online search titan Google Inc. on Monday unveiled the latest beta version of Google Earth 5.0, which promises to empower virtual tourists to explore the depths of the world’s oceans, to Mars, and back in time to explore the past through historical data from the comfort of their homes on dry land. […]

San Francisco — Facebook seems to have attracted some attention at the high-profile World Economic Forum in an effort to capitalize on the wealth of information it has on its 150 million-strong members by allowing multinational companies to use its users’ personal profiles to conduct their own marketing research. According to CNN that reported from […]

Mountain View, California — Search engine behemoth Google on Saturday triggered off an online chaos when an alarming human error that temporarily plagued its security system that displayed a warning message users worldwide: “this site may harm your computer” for about an hour on Google’s Website, the company said. As the initial problem was sorted […]

San Francisco — If you fancy using Firefox browser but also love Microsoft’s Live Search, then you will be happy to know that Microsoft is dressing itself up to combat the ‘browser wars’ with the release of a new add-on for rival Mozilla’s open-source Firefox browser. The update would enable to enjoy the optimized utilization […]

Washington — President Barack Obama has yet to declare who his chief technology officer will be. As Google CEO Eric Schmidt has shunned interested in the new federal CTO post but a member of his team is headed to Washington, D.C.: According to reports, he has appointed Google product manager “Katie Jacobs Stanton” will be […]