San Francisco — Yahoo Inc., owner of the second most popular U.S. Internet search site, on Monday said that it has hired former Microsoft Corp. executive Jeff Dossett to run the Internet giant’s news and entertainment sites in the United States. And as it seemed that the great Yahoo exodus had finally ended, Scott Moore, […]

San Francisco — Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. have reportedly offered to drastically rationalize the scope of their planned search advertising deal in a last-ditch effort to appease the Justice Department anti-trust regulators threatening to block the alliance, which is scrutinizing the deal for its effect on competition, a person close to the discussions on […]

New York — AOL on Monday introduced the latest online local events site that enables users to search and browse for an extensive range of events in their local area, together with kids and family activities, community events, live performances, sporting events and many others, called When.com, powered by Zvents online events guide. Both the […]

Washington — The advertising partnership between Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. faces the stringent criticism and delays. The two Web search titans seem to prefer scrapping their plans for a strong and rich partnership than accepting government-imposed antitrust restrictions on it, two sources close to the companies’ discussions on the subject told Reuters. “Are they […]

San Francisco — In a sensational move aimed at boosting revenues, rather than pulling down all copyright-protected videos that its members post, MySpace said it is teaming with Viacom’s MTV Networks and content “fingerprinting” company Auditude on an innovative deal to deliver ads to copyrighted MTV Networks’ videos that users upload to its site — […]

New York — It appears that Googlebot’s obsession to text has reached a new level?  Search engine giant Google Inc. last week announced that it has begun using a new technology called “Optical Character Recognition” (OCR) that allows the search engine to read text from scanned documents saved in Adobe PDF format and include the […]

New York — AOL.com, the web portal of America Online, on Thursday rolled out a revamped homepage available that it hopes will become a hub of sorts for Internet travelers by letting consumers access multiple social networking services directly from AOL.com, becoming the first major portal to offer direct access to information from major social […]

San Francisco — Google is continuing on its effort of bringing forth new features, earlier this week announced the release of a number of “experiments” for Gmail. Henceforth users will get more sidebar options from Gmail Labs that enables them to add the gadgets Google Calendar and Google Docs. Google’s released gadgets created by its […]

New York — Internet savvy people need not retain scores of user ids to access different web services — On Wednesday Google formally offered relief with its support as a provider for the OpenID 2.0 protocol, giving some site owners a means to allow users log-in and register for new accounts using existing Google account […]

San Francisco — Google’s Knol, which has been portrayed by some as a would-be Wikipedia-killer, Google Inc. on Thursday made its version of communally-constructed online knowledge-sharing site multi-lingual, this time in German, Italian, and French. The success of Google’s free of charge Knol service has floundered since its launch in July and the site has […]