Microsoft Combats Google Sky With “Worldwide Telescope” “Google Sky rival on its way, Gates puts release within next three weeks.” Microsoft Corp., still smarting from its Yahoo rebuff, is now squaring off against Google Inc. over the search giant’s “Google Sky” application, with the launch of “WorldWide Telescope,” extending its battle for Internet dominance with […]

Google has auto-complete options for its browser search, and Yahoo has Search Assist. And now Yahoo! revealed today in a blog post that they would be acquiring the rights to Inquisitor. The Safari browser plug-in, that provides auto-completion for search queries as well as shows a window with search results as users type queries. The […]

San Francisco — Hardly a day has passed as the social networking Facebook Inc. following its rival MySpace’s lead is relaxing its grip on millions of personal profiles by allowing members of its popular Internet hangout to transfer their personal information and applications to other Web sites with a similar concept, called “Facebook Connect.” Facebook, […]

London — AOL has made another advance in its bid to become a portal destination, through a deal with social music site Last.fm by creating AOL Radio in Europe with a number of new features. “Chasing on its recent pact between AOL and CBS Radio in the US, the company has now opted to target […]

Yahoo India Revamped Search With “Glue Pages” Mumbai – With Google-owned YouTube launched its India Web site Wednesday, Yahoo spared no time in launching a new concept for Yahoo! India Search called “Glue Pages Beta,” available exclusively at www.yahoo.in. “Yahoo selected India for the initial test of its new search concept that aggregates text, images, […]

YouTube Launches Indian Edition To Woo Surfers New Delhi – Google owned popular online video video-sharing site YouTube on Wednesday, started its operations in India by launching an Indian version of its site at www.youtube.co.in, the company announced. “Google’s local edition of YouTube would certainly send noises down the competition’s spine with its localized home […]

MySpace Lets Users Share Data Beyond Site’s Walls San Francisco – In a surprise move that surfaced on Thursday, News Corp.-owned the world’s most popular social networking site MySpace announced that it is opening the gates of its popular online community by letting users automatically transfer profile information to other social-networking websites of their choice. […]

“Online search giant is adding another multilingual product in India; the service automatically translates English text, web pages or queries into Hindi.” New Delhi — Google Inc. on Monday has finally announced the launch of Google Translate to enable Hindi-speaking users to enjoy all its features. The move indicates the importance that the Google accords […]

“Google has lost another employee to Facebook: Eliot Schrage, the company’s VP of global communications and public affairs.” More high-level assistance comes to Mark Zuckerberg: He is getting a new PR boss from Google — This time it is “Elliot Schrage,” who heads global communications and public affairs at the search king — and a […]

Yahoo is unmistakably working with Web security technology specialist in an attempt to scale higher on the search ladder with the new SearchScan service it launched in partnership with McAfee. The partnership addresses Web site security issues, such as identifying sites associated with adware, malware, spyware, phishing, and spam. “Starting Tuesday, there will be hardly […]