The service is designed to learn the searching habits of individual users with improved results! Google Inc. has finished the test phase of its Personalized Search service, which tailors a user’s query results based on the user’s previous searches, attempting to improve results by guessing at ambiguities, the Mountain View, California Company announced of late. […]

Enterprise unit takes over Google Earth, mapping products to integrate with search tools. Google Inc.’s enterprise unit was recently entrusted with the business versions of the snazzy Google Earth mapping products; executives are already discussing ways to integrate them with the company’s enterprise search products, according to a Google executive. Google acquired what are now […]

Opinion: Does Google Print break copyright laws or follow the fair-use principle? Google’s plans for a virtual library of millions of digital books has sparked competing efforts by Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon, whose less ambitious plans could avoid infuriating copyright holders who have attacked Google. Copyright laws and their place on the Internet has been […]

Banking on the success of push-to-talk mobile phone services, Sprint Nextel recently announced a walkie-talkie service for sharing photographs. The company touted its Nextel Direct Send Picture service as giving PTT users the ability to display pictures taken with the camera phone on the screens of the recipient’s and sender’s screens simultaneously. The voice conversation […]

Internet search leader Google Inc. is scouting out the travel bookings business with a new feature that connects users to travel agencies that offer the cheapest fares. Google lately said it was testing the feature, putting it in competition with travel search sites like Sidestep and Kayak, which sift through all published bookings information for […]

Microsoft has emerged as the front-runner in the talks surrounding the potential sale of a stake in America Online, two people involved in the negotiations have said. But despite a flurry of interest in AOL from Microsoft, Google and others, reaching a deal has been harder than Time Warner may have hoped. Microsoft, which approached […]

The Mountain View, Calif., search-engine giant is providing its ad publishers with a set of buttons that Web site visitors can use to download Firefox with the Google Toolbar, which is a browser add-in that takes a user directly to Google services, Mozilla announced. Site operators using the buttons will be paid $1 each time […]

Yahoo! has pulled out of the competition to buy America Online from its parent Time Warner, narrowing the field of contenders to Microsoft and Google. After we learned what their proposed deal terms were, we passed and we have never looked back, a Yahoo spokeswoman is quoted as saying when confirming a report in the […]

A test version of a new Firefox browser is now available. New features include improved pop-up advertisement blocking and faster back and forward Web navigation features, and added support for Mac OS X. Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 1, which came out earlier this week, is a preview of the upcoming version of the browser. The […]

Microsoft has fitted an anti-virus and PC clean-up utility into the new Windows Live initiative as part of a larger plan to shuttle customers to its Internet security offerings. A beta version of the new Safety Center lets customers run free Web-based computer scans to detect and remove viruses and other known malware. The service, […]