We’re used to seeing Google diversify its investments and activities a great deal in the past, but despite assurances from its spokespersons that it is only meant for internal use, the search giant’s latest move is raising a few eyebrows. Google is in fact applying for approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to become [...]
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Most search engines list “sex” as their most popular search query. But this may soon change for Bing and Yahoo users residing in India, as the two search giants have decided to act on a law that is currently under scrutiny by the Indian government that would make all pornographic images and videos illegal. The [...]
Following an announcement in April Yahoo’s CEO Carol Bartz has recently confirmed that, because of a difficult financial situation, the Sunnyvale-based company will shut down most operations during the Christmas week in order to save money disposing that all of its 13,200 employees worldwide, except for those responsible for “essential functions” such as customer service, [...]
Google is said to be in the final stages of negotiations with Yelp to acquire the local businesses review company in a move that, if successful, will most likely mean the integration of Google’s search results with highly structured local business information. While the deal hasn’t been signed, it is reportedly reaching its final stages for a price that, according to different sources, should be somewhere around $500 million.
During an event at Mountain View’s Googleplex, Google officially unveiled the new browser add-ons, which are already proving quite popular among both users and developers mainly because of how easily they can be produced. Meanwhile, the search giant also unveiled a first beta version of the much-anticipated Chrome for Mac which, despite lacking support for a number of features (including extensions) seems a reasonably steady product with outstanding JavaScript performance.
Just two weeks ago, Google unveiled several new improvements to its translation tool. Now, the Mountain View search giant has decided to embed the feature in standard search results allowing users to better search across the wealth of indexed documents in any of the 51 languages supported by the system, and has also rolled out a multi-lingual online dictionary.
Google has recently announced on its official blog new features and a new look for Google Translate, which now includes a text to speech function, real time translation functionality and phonetic transliterations for a number of languages including Chinese, Arabic and Persian.
Microsoft recently decided to enhance its internal answering engine, which among other things provides meteorological and flight information, with the results of Wolfram|Alpha, offering users an enhanced user experience with “zero-click” answers to many questions posed by users in natural language.
As the holiday season is approaching, Google has announced “Commerce Search,” its latest online service aimed at searching online stores for products and allowing users to perform advanced searches, sorting products by price and displaying descriptive information along with each item.
The official newspaper of the Chinese communist party has accused Google of intentionally blocking access to its website by displaying an allegedly unnecessary malware warning telling its visitors that the site might contain malicious software, shortly after the newspaper published an article against Google’s practice of scanning books for its online repository sometimes without the author’s explicit consent.
Google and Facebook have recently revealed they will soon partner with online music streaming and digital store Lala to offer a service that will be competing with the giants of online music — namely Apple’s iTunes digital store and Amazon.
The Mountain View, Calif. search giant recently announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair that it will launch “Editions,” its own online bookstore that will allow users to download books in an open format viewable directly from their browser, without the need for an ad-hoc reader, during the first half of next year.




