Google announced on Friday that Google+ users will soon begin to see Google+ posts in their Google Search results. This feature is activated only when you’re signed in to your Google Account, according Product Manager Sagar Kamdar, who posted the announcement on the Google Search Blog. When you’re searching Google for, say, a restaurant, you...Read More
Google continued to dominate the U.S. search market in July, but Yahoo was most effective in getting users to actually click through to another Web site, according to data from Experian Hitwise. Google had 66.05 percent of the search market last month, while Yahoo had 15.07 percent and Microsoft’s Bing nabbed 12.98 percent. As part of a 2009...Read More
Google has launched an Angry Bird at Facebook. AP Angry Birds: The game has grown into a full-blooded pop cultural sensation. AP Angry Birds: The game has grown into a full-blooded pop cultural sensation. The search giant’s Google+ social site on Thursday unleashed a move into casual games with such titles as Angry Birds and...Read More
The recently rolled out Google+ is Google’s latest effort to get a handle on something that so far has eluded the company: namely, gaining access to the data users generate when they post status updates, share photos and comment on friends’ activities. More and more, these social “signals†are becoming a crucial part of how...Read More
No accidents and tickets are quite impressive for such a high number of logged miles. The current situation may present a case where Robot drivers could be safer than humans. The Google cars are equipped with some high tech gear including video cameras in order to spot pedestrians. Another feature is their LIDAR, or light...Read More
Google’s famed self-driving car got into its first fender-bender this week. The project is aimed at creating less traffic accidents and improving transportation safety and productivity, which makes the event a bit embarrassing. But before you start discounting the advancements in computer capabilities, Google says that the incident was actually caused by human error. We’ve...Read More
Google and Microsoft are at it again. The battle between the two tech giants has once again spilled into public view on Twitter, this time over mobile patents. It started Wednesday, when David Drummond, Google’s chief legal officer, wrote a blog post that accused Microsoft, Apple and other companies of trying to take down Google’s...Read More
As far as experiments go, Google Hotel Finder (Experiment) is a successful one, but don’t expect it to shake up online travel booking any time soon. Hotel Finder highlights popular areas using a Google Map overlay; however, compared to Hipmunk’s heatmap layers, that illumination doesn’t shed much light on a city. As with Bing Travel,...Read More
Google has today acquired Dealmap, a start-up whose main function is to aggregate discounts from hundreds of group-buying sites. This acquisition may well prove to add on to Google’s recently launched service in Google Offers or may stay a completely separate entity tied in to Google through simple check-ins. The terms of the deal have...Read More
Microsoft is pouring millions of dollars into its campaign to become a serious player in Internet search, a market utterly dominated by rival Google. The campaign is having an impact, but at a pace that’s so glacial and costly some skeptics wonder whether it’s worth it. Microsoft’s share of the U.S. search market grew 11%...Read More
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