Google’s customizable home pages have now turned live. So all of you who are tired of watching that uninteresting white Google home page can make it more colorful and personalized by giving the background an image of your choice. As announced earlier, you can now give your homepage any image either from Google’s public library [...]
On 06.09.10, In Uncategorized, by Muse
Exalead, the French search engine involved in the Quaero project, has been recently acquired by 3D software giant, Dassault Systèmes for €135 million.
Exalead, the leading provider of Search-Based Applications with an estimated 100 million monthly users, sees this acquisition as one step forward in their dream towards being a global presence. Emmanuel Coste, Partner, Qualis, [...]
Google began its work on a new search index last year that was expected to launch somewhat in the beginning of this year. While that did not happen, the search giant has finally rolled out its latest and much anticipated Caffeine web indexing system.
Google boasts about its search indexing technology as capable of providing 50 [...]
Google has acquired another company from the ad media space called the Invite Media, an ad technology start-up. The advertising technology company that calls its “Bid Manager” the “universal buying platform for display media,” helps agencies and media buyers to purchase advertising from multiple ad exchanges easily at one place.
As reported by All Things Digital’s Peter Kafka, [...]
As the mobile Apps market heats up , Google wants to ease down your efforts of finding applications for your mobile devices. From now on Google search will thus feature mobile apps results. Staying completely unbiased, the search giant offers relevant Android Apps and iTunes App Store links in its search results.
No activation on upgrade [...]
If you were just fed up of the plain white Google home page and had lately developed some liking for Microsoft’s search engine Bing because of its colorful pictures in the background, Google wont’t let you go so easily. Bringing the customization option to its home page, Google has once again proved that the company [...]
Apple was just rejoicing yesterday having become the largest technology company in the world surpassing Microsoft’s market value of $197 billion. But it might have to stop its celebrations as an unpleasant ( for Apple) decision from some of the biggest media firms is becoming an impediment in theway of its iPad offerings. Media companies [...]
Google is trying to create some ‘Buzz’ in the field of social media as it tweaks up its social media offering with some Twitter like features. Put in simple words, Buzz has just received a ‘Reshare’ button that works quite like the Re-tweet option in Twitter allowing users to share posts with just two clicks [...]
Week after the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority banned YouTube in the country, Google’s video sharing website is back in action again. Pakistan has restored YouTube but has blocked 1200 links that offend the Muslim sentiments or religion anyway.
On May 19th, the Pakistan government banned the very famous social networking site Facebook for promoting “blasphemous” content on the Internet. [...]
In the GT Blind Search application for Search Engine comparison, Bing and Yahoo has fared better than Google in all time numbers. There were total of 118 queries done by various people using the site, and 40+ goes to Bing’s favor. There were 88 web search queries, 10 news and 20 image queries.
In the current [...]
