Google Inc. said it will limit the number of phone numbers its Internet phone service blocks, in a partial bow to federal regulators’ concerns that it was skirting rules designed to ensure that consumers phone calls are connected seamlessly.
YAHOO! is using every power at its disposal to improve its fortunes.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin said Thursday that he believes it’s a “shame” that Yahoo had decreased its focus on Internet search, through its recently announced partnership with Microsoft.
You didn’t think Google was going to take the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal lying down, did you?
Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is over.
In its place, a new generation of services is starting to take hold–services like Twitter and Facebook and countless others vying for a piece of the new world.
“I’m not saying Google’s an enemy, all right?” the chief executive of The Associated Press, Tom Curley, was telling a few people in Hong Kong on Tuesday.
Google’s search algorithm works on a simple principle: on the web, sites link to other authoritative sources, and the more sites link to something the more authoritative they think it is.
After today’s Google search press briefing, where I raised the issue of some poor quality search results in Google at one point, Sergey Brin asked me to demonstrate a few.
Pharmaceutical companies, fearful of running afoul of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s marketing guidelines, have virtually abandoned search ad marketing in the wake of the FDA’s online ad crackdown earlier this year.
Google maps are great for navigating to an address, but once you arrive, it’s up to you to find the office, meeting room or vendor inside. Now Micello takes over where conventional navigators leave off, mapping your route inside buildings, malls, convention centers and other points of interest.
Let’s be clear. Sidewiki is a land grab. Google has now set up real estate on every single website for commentary from the masses.
Pizza Hut’s iPhone app will be featured in an Apple-sponsored iPhone commercial breaking tonight.
Copyright filtering technology is a form of copyright infringement, according to a lawsuit against document service Scribd.
Citing the decline of science coverage in the mainstream news media, thirty-five of the country’s top universities have banded together to launch their own “news channel” for publicizing their best research.
The cover story for the September 2009 issue of Wired takes a look at the current state of Craigslist and the challenges it faces as it continues to evolve. In a sidebar, the magazine’s amazing art director Scott Dadich invited several designers to re-imagine and redesign Craigslist itself.
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