For some time it seemed like the battle between Facebook and Google had simmered down and was on it way to being extinguished. The recent Gingerbread updates on Nexus S and Nexus One have reignited the battle. The Gingerbread updates have removed the ability of merging the contacts on users’ Facebook phone directory with the [...]
Last year the Doodle-4-Google contest attracted 33,000 entries. The art contest is meant to highlight the creativity of kids from the kindergarten going age to the last year of high school. The contestants are asked to submit drawings that express what they would like to do someday. This year’s contest is on and will be [...]
Google is in the process of launching a Groupon clone. This move does not come as much of a surprise since people were on the lookout over what the company would do after Groupon rejected its offer. Google had offered Groupon $6 billion which it turned down. At the time there were mixed reactions with [...]
For months on end Google has been leading having the biggest percentage of the searches conducted among search engines. December 2010 was no different. According to a report by Experian Hitwise, Google scooped 69.97 percent of the searches conducted in the US. The nearest competitor, Bing, came in at a distance having managed 25.77 percent. [...]
Word is going round about the possibility of a merger of Google and Twitter. Google now includes Twitter’s Promoted Tweets into the real-time search results. This is the first time ever that Google has included ads that are not from its Adwords. The Promoted Tweets were Twitters first go at online advertising. The ads are made [...]
It has now emerged that yet another Googler is moving to Facebook come next year. Paul Adams came to the limelight when he made the “Real Life Social Network” slide which showed how the Facebook Social graphs representing human relationships had gaps. The slide itself was viewed by over 400,000 people and was shared on [...]
Most of the times when companies commit to acquisitions they often believe that nothing will change because they are “just going to give the other company more resources to work better”. Needless to say no sooner than the deal settles than they realize that they were wrong. Big companies have a bureaucracy that dictates how [...]
Google’ social service that is still being developed has been kept a secret as much as possible. Now information is emerging that the social service code named +1-previously known as Emerald Sea- is a toolbar that will allow easy sharing. Word has it that there will be specific mobile applications and a large scale video [...]
Google and MySpace had been in a partnership which expired mid this year. Now the two companies have gotten into an agreement that will see them renew their relationship. The two companies also hope to expand their relationship to cover a number of years. The last search and advertising relationship that the two companies had [...]
TripAdvisor is now blocking Google from displaying its reviews on Place Pages. According to an article in Tnooz, the internet search giant is not able to stream in reviews appearing on TripAdvisor because the user review giant has blocked it. This was confirmed by TripAdvisor via email saying that it believes that the user does [...]
Loading ...
