Tag Archives : Web search engine

Yahoo! Yahoo has rolled out refreshed search engine favoring news and entertainment related searches for Yahoo U.S. domain.  When you visit search.yahoo.com and search for entertainment or news-related topics, you ll get to see a box with vertical text tabs for different options – Videos, Images and Twitter. Yahoo is indeed trying to keep up in the search engine competition.  ” These [...]

Facebook Facebook’s “Like” button could be integrated with Bing’s search results. Facebook and Microsoft are in talks and the  agreement would significantly expand the search relationship both the Internet giants share. Features expected includes the possibility for Bing’s search service to mine anonymized data from consumer usage of  Facebook’s Like buttons, which [...]

Facebook If you think your information is only available to those visiting your Facebook page, you are wrong. The personal details of 100 million users of  Facebook are now available for download after they were leaked online. Ron Bowles, an online security consultant, used a code to scan Facebook profiles, collected data not hidden by users’ privacy settings, and compiled a list, [...]

Google Google and China has always been at loggerheads, however, here is a piece of positive news , China has renewed Google’s licence in a move that allows the web giant to continue operating in China. Google has confirmed that Beijing has renewed its ICP license — the rights one needs to host a site on its own domain in China. Without that Google would certainly be on the outs, but [...]

Customized Google page Google which gained its initial fame for its search, always had a simple and basic search page unlike personalization features which are available for iGoogle, Gmail and others, Google has changed that and has added more Bing ( oops bling) and color to its Search page by giving the option of adding a image to the background. Users can now choose any photo or image and add it [...]

Image via Wikipedia Google UK (www.google.co.uk) pays homage to Pac-man, one of the most favored game of all times on its 30th anniversary with a fully playable version of Pac-man replacing the search engine’s logo that too all the 255 levels of the arcade classic have been recreated  along with the game’s distinctive sounds. Google’s  tribute to Pac-man does not stop here, Google has [...]

Image by louisvolant via Flickr The internet search war has just taken its ugliest turn with Microsoft leaving no stone unturned to take on Google’s supreme dominance in the UK search market. The latest step in this showdown is Microsoft’s multi-million pound TV ad campaign to promote Bing. Known as the ‘Bing and Decide’ ad campaign, the three month TV ad campaign will not only showcase Bing’s [...]

Twitter users have been hit by a phishing attack, the direct messages sent out say something along the lines of “This You????”, “hey, i’ve been having better sex and longer with this here” or “LOL this is funny” followed by a link to a phishing site that looks like twitter which then asks you to enter your twitter credentials in. Video Explanation from Sophos: According [...]

Image by Daniel F. Pigatto via Flickr This is probably the most exciting tech battle of our days: Google versus Microsoft. Although it will probably go on for years, it will remain a very hot subject. It all started a few months ago when each company launched a direct attack on its rival’s most important business. Google started by announcing the development of a new desktop operating system, [...]

We just received two brand spanking new screenshots of Microsoft’s new search engine. Not yet launched, the Microsoft Live Search replacement will go by the name of Bing. Although we find landscape pictures of London’s Tower Bridge and the Dover Cliffs very nice to look at, we’re not sure that huge backgrounds are a good idea for a search engine page. Maybe Microsoft should take a [...]