Posts Tagged ‘Search Engine’

The Future of the Web in 5 years? Google’s Eric Schmidt’s interesting prognosis

Thursday, October 29, 2009 4:41 By GSerrano

Who to better predict the future of the Internet than Google? Thus, the Google boss has given his prognosis on what the Web will be like in 5 years. According to Google’s Eric Schmidt, ‘Chinese language will dominate the Web’ and that social media will reign supreme.
The Google CEO believes the Internet will take a [...]

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TechCrunch50: Yext has Finally Resurfaced with a New Product Called “Yext Calls”

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 21:03 By Robert

Yext, a popular local business search engine has resurfaced again after a long gap of action. This time around, Yext is back with a bang with their new product called “Yext Calls”, which has just been launched at the TechCrunch50 today. Yext Calls software will come handy for local businesses to process incoming phone calls [...]

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Cuil: A Stylish Alternative Search Engine

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 19:09 By Jaiyant Cavale

While Google has been the most widely used search engine in the world, it has also begun to be viewed in a negative light thanks to the domination and authoritarian control it has come to exert on the World Wide Web. A single company controlling about 75% of web traffic and searches is something that [...]

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Surprisingly Google feels the pinch of Recession too

Sunday, March 29, 2009 5:47 By MB

The internet search engine giant, Google Inc. has begun to feel the ripple effect of the economic storm as well. As a measure to cut costs, 200 marketing and sales jobs are to be cut from its international operations.
Google broke its record of over ten years of not cutting the mainstream jobs, as an unavoidable [...]

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Gmail’s thirty million boxes were down

Thursday, February 26, 2009 20:54 By GSerrano

During a blackout of about three hours, an error message came up upon connecting to the Google mail service. Some sites suggest that one of the causes of the blackout could be the new feature ‘Choose your own colors’ which came into operation on February 19. This allows one to change the colors of the [...]

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A Website Apologizes to China

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 8:32 By GSerrano

China has accused both Google and Baidu as peddlers of filth. Baidu is known as China’s Google. According to the Chinese government, the country has “decided to launch a nationwide campaign to clean up a vulgar current on the Internet.” 19 Internet operators and websites that were previously identified have not removed their “vulgar” contents, [...]

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Will Microsoft Really Buy Yahoo?

Sunday, November 30, 2008 19:59 By MB

Looks like Microsoft is doing a turnaround and is about to clinch a deal with Yahoo to buy the company’s online search business for $20 billion which was quite not what everyone expected earlier. If you had been going through our pages, you would remember that Google snubbed Yahoo and left the company in cold [...]

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