Internet giant Yahoo! is set to snap up blogging site Tumblr in a deal worth $1.1bn according to new reports. The search engine firm has promised to unveil ‘something special’ at a news conference arranged in New York at 10pm (UK time), with many fully expecting it to be the purchase of Tumblr. Reports have [...]
Google has unveiled a piece of conversational search technology at its I/O developer conference in San Francisco. The American search giant’s senior vice president and software engineer, Amit Singhal, told the audience that the software would be able to recognise a user’s desire to make a search in Google’s Chrome web browser just by simply [...]
Google has revealed that it’s been working on a new version of its popular Maps service. The California-based search giant made the announcement at its I/O developers conference in San Francisco. The latest version will provide users with personalised maps, highlighting the information, areas, and routes likely to matter to them most. In a post [...]
MPs have challenged search giant Google over its tax arrangements in the United Kingdom. Last year Google, which offers a variety of advertising products, such as display advertising, paid £7.3 million in corporation tax on over £3 billion it earnt from UK sales. The company’s vice president of operations in northern Europe, Matt Brittin, met [...]
Internet giant Google has been ordered by a German federal court to ensure its autocomplete feature generates ‘clean’ results. The Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe told the search engine firm in the future it must ensure terms generated by the word completion feature are not offensive or defamatory. A German business man first brought [...]
New research has shown out of all social networking sites, micro-blogging site Twitter has seen the biggest growth of monthly active users worldwide. The study by GlobalWebIndex also highlighted a huge boom in Facebook usage: Despite the issue of ‘Facebook fatigue’, a sense of boredom when using the site, firms including GlobalWebIndex have previously suggested [...]
Google’s Matt Cutts has confirmed a major overhaul of its Penguin algorithm will occur at some point in the next few weeks. Speaking on his personal Twitter account, he responded to a users question on whether the update had already hit, saying : “Nope, no new Penguin update this week.” In a follow up tweet [...]
According to reports, Yahoo! is apparently looking for a way to get out of its search revenue deal with Bing, despite the fact it has only recently extending the agreement. The Wall Street Journal claims sources close to the matter informed it the search engine giant was quietly trying to get out of its partnership [...]
Following a number of rumours earlier in the week, popular video-sharing website YouTube has officially launched a trial scheme for paid channels. Subscriptions for the initial 53 channels start at around $0.99 (£0.64) a month, however each one is set to offer a 14 day free trial and many will also offer subsidies on annual [...]
Search engine firm Google has asked an appeal court to reject class-action status to a group of authors claiming its project to digitise a huge number of books breaches copyright rules in a massive $3 billion lawsuit. The firm’s lawyers are in dispute with representatives of three writers – Jim Bouton, Betty Miles and Joseph [...]