Internet giant Google has once again found itself in the spotlight over privacy issues – this time over customers personal details being released to app developers. In what could be the third major privacy case in two years for the firm, a leading campaigner has called on the US government to investigate how users purchasing [...]
Bing has announced it has made a couple of tweaks to improve its search offering. Senior program manager lead, Dan Marantz, confirmed the two improvements on the Bing Search Blog. The main change is to the firm’s autosuggest feature, introducing what Bing is calling Autosuggest Ghosting: This aims at improving a users search experience by [...]
Search giant Yahoo! has looked internally to find the right candidate to take reins of its vacant head of search position: Promoting Laurie Mann to the role. It will now be the long-time Yahoo! employee’s job to try to fix what has been a somewhat troubled relationship with partner, Microsoft. Yahoo! CEO, Marissa Mayer, recently [...]
Search engine firm Google may be set to open a number of high street stores in order to push sales on a number of its flagship devices according to a new report. The Wall Street Journal has reported that sources familiar with the matter have informed them of the Internet giant’s plans to launch a [...]
Internet giant Google may face repressive action from EU privacy regulators over privacy concerns. A number of European privacy watchdogs are still waiting for the firm to respond to the suggestions they made following a lengthy investigation: With a deadline set for Google to take action now passed. Google unified more than 60 separate privacy [...]
A new survey has revealed Internet search giant Google could make a staggering $5 billion dollars in revenue from tablets this year. Marin Software, which provides PPC marketing management software for a number of advertisers and agencies across the globe, released the data in its ‘The State of Mobile Search’ report. The firm estimates that [...]
Members of the European Publishers Council (EPC) have criticised the deal between Google and French publishers over copyright, remuneration and article snippets. The group met in Brussels to discuss a number of issues, with the search engine giant’s deal with the French media to develop a €60m innovation fund designed to help them develop online [...]
Google Shopping changes today (Feb 13): with the introduction of paid-for product listing ads as the standard result format. The changes mean online businesses who advertise products in Shopping now need to pay when searchers click on their items. For ten years, Google Shopping has been a free service for businesses – with Google Merchant [...]
Eric Schmidt is set to sell 3.2 million worth of his shares in search engine company Google. The Google chairman will sell a 42% stake of his holdings in the Internet search giant – worth an estimated £1.6bn. His latest plan was revealed in an 8-K document filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. [...]
Google Shopping changes in the UK will be introduced tomorrow (Feb 13). The switch will see new product listing ads and paid-for results in Shopping searches. For ten years, Google Shopping (formerly known as Froogle or Product search), provided lots of free traffic for online businesses. But that’s about to end. From tomorrow, free listings [...]