Internet giant Yahoo! has officially confirmed its move to purchase blogging site Tumblr in a deal worth $1.1bn. Speaking on her own Tumblr blog, the search engine company’s CEO, Marissa Mayer, announced the deal, adding she would allow Tumblr to operate independently and her firm would not “screw up.” Ms Mayer said: “Tumblr is incredibly [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
After a European anti-trust investigation, Google has put forward a number of potentially game-changing proposals regarding the way it displays search results for its own products and services in Europe. The investigation was sparked by a number of complaints from Google’s rivals that it was unfairly promoting its own services. A separate investigation was also [...]
Google has apparently scrapped its Instant Preview feature, and replaced it with a less-conspicuous drop-down menu. Instant Preview let searchers see a cached version of a webpage, in the form of a large screenshot to the right of search results. It also allowed users to share pages on the Google+ social network, and search for [...]