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Internet future discussed in US technology meetingFollowing a controversial strategy publicised by Google and Verizon to alter internet access for UK customers, an industry body has been meeting to discuss the future of open internet.
Read the rest of this entry » Google censorship battle with China continuesThe battle between China and Internet giants Google has been ongoing for a while now, as Google automatically redirected Chinese surfers to Hong Kong’s Google page, in a bid to navigate through China’s strict censorship laws.
Read the rest of this entry » Yahoo to compete with Google and Facebook in data portabilityHaving a single log-in to access all of your online favourites is becoming increasingly popular, as top internet companies are developing more and more ways of managing data portability. With tools such as OpenID, Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect, it’s getting more simple every day to manage your password and login information, online.
Read the rest of this entry » Google announce all new web indexing systemEarlier this week Google announced the completion of their brand new indexing system that they have named Caffeine.
Read the rest of this entry » Google acquire Invite MediaGoogle’s added another weapon to its arsenal of online ad services. The search giant has announced the acquisition of yet another start-up, Invite Media, which is one of a small group of companies that gives ad agencies and advertisers the ability to do real-time bidding for display ad space.
Read the rest of this entry » iGoogle gets even more personalFrom the launch of iGoogle in 2005 to the more recent launch of stars in search in March of this year, Google have been steadily making the search experience more relevant, more useful and more personal.
Read the rest of this entry » Google refuse to handover wireless network informationSearch engine giants Google have announced this week that they would not be able to meet a German data protection deadline for the turnover of information collected by Google from unsecured wireless home networks whilst conducting its extensive Google Street View project.
Read the rest of this entry » Google Chrome leaves beta behind for more stable versionAfter months of work for the Google team and months of waiting for the users Google have finally announced a new stable version of Chrome for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Read the rest of this entry » WebM royalty free video codec announced by GoogleBased on the VP8 technology that Google acquired in February of this year from On2 technologies, the WebM codec is formed from specialised video compression tools.
Read the rest of this entry » Google Reader has HTML5 support addedGoogle Reader released a host of new updates last week including support for HTML5 powered videos and audio.
Read the rest of this entry » Google Squared makes huge strides on its one year anniversaryAfter being launched in May 2009, Google Squared, still currently in beta, has had many of its features injected into the primary Google search engine but at the same time it has also received a few additions of its own.
Read the rest of this entry » Google give a voice to more languages on Google TranslateGoogle’s Translate service has become increasingly popular this year, especially the feature that allows the user to hear translations spoken out loud (“text to speech”) by clicking on the speaker icon that appears along side some translations.
Read the rest of this entry » Virtual keyboard launched by GoogleSearch engine giant Google announced last week that they will be launching a new on-screen keyboard that will allow users to input characters in a whole range of languages no matter what sort of physical keyboard that they may be using.
Read the rest of this entry » Google to recommend brands on relevant searches – Bad news for the SEO industryGoogle have recently announced an update to the part of the site that showed similar searches to the one that was being searched by the user.
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