Adobe Systems Incorporated has teamed up with Google and Yahoo to index flash based websites in a better way by giving them optimized Adobe Flash Player technology.
Adobe helps Google and Yahoo index flash content
July 1st, 2008 by Kiyani
Nokia to purchase Symbian for EUR 264 million
June 24th, 2008 by Kiyani
Nokia today announced it has launched a cash offer to acquire all of the shares of Symbian Limited that Nokia does not already own, at a price of EUR 3.647 per share.
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Google launching new tool for advertisers
June 23rd, 2008 by Kiyani
On Tuesday Google is going to launch a new tool aimed at advertisers that measures Internet use and identifies the best places to buy ads that will reach target audience.
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Sergey Brin, Google co-founder to visit Space
June 11th, 2008 by Kiyani
Sergey Brin, Google co-founder has made a $5 million investment in Space Adventures, a Virginia company that arranges passage for wealthy explorers to ride on Russian Soyuz rockets to the International Space Station.
He plans to buy a Soyuz flight to space in 2011, with the option of buying more.
Google introduces 13 new features in Gmail
June 5th, 2008 by Kiyani
Google has introduced 13 new features in Gmail which users can access by clicking “labs” tab in the Gmail settings page. These experimental features are meant to improve and evolve the experience for users.
This was announced by Keith Coleman, a Gmail product manager.
Isn’t Baidu doing what Google does? So why all the fuss?
June 4th, 2008 by Kiyani
Recently China’s largest search engine Baidu has come under fire from music industry accusing it of supporting pirated music.
Baidu provides an index of over 740 million web pages, 80 million images, and 10 million multimedia files. It attracts at least 5.5 million visitors annually by 2008 according to a Compete.com survey.
Google VP explains A/B split testing to improve search results
May 30th, 2008 by Kiyani
Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience at Google while speaking at Google I/O conference explained how they improve search results by using A/B split testing.
Using split A/B testing Google shows different versions of the pages to users and measures how they respond. Multivariate or split A/B testing is a statistical term […]
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Google launching App Engine API on May 29
May 28th, 2008 by Kiyani
Search king Google is all set to launch App Engine API on 29 May at its I/O developer conference which will help developers create and maintain web-based applications.
This will be the first publicly available version of the API which will enable users to run web applications on Google’s infrastructure. Previously it was limited to a […]
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Viacom’s lawsuit against YouTube threatens information sharing
May 27th, 2008 by Kiyani
Google, owner of YouTube has responded to Viacom’s $1 billion lawsuit saying it threatens the way information is exchanged over internet.
Viacom filed a lawsuit last year alleging Google has failed to keep copyrighted material off its popular video-sharing site.
Google reveals search engine secrets
May 25th, 2008 by Kiyani
For the first time Google has opened up a little and explained how its search engine works. Although the they didn’t reveal every thing for obvious reasons at least it gives an insight as to how things work at back end.
Google has pledged to adopt a more open approach with the formula for its search […]
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