iPhone users may have sex twice as much as other smartphone owners, but Android users search twice as much as others, Google announced during its third quarter earnings call today.
The company was responding to questions about how it will …
Marissa Mayer,Vice President of Search Product and User Experience for Google, may be changing roles and focusing on location and local services, according to Bloomberg.
Mayer started working for Google in 1999 and was the company’s first female engineer focusing …
As app stores multiply and the number of publicly released apps — just the ones we can see and count — approaches 1 million, content developers are having a hard time standing out from the crowd.
That process is known …
Google has finally brought its Goggles visual search feature to the iPhone as part of its Google Mobile App.
Google software engineer Milan Broum announced the addition of Goggles, which lets users perform visual searches using their iPhone’s camera, in …
Microsoft’s newest version of its oft-maligned Web browser, Internet Explorer 9, was downloaded about 6 million times in September and has started gaining a good bit of momentum.
To Microsoft’s credit, the tech giant has tried a number of new …
Users of Apple’s recently released Chinese iPhone 4 are in for a nasty surprise: Apparently, the phone comes equipped with ensored map data that complies with Chinese government propaganda, according to the site Ogle Earth.
The Chinese iPhone 4 Maps …
The past few weeks have been good to Stanford student Feross Aboukhadijeh (pictured right with YouTube CEO Chad Hurley), who created the YouTube Instant site earlier this month and was then famously offered a job at YouTube. Aboukhadijeh announced on …
Google is now on track to acquire a new company every two weeks this year. It’s on quite the shopping spree, but for a company that made $24 billion last year alone, it might be exactly what the doctor ordered …
Semantifi is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week in Silicon Valley. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains objective.…
ExpertMaker is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week in Silicon Valley. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains objective.…
Live Matrix, a “TV Guide” of sorts to the Internet, will come out of beta on Monday and attempt to do the impossible — index shows, sales and other online events and provide users with an easier way to browse …
It’s hard to be as big as Google and still be fun. One bit of the search engine’s late-’90s whimsy that has survived to this day is the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button, which instantly takes users to the first search …
Google is already one of the fastest search engines on the planet — but apparently that isn’t fast enough.
Marissa Mayer, Google’s top search executive, announced a “fundamental shift” in how search operates with the launch of Google Instant at …
A cryptic Tweet by Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt might hold some clues as to what to expect from today’s Google presentation in San Francisco.
Schmidt announced yesterday that Google was going to make a push into automated searches that dynamically …
Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that the future of search was blazing-fast, “autonomous” searching that constantly provides users with results. He made the comments at a keynote speech at the German IFA home electronics event in Berlin Tuesday.
But autonomous …
Every time AOL is expected to fade into obscurity, something crazy happens to make it relevant again. Today it’s the five-year extension of AOL’s contract with Google to provide search functions and a portion of ad revenue.
AOL still possesses a …
After releasing an iPhone app for its Bing search engine last December, Microsoft announced an equivalent Android Bing app today for Verizon users.
But since Android is much more deeply integrated into Google’s search and navigation offerings than the iPhone, …
Google is developing a new kind of search capability that delivers the results instantly as you type the letters.
The new experiment was discovered by search engine optimization (SEO) consultant Rob Ousbey, who noticed the results being delivered instantly and …
Yahoo’s transition to using Microsoft’s Bing for powering its searches begins this week for users in the U.S. and Canada, the company announced in a blog post today.
Yahoo will start to replace its search back-end with Bing’s starting at …
Demand Media, an online content provider, has taken the first step towards an initial public offering. The company’s S-1 filing on Friday revealed details of the company’s business — semi-automated content production with an eye towards capturing users searching for …
