by denis | Nov 21, 2008 | Search
The figures from Nielsen Netratings and comScore are not in as of yet, but Hitwise has posted their latest numbers for October, and they show Google closing in on the 72% mark. According to Hitwise, Google now sits with 71.7%, up 0.54%, Yahoo is down 0.3% to 17.74%,...
by denis | Nov 21, 2008 | Search
Google has now made one big step forward in its initiative to have out-of-print books online. Tuesday, Judge John Sprizzo approved a lawsuit settlement between Google and numerous authors and publishers to the tune of $125 million. This money will be placed in a fund...
by denis | Nov 20, 2008 | Social
Last night in a blog post at the Official Google Blog, Google announced that one of its Google Labs projects, Lively.com, will see its doors closed forever. After only a few short months, Google has decided to pull the plug on this popular chat platform in order to...
by denis | Nov 14, 2008 | Search
It sounds more and more like Yahoo should have taken the Microsoft buy-out offer at $31 a share back in February. Since then Yahoo shares have been up and down, but as of today, they are hovering around the $10 mark, a small fraction of what they once were. Yesterday...
by denis | Nov 7, 2008 | Search
Last week Google began turning PDF files of scanned printed documents into digital text, and as a result their searchable index has expanded once again. Previously, only rarely would a scanned document appear in the organic search results. With the technology of...
