There has always been a war on the search engine market: there are lots of important players on the market and all of them fight for winning the heart (and the clicks) of their users. The two most important players on the actual search engine battlefield are Google and Bing, both of them with their [...]
Celebrities are dangerous in real life – they tend to be aggressive when surrounded by fans or paparazzi – but they are even more dangerous online, especially when it comes to internet searches. Common searches for news or pictures about celebrities – especially the female ones – can lead users to dangerous websites full of [...]
Facebook is considered the best of the social networks online. Its services grow continuously, so does its user base. Their new service launched today might be – it’s called Facebook Places and it allows users to share their current location on their status page and tag others that are there with them. The online geo-location [...]
It’s been 71 years since Dorothy and her friends Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion, the Tin Man and Toto the dog discovered Emerald City after they followed the yellow brick road. And Google is celebrating the 71st anniversary of “The Wizard of Oz”, a musical written based on L.Frank Baum’s novel with a cute doodle to [...]
It is not a legal document, it’s only a policy proposal that was submitted for consideration to the US Congress and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). It’s not a law, not a bill, but could provide freedom to all American internet users. Network neutrality is the principle according to which no internet service providers should [...]
Google seems to be really serious about entering in force on the social gaming market. After investing $150 million in the social game development company Zynga (responsible for games like Farmville and Mafia) and acquiring the social game development company Slide for $182 million, Google has made another step towards the launch of its supposed [...]
Google has confirmed the rumors circulating around the web for days – it has announced the acquisition of Slide Inc., a company involved in creating social games. Slide has developed games like SuperPoke, FunSpace or Top Fish. Google’s Engineering Director, David Glazer said that for the company he works with the web is about people [...]
Google has announced the end of another project that was meant to be the new way of online communication – so, from now on, Google Wave is no more. The concept was good, but it seems that people were not ready for a change this big, so the new cross-platform online communication tool that was [...]
After some not so great years for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser, it seems that their IE 8 has finally got it right if we consider NetApplication’s report that signals the third consecutive monthly gain for the browser. Internet Explorer sits comfortably on the first place, as the world’s most popular browser, with a share [...]
Twitter, the ever-growing social micro-blogging service that has recently transmitted its 20 billionth Tweet – has introduced a new feature called “Suggestions for you”. This feature will help you find people you should follow, as it offers a selection of users that have similar interests with you. This feature – similar to Facebook’s “People you [...]