Microsoft caved to European pressure to tighten their consumer privacy policies. Previously, Microsoft Bing kept consumers’ search data, including Internet Protocol address associated with search queries, in its system for 18 months. Now, Microsoft will shorten that time to just six months. Google on the other hand, stores Internet protocol addresses which can be [...]

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With the start of the New Year, Google has introduced a new touchscreen phone called Nexus One to rival Apple’s iPhone.  Built by HTC, the device has a 3.7 inch screen and runs the latest version of Google’s Android.  Unlike the iPhone, which is only available on the AT&T Network, Google is looking to offer [...]

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Google unveiled several new search tools last week at their 2009 Search Event. Having reviewed some of their new tools, the following three features, summarized below, exemplify the changes search engine companies are going through as social and mobile media are taking on larger roles in the digital landscape.
Real Time Search- Google will begin [...]

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Free is not going to cut it for newspaper companies posting their information online. With a decline in readership of printed newspapers and a weakening in the Internet advertising dollar, newspapers are looking for new ways to maintain and generate revenue for their online websites.
One method being used is where users are hit with [...]

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If you are one of the thousands who use Google’s email services, Gmail, for private or professional purposes, you probably experienced the widespread outage that occurred yesterday. According to Ben Treynor, Vice President of Google, the outage, which lasted for approximately 100 minutes, occurred after Google took a small portion of Gmail’s servers offline in [...]

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Last month it was Bing; this month it’s Search Pad. As the traditional search underdogs like Microsoft and Yahoo! battle it out with the search engine monopoly Google, the online world is experiencing launch after launch of new search engine platforms and tools and exciting, innovative features.
Tomorrow, Yahoo! is due to go live with a [...]

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This Monday, Google announced its plan to launch a program to sell books digitally. This program, which Google aims to have completed by the end of the year, could pose very real competition for Amazon, which up until now has had a near monopoly in the e-book market. So what are the differences between the [...]

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