Yahoo may be sliding down the search engine totem pole, but the company is doing its best to climb back up, with a new space dedicated to apps. This week, Yahoo added a new “Apps” tab to its search page, giving users a new portal into both the Androi…
Posts Tagged ‘Search’
Yahoo unveils app search page for Android and iOS, because we need it
February 3rd, 2012 
Amar Toor Google responds to Congress about its updated privacy policy
January 31st, 2012 Phil Nickinson Congress wanted answers regarding Google's updated and consolidated privacy policy that goes into effect March 1, and el Goog has responded with a blog post as well as a 13-page letter to eight U.S. representatives. The long and the short of it is…
Posted in News 
Tags: Android, congress, google, privacy, privacy policy, Search, security, terms of service, tos 
No Comments »Google addresses new privacy policy concerns in letter to Congress
January 31st, 2012 Jordan Kahn Following the introduction of Google’s new privacy policy, late last week we reported government officials issued a statement and planned to request that the Federal Communications Commission launch a probe to investigate the changes. In response, Google has now issued its own letter to Congress addressing some of the concerns and detailing important issues that are [...]
Four ways Android is doing exactly what it’s supposed to do
January 31st, 2012 Phil Nickinson You say tomato, I say tomahto. You say potato, I say potahto. And that's where we stand on the state of Android, at least compared to Mark Spoonauer of Laptopmag. Mark, whose opinion we certainly respect, tonight in a "Spoon Fed" blog po…
Posted in News Tags: Android, Fragmentation, google, google plus, platform, Search, ui No Comments »Lawmakers to Google: ‘We want to make sure’ unified policy protects consumer privacy, calls for FCC probe
January 27th, 2012 Élyse Betters Rep. Edward Markey, a prominent U.S. lawmaker on privacy issues, announced earlier this week he was concerned with Google’s new privacy policy, and he further addressed his worries on Thursday by calling for a probe into Google’s handling of consumer data. Google’s offerings include its globally popular search engine, Gmail, YouTube, Search plus Your World, Google+, and more, [...]
Posted in News Tags: betsy masiello, fcc, FTC, google, Google Corporate, google plus, personal information safety, privacy policy, Search No Comments »New ‘Google Crisis Response’ project issues public alerts through Google Maps
January 25th, 2012 Élyse Betters Folks seeking information on natural disasters or other global emergencies can now access Google Maps for the latest details through a new Google Crisis Response project. The Mountain View, Calif.-based search giant launched a Google Public Alerts system today to keep users informed of disaster alerts regarding tornadoes, floods, winter and tropical storms, and other [...]
Google Plus now aims its sights at Quora
January 24th, 2012 Christian Zibreg Google is adamant on accelerating work on its Google+ social network. By doing so, the company has already stepped on people’s toes. An upcoming Q&A feature from Google does not seem to be aimed squarely at Quora, a popular question-and-answer website, but the Quora people understandably cann0t be too happy about this development. See, according to VentureBeat, [...]
Posted in News Tags: Ask on Google Plus, google, Google Corporate, google plus, Quora, Search, social No Comments »Twitter and Facebook engineers create ‘Don’t Be Evil’ tool to alter Google’s controversial social results
January 23rd, 2012 Jordan Kahn Search Engine Land pointed us to a new browser bookmarklet dubbed “Don’t Be Evil” created by Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook engineers to alter the controversial social search results displayed by Google since its most recent “Search plus Your World” update. Earlier this month Google began rolling out the new “Search plus Your World” update to Google.com [...]
Google continues its shuttering rampage, closes Picnik, Clouds Urchin, and open sources Skymap
January 21st, 2012 Seth Weintraub Google announced last night that it would be discontinuing a number of its services in the coming months because they “replicate other features, haven’t achieved the promise we had hoped for or can’t be properly integrated into the overall Google experience.” Two things jump out at me regarding these closures: Google is channeling its lab-like [...]
Posted in News Tags: google, Google Apps, Google Corporate, Google Social Graph API, ITA Software, Picnik, Search, Urchin No Comments »Google Latitude on desktop gets a facelift
January 20th, 2012 Christian Zibreg Google just revamped the look of Latitude, its location-aware service akin to Foursquare. According to a post by Google’s community manager for Google Maps, Danial Mabasa, the new Google Latitude interface can be now accessed on desktop browsers at www.google.com/latitude. As you can see from the above screenshot, it is not much different from Google+. However, [...]
Posted in News Tags: google, Google Corporate, google latitude, Google Maps, latitude, location, Search No Comments »
