Google Can Sleep Tight
	Indians' preferences when it comes to navigating on certain websites are definitely inclined towards Google. The company's websites were the most popular in India in May 2008, as a comScore report shows. With almost 20 million visitors, Google manages to overpass Yahoo!, which was first in the Indian rankings in the same month of 2007. While Google scored a 35% growth in the number of unique users, its rival, Yahoo! ... [read more >>]
	23 July 2008, 11:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo!'s Search Stats from Different Studies Aren't Matching
	Yahoo!'s Search market share is presented very differently by the two major companies that have conducted studies regarding the number of American people who performed searches in June. According to comScore, 20.9% of the users resorted to Yahoo! with their queries. However, Nielsen Online says that only 16.6% people relied on the Sunnyvale company for their searches. The difference might come from the fact that comScore had in sight ... [read more >>]
	19 July 2008, 04:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Knows 40 Languages
	In 2008, Google has focused, more than ever, on making its web properties' content available for as many people as possible, no matter their mother tongue. "A huge part of that goal is making our services available in as many languages as possible. And as I’m sure you can imagine, that isn't as easy as simply as translating a few lines of text," says Mario Queiroz, Vice President, Product Management of Google Europe, Mi ... [read more >>]
	18 July 2008, 12:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Gets Involved in Mother Russia's Business
	Google announced the upcoming acquisition of one of the most conspicuous contextual advertising companies in Russia. Begun, a property of Rambler Media, will become part of Google's advertising business most probably starting with September. By that time, the American company will have to pay a total of $140 million in cash, the equivalent of the entire Begun. The Russian company is extremely popular in this country, hav ... [read more >>]
	18 July 2008, 07:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Unified Advertising Platform from Google
	Google has launched today a new feature for all advertisers. While their campaigns were, up to this point, either keyword based or placement based, the two possibilities can now be integrated in one unitary proceeding. By adding keywords to a placement-targeted campaign, more websites from a specified area will display the advertorial content, and not only the ones that were previously defined. Same thing goes the other way around for mark ... [read more >>]
	18 July 2008, 06:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Less Ads, Not Much More Money for Google
	Google's decision of focusing more on the quality of the ads provided to the users, and not on their number, has apparently paid off. The total revenues recorded for the second semester of 2008 reached $5.37 billion, an increase of 3% compared with the first three months of this year. Going even further than that, as opposed to the same quarter last year, the rate of increase was of 39%. "Strong international growth as well as ... [read more >>]
	18 July 2008, 03:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Name Behind the Gmail Address
	It has recently come to light that by signing up to Google Calendar, one can find out the name used to register any Gmail account. This is a serious issue for those who have used their real names, but prefer the information stays private. The thing is that by getting access to such data, a spammer can deliver a personalized message and fool the recipient into thinking it is a legitimate e-mail. It all boils down to how much you ... [read more >>]
	17 July 2008, 11:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Get Your Site Out of Google's Blacklist
	At the end of June, the current year, we were announcing that Google's Safe Browsing API can improve online security. Thanks to this utility you are less likely to visit a malware spreading site because a warning is issued every time you try to access such a site. ... [read more >>]
	17 July 2008, 10:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail's New Contact Manager Feature Faces Problems
	Recently, Google launched a new feature that allows users to have two specific lists of contacts on their Gmail account – their manually added friends and the suggested contacts. This came as a solution after people complained about the fact that their list of contacts was getting bulkier and bulkier. Thanks to it, Google automatically adds in the users’ personal contacts the people who have received 5 or more e-mails from them. [ADMAR ... [read more >>]
	17 July 2008, 05:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Spelling Monopoly for Google and Yahoo
	Microsoft is one of the most vocal opponents of an online advertising and search partnership between direct rivals Google and Yahoo. The no. 1 and no. 2 Internet search and advertising players worldwide announced in the first half of the past month a non-exclusive alliance in a move designed specifically to keep Yahoo out of Microsoft's reach. And while it was throwing nothing but repeated negative answers to the Redmond company, the ... [read more >>]
	16 July 2008, 07:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

3D Cities Now on Google Earth
	Google Earth has been offering, for over three years now, a close view of the places that a few people only dream of seeing in reality. A new layer has been added to the platform, and we're talking about a 3D projection of some of the major cities in the world, but also of ambitious towns. Until now, only U.S. Local governments have signed up for the application. Among the regions that have implemented the new feature suppor ... [read more >>]
	15 July 2008, 11:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Exorcising the Evil Out of the Google-Yahoo Alliance
	Microsoft is fighting to exorcise the evil out of the Google-Yahoo alliance. After Yahoo eluded Microsoft's $44.6 billion marriage proposal, it was quick to jump in bed with Google, and strike an online advertising and search partnership. The Redmond company failed to see any good in a combination of Google and Yahoo, and as a direct consequence, Brad Smith, Microsoft senior vice president and general counsel will appear before the Se ... [read more >>]
	15 July 2008, 11:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top 10 Web Brands
	America's top 10 web brands for June starts with Google and ends with Apple. The ranking was made according to the number of unique users in the U.S. that visited certain pages, and was disclosed by Nielsen Ratings. Google has all the reasons to show off in front of its competitors, since its properties attracted more than 120 million users in a single month. Yahoo! doesn't have, overall, serious reasons for concern, because[ ... [read more >>]
	15 July 2008, 10:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Ils Adorent Google
	Google's supremacy on the search engines market is guaranteed for a long while from now on. The case of France, which is one of the most devoted markets to Google's search engine, supports this affirmation. A study provided by comScore reveals that, in May, 82% of the French Internet users conducted their searches with the specified SE. Although Groupe Pages Jaunes, a national search tool, came in second place, the difference bet ... [read more >>]
	15 July 2008, 09:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

YouTube Users' Private Information Is Safe
	It seems like YouTube users have nothing to fear anymore. Their user ID, IP address and visitor ID are no longer in danger of being handed over to Viacom, as the company, that sued Google's YouTube last year, asking for $1 billion indemnification regarding copyrights, has backed off its request. If this came to happen because the media company reconsidered its position, the judges rejected some of the other solicitations Viacom came f ... [read more >>]
	15 July 2008, 06:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Speech Recognition Gadget from Google
	Google seems to understand that none of the key topics of social life should remain uncovered. With a touch of recent technology, social applications have the potential of becoming a hit. Since 2008 is the year of great changes on the political scene, the company has decided to launch yet another tool to come in handy to those who don't want to fall behind with what politicians have to say. Until now, anyone interested could see a ... [read more >>]
	15 July 2008, 05:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Make a Video à la Radiohead
	Radiohead's new video for the single "House of Cards" is so special that it even managed to attract Google's attention. This happened not only because the team is fond of good music, but also because the video uses some technologies that are yet to be employed in this area. Lasers and data were put to use in order to create interesting 3D images that didn't require any cameras or lights. Two scanning technologie ... [read more >>]
	15 July 2008, 04:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AOL Challenges Yahoo! and Google in Online Advertising
	ADTECH, part of AOL’s online advertising business, has just attracted a top-notch partner. Gannett, an international company that operates 23 TV stations and publishes USA Today, along with other 84 newspapers, has chosen AOL's services to display ads on online properties. So far, the two partners have replaced all the online properties of the media giant from its server and moved them to ADTECH's Helios IQ ad serving solution. ... [read more >>]
	14 July 2008, 07:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Father's Day Advertising Tips
	Father's Day is among the most lucrative holidays for marketers. Whether they're for a dad, an uncle or a role model, presents are a must in order to show one’s gratitude. Google is offering some tips to advertisers, to help them attract as many customers as possible until July 15. In the first place, marketers have to make sure that their offers are divided in accordance with the different types of people at which ... [read more >>]
	14 July 2008, 06:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

This Might Be It for Yahoo! and Microsoft's Joined Path
	For those who expected that Yahoo! would maybe reconsider its position regarding the deals proposed by Microsoft, the late Saturday press release came to set the record straight. As of late, the company has made a habit out of ruling out whatever the "traitor-investor" Carl Icahn and the Redmond enterprise have put forward. The latest offer, regarding Yahoo!'s search business, which is very appealing to Microsoft, as it was ... [read more >>]
	14 July 2008, 03:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Code Search Updates from Google
	Google has always been in the habit of lending a helping hand to programmers in distress. This time around, the Code Search Team has introduced six new features to come in handy to the developers who work with such large bases of code that searching through them becomes an ordeal. The first feature that Dmitry Barashev from the Google Code Search Team describes on the official blog is Code Outline, which displays, when hit, t ... [read more >>]
	12 July 2008, 07:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

YouTube Launches Political Contest
	Google and its media partner YouTube are launching a contest that has at stake the participation in the national conventions of the two big American parties – the Republicans and the Democrats. Everything the competitors have to do is upload a convincing video of maximum 2 minutes, in which to prove that they have the best reasons for choosing to sympathize with one of the parties, on a specially created ... [read more >>]
	11 July 2008, 10:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Privacy, Oh Privacy – Google Defends Its Policies Once Again
	Google's pressure point regarding users’ privacy is infamous. Even when it is not collecting data on purpose, something has to come up with and trouble the waters, such as is the case with the trial with Viacom. Regardless of that, the officials stand up to defend their re ... [read more >>]
	11 July 2008, 07:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Ask.com Tries to Win Some Points in the Search Engines Battle
	The Ask.com team has decided to give itself a boost and, at the same time, move closer to the hearts of the users who conduct online searches. The company has just announced a multi-annual partnership with Photobucket, the famous photo and video-sharing website. For starters, an Ask.com search box will be "prominently" displayed on Photobucket's main page. Moreover, sponsored listings and display advertising will b ... [read more >>]
	11 July 2008, 03:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft to Surf the Cool Wave Just as Google and Apple
	Surf's up for Microsoft, as the software giant needs to at least replicate the performance of rivals Google and Apple in terms of navigating the "coolness" wave. However, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer revealed that it is not actually a case of what company is cooler at the Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 in Houston, Texas, on July 9, 2008. Ballmer's perspective is that Microsoft will not ba ... [read more >>]
	10 July 2008, 10:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Wages War against Phishing Attacks
	People who fall victim to phishing attacks can end up penniless because the attacker will most likely use the information obtained through a phishing site to drain the victim's account dry. Search engine giant Google has been at the forefront of the battle against such scam attempts, warning users that the message may have malicious intent. The latest messages to come under close scrutiny are those that come, or claiming to come from ... [read more >>]
	10 July 2008, 08:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Helps Advertisers Have a Clearer View of the Market
	Google has introduced a new feature in order to help its advertisers have a better view of the market. The search volume data are statistics that show the number of queries performed in the past on Google and the affiliate search network that matches the current keywords. Trevor Claiborne, Inside AdWords team member, posted on the Google official blog some of the advantages that the new feature brings to advertisers. Their ac ... [read more >>]
	09 July 2008, 12:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail Now Safer
	It seems that the Gmail's developers truly care for the security of its users. Since you can sign in to the Google account from different locations at the same time, there is the possibility you could forget to sign out of one and then be faced with an invasion of privacy. Thanks to the new feature from Gmail, you can now see if you have not signed out from all the places where you opened the account and what you should do i ... [read more >>]
	09 July 2008, 09:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Is ''Uber'' in Germany
	Out of the 3.7 billion searches conducted in Germany in May 2008, an average of 80.5% was performed with Google sites. Google's supremacy puts to shame the rest of the top ten sites. eBay is second, with 6.2% of the market share, followed by a German property, ProSiebenSat1, whose sites account for 2.4% of the people who conduct searches. These results were made public after the Comscore team of researchers published today t ... [read more >>]
	09 July 2008, 08:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

3D Social Network from Google
	For those who are no longer thrilled by their social online experience, Google has developed something more exotic. Lively is the name of the new project, a 3D animated world for all of us to enjoy. Although the product is not a pioneer of the genre, its strongest point, at the moment, is that it costs no money. Without having to pay a monthly fee, users can design their own rooms and choose avatars to their liking. Moreover, ... [read more >>]
	09 July 2008, 03:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Releases Open Source Protocol Buffers
	Google's Software Engineering Team has developed yet another tool to come to the aid of the webmasters. The application consists of Protocol Buffers that, as it is stated on the company's blog, "allow you to define simple data structures in a special definition language, then compile them to produce classes to represent those structures in the language of your choice." When dealing with large amounts of code, the messag ... [read more >>]
	08 July 2008, 08:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

YouTube Users Try to Block Their Data from Being Handed Over
	An online petition was launched a few days ago by some YouTube users who call themselves generically "users of the web." What initiated it is their concern regarding the judges' decision to force YouTube to hand over all of its users' private data to Viacom, a major American company that has accused it of copyright infringement. The petition is addressed to Louis L. Stanton, the U.S. District Court Judge w ... [read more >>]
	08 July 2008, 06:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Street View UK Under Criticism
	Earlier this month we were reporting that the French version of Google's Street View had to deal with some privacy related issued before it could be released. While people were more than happy about being able to scour all parts of the world at street l ... [read more >>]
	07 July 2008, 08:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google's Street View Considered Offensive by Privacy International
	Google Maps Street View is the subject of quite a few vivid debates in the circles of human rights associations. The company has already launched the application that offers street-level images in France, for those who want another perspective on the Tour de France. Google is now planning to extend the experiment to more European countries, but control groups are not pleased by the idea. Privacy International, a British organization that ... [read more >>]
	07 July 2008, 08:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Brazil to Remove Underage Adult Material from Orkut
	Run by Google, this service provides online social networking and was created by a Google employee. All over the world there are about 60 million Orkut users and a staggering 50% of them are from Brazil. Since illegal material was plentiful on Orkut, the Brazilian legislators and Google had to come to an agreement in order to put a stop to this. The agreement, which is the first of its kind internationally, states Google will se ... [read more >>]
	07 July 2008, 05:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

LinkedIn Sells Private Customer Data
	Just like Google, LinkedIn is also facing criticism in regards to failure of keeping private data safe. But while Google lost sensitive information due to burglary or court order, LinkedIn is ... [read more >>]
	05 July 2008, 07:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google's StreetView Protects the Identity of the French
	Earlier this week, the French StreetView edition was launched; it is part of Google maps and it allows an Internet user to browse through the maps at street level. The French edition though has a long way to go as only the route for the Tour de France has been covered by Google. Out of privacy reasons, the faces of all the people caught on camera by the Google StreetView team will be blurred, just as the license plates on cars. ... [read more >>]
	05 July 2008, 05:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Homepage Changes for Google
	You may not have noticed, but starting with the 3rd of July, Google has modified its main page. Just bellow the "About Google" tab, there used to be "© 2008 Google". Now that link has been swapped for this one "© 2008 - Privacy". Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the two founders of Google, opted for the term "privacy" not "privacy policy" because they wanted to keep the number of word ... [read more >>]
	05 July 2008, 04:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google USA loses employee data to burglars
	Google is not to blame for this, because the data was not stolen from Google offices but from the headquarters of an outsourced HR company called Colt Express. The thieves broke in and stole company computers that contained unencrypted data on them, data such as name, address, Social Security number, basically everything you would need for an ID theft. Google and other companies that employed Colt Express are influenced by the r ... [read more >>]
	04 July 2008, 13:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

YouTube Viewing Habits No Longer Private
	Entertainment industry giant Viacom initiated a lawsuit against YouTube in March 2007, asking for damages in excess of $1 billion. Louis Lee Stanton, a Southern District of New York judge, has recently ordered YouTube to hand over to Viacom all information regarding uploaded files, viewing habits, user names and IP addresses. Are we to expect class action lawsuits against YouTube viewers? Because that is probably what Viacom will do with t ... [read more >>]
	04 July 2008, 09:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Adobe Opens Up the World of Flash Sites
	Flash sites are very popular in the advertising and marketing world, but although you end up with a great looking site, you also end up with an "unsearchable" one. Search engines such as Google or Yahoo are unable to crawl flash sites, making it practically invisible to the rest of the world. Adobe has recently announced that it has developed a new technology that will allow flash sites to be indexed and that it is working with G ... [read more >>]
	02 July 2008, 06:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Calendar Targeted by Phishing Attacks
	It would seem that Google Calendar is plagued by all sorts of problems, the most recent of them being phishing attacks. Google representatives ask users to ignore suspicious messages and click the "Report Phishing" button instead of reading the message, opening links included in the message or downloading any attachments. ... [read more >>]
	01 July 2008, 10:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Maps Get Better with Tele Atlas
	Tele Atlas, a Belgian company that develops digital maps, announced that it stroke a deal with Google in order to enhance the Mountain View company's navigation and mapping applications. The new deal was signed for no less than five years and will positively affect Google Maps for Mobile, Google Maps for Desktop, Google Earth, as well as other applications. Following the agreement, Google will have access to the maps an ... [read more >>]
	30 June 2008, 12:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft, Yahoo and Google Will Fight Over $106 Billion in 2011
	Microsoft, Yahoo and Google are currently dividing between them the large majority of no less than $65.2 billion, which is the worldwide spending on Internet advertising this year, according to market analyst company IDC. But between 2008 and 2011, just four years from now, Internet spending will explode to no less than $106 Billion. "Compared to more mature types of advertising, Internet advertising is growing at a phenomenal rate,&q ... [read more >>]
	26 June 2008, 07:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Apple Engineers Paid Below-Market Salaries
	Apple is allegedly paying its software engineers very little money compared with rival companies, TechCrunch is reporting, pointing to a Glassdoor find. According to the ratings and reviews from Glassdoor, "the average [salary] based on ten submissions is $97,840." That’s a yearly salary, of course "and the range is between $80,000 and $150,000, with annual cash bonuses coming in anywhere from $20,000 to $45,000," th ... [read more >>]
	19 June 2008, 16:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

PlayStation Portable Is Getting Firmware 4.0
	Sony is announcing that the landmark 4.0 firmware update for the PlayStation Portable is going to arrive this week, and advises all those that own a gaming handheld console to upgrade immediately to the new version. The main change brought ... [read more >>]
	17 June 2008, 09:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Live Search to Disrupt the Search Marketplace
	Microsoft is positioning Live Search as a disrupting element on the search engine and online advertising marketplace, betting big on the organic growth abilities of its search engine. With the recent partnership inked by the no. 1 and no. 2 search and online advertising players, Google and Yahoo, Microsoft's mission will be that much harder, if not impossible. Still, the Redmond company is applying an old recipe, which is no ... [read more >>]
	17 June 2008, 06:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Value of Duplicate Content
	The content of a website is considered duplicate if parts of an existing published content are repeated on a certain number of pages across many websites and domain names. Even if building a website that has content automatically generated sounds tempting, like in the case of RSS feeds publishing in HTML pages, the consequences of such a thing can often spell exactly what no webmaster would desire. Practically, the multiplication of t ... [read more >>]
	16 June 2008, 11:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Poisons the Yahoo and Microsoft Marriage
	June 12 seems to mark the last chapter in a Microsoft and Yahoo saga debuted in 2007 with the first acquisition proposals, and which was taken public by Microsoft on February 1, 2008, with a $44.6 billion unsolicited takeover offer. Yahoo's answer had always been a firm no to a potential marriage with Microsoft, and the $31 per share proposal made little difference. The Sunnyvale Internet giant desperately fought off the Red ... [read more >>]
	13 June 2008, 04:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia