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The owner of the only news portal in Ingushetia, a Russian province bordering Chechnya, was killed while in police arrest. After getting off the plane that was bringing him home, he was detained by the police and, as he was escorted to a waiting car, he was shot in the head. Despite being driven as soon as possi... |
1 September 2008
03:28 GMT |
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Following the recent integration of the New York Times layer into Google Earth, an addition which allows users to read news straight from the mapping application, the Mountain View-based company has made another move to bring even more news to Google Earth fans: a brand new layer providing content powered by the Aust... |
2 June 2008
14:37 GMT |
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When you turn to the standard Google search page, you are faced with the already famous simple format, on top of which you can see several links. Those links are meant to direct the user to a specialized part of the Google search engine. Among them, you can also find "News", which will forward you to a Google page fe... |
14 May 2008
07:06 GMT |
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Samsung, the South Korean manufacturer, and CNN International have reached an agreement according to which CNN's new mobile news application will be pre-installed on future released Samsung handsets, starting June 2008. For a period of six months, Samsung will be the only mobile phone producer to include the CNN... |
11 April 2008
17:06 GMT |
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Google Earth has received lots of updates lately and the Mountain View company seems to enjoy this campaign of improvement so, today, it offers us one new thing: the possibility to read news in Google Earth thanks to a partnership with the New York Times. What's interesting is that the two companies aimed to pro... |
8 April 2008
03:17 GMT |
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The Comments feature that Google added to its News service was launched a couple of months back, and allows people mentioned in a particular story to comment on the respective articles. That's basically giving a voice to anybody worth hearing and making every version of the story very easily accessible. There�... |
24 March 2008
09:38 GMT |
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Compromise is all this life is about for most people. Meeting your better half mid-way in every crisis that might result in tension between you two is the way to resolve everything, and the same goes for any negotiations being held between two companies, when one doesn't have the upper hand. There's only on... |
21 March 2008
04:41 GMT |
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You probably know that gaming magazine PC Gamer UK has a huge Sims 3 feature this month and it will soon be available on the market. However, since many people would love to hear these details and they probably have no way to buy the magazine, computerandvideogames.com decided to give everybody a small preview on wha... |
12 March 2008
05:58 GMT |
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The Google News team always hurried with their predictions about features being implemented and mostly they were right. Some minor exceptions don't count, like the fact that they won't check for updates if they are included in the same article and will only present the original story, no matter how many add... |
7 February 2008
16:41 GMT |
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The news service and site from Ask.com has a pretty original approach to the old-time, old-school, traditional maybe, view of news. It has something out of Google News, but it also has a Digg spin, with people being able to vote the stories they like most and propel them higher in the rankings.BigFactor is what the c... |
7 February 2008
04:59 GMT |
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Most of you still remember the fact that GTA IV was initially scheduled for an October release but, unlike any other Grand Theft Auto game, it got delayed. Until the 29th of April, as we reported earlier. And now, Rockstar Games' Vice President of Product Development, Jeronimo Barrera, declared that part of the ... |
25 January 2008
02:37 GMT |
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Around Christmas, Google was all gleaming with pride at their recently (at the time) released algorithm that was supposedly the best ever, analyzing sources and organizing them in order of importance: the closer they were to the place where the actual event that created the news happened, the bigger the chances it ha... |
16 January 2008
10:40 GMT |
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I'm already tired of all the products coming out on the market in order to get a slice of the election cash pie. I wish that they would just have a meeting and come together one day and decide something like "a week from now, at 12 o'clock, we'll all release our election gadgets, pages and anything els... |
27 December 2007
04:43 GMT |
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All right, old chaps! Time to gather round ye old Internet and jot down the scores ye find there, be it that you will not miss one single run. Or, however they might have said it back in the days, I wasn't there to listen to it, so I'm just guessing.This is a 20 percent project, meaning that it has been wo... |
21 December 2007
03:12 GMT |
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The News from Google are quite interesting to follow. Not because of the information provided, which is top notch and I just had to mention it, but because of the constant updates that are being made by the dev team in order to optimize the algorithm, the search modality, the updating of the sources and so on and so... |
18 December 2007
03:31 GMT |
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It's not been a week since I talked about the all new all improved Google News Algorithm that was supposed to make the reading news experience a lot more closer and intense with the latest updates on all the stories that might have caught your fancy.I'm not sure why a story about "Grasshopper Chocolate Chun... |
13 December 2007
07:03 GMT |
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There are some news about Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, but the most important would be the one regarding online play: the game will only ship with offline racing! But don't get mad, it's probably just a measure against piracy (because it's hard to find other explanations). Actually, the online mode will be... |
11 December 2007
05:19 GMT |
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Surprising as it might sound, that's not true, at least not according to Google News. I might beg to differ, as I have learned that information is never enough to spare, even if it is on little trivial things, like the latest gossip about a TV star dating who he/she shouldn't. It greatly enhances your image... |
10 December 2007
06:01 GMT |
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There have been rumors about talks being had by News Corp and LinkedIn, concerning a possible takeover by the first of the latter. Basically, they turned out to be bogus, the only issues brought into conversation being future partnerships. (Yawns) Booooring! That's too bad, too, because, as Duncan Riley of TechC... |
4 December 2007
04:47 GMT |
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It's very good to know that some things work exactly as they should and are not corrupted or surpassed by the technological evolution we have going on at the moment. It's a sight for sore eyes and when a simple Captcha manages to fool the great Google, it sort of fills my heart with joy. Not because I have ... |
27 November 2007
13:51 GMT |
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Why bother coming up with something new and attractive when you could as well take it from your rival? This is what MySpace seems to be hinting at. Facebook's "news feeds" about those people important to a user are the main issue at hand.Peter Levinsohn, President of News Corporation's Fox Interactive Media... |
27 November 2007
09:46 GMT |
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I don't pay attention to links on the sides, I don't really care about anything else except for what truly interests me, the rest might as well not exist. I guess it goes without saying that I'm not much into clicking on ads or choosing fancy skins for winamp. I like it Spartan, no extra words and no e... |
26 November 2007
03:02 GMT |
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News is very sought after because news mean information and information is 'gold' nowadays. Everything might come in useful, if not state affairs you might get ganked over, at the very least the small social gossip you would do well to know in order to understand what your friends/ female colleagues are tal... |
23 November 2007
02:49 GMT |
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The Mountain View based company has had it with inexperienced users that don't know their way around the many and vast opportunities presented to them. It started hinting at creating accounts and signing in and cooing over the many advantages presented to the user. The example presented by Google was that of the... |
16 November 2007
03:40 GMT |
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Launched a few months ago, MySpace News was described as a potential rival for Google News, the service owned by the search company which is currently one of the top players on the news market. Yesterday, the rivalry between MySpace and Google got enhanced by an announcement of the social networking service that plan... |
6 November 2007
15:06 GMT |
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In case you're one of the iGoogle fans out there, I'm sure you strive to set up your Personalized Homepage in order to get more information in no time. That's why I recommend you to install the recently released Google News gadgets which is supposed to bring you the articles you want straight on iGoogl... |
30 October 2007
05:54 GMT |
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Following last week's release of Google Maps Profiles, the Mountain View company gets more social by designing Facebook applications which are meant to integrate the giant's technology into users' profiles. Today's utility is intuitively named 'Google News Application for Facebook', all... |
22 October 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Although there is nothing confirmed yet, it seems like Google News was down in several countries. Actually, it doesn't work at all because it shows an empty page to all the visitors of the website. According to Google Blogoscoped, the problems started on Sunday when some users reported difficulties encountered w... |
22 October 2007
10:19 GMT |
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Peter Bale who is the executive producer of MSN UK and former online editorial director of The Times and the Sunday Times, talked about the recent changes made in the Google policies which are now promoting the original content published by some agencies and avoid driving traffic to websites offering similar articles... |
3 October 2007
08:32 GMT |
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In case you've ever wanted to monitor a certain story, a blog or to find out the latest news concerning your favorite celebrity as it happens, Google Alerts is the perfect solution for you. This new beta service was especially designed for those looking for a simple product which would be able to keep them up to... |
26 September 2007
14:31 GMT |
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Google News is one of the largest news services on the web, receiving articles from approximately 4.500 sources from all around the world. Obviously, because Google News is accessible for free, you would expect to see only free material available at one-click distance. But in case you didn't know, Google News al... |
21 September 2007
15:06 GMT |
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Google News is one of the best news sources on the Internet but somehow, you need a little bit more than such a service. In order to read the information right when you need it, you have to find a better way to receive the articles published on Google News instead of visiting the official page of the product. Obvious... |
17 September 2007
02:32 GMT |
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The Sunnyvale company just bought BuzzTracker, a news technology which receives the information from numerous web sources and publishes it on a single page. Although it was not yet confirmed, it seems like Yahoo paid no less than $5 million for the service that could increase the super giant's presence into the ... |
14 September 2007
09:09 GMT |
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The news technology powered by Google receives a new and long-awaited feature that will surely bring more readers: duplicate detection. The new function of Google News is meant to reduce the amount of duplicate articles, giving the possibility to find only the original authors of the stories such as the top Internet ... |
3 September 2007
04:34 GMT |
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Well, it happened again and I bet I'm not the only one who saw this error: "Your search - google - did not match any documents. Suggestions: Make sure all words are spelled correctly; Try different keywords; Try more general keywords; Try Google Blog Search; Also, you can browse today's headlines on the Goo... |
27 August 2007
11:05 GMT |
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Following the recent improvements bundled into Google News, the Mountain View company tries another one and implements videos, allowing the users to watch the news instead of reading them. What's more interesting is that the search giant already has agreements with numerous news providers such as BBC, which crea... |
22 August 2007
03:46 GMT |
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Google News is a very attractive service from the point of view of a user hungry for information, because the search giant's technology gathers news from approximately 4.500 sources and publishes them on a single page. Because of that, Google News was often criticized by the Internet companies, many of them cons... |
20 August 2007
02:41 GMT |
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Sometimes, it's very important to find out what other people are saying about a certain website to decide if it's worth it before you visit it. Google has the same opinion and decided to introduce comments for Google News, its famous solution that displays thousands of headlines on a single page. However, t... |
9 August 2007
02:58 GMT |
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Every once in a while, the Mountain View company encourages users to check the Google Groups discussions in order to find answers for many of their questions instead of contacting Google. The recently released Google News Discussion Group is just an example of how a forum can help the consumers because it stores almo... |
27 July 2007
16:06 GMT |
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Google News, the news service provided by the Mountain View company recently showed some weird headlines that made us think it's not the product that deserves to be so popular. The folks from numerous publications on the Internet, including TechCrunch, reported that the main page of Google News showed a headline... |
23 July 2007
05:50 GMT |
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Google News is an interesting service powered by the Mountain View company that receives headlines from approximately 4500 sources and publishes them on a single webpage. As usual, the search giant Google considers the users of its services to be very important, but the other side that brings information to the produ... |
19 July 2007
03:03 GMT |
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The news service powered by the Mountain View company received some new goodies that surely make the product more attractive for the people from all around the world. For example, Google debuted a few weeks ago two new versions of Google News, allowing the users to view only a text flavor of the product or another ed... |
9 July 2007
02:50 GMT |
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Of course, it doesn't like the judge, you'll say, who does it? But even if the company wants to avoid going to the court, it was forced to do so because the Mountain View giant was sued by numerous firms for all sorts of reasons. Some time ago, it was sued by Copiepresse, one of the largest Belgian publishe... |
3 July 2007
08:27 GMT |
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A new version of the well-known news service Google News is now available to some of the users but there is no official announcement yet. The new version is entirely based on images and shows a thumbnail of a headline while an introductory text is displayed in the right part of the screen. Once you move your mouse cu... |
26 June 2007
08:40 GMT |
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Google likes to stay in touch with its customers and this is explained especially by the impressive amount of blogs that are meant to communicate with the fans of the company. This week was quite a busy one because the search giant rolled out several new blogs for the solutions that didn't have one. It all start... |
22 June 2007
15:06 GMT |
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The long-awaited Firefox 3.0 might include the Google security tools to discover dangerous websites just after the user enters its URL. Basically, this can be done with ease because the Mountain View company has an agreement with StopBadware that allows the search engine to flag the malicious pages and display two no... |
6 June 2007
14:06 GMT |
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The latest news is now available on YouTube through the videos provided by BBC World, a recent partner of the online video sharing service. According to Broadband TV News, BBC uploads approximately 30 clips per day, but the YouTube channel is not available to UK residents. The partnership was signed some time ago whe... |
30 May 2007
15:31 GMT |
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Nathan Stoll, a Google product manager working for Google News gave an interview for Computerworld, offering some hot information about the company's plans concerning the news service. Among a lot of innovative features, it seems that the Mountain View firm intends to insert video content into the headlines, off... |
25 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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Google News might be defeated by other services using its own weapons, as it seems that the search giant prepares several deals with the publications indexed on the service. This means that the Mountain View company might be forced to pay for the content published on the page although it managed to bring a lot of tra... |
21 May 2007
08:45 GMT |
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Google News, the news solution owned by the search giant, gets a fresh update that helps the users sort the headlines easier. The new function, codenamed "Sort by date with duplicates included", is especially meant to enable readers to find a certain category of headlines and view them without duplicates or similar s... |
7 May 2007
09:25 GMT |
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