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Google Chrome OS’ Debut Most Likely to Happen Next Year

Chrome OS, the most anticipated new operating system from Google may not get launched until next year. Although the consumer launch is most likely to happen next year, Google yet has to bring out their branded ‘Speedbooks’ running the new system. Google has been planning for this launch for two years making it quite uncomfortable for both Apple and Microsoft. The Chrome OS was positioned initially to capitalize on the network revolution. However, it seems to be overtaken by events. Apple on the other hand hasn’t been manufacturing enough since the time they launched iPad and they see these devices as a future frontier for media consumption. Now, why is Google aiming for two mobile operating systems? It has emerged that Google has joined hands with the US telecom leader Verizon as an effort to launch their own iPad killer device which will be based on the Android operating system. Still, we are confused as to why would Google want to have two ultra portable operating systems for tablets...

What Facebook and Microsoft Could Learn From Google

Although Google shares a ‘love or hate’ relationship with Facebook and Microsoft, it is important however, for the latter two to learn something from the legend. Google is credited to have 66% of all searches, a slight increase from the past few months. While on the other hand, Facebook and Bing are combining their force to improve the search engine results. Facebook and Bing may try different means to throw down Google but they seem to make the same mistakes over and over again. Google may be a search giant but it is definitely not a search company. One of the strongest strategies that Google took in the last quarter lies in its advertising. That helped them gain a 23% hike in the growth. They have done a great job to match the ads that someone might click on to the person searching and they do it on a straight content. Facebook has been driving a huge amount of traffic but as compared to Google their revenue is pretty small while Bing is way behind both. Google actually is an adverti...

Google Vs Facebook? The Battle Is On

Google and Facebook are both battling for future dominance on the web. With Microsoft and Facebook’s partnership, Google has received the biggest threat since their inception. Facebook and Microsoft announced that they are teaming up to make Internet search more social. Now, if you search for something on Bing, you can also see whether your friends liked it or not. This way, it will be easier for any searcher to get opinions from friends before purchasing or making any decision. This is an interesting innovation for search and it is quite obvious that Facebook had to turn to Microsoft for this deal and not the search giant Google. Just imagine, if they did, Microsoft and Yahoo would have to wait for centuries to dominate the search market. Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, however said that they had a specific reason for why they had to choose Bing. According to him, Bing has serious potential and are the real underdogs. Microsoft has always been all about innovating. They have got some o...

Yahoo Search Engine Gaining Market Share

The war between Google, Yahoo and Bing has become increasingly interesting with the passing of the days. Yahoo! Inc.’s search engine has gained U.S. market share according to a survey done last month and Google Inc. has lost ground. Yahoo currently ranking second had 17.1% of searches, a good raise from 16.7% in June. While Google fell to 65.8% from 66.2% while Bing’s share remained unchanged. Yahoo and Microsoft are teaming up under a 10 year agreement to expand their search based advertising revenue and to take on Google. As per the deal, Yahoo plans to use the search technology of Bing on its sites. The results shown in July has a new category called the “explicit core search”, which tracks the users who retrieve search results. Bing and Yahoo have gained share in recent months from clicks on contextual searches. The US search ad market is estimated to grow to 16% this year, while the overall online advertising market may expand to 11%. Yahoo will start the procedure of transitionin...

Yahoo Japan switching to Google's search engine

The largest Internet portal in Japan, Yahoo Japan will be switching to Google’s search engine while refusing to follow Yahoo Inc. in selecting Microsoft as their partner. Yahoo Japan, who uses the Yahoo Inc’s search technology together with Google will control all the search market. The deal was taken after Yahoo Inc who owns 1/3 of Yahoo Japan integrated its search technology with Microsoft. This deal hopes to strengthen the number one position in the domestic market. They will also adopt the search linked ad delivery system as well as feed its data to Google sites. This deal has been remarked by Microsoft as a deal that would hand over the whole search market to Google only. The whole point of competition would be underrated. It may give Google virtually 100% of all the searches both paid and unpaid in Japan. Meaning there won’t be any search competition in Japan and all the personal search information for all consumers and businesses there will be controlled by Google. However, some...

1 Billion Page viewers visit Google Images per day

Google announced that their Google images receive 1 billion page views each day. The number was revealed by Google while they were announcing a major change of its image search. Speaking of the number, it is by far the largest image search engine till date. The image search engine has been growing for the last nine years since its inception. This amazing growth shows how the web has improved overall with all kinds of media. Google had updated its image search technology to remain ahead in the search battle. This new technology has the ability to view up to 1000 images per page. They are also planning to improve the density of the image search result page. All is set to launch a feature that allows user to get a bigger preview of an image by hovering the mouse over an image. You can also see new advertiser friendly features that were introduced through a blog post. They are launching a new ad format known as the Image Search Ads. This ad will appear only on Google Images and your lines ...

Bing Search Engine Service for Android Powered Clients

Microsoft, in the course of a few weeks, will be spreading their search engine service for the Android powered clients. With Google along by their side, the Android clients don’t seem to need it. The basic Bing clients were offered by Microsoft to Android community, however the main purpose is to map tasks. The old Bing experience will be totally revived by the new Bing client by bringing Desktop Bing site’s full features to the Android users. The Sr. Vice President of Microsoft Online Services Division, Satya Nadella said that Microsoft is getting a good amount of Android users who are quite happy to use Bing as their search engine. The Bing search engine was launched in June last year and it has become a big part in increasing the company’s share in the search market. Microsoft is playing a low key game to avoid bad figures. The company’s site accounted for 13% of the overall searches according to last month’s stats. They are gradually making changes in their search engine to attract...