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Ask.com relaunching its search engine

When it comes to search engines, Google, Yahoo and Bing are the few ones which people limit their options to while conducting their searches. But these three are not the only search engines that exist. There are many search engines out there who are fighting for a place beside these three, like Ask.com. Recently Ask.com has announced that they will be providing question-and-answer services yet again and it will be of interest to the industry experts. Ask.com is retracting its original base to create their own identity as a search engine. If they are able to succeed in its relaunch, then it can have a big impact at the search engine market. To achieve this feat, Ask.com will have to create a loyal community through question-and-answer features that are directly plugged into the search engine. The main advantage of this search engine is higher engagement. They will have to build services that will be picked by browsers over the other three big search engine giants.

Google on Gaming to kill Facebook

Google has been on Facebook’s tail to take on the social media platform. However, they still have no luck. Now, they are planning on pushing for social gaming as a major part of their efforts. Google is said to be discussing with several major players to port or develop games over to their emerging platform. After a series of social networking ventures, Google has finally come up with Google Me, a new social networking site, which is posing a treat to Facebook’s dominance in the social networking work. Considering the track record of numerous trail and failures of their social media, Google cannot afford another failure or they must accept, social media is not their cup of tea. Google has taken to creating games to differentiate themselves. Facebook is also popular for their social games but it wasn’t built around them. Google has invested millions of dollar in social gaming powerhouse, Zynga but the confirmation is yet to come from either company.

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...

24-hour 'hacking' event hosted by Yahoo in India's tech hub

A non stop 24 hour hacking event was held by the global search engine Yahoo! on Saturday in Bangalore where 300 whiz kids used their web tools as well as services to develop new applications. In this 24 hour hacking event, there were about 300 developers across India who participated as well. This feat was a step taken by Yahoo to innovate new solutions for their global netizens. The “Open Hack Day” aims at nurturing the open innovative ecosystem and drive domain expertise in the Internet. It enables talented web developers to create more relevant and better social experiences on the network. Again, it leverages the open APIs and developer tools to develop new innovative applications. Though this concept of hacking the web portal is a different perception of gaining entry illegally, this is a lifetime opportunity to getting into Yahoo! Query Language. The YQL is used by the hackers and use their own table definition by enabling the language to bind to any of the data source via the SQL...

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 ...

New Version Of Google Chrome Due Soon

Google has always been after speed whether it’s for their search engine or browser. Now, they are speeding up another aspect of their browser. Their goal is to release a more stable version every six weeks, that will be twice as the existing speed is. Google is creating new features very quickly and they want their users to get them as soon as possible. Google will be able to have firmly set schedules for chrome from these fast iterations. Google is also putting their efforts to cut down the rapid iteration of versions that are coming: “Since we are going to continue to increment our major versions with every new release (i.e. 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0) those numbers will start to move a little faster than before. Please don’t read too much into the pace of version number changes – they just mean we are moving through release cycles and we are geared up to get fresher releases into your hands!” It’s a great thing to see how fast they will be will be iterating and if the version numbers didn’t...