After having successfully launched YouTube on mobile phones last January, the parent company, Google, has started testing display ads on certain selected pages on YouTube mobile, in the U.S.A. and Japan.
Google’s advertising partners will also be able to learn about user preferences, thus allowing advertisers to target audiences for various categories of products, as millions […]

The unhappy chain of events that have occurred in Georgia lately, due to which the country has been in the limelight, has no doubt triggered a lot of interest, among people all over the world, about that country and its neighbors. This sudden interest has induced users to look up Georgia on Google Maps.
Users have […]

The Microsoft Live Search Webmaster Center has been brought out of beta, last week, along with the release of a few new updates. Webmasters will now be able to better understand the crawling and indexing methods used by Live Search.
The updates to the Webmaster Center enable discovery of issues affecting a website including errors the […]

Google has launched a legal MP3 (music) search service in China under the URL www.google.cn/music.
The service, which is only available to users in China, will directly challenge the illegal MP3 Search offered by Baidu. Of course, Google’s links will all be legal, and the results will be provided by ‘Top100.cn’.
Users from outside China cannot access […]

DoubleClick has announced that they are now ready with the technology to serve video ads into Microsoft Silverlight 2 video environments. This move will help their clients to better monetise their advertising inventory, by delivering the content directly to online videos, and mobile channels.
Google, the parent company of DoubleClick, also announced that they have reached […]

Google has been adding new Street Views on their Google Earth and Google Maps sites. Last month, they added the entire Tour de France route, and now the feature is also available in parts of Australia and Japan. The latest location to have its street view added was Mountain View, California where one of the […]

In their continued efforts to improve the search experience for the users, Google recently added new features to their Web Search that will allow customers to realise how their search results are customised, thus making the process more transparent.
In the near future, more customers will start seeing a message on the upper right hand corner […]

Only a few days ago, Google was deep in discussions with Digg, regarding a possible acquisition of the site. It is believed that the term sheet stage had already been cleared. However, sometime last week, Google decided not to go ahead with the deal, and Digg was notified accordingly.
The two firms were in an advanced […]

Google launched project Knol last week. A Knol, according to Google, is a unit of knowledge. Knols are articles on any given subject, written by someone who is an expert on that subject. Google Knol is destined to be compared with and perhaps compete against Wikipedia.
Although the Web can be considered as an encyclopedia of […]

Google has been bucket testing a new interface on some randomly selected users. Recently a screen shot of the new interface along with a video showing the new search features was screened. This interface has a very Digg-like look and feel.
A video demonstrating this new search results page feature can be see on TechCrunch. A […]