Google is introducing changes to the Quality Score metric used to determine the position of AdWords ads. The new system will calculate Quality Score live, at the time of the search query, replace minimum bid requirements with ‘first page bids’ and will no longer mark keywords as ‘inactive for search’.
More Accuracy to Quality Score: So […]

U2’s first studio album in over 4 years is rumoured to be scheduled for release on November 18, 2008. However, some tracks from the album have already been leaked over the Internet.
The lead singer, Bono, was playing some new songs from U2’s forthcoming album, which fans speculate might be named “No Line On The Horizon”, […]

The current U.S. Presidential hopefuls are certainly moving with the times, and in the process they are changing the way that election campaigns have been held over the years.
Barack Obama and John McCain are now making good use of the wide reach of the Web 2.0 sites and also search and social networking sites […]

There is some good news, for those who cannot decide between watching their favorite TV program and using the Internet. Connected TV, from Yahoo! enables users to access the Web on their television sets, on part of the screen, while also continuing to watch their favorite TV show.
There will be a range of widgets at […]

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 […]

Tibetans all over the world, have been protesting, the Chinese policies and demanding autonomy for themselves. As part of these protests, a candle light vigil was held in Manhattan last Thursday night, near the Chinese Consulate during which images of Chinese atrocities were projected. Amongst these images, was the famous Olympic logo, was also […]

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 […]

A survey of social networks conducted recently by comScore has shown that Facebook is now the largest social network in the world, after having overtaken rival network MySpace.
Facebook also continues to hold the honour of being the fastest growing social network in the world. As of June this year, they had 132 million unique […]

Twitter has just announced that they will no longer send SMS updates across the UK. Users in the UK need not panic, however, as they will be able to continue to receive updates from Twitter, on their mobile phones through other means.
The reason for this change is purely financial.
When Twitter receives a message from a […]

After the success of Google Trends, the search giant has now launched a new tool, called ‘Google Insights For Search‘. This tool is similar to Trends, but shows rising searches in relation to other terms, geographic location and time periods.
Insights For Search adds to the bunch of new tools and features that Google has released […]