On Thursday, Google rolled out the new Google Charts API, which makes putting stunning, dynamic charts into your web pages easier than you’d think. And don’t let the term “API” scare you off with this one. The new Google Charts API is perhaps one of the simplest Google APIs to learn to date, [...]
Founded by two engineering students at the beginning of this millennium, PicSearch is a multi-language, image search engine that rivals Google’s and Yahoo’s image search service, with a database of more than 1.7 billion images. The engine also indexes video and audio files.As always, the firm uses patented technology for measuring relevancy and “family-friendliness” of [...]
Earlier this week, Google launched the Google Mac Developer Playground, a place where Google Engineers can showcase their Mac-oriented projects. In addition to their regular duties at the Googleplex, many Googlers get something called 20% time where they are allowed to work on projects of interest to them. Many spend their time working on [...]
How do you deal with links that have tracking parameters in the URL for referrer measurement for analytical reasons or in case of a partner program where the referring site gets some form of compensation for referred traffic and/or customers?The webmasters fear was regarding the duplicate URLs that are generated for the same page and [...]
Google search engine rankings seem to be undertaking an update or change over the past week as some sites and publishers are noticing a trend in rankings skyrocketing. On the other hand, some publishers are experiencing dramatic drops.Personally, I have witnessed some sites gain rather high Google rankings which have been the target of major [...]
Google is hoping to attract more advertising partners beyond just their proposed purchase of DoubleClick Ltd., and makes the prediction that a move to a single system for selling ads across all types of media could take up to five years. Google started out with just text-based advertising as a part of their AdWords [...]
Yahoo, RIM and JetBlue have partnered to offer free Wi-Fi connections aboard domestic US flights in a test which will begin Tuesday. The initial tests will offer limited Wi-Fi for email and instant messaging in a plane dubbed BetaBlue and if the tests are a success, JetBlue expects to offer the service nationwide.The tests however [...]
A “significant” vulnerability has been found in the page-caching technologies of the three major search engines - Google, Yahoo, & Microsoft Live Search. Researchers at Aladdin Knowledge Systems discovered the flaw, which allows the search engines to deliver malicious pages that have already been removed from the web. The discovery was made when [...]
Baidu, the leading search engine in China, has signed a deal with the affiliate of Mozilla in China to embed all the search engine’s functions in the Firefox browser for a fee. Until now Baidu’s seach engine had been integrated on a limited basis. It’s not clear, at least to me, how “users of the [...]
TomTom, the Dutch navigation systems company, announced Wednesday that they were teaming up with Google in an effort that will allow users to find and send business addresses to the portable devices. According to TomTom, users would be able to search for business addresses on Google Maps, and then transfer them to their TomTom [...]
