Google acquiring Teracent advertising company
Google has announced another acquisition in the advertising market.
The search engine giant is now acquiring Teracent which specializes in intelligent display advertising.
This company develop solutions to provide customized advertising to individuals.
Google spoke about Teracent in a blog post:
“Teracent’s technology can pick and choose from literally thousands [...]
Google has a special message on image search page for Michelle Obama
Google has find itself in a fix related to some search queries on their search engine.
Sometimes a website or an image would rank so high for certain queries that it becomes an embarrassment for them.
One such example currently is the image [...]
Apple helps AT&T with ads targeting Verizon Droid
Verizon had a very successful advertising campaign promoting their Droid smartphone which practically mocked AT&T.
AT&T responded with some ads which were and are being mocked online for their subtle inaccuracies.
Now, Apple has released their own ads that highlights the features of iPhone but also mentions [...]
China Mobile announces Dell Mini 3i smartphone
It is already a well known fact but China Mobile has now officially announced that they are going to sell Dell Mini 3i smartphone in the domestic market.
Dell Mini 3i is based on the ophone platform which itself is based on Google Android.
It would be available [...]
Google breaking URL info into category blocks on SERPS!
This is the first time we noticed this new ‘feature’ on the Google search engine result pages.
If a result website has categories, Google sometimes breaks the URL info into category blocks.
Here is an example:
The link is displayed as:
news.zdnet.co.uk › News › Hardware
This is happening with news websites and [...]
Google to shut down GrandCentral as Google Voice replaced it
Google has already launched their Google Voice service which replaced GrandCentral.
GrandCentral was acquired by Google and it became the platform for Google Voice.
The company has now revealed that they would close down the original service at the end of this year.
Users are [...]
Google testing a new updated user interface for search result page!
Source: TechCrunch
TechCrunch has posted this screenshot of a new user interface edition from Google Search.
It features fixed sidebar featuring the search options.
It is also much more colorful compared to current result pages from Google.
It remains to be seen if this is [...]
Google Chrome OS based products would arrive late next year
Google has stated that they are aiming to launch devices based on Google Chrome OS sometime late next year.
This means you would be able to buy one for yourself next holiday season.
The company displayed an early prototype of the system and it looks [...]
YouTube getting automatic captioning capabilities
Google has announced that they are adding automatic captioning capabilities to YouTube.
It would use speech recognition technologies.
Users would also be able to provide text content in raw form and YouTube would try to match the content to the video automatically.
Google said that since this technology is [...]
Yahoo all set to index Twitter to show up to date information
Yahoo has become the latest search engine company to take help from Twitter to stay up to date.
The company has announced that they would start indexing data from Twitter and show it along with search results in the coming days.
Microsoft and [...]
