Search Engine

A new Web browser threatens to give Internet Explorer competition. Google expands their Internet services with the new Google Chrome Web browser released in its beta version last week to Microsoft XP and Vista users. So far, it's making a positive start.

Google updated Google Trends in June and they seem to be pretty happy with the numbers and with their new ability to download results to a spreadsheet. According to a report from the search engine giant, they’ve received a lot of feedback from agencies and advertisers on how they're using the new version of Google Trends and their new search tool - Google Insights.

It went viral in the blogging world within hours of its launch Monday. But will Cuil - a new search engine created by former top Google engineers – really be the “killer ap” that the alpha geeks are claiming? If Cuil (pronounced ‘cool’) can develop an ad platform to rival Google’s, it may just be David to Google’s giant.

Any good salesman knows the word “No” is the first step in negotiating a better deal. Microsoft knows it. Microsoft had offered to buy its rival's search business but was turned down by Yahoo last month.

Google has yet another new tool - one that will make it easier for marketers to pick the best Web sites for their online ads. But will it prove competitive enough?

After three years in development Firefox(R) 3, a major update to Mozilla’s free, open source Web browser has just been released.

Long live King Google. According to Hitwise, Google continues to be the most popular search engine in the UK. Google accounted for 87.3% of searches in the UK in May. Stock results have confirmed the popularity as well.

Google is preparing to enter the world of social networking and meet Facebook head on. In May 2007, Facebook opened up it's site to third party developers resulting in a huge number of applications being introduced to the platform. With Facebook claiming around 50 million active users of it's social networking service, Google hopes to join forces with a number of partners and predicts a base of 100 million users.

Yahoo! search has hired several of the team making up IBM's 'Clever' project from 1999/2000.