Google ropes in Morgan Stanley CFO Ruth Porat
Google has roped in Morgan Stanley Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat to head the the finance operations of world's largest search engine company.
Mar 25, 2015, 17:45 PM IST
Google to rank websites based on facts not links
Google plans to rank websites on its search engine based on factual accuracy, a move that will prevent sites full of misinformation from appearing first in search results.
Mar 02, 2015, 14:01 PM IST
Baidu revenue falls short of estimates as customers go mobile
Mobile revenue represented 42 percent of total revenue, up from 36 percent in the third quarter, Baidu said.
Feb 12, 2015, 08:39 AM IST
'Google to start selling auto insurance in the US'
The search giant is planning soon to pilot its new Google Compare auto insurance comparison shopping site, wrote Forrester analyst Ellen Carney in a note.
Jan 09, 2015, 05:31 AM IST
Bad code update triggered Yahoo, Bing search crash: Source
Yahoo Inc and Microsoft Corp search engines temporarily went dark on Friday after Microsoft pushed out a bad code update and then struggled to roll it back, a person briefed on the outages told a news agency.
Jan 03, 2015, 04:14 AM IST
Microsoft's Bing has already predicted top winners of 2015
Microsoft's search engine Bing has predicted which people, products and trends will win in 2015.
Dec 18, 2014, 14:53 PM IST
China's Baidu invests in controversial taxi app Uber
Chinese search engine Baidu, the country's equivalent of Google, announced Wednesday it has bought a stake in Uber for an undisclosed sum, as the controversial US web-based taxi app seeks to expand into an already crowded market.
Dec 17, 2014, 19:33 PM IST
Forced to pay for content, Google News closes in Spain
US giant Google on Tuesday went ahead with a vow to shut down its popular online news service Google News in Spain in protest at a new law which would make it pay for content.
Dec 16, 2014, 17:25 PM IST
Yahoo starts prompting Internet Explorer, Opera users to switch to Firefox
The prompt appears on Internet Explorer, Opera and even the new Yandex browser, reported Tech Crunch.
Dec 14, 2014, 15:35 PM IST
Facebook dumps Microsoft Web search results
Facebook Inc has stopped including results from Microsoft Corp`s Bing search engine on its social networking site.
Dec 13, 2014, 08:46 AM IST
Google to close engineering office in Russia
The Journal said that the internet search engine company might retain some employees to assist in sales, business partnerships, user support, marketing and communications.
Dec 12, 2014, 08:24 AM IST
Modi, Mukesh Ambani most searched personalities in 2014: Yahoo
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and industrialist Mukesh Ambani feature amongst the most searched personalities online this year, according to search engine Yahoo.
Dec 08, 2014, 14:10 PM IST
Just Dial shares up nearly 4% on RBI move
Shares of search engine Just Dial Ltd surged nearly 4 per cent on Friday after the Reserve Bank allowed the company to raise the foreign shareholding limit to a maximum of 75 per cent of its paid-up capital under the portfolio investment scheme (PIS).
Nov 28, 2014, 11:30 AM IST
Yahoo to replace Google as default US Firefox search engine
Yahoo Inc said on Wednesday it struck a deal to be the default search engine on the Firefox web browser on desktop PCs and mobile devices in the United States, replacing market leader Google Inc.
Nov 20, 2014, 08:34 AM IST
Google says Amazon biggest search engine rival
Google boss Eric Schmidt said Monday his company`s biggest competition as a search engine came from e-commerce giant Amazon, not from its traditional rivals.
Oct 13, 2014, 22:56 PM IST
Google to reward secure websites with better search ranking
The company is urging website developers to adopt HTTPS, a form of website encryption that secures data send over the Web, to protect user data from hackers.
Aug 07, 2014, 18:26 PM IST
Google 'forgets' stories on BBC, UK newspaper sites
Google has restricted access to a BBC blog posting and several British newspaper stories under a legal ruling granting people a right to be "forgotten" in search engines.
Jul 03, 2014, 19:01 PM IST
Google offers unlimited storage for businesses
Google Drive allows users to store documents, photos, videos in one place and access documents to create, share and collaborate from anywhere online.
Jun 26, 2014, 20:21 PM IST
Google begins removing some results in Europe
Google is only deleting information that appears on its own results pages. It has no control over information on websites.
Jun 26, 2014, 18:36 PM IST
