Posts Tagged ‘ search engine ’

Microsoft Wins Round One In Battle With Google

April 26, 2013

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) isn’t the only tech company Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) wants to fight. In a recent court room litigation with Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), the search engine giant lost the first round. In the patent dispute case that went against Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG), the judge apparently agreed with Microsoft. The primary issue for this case was how much Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) owed Google for usage of their Motorola Unit. These units were used for licensing video...
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Google Could Predict Stock Market Trends [STUDY]

By Marie Cabural

April 25, 2013

Google searches could predict whether the stock market is headed towards a bear or bull season, according to a new academic study published by Scientific Reports. Based on the study entitled, “Quantifying Trading Behavior in Financial Markets Using Google Trends,” which was written by Tobias Preis, Helen Susannah Moat and H. Eugene Stanley, an increase in volume of search clicks for financial terms in the Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) search engine will follow a drop...
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Yahoo! Updates iPhone App With Built-In Summly Summaries

By Anna Peel

April 22, 2013

On Monday, Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) unveiled a brand new mobile application for the iPhone complete with built-in Summly Summaries. The search engine giant originally purchased Summly for about $30 million in March and now it’s quickly gaining momentum. Just last week, there was a summarized version of Summly’s Q1 2013 earnings. Today, there was a flagship Yahoo/Summly application that features the Summly summaries. This particular acquisition has attracted much attention thanks to several factors. One of...
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Google Inc (GOOG) And The EU Deal

By Marie Cabural

April 18, 2013

Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) finally reached a deal to resolve the competition issues filed against it with the European Union regulators. It took two years for the search engine giant to settle the complaints of its competitors that it is abusing its dominant position in search and online advertising market. Last week, Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) submitted a package of concessions to the European Commission to resolve the antitrust investigation. The commission said the search engine...
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Google Inc (GOOG) PC Search Queries Up 9% In January

By Marie Cabural

February 13, 2013

Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG)’s PC search in the United States improved month over month from 3.6 percent to 11 percent and quarter over quarter from 2.3 percent to 10.8 percent, and from -2.1 to 10.8 percent, year-over-year, based on data released by digital research firm, comScore. The current search query data for the search engine giant is the first positive result since August, last year. The search query data for January does not include mobile...
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Kim Dotcom’s Mega Powers A 3rd Party Search Engine

By Sidra Mansoor

January 31, 2013

Kim Dotcom’s Mega, the cloud storage service launched two weeks ago, could be facing its first big hurdle in relation to a recent “collaborative” search engine Mega-Search.me by some intrepid developers that allowed Mega’s 1 million users to share files they’ve uploaded to their own personal cloud lockers. Mega-Search.me is a crowdsourced service that allows anyone to add links to their own files on Mega. Although, the new search engine cannot index the files Mega’s...
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Control How You Appear On The Web With Google’s ‘Me on the Web’

By Saqib Khan

December 17, 2012

Search engines have become the number one source to know about a place, thing, person or any other entity that comes to mind. These days of social networking, blogging and many other online web portals, it is very much essential to control how our information appears online. You must be comfortable with the information that appears on the web, and if you’re not, then you should take immediate steps to remove the content from...
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Google Loses Its Place In The Ranking For Search And Maps In China

By Marie Cabural

November 6, 2012

Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) search and maps services ranking in China dropped to fourth and sixth place in China respectively due to the emergence of new players in the market. According to the search engine data released by CNZZ for the month of October, Google page views for the month declined from 5.1 percent to 4.72 percent due to the entry of Qihoo 360 search engine, which captured 9.64 percent market share. Zhou Yongyi, chief executive...
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Yandex Third Quarter Revenues Jump 41% Y-o-Y, To Hit $235.2 Million

By Vikas Shukla

October 30, 2012

Yandex NV (NASDAQ:YNDX), sometimes referred to as the ‘Google of Russia,’ released its third quarter financial results today. The company reported a 41 percent increase in the third quarter revenues to RUR 7.3 billion ($235.2 million). Operating income is $82.3 million, up 43 percent from the same quarter last year. Net profits for the quarter stood at RUR 2.3 billion ($74.2 million). Though it’s been a huge growth for the company, the results show some shrinking from the...
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Lawmaker Warns FTC Not To Sue Google In Anti-trust Suit

By Marie Cabural

October 16, 2012

Colorado Representative Jared Polis sent a letter to FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz, regarding reports of possible antitrust lawsuit to be filed by the Commission on Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG), related to the search engine giant’s business practices. Rep. Polis warned that an antitrust lawsuit against Google would be a “woefully misguided step that would threaten the very integrity of our antitrust system.” According to him, it might lead to a Congressional action that would result...
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