Microsoft, Google and Yahoo were issued notices by India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday, following a complaint that they were promoting techniques and products for the selection of an unborn child’s sex through advertising and links on their search engines.
There is a deliberate attempt by these companies to target Indian users with advertisements that claim to [...]
YouTube in not a profitable venture, Google said in a recent disclosure. Ad sales revenue from the popular video sharing site has not had “any material effect” on the revenue of the company, it said in its 10-Q SEC filing.
Even though the website, which Google brought for a whopping USD1.65 bn in 2006, gets record [...]
Rest easy, Google … The much-hyped new search engine Cuil (pronounced “cool”), purports to index more Web pages than any of its rivals. But based on its Monday debut, the new site poses little immediate threat to industry leader Google, or even its nearest competitors, Yahoo and Microsoft, in either relevance or breadth of results [...]
Though a distant third place to Google, Microsoft thinks it can teach its rival a thing or two about searching the Internet.
A big part of Google’s rise to search engine leadership was an algorithm called PageRank that assesses a specific page’s importance by how many other Web pages link to it and by the [...]
Google and Microsoft will spar today at a congressional hearing called to examine whether Google’s revenue-sharing deal with No 2 search rival Yahoo will harm competition. Google, with more than 60 per cent of the Web search market, and Yahoo, with 16.6 per cent, announced a deal on June 12 that would [...]
