Google reigns in spending

4 December 2008, 2:03 pm (0 comments)comments

Google has long been famous for giving its staff a huge number of perks, from free meals to free time spent on their own projects, but times are changing.

Many companies have had to reduce their non-crucial spending in the downturn and it appears Google is now following suit.

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Live Search to warn of malicious behaviour

3 December 2008, 2:03 pm (0 comments)comments

Microsoft has got its policeman hat on and decided to save the world from malicious websites.

The company announced on its Live Search blog that the Live crawler will now...
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Britney gets higher search engine rankings than Obama

1 December 2008, 1:52 pm (1 comments)comments

Oops she did it again - Britney Spears was the most searched for term on Yahoo! for the seventh year out of eight, getting higher search engine rankings than history man Barack Obama.

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Could all website traffic soon be seen through Chrome?

25 November 2008, 1:58 pm (0 comments)comments

Google could be preparing to increase its grip on website traffic by preinstalling its new Chrome browser on new PCs.

Microsoft's Internet Explorer has dominated this software plateau in recent...
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I quit, Yahoo!

18 November 2008, 1:55 pm (0 comments)comments

Jerry Yang, co-founder and chief executive of Yahoo, has announced that he's stepping down from his role at the company.

However, it's not the end for Mr Yang's involvement with the...
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YouTube making friends

12 November 2008, 12:59 pm (0 comments)comments

YouTube is moving away from being the bane of copyright owners' lives by forming agreements with them instead.

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Should Microsoft fear Firefox?

10 November 2008, 12:49 pm (0 comments)comments

Firefox, the web browser, is celebrating its fourth birthday, and it may be set to challenge the established old-timer: Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

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Copyrighting the digital world

7 November 2008, 1:56 pm (0 comments)comments

Google likes to share information with the world and has been digitising books and indexing them for some time, but the whole practice has thrown up a "copyright law conundrum".

That's the words of Seth Finkelstein, Read more …

Big three to agree to guidelines

28 October 2008, 1:27 pm (0 comments)comments

Google, Yahoo and Microsoft agree with guidelines on internet free speech which are due to be announced today (October 28th).

The Global Network Initiative guidelines will aim to limit requests from governments which do not sit with free speech and other principles, as well as requiring...
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