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'Microsoft and Google battle it out to be UK number 1'

Microsoft and Google are the two of the most popular websites in Britain, a new survey has revealed.Figures released by comScore Networks show that during November Microsoft sites were visit

'Google to make Chinese investment'

Xunlei, a Chinese website that allows users to share video footage, is set to receive investment from Google, according to its head of the operations in Shanghai.

Google looks to the stars

Google has announced details of a partnership with America's National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that will see the search engine giant provide imagery and information from the spac

Google 'top of the searchers'

Google is the most popular search engine in the United States, according to new research.Figures released by Nielsen//NetRatings claim that around three billion internet searches were carrie

Social sites prove most Google searched

Google has revealed that the names most commonly typed into its search engine were those of social networking sites Bobo and MyS

Google launches new search service

Google has launched a service that will allow users to search over seven million patents granted in the US.

Yahoo! and IBM team-up for free search service

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'Yahoo! searches for partners to answer new service'

Yahoo! is looking for major British brands to become partners in its newly launched Answers service, according to a media report.

Google launches 'click-to-call' service in India

Google has announced the launch of a new advertising service in India.'Click-to-call', in conjunction with search engine's advertising programme AdWords, will allow users to speak over the t

Yahoo! puts Project Panama in motion

Yahoo! has announced its Project Panama is set to be fully operational from next March, three months behind schedule.

Google takes to the Sky

Google has announced details of a partnership that will see the search engine develop British Sky Broadcasting's (Sky) broadband service.Under the deal, Google will provide the satellite bro

Yahoo! to undergo company restructure

Yahoo! has announced it is to simplify its business as it attempts to catch up on market leader Google.

Google retires Answers service

Google has announced the closure of its Answers function.Previously the search engine giant allowed users to ask a team of researchers a question on any topic they wished for a 50 cent (25 p

'Online videos taking up TV viewing time'

The rising popularity of online videos is starting to infringe on television viewing time, a new study reports.Figures released by ICM, in conjunction with the BBC, claim that 43 per cent of

Google's map service shows out-of-date UK cities

Google Earth, Google's global mapping service, has recent images of London, despite pictures of other British cities being up to five years out of date.Although Google Earth shows pictures o

Google launches free mobile service

Google is preparing to launch a free ¬e-mail service for mobile phone users in Britain.The news follows the search engine's announcement that it is to roll out a similar scheme in Ameri

'Long-term registration can improve search rankings'

Registering a domain name for a long period of time may help websites improve search engine rankings, a new study claims.

Google still most popular US search engine

Google is still America's number one search engine, a new study has revealed.

Online ads benefit from "truly global medium"

The majority of traffic generated by the top 25 US web properties comes from outside the country, according to a new study demonstrating how global the internet has become.In 1996, Americans

Yahoo! teams up with Vodafone

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Google diagnosis 'more accurate than doctors'

When it comes to diagnosing an uncommon medical condition, the world's biggest search engine could be more reliable than your doctor's own knowledge, according to new research carried out in Australia

Video ads online 'to be worth $410m this year'

In the wake of search engine giant Google's purchase of the video-sharing site YouTube, a new growth estimate suggests that online video advertising will be worth over $410 million by the end of 20

Google bids to make YouTube legit

Google is approaching a number of major companies in the entertainment industry as it looks to tackle a number of copyright issues associated with its newly-acquired online video-sharing site YouTube.

Google set to beat Channel 4 for ad revenues

Channel 4's chief executive has predicted that search engine giant Google will soon outstrip the broadcaster in terms of UK advertising revenues.Andy Duncan suggested in an interview with th

Google gets upset at misuse of its name

Google bosses have reacted angrily to what it sees as misuse of its company brand as the word "google" becomes more commonly used to refer to any search engine activity. An indignant post on

Google news gets blog search

A year after initiating a service which enables internet users to search for blog sites, Google has added the function to Google News.The overall market size of the so-called "blogosphere" i

AdWords testing tool launched by Google

A new tool which enables users to test their online landing pages has been launched by search engine giant Google.Initially available only to a limited number of advertisers, the Google Webs

Google online ad share to top 25%

The world's leading search engine Google will account for over a quarter of all web advertising revenues in the US before the end of 2006, according to the predictions of the online marketing research

Google set to open new R&D centre in St Petersburg

A new research and development (R&D) centre is to by opened by Google in the Russian city of St Petersburg, Moscow Google has announced.Some of the very best engineers in the world are r

Google eyes YouTube deal

Search engine giant Google looks set to acquire video-sharing website YouTube in a £1.6 billion deal.Google is hoping to attract new audiences after its own video-sharing service Google
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