Categorised as: Search Engines & News
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Google introduces missing children alerts in US, plans to expand to Canada, Europe News
01.11.2012 Google is rolling out AMBER Alerts in search results and on Google Maps to highlight areas where children have been abducted to assist US authorities in finding missing children.Categories: Search Engines, Search -
Happy Halloween! features in interactive Google Doodle News
31.10.2012 Internet search giant Google is wishing users a happy Halloween through an interactive Google Doodle on its homepage today, complete with spooky sound effects. -
Google hikes the Grand Canyon for Google Maps News
25.10.2012 Internet search giant Google is going where no vehicle has gone before to capture the majesty of the Grand Canyon in the state of Arizona in the US by using backpack-mounted... -
Interview: Yandex CTO Ilya Segalovich on how the Russian search engine is making its way west (video) News
18.10.2012 We spoke to Ilya Segalovich, CTO of Russian search engine Yandex, about the company’s plans to defeat competition from Google on its own doorstep and making its way to the rest... -
Google earnings blunder costs it dearly – share trading suspended News
19.10.2012 The accidental leakage of Google’s third-quarter results which revealed GAAP operating income fell sharply in the quarter has resulted in shares in the company falling 13pc in...Categories: Search Engines, Search, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investments, Internet, Financial Results, Financial, Digital Marketing -
Netflix innovator - contextual algorithms will be key to future media search News
15.10.2012 Search professionals in internet firms from Netflix to Facebook and LinkedIn are focusing on a new generation of contextual algorithms that better match users with the content... -
107th anniversary of Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland receives Google Doodle treatment News
15.10.2012 Internet search giant Google has recreated the adventures of Little Nemo in Slumberland from cartoonist and animator Winsor McCay in an animated Google Doodle. -
Google Maps makes its biggest update yet - spanning 17 countries and 402,336 kilometres News
11.10.2012 Google Maps has completed its biggest ever Street View yet, doubling the number of special collections and updating more than 402,336 kilometres (250,000 miles) of roads around... -
Google’s image search equates Mitt Romney with ‘completely wrong’ News
11.10.2012 If you search the term ‘completely wrong’ on Google Images, you’ll turn up a page of pictures of US presidential candidate Mitt Romney – and it’s not even a Google bomb.Categories: Search Engines, Search -
Go go Google smart watch! Internet giant plans web-connected timepiece News
04.10.2012 You have to wonder is there anything that Google isn’t trying to re-invent? From phones and glasses to driverless cars, the latest challenge, it seems, is to re-invent the...Categories: Wireless Communications, Software, Search Engines, Research, R&D, Intellectual Property, Hardware, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
Daft.ie in exclusive deal with Samsung to launch property app on smart TVs News
04.10.2012 Property website Daft.ie has partnered with Samsung to provide the property app exclusively on the Samsung Smart Hub, enabling users to search for property to rent or buy on...Categories: Wireless Communications, Search Engines, Search, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Apps -
YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim to take the stage at Dublin Web Summit News
02.10.2012 Web extravaganza Dublin Web Summit is to include YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim in its line-up on 17 October.Categories: Search Engines, Search, Investments, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Funding, Digital Media, Digital Business, Consumer Tech -
Google opens new €75m air-cooled data centre in Dublin News
28.09.2012 A year after announcing its plans to construct a €75m data centre in west Dublin, Google has this morning opened the new centre at Profile Park in Clondalkin. -
EU to charge Microsoft over web browser ruling breach News
27.09.2012 The European Commission is planning to charge Microsoft for failing to offer some Windows 7 users a choice of web browser following a 2009 ruling. -
Google celebrates 14th birthday with animated chocolate cake doodle News
27.09.2012 Tech giant Google has served itself up a virtual chocolate treat today to celebrate its 14th birthday, as an animated cake doodle is emblazoned across its homepage. -
Google Maps goes to new depths with underwater panoramic images (video) News
26.09.2012 Google Maps has introduced its first underwater Street View collection, letting users get up close to six living coral reefs in Australia, Hawaii and the Philippines without...Categories: Search Engines, Search -
Tech start-up of the week: SeenBefore.com News
23.09.2012 Our tech start-up of the week is SeenBefore.com, a new search engine that’s aiming to make it easier for people to find what they have viewed before on the internet. How? By... -
‘Bacon number’ searches on Google let users play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon News
14.09.2012 Even if you’ve never played Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, you will likely become addicted to Google’s new Easter egg, which reveals an actor’s ‘Bacon number’ – the number of... -
Egyptian internet activist Wael Ghonim to speak at Dublin Web Summit News
13.09.2012 The Egyptian revolutionary Wael Ghonim has been announced as the 100th speaker at the forthcoming Dublin Web Summit, which will also feature three new stages focusing on cloud,...Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Social Media, Search Engines, Networking, Mobile, Digital Media, Digital Business -
Clara Schumann's 193rd birthday inspires Google Doodle News
13.09.2012 Romantic pianist Clara Schumann is being honoured today on what would have been her 193rd birthday with a Google Doodle.