16 Nov 2009
| by Staff
Google is trying to settle a class action lawsuit brought by authors and publishers, claiming that the search giant has violated their rights by scanning books and putting them in a database, as well as displaying extracts of the books online. A filing submitted in New York on Friday would restrict the number ...
15 Oct 2009
| by Darren Davidson
Normal 0 0 1 160 917 7 1 1126 11.1280 0 0 0 The iPhone app enables users to simply aim their iPhone at the street and see what restaurants appear in the immediate area. UrbanSpoon's new feature, called Scope, displays restaurants as coloured bubbles ...
14 Oct 2009
| by Elizabeth Clifford-Marsh
website. When users search for videos, YouTube will display the advertisers' videos alongside relevant ...
02 Oct 2009
| by Andrew McCormick
for AskPeopleYouKnow at the start will be through display advertising and paid search, which is conventional in a way ...
29 Sep 2009
| by Elizabeth Clifford-Marsh
Google searches that match the top 100 fastest-rising search terms will now be displayed with a graph showing how their popularity has risen and fallen over time. Hiroshi Kuraoka, Google product manager, said the feature is designed to help users focus on the top, most interesting content. "We hope ...
23 Sep 2009
| by Gareth Jones
The app gives coffee drinkers access to a virtual Starbucks Card displaying a barcode that baristas in selected Silicon Valley and Seattle stores can scan at the point of purchase. The mobile payment app also enables users to check the balance of their Starbucks Card, reload it with a major credit ...
18 Sep 2009
| by Darren Davidson
displaying sets of information together. He told The Wall Street Journal: "When I first heard about Bing ...
18 Sep 2009
| by Elizabeth Clifford-Marsh
LONDON - Google has launched a display ad exchange, which its says will change the way advertisers...search ads, but it only deals with display ads. Neal Mohan, vice president of product management ...
buy and sell display space. "We want to democratise access to display advertising and make ...
in an open marketplace in which prices are set in a real-time auction, the Ad Exchange enables display ads ...
16 Sep 2009
| by Darren Davidson
displays how many Whuffies a user has, along with a graph of their progress over time. The site ranks its ...
26 Aug 2009
| by Elizabeth Clifford-Marsh
In the US Google Maps displays traffic information for major highways, which is supplied by local highway authorities. Google is extending the service to include arterial roads by using data it collects from GPS-enable phones that use Google Maps with the My Location feature. As users move around a city ...