May, 2007
Google Launches Tool For Creating Offline Web Applications
Google today announced at Google Developer Day 2007 that it is providing developers with Google Gears, an open source technology for creating offline web applications. This new browser extension is being made available in its early stages so that everyone can test its capabilities and limitations and help improve upon it. The long-term hope is [...]
eBay Acquires StumbleUpon
eBay today announced it has acquired StumbleUpon, an early-stage company that helps people discover and share content online, for an aggregate transaction value of approximately $75 million. This acquisition will provide eBay with in-depth exposure to a fast-growing community-based service with approximately 2.3 million users. StumbleUpon gives people a new way to discover relevant and entertaining [...]
Google Announces New Mapping Innovations
This morning at the Where 2.0 conference in San Jose, John Hanke, Director of Google Earth & Maps, announced new innovations for Google Maps that offer a whole new perspective on search: Street View and Mapplets. Available on Google Maps at maps.google.com, Street View and Mapplets further Google’s commitment to provide users with the most [...]
Google Leaps Over Language Barriers
Google announce the arrival of a new cross-language search feature that allows users across the world to find and view search results on foreign language web pages in their own native language. Now, more content on the web is accessible to more users, regardless of what languages they speak. This means, for example, that if an [...]
May 2007 Yahoo! Search Index Update
Yahoo! announced a Search Index Update on the Yahoo! Search Blog today: “We just rolled out a new search index last night. So, as usual, you may see some changes in ranking as well as some shuffling of the pages that are included in the index throughout this process. This update should be complete very [...]
IETF Approves DKIM as Proposed Internet Standard
In a combined effort to help combat e-mail forgery, phishing and other types of online fraud, technology industry leaders Yahoo!, Cisco, Sendmail and PGP Corporation today announced that the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the group responsible for technical standards on the Internet, has approved DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) as a proposed standard, RFC 4871. [...]
Google Trends Shows List of Top-Rising Searches
On Monday night, Google launched Hot Trends, a new feature on the Google Trends report. Hot Trends enables users to see a list of the current top 100 fastest-rising Google search queries in the U.S. Users can also select specific dates to see what the top-rising searches were at a given point in time. For [...]
Google Apps Partner Edition
Today, Google released a new version of Google Apps specifically designed for ISPs, portals, and other service providers, whether they have a few thousand subscribers or over a million. This new version, which is called Partner Edition, makes it easy for large and small service providers to offer your subscribers the latest versions of powerful tools, [...]