Use of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that are undocumented is a very grey area. The news that an application has shown up in Apple’s App Store that used an undocumented API has disturbed some users, especially since it’s against the terms that iPhone developers agree to when they download the SDK. Google’s voice search function [...]
Will Google Manage to Retain its CEO?
November 29th, 2008There are lot of speculations that Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt might take a break from his office as Google’s CEO. However, there are no official announcements to this effect. These speculations suggest that Eric Schmidt might be taking up some position in the America’s new President’s administration. Eric Schmidt has been taking with Google for [...]
Ad Revenue Dropped For Baidu
November 29th, 2008Baidu is China’s leading search engine; for the Chinese, it is what Google is for us. It is much more than a search engine; it is more of a portal for the online users to find all that they need in one place. However, Baidu is facing problems recently owning to the scandals associated with [...]
Kumo, Anyone?
November 28th, 2008Microsoft is toying with the idea of renaming their search engine. They went from a fairly recognizable MSN to the confusing and unspecific Windows Live Search to simply Live Search – apparently that’s just not hip sounding enough when stacked against Google and Yahoo. Microsoft has been considering a search engine name change since August; [...]
Malware Detection Service from Microsoft
November 27th, 2008Microsoft in an effort to be on par with Google and Yahoo has recently launched a powerful webmaster tool that will detect the embedded malware. Google already has its safe browsing diagnostic tool that warns users of harmful sites and Yahoo for its share has SearchScan. Microsoft did not have anything so far in these [...]
