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Google March 17 has improved search and added a widget for the Google Latitude location-sharing application to Google Maps for mobile 4.1. Google has also begun putting ads from its local business partners on Google Maps pages in Australia and New Zealand. When users searching for information on businesses zoom ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 16, 2010 – Honoring the next generation of American innovators, Intel Corporation and Society for Science & the Public today announced the winners of America's oldest and most prestigious pre-college science competition, the Intel Science Talent Search.

Facebook saw search queries grow 10 percent in February 2010 and surpassed Google in the U.S. to become the most visited Website for the week ending March 13. Facebook.com reached the No. 1 ranking on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year's Day as well as the weekend of March ...

Google and the Dish Network are implementing Google's Web search experience through a Google Android set-top box. Users' search queries bring back both TV content and YouTube video content. IDC analyst Hadley Reynolds says the test runs only on Android-powered set-top boxes, for users able to use a keyboard and ...

Google could shutter its Google.cn search engine within weeks after talks with the Chinese government over censorship have stalled, according to a March 13 report in the Financial Times. This latest step comes two months after the search engine in January vowed to stop censoring search results and to possibly ...

Google Product Search for mobile with local inventory lets people use their mobile phones to search and find products sold by Best Buy, Williams-Sonoma, West Elm, Sears Pottery Barn and other participating retailers. Users of Google Android, Palm WebOS or Apple iPhone services who have enabled the My Location feature ...

News Analysis: Although Google still controls a significant portion of the search space, evidence suggests that Bing is gradually gaining ground on the search giant. It still has a long way to go. But if things keep up as they are, Bing may prove to be a formidable competitor for ...

Google's addition of biking directions and bike trail data to Google Maps is one more example of the search engine giant's increased emphasis on connecting users to information. The move is also part of the company's plan to get more users coming to Google Maps for the purpose of showing ...

Motorola March 10 said it has chosen Microsoft Bing search and maps to run on Google Android-based smartphones in China this year. The deal will manifest in the first quarter as a pre-loaded Bing bookmark and a new search widget with Bing, all running in the mobile browser of forthcoming ...

Google's Gesture Search feature for Android smartphones reignited the complaint about fragmentation and inconsistency among Google's mobile operating system platform because it only works on devices running Android 2.0 or greater, such as the Motorola Droid and Google Nexus One. Laptop Magazine's Mark Spoonauer said this means Google is ...

Microsoft Bing grabbed 11.5 percent of the U.S. search market in February, up from 11.3 percent in January, according to comScore. While Google grew slightly to 65.5 percent, Yahoo dropped from 17 percent through January to 16.8 percent in February. Microsoft may one day be able to attribute other actions ...

Google is testing its search software on TV set-top boxes, which as one of the modern replacements for the cable box enables content transmitted from the Internet, according to the Wall Street Journal. The service would let users search their Dish satellite TV service for TV programs and video from ...

T-Mobile USA has replaced Yahoo with Google as its default search engine on mobile phones, such as BlackBerry smartphones. Yahoo says it will continue to work with T-Mobile, citing the recent partnership on Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger and on content services such as the placement of various Yahoo services ...

Microsoft executives have indicated repeatedly that the company intends to stay in China and compete aggressively for the search and cloud-computing markets, despite some recent controversy in which Google briefly threatened to end its operations in China. Both Microsoft and Google lag behind homegrown Chinese search engine Baidu in that ...

Today, the most revolutionary multimedia phone - iPhone - an original creation of Apple Inc. have brought a revolution in the industry of touch screen mobiles and smartphones. Apple iPhone is a fully touch-screen phone, integrated with camera with number of various latest features to offer like multimedia player iPod, ...

Google announced a new feature called Gesture Search, which allows users to search through files on their Google Android smartphones by tracing a letter like A or H on their screen. The application, which theoretically learns from the users search history to improve overall search quality, ...

Microsoft told the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission how Google's business practices may be harming publishers, advertisers and competition in search and online advertising. Dave Heiner, vice president and deputy general counsel at Microsoft, claimed Google has created a network effect in search akin to Microsoft's own ...

Yahoo participated in the fray of integrating social networking with search results. Due to the alliance of Bing and Yahoo, Bing is responsible for all of the back-end work of actually crawling and indexing the Web, while Yahoo handles a unique front-end. The company does not plan to convolve the ...

Google enjoys more than 9 percent of worldwide mobile searches through Opera's Mini mobile Web browser, according to a new report. Opera said the Opera Mini was used by 50 million people to call up more than 23 billion Web pages in January. Yahoo only commands 4.3 percent of this ...

The search for a missing girl in Mali Zvornik, western Serbia, continues today. The body of her seven-year-old brother was found yesterday.