Google has made the announcement of the new version of the Google Talk messaging service made for the Apple iPhone. The announcement comes just in time for the expected 11 July release of the new 3G iPhone.

The fourth of July marked the celebration of the Independence Day of the United States of America; their birthday, as some may call it.
While the citizens took a day off to enjoy the three day weekend in different ways, the search engines were also not left far behind in supporting the celebration.

A dedicated Search Help Centre has been launched by The Interactive Advertising Bureau, UK, to offer marketers advice on best practices, legal regulations and policies related to search marketing.
Advertisers and a panel of agencies from the IAB UK’s Search Council along with biggies like Yahoo, Microsoft and Google will be supplying the content for the […]

After its joint plans with Adobe to make Flash content searchable, Google now plans to work on making image searches organised, easier and more effective. This has been revealed by the firm’s Director of Product Management for Consumer Search Properties, R.J. Pittman, who talked of their plans of making trillions of images on the web […]

Considering Google’s move to re-launch DoubleClick’s Performics ad affiliate network under the title of Google Affiliate Network, it only makes sense that maintaining the Adsense Referrals Programme seems pointless. An official e-mail has been sent (it would be safe to say to all AdSense members) stating that as of the last week of August, Google […]

“Making YouTube profitable” was one of Google’s biggest goals this year. Although half of the year is already over, they have not yet managed to figure out a way to do so. The problem, it seems, is not with the users or traffic that is coming but how to monetise it. Although it seems probable […]

The controversies, which have surrounded Google StreetView ever since it has launched do not seem to end.
This time it is the turn of a small suburb in St. Paul Minnesota named North Oaks. North Oaks is a private city of 4,500 and the community is owned by its residents, even the streets are private property. […]

The biggest news to come out in the Internet world in the past few days has been of the ‘Non-exclusive’ partnership between internet giants Yahoo! and Google.
A key thing to mull over, while making sense out of this partnership is that it’s ‘Non-exclusive’. Putting the partnership in perspective, Google stated:
Today, we have announced a non-exclusive […]

Word has been going round for some time now that Google co-founder Sergey Brin has invested in a space tourism company. Not only this, but, Brin has also reportedly shown interest in making a trip himself within the next three years.
Space Adventures, a US based space tourism company, has already received a $5 million payment […]

Yahoo! has just agreed a deal with search engine giant Google that will incorporate Yahoo! making use of the latter’s advertising technology. Google ads will now appear alongside select Yahoo! search results after the agreement, applicable in the US and Canada.
The announcement was made after Yahoo! stated it had failed in persuading Microsoft to renew […]

MySpace has opted for an integration of Google Gears into its own messaging system. What this will make possible is a back up of all messages to each individual user’s local machine apart from quick search as well as sorting. This is possibly the largest ever ‘third party’ implementation of Google Gears.
Three basic functions, available […]

Google follows a stringent process for testing and developing a new product before it is launched. A Gmail product manager reveals:
What goes on here (in a group) is kept under wraps and the engineers do not come out until they have either fully developed a new feature or solved a particular problem.
In the ‘war room’ […]

A small group of journalists were recently walked through the Google offices and also acquainted with the firm’s working philosophy wherein engineers take 20 per cent of their working time to come up with innovative ideas and then work on them. The 20 per cent time is part of the search engine giant’s core ethos.
The […]

We want to take the next step and allow Gmail users assist us do that refinement.
This is what Gmail product manager Keith Coleman has to say on the eve of Google’s move to open up its elaborate testing process. Google would invite umpteen regular Gmail users to test new features of the service and give […]

Google has been a known as a leading proponent of Web based computing; software which is delivered over the Internet and that typically runs inside a browser. However, most browser applications cannot do several of the things which more powerful PC based software can. The search engine giant has been trying to help close in […]

A new survey to find out the most preferred firm where MBA students would like to work has revealed that 23.65 per cent of those surveyed have named Google as their top choice.
The survey shows that the top search engine easily scores over firms like investment banks and top management consulting firms as the most […]

Belgian newspapers are together pushing for up to €49m in damages from Google for allegedly publishing as well as storing their content without making any payment or taking their permission.
Last year the search engine had lost a similar lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed by many French-language Belgian newspapers. It was then forced to take off […]

It still remains an unsolved puzzle whether the drop in the rank of a web site that sometimes occurs in Google is a penalty or not. Of the most commonly observed ‘penalties’ are the ‘-30 penalty’ and the ‘-950 penalty’. Both of them have been a matter of debate.
They could either be actual penalties for […]

Viacom claims it has identified over 150,000 copyright abuses by YouTube that comprised clips from popular shows such as SpongeBob SquarePants, MTV Unplugged and South Park. The firm states that the infringement also included the documentary ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ that had been viewed online ‘an astounding 1.5 billion times’.
Viacom is now asking for damages for […]

Chad Hurley, YouTube chief executive and founder, is diffident, down-to-earth and polite but no stereotypical geek, describes a new article in The Guardian. It goes on:
He (Chad Hurley) has a slightly earnest manner, betraying the very fact that for the firm the next year or so is crucial.