Microsoft’s latest effort to gain relevance in the search wars is about to get a whole lot more interesting.
According to All Things Digital, the company is set to announce deals with both Twitter and Facebook (Facebook) to integrate status updates into its Bing (Bing) search engine.
Details are expected to be announced later today at the [...]

Google’s Vice-President of Search Marissa Mayer has just made a surprise announcement at the Web 2.0 Expo: a new Google Labs feature called Social Search. They just gave a quick demo of the new feature.
While the details are still sparse, here is what we currently know (and we’re still updating, so check back for [...]

New research by Citibank reveals that social media has yet to penetrate the small business world, finding that 76% of the 500 organizations surveyed have not found social media useful in generating business. Maria Veltre, Executive Vice President of Citi’s Small Business Segment says, “Our survey suggests that small business owners are still feeling their [...]

While we’re still digesting the news of Bing adding Twitter to its search engine, Google has some news of their own: they’re about to do the same exact thing.
The search giant has just announced that they have reached a deal with Twitter to include tweets in search results.
From the Google blog:
“Given this new type of [...]

Intellectual property laws are in place for good reason. But is Google’s iconically simplistic home page interface reason enough?
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office appears to think so, although it took them over 5 years to decide the matter. The search giant submitted the patent application for the design of its home page search interface [...]

We’ve been screaming and whining about the iPhone App Store for nigh on a year now and we seem to have avoiding talking about one of the most obvious sources for information about the Store: Steve himself.
Harry “Long Tail” McCracken remembers what Steve said way back in the old days about the App Store.
Jobs said [...]

At the end of 2005, Google made an interesting investment: $1 billion dollars for 5% of AOL. The move made sense for AOL – it provided it with a ton of new advertising, search, and revenue opportunities via a strong partnership with Google. Google, in return, got a 5-year deal to be AOL’s default search [...]

There’s a growing fascination with the so called “real-time Web,” with Google, Facebook , and Twitter all reportedly working on major changes to their search tools that leverage status updates and tweets to do a better job of indexing the Web. But Microsoft’s Bing has beaten them all to the punch – at least in [...]

It has been just shy of two weeks since the first release candidate of Firefox 3.5 became available for download, and reports say that the latest version of Firefox should go official tomorrow. Yet already, the Mozilla team is wasting no time in preparing for Firefox 3.6 — the next, next big version of [...]

A couple of days ago Mozilla has released the so-called Firefox 3.5 preview build, aimed solely at developers. It meant, however, that Firefox 3 .5 RC1 build is around the corner, and as of today, it’s available for download.
If you’re an end user, you should know that a release candidate build is better than a [...]