A data shows a staggering number of internet users last year. According to a report by Yahoo!, there were 2.1 billion internet users last year. Surfing 555 million websites, 300 million of which were only created in 2011. Asia had the most drastic increase as its internet population spiked from 825.1 million June of 2010 to 922.2 million [...]
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This year was another banner year for search engine giant Google. And according to the market research giant Nielsen, Google came out on top of all the websites as the top internet destinations this year. According to the report, Google had 153.4 million unique visitors per month on the average. While Facebook, who by the [...]
Continue reading →Google better be ready, as the partnership between Yahoo! and Microsoft gets the stamp of approval from Australian and Canadian competition authorities today. The 10-year Internet search and advertising partnership between the two companies was first unveiled in July, and will tackle head-on against Google. This no-cash deal will allow Yahoo! to use Microsoft’s Bing [...]
Continue reading →Google has proposed a settlement with the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers over their book scanning project. A lot however, doesn’t agree with the search giant’s proposal. According to director of the Internet Archive Peter Brantley, the three big tech companies have signed on to a coalition against Google’s proposal assembled by [...]
Continue reading →The two web giants just announced Wednesday that they will unite and work together to face one common competitor. The 10-year term will still be subject to review by US anti-trust regulators but is expected to close in the early part of 2010. According to a report from AFP, under the no-cash deal, Yahoo will [...]
Continue reading →Yahoo has confirmed yesterday that it has acquired Xoopit which is a start-up that helps people share content from their inboxes with social-networking sites like Facebook. Xoopit has also announced in their website that they are joining Yahoo to “to make the world’s best email even better.” It was not revealed exactly how much Yahoo [...]
Continue reading →The newly revamped Yahoo home page, which will debut today in the US, is supposed to make it easier for users to see what’s happening in other popular sites. The move is part of an overhaul aimed “at recapturing some of the buzz that Yahoo has lost to increasingly popular online hangouts like Facebook, MySpace [...]
Continue reading →For the second time since its launching, Microsoft’s newest search engine has surpassed Yahoo Search in terms of the most used search engine in the U.S. The first time was on the day of its launching, which many thought was attributed to the “launch momentum”. Bing however proved them wrong as it its been a [...]
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