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Don’t Google it: 9 Alternative search engine options

In a world where Google is the most visited website, and “just Google it” is an answer to many questions, are there any up-and-coming…

Is there a viable search alternative to Google?

In light of the “Your World” ruckus that is taking the tech world by storm, including more employees who want to leave, perhaps it’s…

Why regionalised Yahoo! portals make sense

Yahoo! has been rolling out regionalised and localised versions of its portals for years. This year it rolled out portals in emerging markets like…

What America’s piracy act means for business and innovation [Infographic]

America’s proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), if passed, has massive ramifications. Any website deemed to be hosting copyrighted material stands the chance of…

Can YaCy be the new Google?

When Google was a mere babe among search giants like Yahoo, AltaVista, Lycos and WebCrawler, geeks across the world promoted its use thanks to…

Yahoo! sued for copyright infringement

Yahoo Inc.’s Southeast Asia division is being sued by Asian media group Singapore Press Holdings for reproducing content from its newspaper without permission. Singapore…

Sergey Brin, wife donate $500 000 to Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the free online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has received a US$500 000 grant Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife Anne…

Mobile web content in East Africa [Report]

Vodafone recently concluded a policy paper on “Broadband in Emerging Markets”, also titled “Making Broadband Accessible for All“. The position and reason for this…

Yahoo breathes sigh of relief: Delicious bought

After trying to unload the ailing social bookmarking service, Del.icio.us, Yahoo must have breathed a sigh of relief when on Wednesday it was able…

Yahoo! speeds search queries with Search Direct

Yahoo! has began a US only beta testing of a search feature that displays answers to queries and links to websites as people type…

8 venture capital sources for your startup

Raising funds in emerging markets may not be a walk in the park, but the process has become easier. Though some have complained the…

Plaxo moves away from social networking

Plaxo, creators of the ever popular address book, recently announced that it is phasing out its social network features as the company prepares for…

Social computing [Infographic]

Visual frameworks which make sense of the variety of activity in social computing, can help marketers think more strategically about which tools to use….

Google-ITA deal pending due to resistance from online travel sites

A few years ago Google and Yahoo! attempted an advertising partnership. Thomas Barnett who at the time headed the anti-trust division of the US…

It’s time for publishers to engage, the Facebook way

I hear similar sentences from bloggers and publishers all the time – “that was a great story but no-one saw it” or “you’ll a…

Evolution of social media in China [Infographic]

Six months ago Ogilvy‘s China social media team created an infographic to show some of the local platforms thriving in place of the major…

Yahoo debuts ‘digital newsstand’ for the tablet age

Every day sees new and more sophisticated products being added to the tablet ecosystem. On Thursday Yahoo! announced it is building a digital newsstand…

Memeburn’s tech losers of 2010: Google, Yahoo, netbooks, paywalls

Most of the widely publicised failures of the year have happened to the most successful companies — organisations that can easily weather experimental projects…

Yahoo! to dump web 2.0 goldrush sites

Some well-known Yahoo! web properties, some of which were purchased during the web 2.0 era goldrush, have appeared on an internal “sunset” list leaked…

ComScore: Microsoft’s Bing growing faster than Google

The latest US search engine rankings from comScore show that only Google and Microsoft grew their market share in October while Yahoo!, Ask and…

Yahoo! opens up to freelance content creators

Internet giant Yahoo! began opening up its properties to outside writers, photographers and videographers on Monday with the launch of the “Yahoo! Contributor Network.”…

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