Gigablast, a privately owned and operated search engine of Matt Wells, recently released the findings of their search “taste test” where the majority of study participants, over 55%, found the Gigablast search results to be as good as, or better than, search results from Google.
- The study gave involved a comparison of Gigablast’s and [...]

Google has recently came up with a new AJAX API which can help developers to easily add machine translation capabilities to their websites. Using the Google AJAX Language API, one can detect the language of a piece of text and translate it into any of the supported Google Translate languages.
For instance, If I have it [...]

Google Spreadsheets as part of the Google Docs added some brand new features. The ones which are worth mentioning are: better revisions comparison through color highlights, change notifications, and a Google spreadsheet gadgets directory.
Revisions highlights

In Google Spreadsheet, the new changes during revisions are now highlighted for easier understanding; just click on the Revisions tab. [...]

Wikinear is a simple application that will let you to locate Wikipedia entries for locations nearest to where a user is currently located. It was designed for mobile phones and it’s a good alternative to expensive GPS navigation.

tilizing several technologies from various geographic location tools, such as – Yahoo! Fire Eagle, Wikinear mashed up these [...]

Long time back, Google integrated Google Talk within Gmail. But some google users didn’t like that signing into Gmail also meant signing into Google Talk. So them, Google added a feature that lets you “turn off chat” by clicking a link at the bottom of the page.
Even though this was an easy way to [...]

Google released Google Sites, which allows you or your whole team to build websites with documents, photos, presentations and more. This new service, which was actually created from the Google-acquired JotSpot suite, just works with a Google Apps account, though.
If you don’t have a Google Apps account, you should try getting one for free. If [...]

Several blogs has recently reported that the official Google Japan homepage has been redesigned, as some of you are seeing it (and as the Google Japan blog reports). Perhaps this only shows in some geo location – I can’t see any changes yet – but Colin Colehour posted some screenshots in the forum. As far [...]

The author of the famous SEOBook, Aaron wall recently pointed out a very interesting point – Is Mahalo considered as SPAM in the eyes of Google?
Well, according to the leaked document from Google which defines what SPAM is:

“When trying to decide if a page is Spam, it is helpful to ask yourself this question: if [...]

According to Jupiter Research, only 2.6% of online shoppers use blogs for research before making any online purchases. I believe this makes some internet retailers wonder if blogs should be part of their internet marketing strategy.
In my honest opinion, this study is not conclusive enough to provide the answer to that question. It merely indicates [...]

The most talked about Online Social Community Facebook has recently announced their new privacy measures. The new features include privacy controls based on friend lists (which were introduced in last December). The blue privacy lock icon refers to areas that can have custom privacy options, which will include most of the site, apparently, from photo [...]