Google Maps recently added tools from Google Labs to the top right menu, allowing users to experiment with a variety of image and mapping extensions that add to the user experience. From zooming tools to games to features that reduce the frustration of searches that show no results, some are quite useful.
In the top right [...]

We’ve talked about Google Street View launching in Canada twice on this blog – in October of last year when Street View went live in the Greater Toronto Area and the Golden Horseshoe, and in December when I discussed how Google expanded the service to 9 additional Canadian cities.
It seems that Google quietly expanded [...]

A few months ago, Google released it’s ‘Street View’ tool in Canada, allowing users 360 degree views of neighbours and streets in various locations across Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver.
Today, the search engine giant released nine more cities in to Street View across Canada. It is now possible to view street level images of Edmonton, Saskatoon, [...]

Toronto Canada Now Open To The World In Google Street View!
In early 2009 Google began its expeditious prowl of the streets of the Greater Toronto area, including areas like Hamilton, Oakville, Markham, Oshawa and many other regions across Ontario.  The goal of gathering the worlds information was taken to a whole new level with [...]

Google Celebrating The Birth Of The Barcode Patent
Those visiting Google today may be wondering why instead of seeing Google it shows an image of a bar code?  Not unlike many of the changes we see to the Google logo, today Google is celebrating the birthday of the invention of the bar code. 

Patented October 7 1952, [...]

Now you can make voice calls directly from Twitter. Jajah a third party service will be launching this feature today September 17′ 2009. It is still in the beta stages but is expected to get quite popular.
Twitter users can perform a two-way voice chat by typing @call @twitterID.

Microsoft has introduced a new enhancement called ’Visual Search’ to Bing. Tagged with a beta label, this new feature is available to the US audience only. Microsoft has announced the launch of ‘Visual Search’ at the prestigious Techcrunch50 Conference in San Francisco. You can check it out either by visiting www.bing.com/visualsearch or access it directly from [...]

Google has continued applying cosmetic makeovers on a number of its search properties this past week. So I thought I would take some time to look at how some of these changes work.
1. Google Changes Text, Image & Text Box Size of Homepage
The most notable change being the change to the search field and text [...]

Google has recently introduced a suite of 19 gadgets to its iGoogle homepage aimed with the twin objective of giving the user, a better visual experience with its open social platform and also to be acknowledged as the new social networking hub on par with the likes of Facebook and Twitter.
iGoogle Makes A Move To [...]

A couple of months back, we announced the launch of Microsoft’s Bing Search Engine and a couple weeks ago followed it up with a primer on SEO for Bing.
So far I have been fairly impressed with Bing. Results are fairly relevant and in particular, i like all the new features added.  It seems Microsoft is pushing [...]

In a deft move that could pose a very serious challenge to Twitter’s growing popularity, Facebook has announced that it is launching a newer, simplified version of the Facebook platform called Facebook Lite. This announcement came closely on the heels of Facebook’s recent acquisition of Friendfeed and raised several eyebrows why Facebook would want to [...]

If you haven’t noticed yet Google Paid ads that show up when you do a Google Search are now appearing much closer to the organic listings.

Why did Google do this? Well probably for a few reasons.

The latest news to come out of the internet marketing world is that Facebook has bought FriendFeed for a reported $50 million involving a cash transaction of $15 million and the rest in Facebook stocks. This follows close on the heels of the reported outright rejection by Twitter of a purchase offer made by Facebook [...]

Yahoo! is formally making its online notepad service, Search Pad public. This enhanced tool when launched will be accessible to a wider global audience. Unveiled in February this year, this utility tool has had limited availability to people and was in its beta phase. Users all around the world will now be able to work with this [...]

It has been rumoured for a little while now that Google was working on developing an operating system, perhaps to compete with Microsoft’s well-known Windows OS or even the freely distributed Linux open source OS.
Yesterday officially in Google’s blog, Google Announces Chrome Operating System.
They call it a natural extension of the Google Chrome Internet [...]