Yahoo looking for Heros in India

The Business Standard of India stated that Yahoo has established a research lab in Bangalore India, which is most popular for sci-fi hit Heros.

Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo Research, in Bangalore stated, “The researchers now we have are very talented and work on state-of-the-art technologies. The scientists we are looking to employ are the ones who define start-of-the-art coming generation technologies.”

With most varied databases, Yahoo! runs the day to day operations and also develops businesses for the future, Raghavan said. Yahoo! then declared the launch of its ‘Big Thinker’ lecture series in India from January 2007.

Google’s blog search engine takes over top slot

As far as Google Inc.’s supremacy on Internet search and advertising market is concern, it is very difficult for other search engine to pull Google down.

The feature of Blogger was introduced during September 2005, last week gone up to the top of the category rankings when noticed for total number of site visits, according to a data released. Beginning in October, Google began shining its spotlight on Google Blog Search with a link to the feature from its key page.

Google to invest in Chinese download firm

Google Inc. is planning to invest in Chinese Web Site, which helps the users to download videos from the net. This investment plan in Shenzhen Xunlei Network Technology would be announced early next year. This would help the world’s most famous search engine company tap into China’s growing interest in online videos. China is the world’s second largest Internet market after the United States.

Google in profit – 2006 Review

This was an inevitable rise of online advertising by Google Inc.’s that pushed the stock to record levels this year.

The Mountain View, Calif.-based company’s stock traded at a low point during March, at $331.55 on the NASDAQ. But then Google managed to hit expectations in the following two quarters. The company maintained a huge berth as leader in the U.S. search market all through the year and had 49.5 percent of searches during November.

This year Google extended its advertising services beyond the Internet to radio and newspapers. After closing for YouTube Google hit the high share of $513 during November.

Cognos adds link to IBM-Yahoo search engine

Cognos has recently added a link among its BI search engine and a new IBM-Yahoo search tool. It would let the users collect structured and unstructured data at the same time. IT executives said that such combined searches could even help users more promptly gather the key data needed to make business decisions.

The Cognos 8 Go Search engine, exposed last spring, could be used to find BI data housed in reports, scorecards and dashboards, company stated. A new interface in the Cognos tool would allow both search engines to be used to conduct a single search.

Yahoo Updates Toolbar and Bookmarks

Yahoo is up with its new version toolbar – an amazing feature of bookmarking that’s included seamlessly with Yahoo Web search, and features a “radical” new user interface.

Yahoo toolbar carries an enhanced search feature, which make suggestions as you type the keyword. Another best thing is that Yahoo had made easier to create our own custom buttons on the toolbar. If you wish to make your own button to a particular site then enter its URL and Yahoo would automatically search for the site’s favicon logo and use it for the button, if one is available.

The new bookmarking feature uses folders as categorized scheme. You can create a new page while saving a bookmark or directly bookmark the existing page to the folder. You can further add tags to bookmarks and Yahoo will suggest tags to link with the page. Editing, adding new information such as tags, description or comment is very easy with this bookmarking feature.

Google Retires Pioneering Web Services API

Google has silently sunsetted its SOAP Search API in favor of fresh AJAX API, a move irking developers who literally relied on the pioneering Web services interface.

SOAP API was released during 2002, which allowed developers to begin incorporating data for the first time through Google’s search results into their own non-commercial applications. SOAP API would now continue functioning for existing users who by now have keys, but Google do not dedicate any development resources to the retired interface.

This new AJAX API does have some specific advantages over SOAP offering: It’s lightweight, much easier to be used and it does not have any daily limit on queries. The SOAP API never moved out of beta status and carried 1,000 queries per day cap. But the AJAX API, in beta does have other limitations such as returning a maximum of eight results per query.

Google’s Open Source Airbag

Every technology user has experienced an application crash. Now Google’s open source Airbag project has come in. According to Google, Airbag is ready for client and server components, which implements a crash-reporting system.

Airbag is especially made up of client-side libraries, a server-side processor library and build tools. Mark Mentovai explains that the client-side libraries creates dumps and helps in sending them to a crash server.

The server-side process library then reads out the crash dumps and further transforms them into information, which is useful for debugging. The build tools are able to make sense of native debugging information, turning the data into a system, which is understandable by the processor.

Currently the Google’s Airbag project does not have formal release on Google Code Page. Developer could pull out Open Source Airbag components from the project’s Subversion source control code repository.

Google’s Mission

Google stated its mission is to organize the entire world’s information and make it accessible and useful to everyone. Google is on its way to accomplish its goal on the consumer Web; this search giant would increase its attention to business Web during 2007.

“We’re building towards a huge future [in the enterprise space], big licensing or subscription business, and moving into a lot of other potential businesses over time,” said Dave Girouard, vice president and general manager of Google’s enterprise division.

Girouard explained that Google plans to help the enterprise market by riding in on the shoulders of people like you and me who are already using their applications for fun.

Google’s top searches

In 2006 people were more interested learning about online social networks, Borat’s American invasion, Paris Hilton and definition of promiscuous, according to Google’s annual list of top searches.

Today Google processes billions of searches every month and calls the results the zeitgeist – a “general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era.” Myspace and Bebo were top most two searches during 2006. It just shows the increasing popularity of social networks between young web surfers.

Google’s video sharing website YouTube did not appear in top 10 lists, but any how its similar site, Metacafe, came at No. 4. One of the site’s ticks is to pay users for actual content, which is viewed more than 20,000 times.