Bing is currently struggling up-hill against the (let’s face it) essential monopoly of Google. Microsoft, whose technology titan status gives them both industry access to today’s brightest minds and whose resources give them an ability to invest heavily, is one of the only companies who could stand on this tumultuous ground of “competition.” Nevertheless, they’ve done an excellent job and have been gaining in search share each month.

Google is a monolithic entity – so big and so powerful that it trumps competitors (except Bing, which is gaining) by its mere presence, with so many resources that it can buy out any company it wants (except Groupon, who didn’t think $6 billion was good enough) without blinking. It’s no shocking matter, then, when Google buys another company.

Google is an incredibly multi-lingual company when it comes right down to it. That’s no negligible factor, either. While Yahoo! U.S.

When Google acquired Jambool in August of 2010, many rumors started flying around. After all, Jambool is and was a social network game payment group that helped “synchronize” payments for applications, creating a universal currency system and working as the merchant service for in-app purchases.

By now, you may have read Google’s recent post, ” Decide what the world sees when it searches for you ,” and seen the various reactions and comments around the web today. However you define copying, the bottom line is, these new Google social profiles sure do look an awful lot like Facebook profile pages

About six weeks ago, we asked if there is such a thing as a Google Whitelist or not. There were some sites that claimed they were whitelisted by Google after a penalty…

In a bit of a surprising interview on Bloomberg News, Kayak.com’s co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Paul English boldly stated that the travel search engine doesn’t fear Google’s entrance into the travel search market via the proposed acquisition of ITA Software. Kayak is…

Twitter introduced Promoted Tweets, Trends, and Accounts back in May of 2010. Known as an exclusive advertising program, it was difficult for small to medium size businesses to throw their hat in the ring.

In a nod to the legions of smartphone users running AdSense on their sites or apps, Google has announced a mobile-friendly web interface to AdSense accounts. The site represents Google’s response to apps such as DuoSense for iPhone, which third-parties have developed to serve mobile users of…

Google unveiled a new and improved ad preview tool back in January. The tool’s purpose was to give users the ability to view their ads without incurring extra impressions and clicks.