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Back in Oct 2010 research by Chitika found that voice searches were responsible for 7% of Google mobile queries on the iPhone and 25% percent on Android devices. Now it seems that Google has given full attention to this bit of news by introducing voice search for Maps for mobile and desktop users.
Voice search includes a series of spoken…
Realizing that mobile searches are increasingly taking over PC searches, Yahoo has introduced two new search tools to make mobile app searches a less tiring task.
Yahoo! App Search for the PC and the Yahoo! AppSpot for iPhone/Android will make it easier for users to browse through the thousands of mobile apps available on the iPhone Store and…
Not content with just being a search engine, Google has unveiled its very own streaming music service.
Google Music was launched at the company’s I/O developer conference in San Francisco earlier this week.
Google also has some good news for movie lovers – a movie download service has been launched that allows users to rent and view movies for $1.99…
The latest report released by ComScore on the US mobile market share for February 2011 has brought good news for Google.
It’s operating system, Android, made the most significant increase in sales by being the top selling mobile platform with a 7% gain and it now holds 33% market share.
The table below shows how much Google’s Android platform leads…
Google’s dream of creating a mobile payment facility is one step closer with Google close to finalizing a deal with MasterCard and Citigroup that will see Android powered devices embedded with technology that allows customers to make purchases directly through their phone at the check-out.
By using near field communication technology (NFC), Google hopes to make credit and debit cards…
Google Instant Preview, a feature that was till now limited to desktop searches, is now available for Android and iOS devices enabled devices also.
Google’s launched the instant preview feature for their PC users last November so that searchers could view snapshots of the web sites in the search result page without having to enter each page individually. This feature…
What the iPhone did for Apple, now Android is doing for Google! The search giant has taken the title of the most popular smartphone operating system worldwide.
According to a report released by research firm Canalys, Google’s Android operating system has raced to the top spot of the smart phone software market overthrowing Nokia, the decade long king…
After recent updates to URL’s and negative keyword management, there is even more good news this week for Google AdWord users.
Google has improved its AdWord Preview Tool so that mobile users can see how their ads will appear on different devices – iPhone, Android, etc. Google has introduced changes to the tool that they hope will help…
To say that Google is a busy company is probably an understatement. Almost every week we hear of either a ranking update, a new Google project or webmaster tool.
2009 was certainly a busy year for Google; it left Yahoo! & Microsoft behind in terms of innovation (besides the new Bing search engine). Can you list all the new features…
After failing in its bid to buy local review site, Yelp, Google have launched a new mobile search tool that could be detrimental to Yelp’s mobile success.
“Near Me Now” turns your location into an automated search query and makes finding or learning about places in your immediate vicinity very easy.
Currently available for iPhone and Android phone users in…