According to the latest stats by StatCounter for Week 20 of 2012, Google Chrome has become the King of browsers and finally overtaken Microsoft IE as the most popular browser of the world.   According to StatCounter, Chrome now commands 32.76% of the worldwide market, compared to 31.94% for Internet Explorer and 25.47% for Firefox. This places a browser other than Internet Explorer in the top position for the first time since (roughly) 1998, if Wikipedia's historical statistics are anything Continue Reading

If you think Microsoft’s Bing wasn’t impacting the search engine market, then you are wrong. According to Compete, Google increased its share for the first time since December 2011 to 65.9% of the US core web search market.  Yahoo! had been experiencing small increases in share steadily since December 2011, but saw a decline of 0.7ppt’s from March to April.  Bing continues to gain monthly share since October 2011, and experienced a gain of 0.3ppt’s in April to represent 18.3% Continue Reading

Last December we covered about Google Schemer, a fun interactive place to help you do and plan everything worth doing or do even things other recommend. Are you curious? Ambitious? Daring? Start doing more awesome stuff by using Schemer. How does it work? It's all about the schemes! A scheme is anything you might want to do - from taking a mixology course to surfing sand dunes. Whatever schemes strike your fancy, collect them on Schemer and then take them with you using our mobile app. Now Continue Reading

  Advent of Google & Apple Store & Their Progress: Search engine giant, Google is now all set to take on Apple’s online media store, iTunes. The earlier attempt by Google in this direction was the launch of Android Market, but somewhere it lagged behind iTunes, in terms of total number of downloads and user traffic. So far Apple’s iTunes remains in the forefront of distributing online media contents and apps. The statistics says that till date around 25 billion apps were downloaded Continue Reading

Today Google is introducing the research pane—a new feature that brings the web’s wealth of information to you as you’re writing documents. The research pane taps into Google Search directly from Google documents, so whether you want to add a cool destination to your itinerary for an upcoming trip to India or you're looking for the perfect presidential quote for a political science paper, you don’t even have to open a new tab.   You can access the research pane from the Tools menu Continue Reading

Google now aims to let your YouTube channel turn into your dream job, and for that its activating full features that allows you to earn money out of it. Last year they  launched the Merch Store, teaming up with Amazon, iTunes, Topspin, Songkick and Google Play to help indie musicians on YouTube promote licensed merchandise, music downloads, and concert tickets on their channels. Selling merch isn’t just for musicians, so starting today the Merch Store will become available to all YouTube partners Continue Reading

Email is more than just messages going back and forth -- it's also about the people sending them. That's why today Google is introducing changes that continue to bring people front and center in Gmail, just as they did with profile photos in conversation view, the people widget and last year's integrations with Google+. Today’s changes include quick access to contact details when viewing past conversations as well as improved integration with Google+ circles.   Quick access to contact details Continue Reading

Marketers today have no shortage of data. In fact, there are more than 40 million online touch points measured every minute by Google Analytics. Technology advancements are helping marketers understand their customers more across channels and devices, and better analysis tools are finally making that massive amount of data accessible and actionable. This is fueling what we see as next generation measurement.   Next generation brand measurement In many ways, brand measurement thus far has Continue Reading

Is Facebook really worth +$100 billion? That's Facebook's market capitalization, based on where the stock is priced for its upcoming IPO – currently scheduled for this Friday, May 18. Facebook’s valuation of $100 billion puts it at half the worth of Google. Since both Google and Facebook generate most of their revenue through advertising (advertising accounts for 96% of Google’s revenue vs. 86% of Facebook’s), we can definitely weigh in on the worth question from an advertising perspective. Continue Reading

Say you’ve found an awesome recipe on your work computer while... ahem... working hard at the office. But when you get back home, you can’t quite remember if it was two teaspoons of baking soda or two teaspoons of baking powder. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could pull up the same recipe on your home computer with one click?   With Google’s Stable release of Chrome, yesterday you can. When you’re signed in to Chrome, your open tabs are synced across all your devices, so you can quickly Continue Reading

Search is a lot about discovery—the basic human need to learn and broaden your horizons. But searching still requires a lot of hard work by you, the user. So today Google has launched the Knowledge Graph, which will help you discover new information quickly and easily. Take a query like [taj mahal]. For more than four decades, search has essentially been about matching keywords to queries. To a search engine the words [taj mahal] have been just that—two words. But we all know that [taj mahal] Continue Reading

  If you’re anything like me, you send and receive a lot of emails every day. But have you ever wondered where your message goes after you hit “send?” How does an email travel from your computer to your friend’s smartphone across the country or around the world? Google is answering those questions with Story of Send, a new site that gives you a behind-the-scenes look into how all that virtual information makes its journey through the real world—from your Internet service provider Continue Reading

The next big thing on the internet is social search and every other internet company is racing towards the perfect blend of recommendations from friends who are socially connected over a myriad of networks onto your search results helping you making better decisions. Bing and Google recently released a new design for social search called “Sidebar”. We think Wajam is better because we offer a more complete social search experience. Always Present, Never Intrusive With Wajam, you have convenient Continue Reading

    According to trusted sources, Apple has an incredible headline feature in development for iOS 6: a completely in-house maps application. Apple will drop the Google Maps program running on iOS since 2007 in favor for a new Maps app with an Apple backend. The application design is said to be fairly similar to the current Google Maps program on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, but it is described as a much cleaner, faster, and more reliable experience.     While Apple Continue Reading

  Google vs. Germany On Friday it was stated by a German court that YouTube is the one responsible for Content which is uploaded by users. Tensions once again come into existence between the German Courts and Google, owner of YouTube. The main problem is regarding people posting music clips whose rights are held by Gema, the Royalties Collection Group. For this the courts wanted the site to install filters and manage a way in which this is stopped. If YouTube does in any case end up having Continue Reading