Tag: SOCIALSEARCH

Google makes a big deal about transparency. The company always wants you to know how, and why, it shows certain search results or ads, and what of your personal data it has tucked away in the deep recesses of the Goog-Cave. Google Dashboard showed the information the company could gather from you via the Google services you used, and it was an interesting (if creepy) way to expose holes in your ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... When free services like Twitter and Google crash, users may caterwaul and whine, but the sites don't immediately suffer from significant revenue loss. Outages certainly penalize online retailers, though. Amazon endured a rare three-hour crash yesterday, leading to a 7.8-percent drop in shares by the market's Tuesday close. Based on ...

AT&T's Buzz (not to be confused with Google Buzz or Yahoo! Buzz) was officially launched today, after getting its initial teaser announcement in January. Buzz.com (as we'll be calling it to differentiate it from the other Buzzes) attempts to leverage AT&T's vast Yellow Pages database, subscriber pool, and large wireless network in order to create a money-making, location-based, social ...

Last week, both Microsoft and Google announced deals with Twitter that allowed them to index and search the micro-blogging site's public content. But while Microsoft immediately offered its Twitter search abilities, Google only made vague references to its possible integration into Google search, and ensured the relevancy of the results. Well, it's been less than a week, and Google has a ...