YouTube is unbeatably the most popular video site around the globe. And with very good reason: it listens to its fans. The upload limit on the video length on YouTube has been raised to 15 minutes from the earlier 10. According to the site, an increase in the allowed duration was the most requested feature among YouTube users. Good news for those who had never had enough...

Google has announced some new features for their notifications within Webmaster tools. They released the news via the Google Webmaster Central Blog yesterday. According to Google, webmasters will receive “SiteNotices” whenever there is a significant rise in the number of inaccessible web pages. GoogleBot usually displays such errors in the Crawl errors section in Webmaster...

Google quietly stole the storm while Microsoft was busy basking in its past glory. Because whatever method they tried, they surely failed to convince Yahoo Japan. Yes, the US Yahoo had no qualms while plugging into Microsoft’s Bing search engine to generate search results. But we have lately been wondering exactly how much right does Yahoo have over its Japanese counterpart....

Google has secured ITA Software Inc., a travel technology company, for $700 million. If the deal gets through, Google will be in a position to control the direction of online flight reservations to a huge degree. Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, reportedly said during a conference call, “There is clearly more room for competition and innovation in online travel.” The latest...

One of the fastest growing markets is the Android one. And looking at the latest stats from AndroLib, the figure for the number of Android applications in the store stands at a breathtaking 100,000. However, the estimate is only a projected result buy conceivable by the end of July. As of the present, the number of Android apps slightly crosses the 90,000 mark, including...

In the prolonged legal battle between YouTube and Viacom, the free video-sharing website has emerged victorious after fighting for more than three years. In March 2007, Viacom filed a $1 billion infringement lawsuit against Google over YouTube, which was acquired by Google for $1.6 billion in 2006. The suit alleged that YouTube was guilty of willful and widespread infringement...

Search giant, Google is all set to phase out the use of Windows. Employees will have access to Mac OS and Linux alone as desktop operating system options. New hires can choose between Apple’s Mac OS X or Linux systems. Few are allowed to install Windows on their notebooks but those wanting to retain Windows on their system need to obtain clearance from senior levels....

Google launched an app store for the web yesterday at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. The Chrome web store is an attempt to move people away from desktop based computing. Among various other announcement at the conference, Chrome web store is clearly a take on Apple’s app store. The app store translates the idea of purchasing through one click on to the...