Clint Boulton

Google Jan. 19 said it has altered its search algorithm to help weed out Web pages that are top heavy with ads and make content harder to find by pushing farther down on the page. The move is designed to curb the practice of loading the top of Web pages-the section that is known as […]

Wikipedia has quietly made its official Android application available free in the Android Market for anyone using smartphones or tablets running Android 2.2 Froyo and newer OS versions. Web citizens can access Wikipedia’s 20 million-plus articles in more than 280 languages. Users may search for articles, both in full and partial screens and by location, […]

Google Apps, the cloud-based collaboration software for businesses, is set to turn 5 years old next month. Google celebrated early in landing BBVA as its largest Google Apps deployment to date, spanning 110,000 employees. BBVA, which is short for Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A., is the second largest bank in Spain and seventh largest financial […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) reported revenue of $8.13 billion on earnings per share of $9.50, missing targets from financial analysts even though the company’s profit grew to $2.71 billion from $2.54 billion a year ago. Wall Street, which was looking for sales of $8.43 billion and $10.51 earnings per share, reacted accordingly. Shares of Google fell 10 […]

Facebook Jan. 18 introduced new social applications for its Timeline user interface, adding 60 popular programs for brands such as Ticketmaster, Rotten Tomatoes and TripAdvisor. Facebook began rolling outs its Timeline UI worldwide for desktop and Google Android smartphone users in December. A bid for Facebook to better leverage older information about users for social […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) 700,000 daily activations of devices based on its Android operating system may be worth $10 million annually in mobile ad revenues, totaling $3.65 billion a year overall, according to Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL). Oracle sued Google in August 2010 for patent and copyright infringement, accusing the search engine provider of infringing seven Java patents and […]

Google has really revved its Google+ engine in this second full week of the new year. One day after I discussed the new Google+ photo meme feature and auto-complete search for hashtags, the company has rolled out a handful of new tools to refine the user experience. I’m going to start with my favorite: the […]

One week after attendees of the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show searched high and low for tablets based on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) said its Xoom WiFi model would begin getting the ICS upgrade. The ICS upgrade will begin rolling out in phases over the air in the […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) put a black rectangle over its search logo Jan. 18, linking to a petition page inviting users to protest the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA), which the search engine and many others claim will censor the Web. The link is also live under the search box. Google, Wikipedia, […]

Birth of Yahoo in 1994 Yang officially co-founded Yahoo, which actually stands for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle, in 1995 with David Filo. Check out this early logo from 1994. The Golden Years The company spent the next five years after its incorporation blazing a trail as the premier search engine and Web portal until […]