By Tony Bradley Yahoo has joined the fray of integrating social networking with search results. With a bit of dramatic flourish–tweeting out Da Vinci code-style hints throughout the day and teasing users to break the code and figure out the big news, Yahoo announced a new partnership with Twitter. With the Bing-Yahoo alliance, Bing is [...]

Jefferies notes Google’s search-market share hit a new high in December. Jefferies & Co. THERE SEEMS TO BE A PATTERN now showing Google (Ticker: GOOG) and [ Microsoft's (MSFT)] Bing gaining share, at the expense of Yahoo (YHOO) and other smaller players. Google gained 10 basis points in December and Bing gained 40 basis points, [...]

Saving the world By Ed Berridge ALTHOUGH MICROSOFT AND YAHOO have not actually tied the knot yet, they appear to be unanimous about the need to protect Indians from the perils of pornography. Yahoo has announced that it is blocking sex searches for all those on the Indian subcontinent. Its decision came after a similar [...]

Google has introduced so-called “real-time web” results into its search engine. It means that Google will display information from news organisations, blogs and platforms, such as Twitter, as soon as it is published. Google said it was “the first time” that a search engine had integrated the real-time web into its results page. The feature [...]

Google has apologised over a racially offensive image of Michelle Obama which appears when users search for images of the US first lady. The picture appears top of the Google Image search results for Mrs Obama. Google placed a notice over the image titled “Offensive Search Results”, saying: “Sometimes our search results can be offensive. [...]