Google has recently acquired Metaweb and company that indexes and classifies information on the basis of objects or entities. The main focus is the understand the exact meaning behind a user query and give out the best contextual search results. Not exactly a vertical search engine i would say but a different mechanism to understand [...]

Wrote a fairly lengthy post on the topic but decided to skip and just go with this cartoon

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Just noticed this new message in my Picasa web albums about editing photos in Picnik. Picnik was acquired by Google few months ago and the results of the acquisition have finally start to show. As the whole globe is right now caught into Football fever, the current theme is about Fifa worldcup. You can not [...]

There was a time when people would refrain to give away any information about them online (for general users even their names were something not to be mentioned online). Introduction of Social Networks have totally revamped the way we use internet. Now its a very tightly coupled system shaped by our online behaviors. This deep [...]

Today marks the birthday of Isaac Newton, thats the reason apples are falling on Google’s homepage. Clicking the logo does a search on Isaac Newton. In the search results Google is now showing Real Time tweets about Isaac Newton. Google in the recent part did a deal with Twitter to incorporate real time tweets into [...]

Source: ByteSense
Map maker is a collaborative map utility through which you can draw details place markers like roads (detailed), places, addresses and hell lots of other stuff on maps. Google has finally opened it for Pakistan and people have already started contributing in large volumes. All you need is a google account to contribute.
Collaborative [...]