Today, Google will begin rolling out Priority Inbox for Gmail, a new feature for managing massive amounts of e-mail. Your inbox will never be the same again. Priority Inbox is Google’s attempt to solve the e-mail woes of Gmail power users. At its core, the feature is an algorithm; Priority Inbox uses information such as keywords, the people you e-mail the most and your e-mail habits to select [...]

Google has acquired visual search and price comparison engine Like.com, according to an open letter posted on Like.com’s website. “Since 2006, Like.com has been moving the frontiers of eCommerce forward one step at a time,” said Munjal Shah, the company’s CEO. “We were the first to bring visual search to shopping, the first to build an automated cross-matching system for clothing, and [...]

Was it a social network or a collaboration tool on steroids? Nobody could quite agree, and it’s one reason for the demise of Google Wave.The company is disappointed with the user adoption and has announced it will discontinue developing Wave as a stand-alone product. Google Wave was largely an Australian developed product. Google will maintain the service through the end of the year and will [...]

The Blekko Search Engine Prepares To Launch and challenge Google’s authority over search It was not a one day job to build a brand as famous and successful as the Google. The web search has become synonymous with the Google brand now and there is probably no one that can challenge the authority of the Google brand over the web search. Microsoft’s try in the form of the bing search engine has [...]

We’ve just learned that Google has agreed to buy Slide for $182 million, in a deal to be announced Friday. And sources also tell us that this is not the last move Google is going to be making to cobble together a serious social gaming and apps strategy to counter Facebook. As we previously reported, Google invested in Zynga to form the cornerstone of Google Games, which Eric Schmidt somewhat confirmed [...]

Google rolled out a new search interface Thursday, which its  office described as “intelligent,” as part of its efforts to optimize the relevance of online queries. After more than 6 months of testing, Google’s new interface is finally available to everyone. The new UI is gradually rolled out today and the changes are noticeable. Google’s logo has vibrant colors, the search [...]

As anyone who has used Buzz for any length of time and had to deal with follow requests much of them are traced back to the usual suspects: spammers, SEO ninja wannabes, women who what to show you parts of their gorgeous anatomy and miscellaneous other bot type accounts. What is even worse though is the number of accounts that are nothing more than Twitter accounts being streamed in. As PostRank found [...]