Dario Borghino

Earlier today, Google unveiled its 'Quick Search Box' for Mac OS X, an application that offers search functionality across users' computer files and allows them to perform specific actions on the results based on their file extension.

Earlier today, Google announced in an official blog post the release of Google Translator Toolkit, a new Web application that builds on the popular Google Translate that might facilitate the growth of sites like Wikipedia in its alternate language versions.

Yahoo recently announced it is adding a number of third-party applications and widgets to some of its main properties, including Yahoo Mail and My Yahoo, that will allow users to, among other things, send a PayPal payment or publish a blog post without leaving Yahoo's website.

Google recently announced on its main corporate blog the release of an early development version of its Google Chrome browser for the Mac OS X and Linux platform. The software, however, is still rough around the edges and is meant for developers and early adopters only as it still doesn't support a number of features, including Flash videos.

Earlier today, the Google introduced "Squared," a new Google Labs tool that should help users perform new kinds of Web searches, and particularly comparative search on a specific topic, in a significantly faster and easier way without forcing the user to manually pick and compare different bits of information from previous search results.

After long preparations, Google recently announced that it will start selling downloadable e-books through an online store, in a move that would put the search giant in direct competition with the current market leader Amazon.com.

Yahoo recently announced on its official blog that it will close its Yahoo 360 social networking site on July 13, as the Web company originally planned to do in early 2008 and later postponed a few times. Users will have to migrate to the Yahoo Profiles service by that date to maintain their account information.

Earlier today, Google announced a new and easier way for webmasters to integrate many of its products such as Google News, Maps and others into their websites. The new platform, called "Web Elements", was demonstrated today at the Google I/O conference held in San Francisco.

Earlier today, Google unveiled an innovative and highly ambitious online communication and collaboration tool dubbed "Wave" that has been in the works for over two years and aims to combine together a wide array of ways to communicate on the Web in real time, from instant messaging to document sharing and translation, all in a single platform.

According to a recent report appeared on AdAge Microsoft's revamped Web search engine will be named "Bing" instead of its initial codename "Kumo", and will be supported by a massive $80 to $100 million advertisement campaign over a number of different media once it launches next month in occasion of the upcoming seventh AllThingsD conference.

Google is going to roll out a few improvements to Google Suggest — including the introduction of ads — after announcing them earlier today on their official corporate blog. The new features will allow for localized and more relevant suggestions based on the search history of each individual user.

As announced earlier today during its Search Chalk Talk conference, Yahoo is experimenting a new search paradigm that involves focusing more on users' intents rather than pages and representing the information on the Internet as a "Web Of Objects" (WOO) through structured data rather than a list of links to documents.

After a long wait, yesterday Wolfram Alpha, the "computational knowledge engine" that seeks to answer factual questions posed by users in natural language, was finally released to the public despite initial technical glitches due to the overwhelming number of users testing out the platform for the first time.

Despite facing a number of pending lawsuits over the sale of trademarked keywords through its online advertising platform, last Friday Google announced on its corporate blog that it will allow some ads to display trademarks in their text in order to better target their visitors.

Google recently introduced a new Gmail tool that allows users to quickly and easily migrate all of their emails and contacts to the search giant's mail service from a number of other providers like Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and others instead of using the POP3 mail fetching feature to import all data through a CSV file.

A number of people around the world — some sources say in the millions — were suddenly cut off from Google's services earlier today for about an hour following a glitch in some of the company's data centers, causing many users to realize how they have become dependent on a single service provider for most of their Internet needs.

Following recent complaints from privacy watchdogs, Google has recently said it will have to reshoot all Japanese pictures taken so far for its Street View service, while Greek authorities have ruled to suspend the service altogether because of their strict privacy laws until the search giant will address some of the regulators' requests.

Earlier today, Google's vice president of search products and user experience Marissa Mayer unveiled "a new set of tools that allows you to slice and dice results in new ways" including a search option panel, improved and personalizable results snippets, and a way to represent results in the form of a graph.

Last Friday, Google has announced on its official blog it will air its first US television advertisement on several networks to promote its Chrome browser, which up to now has only managed to capture a very small fraction of Microsoft's Internet Explorer market share.

Google recently announced in a YouTube blog post that, starting today, all new accounts created at the popular video sharing site will contextually create a Google account or link the YouTube account to a pre-existing one. The change is part of an effort to encourage users to experiment new Google products, and doesn't affect users who are already registered at the site.