‘Babylon and Ask’ to share advertising revenues

What’s your question? Has Babylon joined hands with Ask.com?

Yes, for better business prospects - Babylon (free translator and dictionary) joined hands with Ask.com. This partnership guarantees better search engine web searches for the Internet users.

Babylon ltd signed a cooperation agreement with Ask. Media sources report this is short-term agreement for 3 months and Babylon will evaluate possibilities and decide about the long-term agreement, later.

Under the agreement, both parties will share the online advertising revenue.

Spokeo - to find and locate someone...

Founded by a group of Stanford graduates in 2006 – SPOKEO is not new to many. Be it - a person’s name, email address, phone number, username or physical address, SPOKEO makes it easier to locate just anyone, with a click of the button.

Recently, it launched a new search feature for Smartphones, to refresh the look and feel. It introduced first mobile web product in 2010.

Affiliated to various social networks and email services providers, Spokeo has been helping many with people search features. Its mobile users are on the rise.

Testimonials and success stories on the site vouch for the site reliability. What does everyone wait for – why not find/locate someone through Spokeo, right now?

Stay tuned for search engine news and updates.

Baidu’ Qunar with plans of US IPO

The travel site Qunar.com of Chinese search engine (Baidu) prepares for a US Initial Public Offering.

As per the latest media news report, Qunar is in discussion with Goldman Sachs [Investment banking company] and Deutsche Bank [the global banking and financial services company] for sale.

For a majority stake in Qunar, the Chinese search engine Baidu paid about $306 million in 2011 to capture the mobile travel app market.

Qunar generates revenue mostly through advertising. The CEO Zhuang Chenchao said the company expects to double sales, this year to about $163 million.

The company even prepares for a recruitment drive and will hire many software engineers, corroborates the CEO.

If Google killed the Reader, then is back with Google Alerts - RSS Feed option

If the search engine giant Google disappointed many after discontinuation of Google web feed reader service in July 2013, then it is back with feed delivery option [added] to Google Alerts.

Now, everyone can receive web alerts through RSS, once again. Google introduced RSS support in Alerts, in October 2008 which disappeared in July 2013.

People worried about possible alternatives of Google Reader can now breathe a sigh of relief.

The Internet users can log into Google Alerts and create new entries to receive RSS feeds - news, blog, videos etc.

Google Plus over Facebook: which is more popular?

Never did Facebook – the social networking service provider know that Google will pitch Google Plus against its social networking site and win the Internet customers over.

Founded in 2004 by Mark, Eduardo, Andrew, Dustin and Chris - Facebook as of September 2012 (about a year ago) had over 1 billion active users. Of them, many were fake users [suggest media reports]? Facebook serves the global audience, including ‘under aged kids’ that normally violate the site’s terms of service.

One may want to know, which is more popular: Facebook that launched in 2004 or Google Plus which hit the Internet market two years ago, in 2011.

Just two weeks after the launch, Google Plus reported about 10 million active users and its user base continue to grow than that of Facebook.

Be it blog hosting service, social information processing, networking sites or other products/services of Google – everything with the ‘Google’ label sells like a hotcake.

[Image] Google Auto Complete – Questions that need to be addressed

Here is something 'interesting' about the 'Auto complete/word completion' attribute of Google. The general text-editor feature helps the Internet users with search queries, as and when someone types/writes something to search.

The auto complete feature helps to improve the computer-human interaction and provides better and faster results. Let us look through a few questions found in Google Auto complete (Courtesy: Matt Cutts).

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