| Search Giants Collaborate on Metadata Project |
06 Jun 11 |
| While Google competes with Microsoft and Yahoo in the search market, the three companies are cooperating to help web publishers make their content more comprehensible to search engines.
Google on Thursday said that the three companies had launched an initiative called schema.org, to create and support common ways to represent web page metadata. The project will offer web publishers the tools to make their web content more easily understood by search engines and more effectively represented on search results pages. |
| Google Unveils Mobile Wallet Platform |
27 May 11 |
| Google on Thursday unveiled a mobile wallet platform and field tests in New York and San Francisco that will let people with special phones pay for goods in retail shops by tapping the phones against a payment terminal.
The Google Wallet initially supports Mastercard credit cards from Citi and users can pay for goods at 120,000 U.S. shops including Macy's, Walgreens, Subway, Noah's Bagels, American Eagle, Bloomingdale's, Peet's Coffee, Toys 'R' Us and others. |
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Google Predicts Huge Growth in Online Advertising
The online graphical advertisement market is likely to increase significantly within the next few years, Neal Mohan, the vice president of display advertising product at Google predicts. |
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Has Twitter Bought TweetDeck?
Rumours have been circulating for a week about the possibility of Twitter acquiring TweetDeck and it seems that the deal may finally have been done. |
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