Web Searches Just Got Faster, Google Claims

Web search speed used to be gauged by how many mouse clicks they took. Google just took the click out of the equation.


Thanks to a set of enhancements to its Internet search engine released on Wednesday (and propagating out to the entire net over the next few days), the new Google search engine will predict your query as you type and deliver results simultaneously — no more clicking for results.

Google-Verizon Web plan criticised

SAN FRANCISCO: Google and Verizon have introduced a proposal for how Internet service should be regulated — and were immediately criticized by groups that favor keeping the network as open as possible.
According to the proposal, Internet service providers would not be able to block producers of online content or offer them a paid “fast lane.” It says the Federal Communications Commission should have the authority to stop or fine any rule-breakers.

Yahoo Layoffs

 
Yahoo Layoffs, Yahoo has founded in 1994 by Stanford Ph.D. students David Filo and Jerry Yang. It has since evolved into a major internet brand with search, vertical content, and other Web services.
Yahoo called this number “misleading”. But layoffs do not seem to be brewing, judging by the increasing number of tips we received.

Google Hasn't Given up the Ghost on Social

I'm not convinced of the exact characterization when Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster -- who loves Apple -- told Bloomberg TV that Google has "given up" on social.

Or in the paraphrasing from Silicon Alley Insider:

Google has given up on social. Facebook owns the social graph, Google can't replicate it, and that race is over.

Google Ebooks

Google Ebooks:Google launched a new service that lets you buy and read books online: Google eBooks. Right now, you can only buy books if you are in the US, but you can read 3 million public domain books for free from any location.

New Alternative to Wikileaks

 

Former second-in-command of whistle blowing site Wikileaks is about to to launch an alternative to the high-profile website.
Daniel Domscheit-Berg left the original site after issues with it’s founder Julian Assange, he plans to launch his new site Openleaks within the next few months. It will allow potential whistle-blowers to anonymously leak data to publishers of their choice.