In addition to updating the Custom Search tool with new features, Google announces creation of a custom Wikipedia skin to make searching the encyclopedia easier. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a ...
Google Inc., expanding its efforts at providing software that helps users create and post their own materials on the Internet, has acquired a California startup that develops online collaboration ...
Google is helping the Wikimedia Foundation achieve its goal of making Wikipedia articles available in a lot more languages. The Foundation has added Google Translate to its content translation tool, ...
Google, as well as many other companies, has long relied on Wikipedia for its content. Now, Google and Google.org are giving back. Google.org President Jacquelline Fuller today announced a $2 million ...
A new study suggests that Wikipedia gets better visibility on Google than it does on Bing. While that may not surprise much of the SEO industry, it contradicts what some Google employees have ...
Having just written a book about how digital technology is changing cultural ideas about truth — shameless plug: to be released mid-March from Wiley; pre-order here — I’m fascinated by Google’s ...
Despite university bans and limitations on its use, Wikipedia has scored in the top 10 rankings of hot Internet properties for this month, reports Tech News World. With 42.9 million unique visitors, ...
While the SEO industry has spent years decrying how well Wikipedia seems to dominate Google’s rankings, it may be that Amazon.com is the real king of visibility. For most of the past 18 months or so, ...
SAN FRANCISCO – Google is blaming “vandalism” at Wikipedia for search results that incorrectly said the ideology of the California Republican Party included “Nazism.” The results appeared in a Google ...
I've been reviewing hardware and software, devising testing methodology and handed out buying advice for what seems like forever; I'm currently absorbed by computers and gaming hardware, but ...
The brainchild of Udi Manber, Google's head of search engineering, the search firm's next big product is a Wikipedia-like online encyclopedia, written by experts. Photo courtesy Thor Swift/Wired.com ...
After spending two years now as a student at university, I've come to the sound conclusion that yes; yes you can survive entirely on Google and Wikipedia for essays and research. Don't be so hasty to ...