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Google Street View in Google Maps is a good service to explore just about any location. Most of Street View is focused on landmarks and roads that are accessible to Google with its Street View car. Now Google has officially introduced its Street View trike, which is aimed at photographing pedestrian only locations. The Street [...]

Online video continues to gain in popularity and 161 million U.S. Internet users watched online video during August, the largest audience ever recorded, according to comScore. In August more than 25 billion videos were viewed, with Google sites accounting for more than 10 billion. Google sites remained as the top U.S. video property in August [...]

comScore has released a study focusing on Google’s strong position in the two emerging Internet markets of India and Brazil. Google sites ranked as the most visited Internet property globally with 854 million unique visitors in July, an increase of 18 percent during the past year. Google usage is more common in certain global markets [...]

Hitwise has released it search engine market share data for the month of March. Google continued to dominate, capturing 72.39 percent of all U.S. searches for the month. Yahoo trailed with 16.36 percent of the search market share, falling 19 percent year-over-year. MSN Search also saw its search share dip 17 percent year-over-year to grab [...]

Google has launched a new API in its message center called GData API that allows Google to communicate with webmasters on site issues. Webmasters can use GData to access feeds from the Google Message Center without having to continually check your messages in Webmaster tools The Message Center GData API allows webmasters to retrieve all [...]

Google has recently begun providing Google Product Search users with information on the tax and shipping costs of items in the U.S. Users will now be able to see tax and shipping cost displayed alongside the product listings for which merchants have submitted this information. Google says that by providing this information it is a [...]