Yahoo rejected two PhD students' $1 million offer for their site. Here's why they are still "thankful" for itStanford PhD students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, created Google, a search engine initially rejected by Yahoo and Excite. Google's AdWords...
20 Nov, 2024, 06.13 PM IST
Hong Kong Anthem: Google refuses to alter search results. Know what happenedGoogle made it clear that it won't change the search results for the Hong Kong anthem amid a row on where it appears in the search engine r...
15 Dec, 2022, 10.00 PM IST
How to make it big in the world of art? It's not just hard work, but also the right connectionsQuality does matter but since it can’t be measured curators often depend on validation from others.
22 Nov, 2018, 06.18 PM IST
Indian-origin VC Asha Jadeja Motwani is putting her money on Pakistani start-upsThe Silicon Valley-based investor is impressed with the value system and high ethical standards of young Pakistani entrepreneurs.
24 Jan, 2018, 11.28 AM IST
Why startups fail and how to build better onesHaving a unique technology that can be used to solve problems at scale gives you an edge, and these cos have built their business models on...
14 Jan, 2017, 02.46 PM IST
Have researchers just sounded the death knell for RAM?Researchers at the MIT have come up with a more affordable solution for the so-called high performance computingmarket - for now, at least.
14 Jul, 2015, 12.09 PM IST
Google search manipulation can swing votes in Indian electionsThe higher the rank, the more people trust the result, which is why companies are spending billions now to push their products higher.
13 May, 2014, 01.39 PM IST
Larry Page: The untold story of an incredible comebackOne day in July 2001, Larry Page decided to fire Google’s project managers. All of them. Page is the Steve Jobs of Google.
06 May, 2014, 12.11 PM IST
Cloud computing: How tech giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon store the world's dataThe spectacular technological and business innovations in data storage hide unheralded stars as well as tricky questions.
27 May, 2012, 01.58 PM IST
- Buy domain name, populate it & link to blogs for fame on Google, says Clay
SEO is being increasingly used by companies to vault a topic to the top of a search or push a negative news item out of the first page.
03 Aug, 2010, 02.08 AM IST
- Hackers create tremors online by 'poisoning' Haiti quake searches
Hackers became busy writing malicious codes aimed at infecting PCs of web users who were seeking information about the disaster. After phis...
17 Jan, 2010, 04.14 AM IST
Google mentor Rajeev Motwani dies in drowning accidentNoted Stanford professor who mentored cos such as Google & Paypal died in a drowning accident at his Bay area home.
07 Jun, 2009, 02.38 PM IST
- Google algorithm may help identify routes of infection
A method used by search engine Google to rank search results may help reduce the transmission of hospital acquired infections like the "sup...
06 Jan, 2008, 04.58 AM IST
- Men who spurned Google create Kosmix
Kosmix will have videos, images, community, question/answers and widgets brought together by a powerful search engine.
30 Oct, 2007, 12.10 AM IST
- Ten things you didn’t know about Google05 Apr, 2007, 12.00 AM IST
- Web search gets up, close and personal
The latest one, though, has a whole lot of netizens buzzing - Custom Search Engine (CSE), part of Google Co-Op, the google partnership prog...
27 Oct, 2006, 12.51 AM IST
- Search engines: Slip-road to fame!
Page ranking plays a crucial role in your success in finding the information on a search engine like Google.
12 Aug, 2006, 12.00 AM IST