Yahoo is UK portal to use the Google search engine
Though there was widespread speculation that Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, would be chosen to replace its own search engine, they have announced that they chose Google.
Google has been given the license to support the search engine part for BT subscribers, along with collaboration with Yahoo.
A number of Yahoo services, including the search engine, are being provided to all BT subscribers by the portal co – branded by both companies since 2003. In order to increase their own revenue, they have decided to increase the number of people searching through their portal by roping in Google, which has a 90% market share of the search engine market in the country.
Connected Internet, in a report, stated that the number of people using Google were about 2 to 3 times more than the number of people using Google, the most likely reason for this move.
Yahoo has sold search engine rights to Microsoft at the same time that this agreement with Google was penned, meaning that all search queries made on Yahoo are powered by Bing, although the branding and design will be done by Yahoo. Ad sales from customers of both companies will be under the full control of Yahoo.
If this deal between Yahoo and Microsoft goes through, it will give Bing a 30% market share of the US and will be implemented through the course of the agreement, which will last for 10 years.
For Yahoo, a Google partnership isn’t something new as a previous agreement with regard to an advertisement deal didn’t get through due to concerns from governments that they might get a monopoly in the search engine and ad sales market. This attempt at a deal with Google had come after talks with Microsoft for Bing had not run the full course before it collapsed.
Chrome 3, is Google Made Better
All over the world, broadband users now have the chance download Chrome 3, Google’s updated version of its web browsing software.
Anthony Laforge, Google program manager for Chrome 3, recently posted a write-up on the company’s blog page to give out this news, along with a detailed run-through of what this system offers to broadband users.
Laforge explains that Chrome 3 came after two other stable versions and a beta version for testing was released. More good news is that this year-old web browser is a good alternative for the Internet Explorer or Opera. The Goggle Chrome 3 also boasts of faster speed in start-up time and loading of pages, for which the programmer said they have improved over 150% s in Javascript performance since the company’s employment of the first beta.
Laforge also said they improved by 25% since the most recent stable version was released.
The program manager also said that they have fixed over 3,500 bugs in the last year which now makes Chrome 3 as fast as it is notably more efficient than its counterparts from other companies.
Among the other changes is the tab page which has been redesigned for simpler use and is now more customizable-friendly. The omnibox capability has also been made more advanced and now includes a drop-down various tweaks and more distinguishable listings.
These improvements to the system were also explained during the unveiling of Google Chrome 3 this week. Also, the updated version has an improvised system that now has HTML 5 that has surpassed testing period.
Google also said that along with these developments, the themes option has been integrated as a stable release as well. With the new themes options, users can now decorate their browsers with patterns, designs, images and colours as preferred, and they need to settle for the original theme if they prefer something more.
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