Google won’t have to rely on outside companies to populate reviews for restaurants anymore, as today the company announced that it has acquired Zagat. Zagat will be powering Google’s local rating services in search and Google Maps. By buying Zagat Google no longer has to rely on scraping Yelp for reviews, or on it’s on more »

Groupon has built an empire by providing big discounts for cities around the United States every day. One of the downsides to Groupon is that there are only a limited amount of offers for each day. There may be one deal specific to your city and other deals are located in cities closest to you. To alleviate that, Groupon has launched a new service called Groupon Now.

Yesterday, Google made two new enhancements for mobile users that have the Google app installed. The most significant is a feature called “Personalized Suggest,” which will remember your searches when you switch between PC and mobile versions of Google.com. As you type your query in the search bar, these past records will appear as search more »

Google made some changes its search results. You can search for something like “restaurant” in a standard Google search and you will get local results. You don’t have to include a location because Google figures it out via your IP address. If Google gets it wrong, you can just hit the “Change location” link. Changing more »