Good news for those who use Firefox and like having Google as the default search option — Google will remain. The news has been confirmed by way of the official Mozilla Blog where they break it down as follows; “We’re pleased to announce that we have negotiated a significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement with more »

Google’s desire to funnel just about every service it has into Google+ continues today with the ability to +1 images. We’ve been able to share pages we like by clicking the +1 button for a while now. Clicking +1 on an image will send the recommendation to the +1 section of your Google profile. Google has also made this feature more social. Your friends won’t have to visit your Google profile or Google+ to see the images you like.

Just when you think Google is not going to offer anything to surprise us, they come forward with an announcement like this. According to a recent posting over on the Official Google Blog, they have announced that they are going to begin detecting certain types of malware by looking at the search traffic. According to more »

Twitter has begun making changes to its website today. Twitter’s search feature has been improved to display more tweets that may matter to you. This feature has also been extended to trending topics as well. Also, the search results will include the top images and videos based on whatever you searched for. For example, Marilyn Monroe is a trending topic today. After clicking on the trending topic link or entering her name into the search box, you’ll see “top images” and “top videos” to the right of the page. You’ll be able to view all the top photos in a separate browser tab.

According to a comScore study, Google accounted for over 90% of the searches in Latin America. The region continues to be on the upswing in terms of searching per capita with over 18 billion searches, an increase of 21% over the year prior.The #2 name in searches in the region might surprise you. With Google more »

If you take a quick stroll over to Google Maps in the Android Market, you’ll see that the application has been updated to version 5.4.0. This update doesn’t add anything massive to the already robust catalog of features Google Maps offers, but it does further capitalize on phone and web synchronization.

There has been a lot of BlackBerry news coming out over the past couple days due to BlackBerry World 2011. We’ve seen announcements regarding the BlackBerry Bold 9900, 9930, BlackBerry Balance and important applications that are coming to the PlayBook. Today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced on stage at BlackBerry World that Bing is coming to BlackBerry devices on a much deeper level.

Oh Google. You’re always good for a laugh. It may not be April Fool’s Day anymore, but Google is still having fun with the bajillions of people who use its services. The company has created a mildly amusing page whenever you search for the word “tilt” within Google. The page literally tilts.

On the wire this morning was a nice little piece by Reuters that reported a response from Hugo Barra, Google’s head of mobile product development. Reuters took the response as proof the two will not compete head to head against each other. The problem? Reuters got it wrong; see for yourself. Reuters quoted this statement more »

The new updated version of Google Maps features several improvements over the last version, primarily in the form of a revamped Places design, improved search filtration, and a Google Latitude updating in real time. The Places component of Google Maps now looks identical to the desktop version of the service. In fact, it now includes more »