Facebook has just rolled out a new feature for its site-wide search box - search suggestion. This is is similar to the search suggestion features offered by major search engines wherein various search terms are suggested via a drop-down menu, as you type the first few letters of your search query. According to the Facebook blog , this new feature is aimed at helping Facebook users to quickly find and connect with people, pages, groups,

Yes, the headline is not fooling you. According to the latest   Hitwise data , Facebook made it pass through Google to become the most visited website in the U.S. Well, for the week ending March 13 at least. Actually this is not the first time that Facebook achieved this feat. It recently achieved the no. 1 post on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year's Day last year. And this year, it was also the no. 1 most visited site  on March 6 and 7.

Its TV Portal is one of Yahoo's strongest verticals. I personally check it out to get my fix of entertainment news from time to time. So, it is but logical for Yahoo to try to maximize the potential of Yahoo TV to generate site traffic and engagement to its site. Enter the Yahoo TV Shortcuts right smack into your entertainment-related search results pages. So when you search for an entertainment-related topic on Yahoo Search,

Just a quick update to inform you that if you're using Google's product search , whether on your computers or mobile devices such as iPhone or Android phones, you can now check whether a particular product is in stock on a store nearby. You can check out the product's availability by clicking on the "blue dot" included in the search results. This is particularly useful if you're out on the street and saw something which you might want to buy.

ComScore has just released its February search engine rankings data. And while there's nothing new in terms of who is on top, who gained and who lost, what's surprising about it is that among all the online properties where searches are conducted other than the five major search engines, Facebook gained a significant amount of searches in February. Yes, it seems that more search activities are happening on Facebook lately.

With the ever growing site traffic of  of  YouTube mobile site, it is not surprising that  Google will take advantage of this to serve advertisements.  In 2009, YouTube mobile's site traffic increased by 160%. You can just imagine how good this site traffic will be in terms of potential for more ad clicks and brand campaign awareness. So, YouTube has started serving ads , particularly banner ads on its mobile site's home, search and browse pages.

While you are pondering on the points made by Todd about online retirement , here's a worthwile albeit healthy activity that you may want to consider - biking. And to help you navigate your way through U.S. cities on your bike, Google has just added useful biking directions and bike trail data to Google Maps. Google has been gathering these bike trail data for quite some time now and now that they've gathered as much data as possible,

I pretty much remember when talks about Google launching its own store for web apps started circulating before.  But Google remained mum about it until now.  The Google Apps Marketplace has been launched and is now open for business. So what's this all about really?  According to the Official Google Blog , the Google Apps Marketplace is a new online store for integrated business apps. It will allow Google Apps customers to easily discover,

How does searching on your TV using Google sounds like to you? Isn't it enough that Google has conquered the web and the mobile devices and now it wants to try its luck on TV sets as well? According to a WSJ report , Google has been testing out a new   TV search service in cooperation with the second satellite provider in the U.S. - Dish Network. The TV search service will apparently let you search TV shows and web video including  YouTube.  Now,

The Guardian UK is reporting that Microsoft Bing is preparing to launch a massive TV ad campaign aimed at challenging Google's dominance in the UK search market. According to the report, the series of  Bing promotional TV ads is set to begin airing this week and will be promoting Bing as a "decision engine." Microsoft has contracted the services of ad agency JWT.

Google seems to be prepping up its online collaboration and cloud computing tools - Google Docs for the big league. Just recently, Google Docs supported uploading fo files from your computer and sharing that files with people you collaborate with via Google Docs. Now, something good is about to happen with Google's cloud computing service - that is interoperability with Microsoft Office files. To make this happen, Google just bought DocVerse .

Google announced a pretty cool feature that most of us Android phone users would surely find useful and innovative - gesture search .  Basically, what this does is to free you of  the task of typing your search terms.  With gesture search, all you have to do is to draw alphabet gestures on your Android phones homescreen. Gesture search will then suggest search terms based on what you've drawn.

Google's long-standing effort on making its search engine results pages more personalized continue with the roll out of a new feature - marking search results with cutesy, yellow star icons. Actually, Stars are replacing  the SearchWiki, which according to the Official Google blog didn't get to be appreciated by users especially since it changes the order of Google's organic search results. So,

Google has just released a new beta feature for Chrome browser - a translation prompt that automatically appears whenever you are visiting a site which is in a language different from your preferred  language setting. This is an instant feature that don't require you to download any plug-ins or extensions. Previously,  you need to go to translate.google.com and then paste the url of the site that you want to translate into your own language.

The Bing Search Blog has just announced that starting today, your query history will now be part of its search autosuggest feature. Meaning, Bing does not only analyze your usual search behavior based on previous searches but now will use your actual previous searches to suggest search terms for your current search. This could be a helpful search feature if you use Bing often.

Google has just acquired another company as announced by the company's official blog . It's Picnik, a fun, online image editor that was founded in 2005 and since then become one of the most feature-rich online image editor partnering with various photo uploading sites including Flickr. Picnik offers some easy-to-use tool that you can use to enhance, modify, and add more excitement to your photos. All done online at the Picnik site, I mean website.

Although both Facebook and Google has not yet announced this officially, some folks are reporting that   status updates from Facebook pages will start showing up on Google search results today. Of course, this comes hot on the heels of Yahoo's announcement of their content-sharing deal with Twittter. And so the race to become a real-time search engine is starting to heat up.

Twitter seems to be getting on every search engines lately. It has already struck deals with both Microsoft and Google whereby Twitter streams will be integrated into search result pages. And now, it just agreed on a content sharing deal with Yahoo. According to Jim Stoneham, VP of communities for Yahoo via a report by LATimes , the deal will allow users to take material from both sites without having to leave either one.

Google has just announced its new ad serving technology which is geared for both large and small scale online publishers - DoubleClick for Publishers. This is actually a result of combining Google Ad Manager and DoubleClick Ad Exchange which Google purchase in 2008. DoubleClick for Publishers, the main service will be available for large online publishers while DFP Small Business is geared for  growing online publishers and is a simple, free version of the DFP.

Google has just released a new mobile app for Android phones - called Google Shopper . It's a pretty cool and robust app that lets you search product information quickly using your Android phone's camera.  The app  recognizes cover art of books, CDs, DVDs, video games as well as product barcodes. In addition to image recognition, the Google Shopper add also lets you search for product information using voice search.  The Shopper app provides product information, reviews,