Those paying attention to commentators on modern web search are sure to have heard at least one rant about Google search being an outdated form of exploring the web. Advocates of a new system, which would be more service-oriented, included Vivek Wadhwa. But he's not alone in his perspective. Bing Search Director Stefan Weitz has .

Google loves a lot of things. They love search. They love productivity software. They love being a monopoly. They love buying companies. They love mobile devices. Oh, and of course, they love operating systems. There was a large chunk of time where Google was actually working on the development of three separate operating systems: Android .

Last year Yahoo announced that it would be going through a clean-out process for its various services. As a struggling company that desperately needed to adjust the focus of its efforts, Yahoo's trend toward abandoning product and service lines made a lot of sense. However, after Larry Page re-took the CEO position at Google, Google .

In the Zen belief, there's a lot of weight put on the concept of decreasing the number of projects or amount of property you have to worry about so you can increase your focus on what's really important. In that way, Google is being a very Zen company. For the last two months Google has .

The vast majority of us in America take great pride in our books. A bookshelf is a display of our interests, beliefs, passions, and studies. But our physical is also becoming one additional thing: empty. For those who live on the cutting edge of technology, "real" books are the pricey and unnecessary alternative to eBooks, .

Saying "today's world is more mobile than that of yesterday" can go unsaid; it's stated quite plainly by the thirty people you passed this morning who weren't aware of your existence because they were playing with their smartphone or tablet. It's not as though these hyper-intelligent new devices are only good for creating a bubble .

As a citizen of the internet, it's a safe bet that you're using an email address from at least one of three free webmail services: Hotmail, Yahoo, or Gmail. In fact, Hotmail has a total user population larger than the population of the United States - 364 million users, to be precise. Meanwhile, Gmail is struggling .

Google Scribe, a Google Lab designed to take your writing capabilities to the next level, has released a new version that expands on numerous core features and adds several additional options. Most prominently, this new version has expanded into several languages, added a "multiple suggestions" option, created "as-you-go" fixes, and added automatic text generation for .

While Google is certainly the dominant player in the search market )with evaluations of its market share ranging from about 60 percent to 75 percent, depending on who you ask(, it isn't winning in every arena. Yahoo completely defeated Google when it came to their Q&A site, while Microsoft has the most popular email service .

For Google and Microsoft, there's no clear end to the technological battle. Every territory - ranging from search to social to email to productivity to education to mobile and beyond - serves as one more place to either thrive or perish. While it's not likely that either company will disappear anytime soon, that's partially because .

San Francisco has 23,000 municipal employees that require productivity software, such as that offered by both Google )via its Apps suite( and Microsoft )via its BPOS suite(. It created quite a stir when, a year and a half ago, San Francisco decided to go with the then unestablished Google Apps. Now, however, they're recanting, going .

While there are too many competitive arenas between Google and Microsoft to count )unless, at least, you have a few free hours(, there are certain elements of use that are core. Oftentimes these core features are centered around ID use. If you use a Gmail account, for example, you're far more likely to use other .

There are approximately 194 million registered Gmail accounts right now )give or take a million(, meaning that Gmail's population is more than three times that of Great Britain. That puts Gmail in a great position when it comes to free webmail services )Gmail is in third and climbing up to beat Yahoo Mail(, but Gmail's .

Have you ever been reading a book and stumbled across a word that you didn't know? Of course you have! We all have. And we were all taught that, should we discover such an unknown word, we should promptly go visit a dictionary and get a definition. "It expands your vocabulary," they said. But did .

In America, we all love four things: hamburgers, cars, winners, and debt. That last item is actually )unfortunately( the most universal, with the average debt for individuals who have at least one credit card surpassing $14,000. Further, since the APR on credit cards has risen steadily, users are paying more than $2,200 in interest for .

Maps have become a surprisingly important part of the world of modern technology. Of course, we're not referring here to those gigantic maps that you had to spend 20 minutes unfolding. Rather, we're talking about electronic maps services such as those offered by Bing, Google, and others. Google Maps is especially popular, and although we .

Chances are you haven't heard of the Google WebP image format. Don't feel bad; it was only released in September of last year, and thus far it hasn't received too much attention. However, the uses of WebP are quite evident, the format itself is improving, the way modern browsers decode the content is getting better, .

Those who pay close attention to the world of search are likely aware that Google, far more than any other tech company, uses its blogging resources to give information to the public. Beyond its Official Google Blog, the company runs a blog for almost every product as well as a blog for their non-profit actions, .

Discussing the cornerstone's of Google's business objectives, Marissa Mayer said, "If you think about the web, there are four key platforms: search, video, mobile, and social." That third category of mobile has been an astounding success story for Google )and we'll just be nice and not talk about the fourth item on the list(. Thanks .

Technology companies are a lot like movies: they're showy, have high budgets and even higher profits, and - while there are hundreds of people who come together to make any single part of the "big picture" happen - you only ever see the few big names. In movies that might be Amy Adams, Russel Crowe, .