Few days ago Google acquired ITA in $700 million, a Boston-based software company specializing in organizing airline data, including flight times, availability and prices.
Google was testing the new Google Search Interface for many years and now that is about to finalize and rolled out for the users to test and experience in 37 languages globally.
Google has enabled Near me now feature on their search home page for Android 2.0.1 or later and iPhone OS 3.x. Near me now feature helps users to find out nearby restaurants, coffee shops, ATM and other information like that according to their geo-location.
Sometimes when we conduct search over internet we open several tabs for searching and after a while it become annoying to toggle between those opened tabs.
Most of Facebook users know that Facebook has allowed Google to include its users profile in its search index and many Facebook users were not happy with this because they do not want to include their profile in Google search because of privacy issues yet no solution for this problem was available before.
As we all now that year 2009 is on its way to end and we are just near to the coming next new year. So, Google has released the Zeitgeist of year 2009 that is calculated after examining the billions of billions quires which are entered on Google Search by its users worldwide.
Finally, Microsoft has launched Bing app for iPhone users whereas Bing mobile phone app is already available for other mobile devices including Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry. Bing as a search engine getting more and more popular by passing everyday.
Google Mobile App for iPhone is approved and the new updated version is available in the App Store for download. The search result display format is redesigned for this new version of Google Mobile App for iPhone which allows to open the searched web links within the app window.
Rumors about the changes of Google Search UI are conformed now which is just available to a specific group of testers. We also have a try of new Google Search home page which includes new UI with a lot of colorful effects. Here are some screen shots of new Google home page.
Google has included a new feature Lock SafeSearch for Google search which allows users to lock the search results to prevent the access to inappropriate images and web sites during search activity.


