Media - Internet

Google Inc. hopes to eclipse its success as a company by committing nearly $1 billion to help solve problems including poverty and environmental destruction. The Mountain View search engine formally unveiled its philanthropic plans Tuesday with the introduction of Google.org, an umbrella organization charged with making the world a better place. Google's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin...

A battle has erupted over who governs the internet, with America demanding to maintain a key role in the network it helped create and other countries demanding more control. The European commission is warning that if a deal cannot be reached at a meeting in Tunisia next month the internet will split apart. At issue is the role of the US government in overseeing the internet's address structure...

Internet giant Yahoo has put blogs on an equal footing with news. The company has included blogs on all its news searches giving a major boost to personal journals that aim to compete with traditional journalism. Yahoo has created a three-tier system for finding news that starts with the links to top ten stories and related photographs produced by mainstream news organisations on the site. The...

Microsoft Corp. set off a storm of comments and feedback–both glowing and damning–this weekend when officials requested feedback on a proposed RSS icon redesign for the Internet Explorer 7.0 tool bar. Details about the planned RSS icon redesign emerged on the Microsoft RSS Team's Weblog on Saturday. "The choice of what icon to use is challenging because it should be universally symbolic, but today...

SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo Inc.'s online news search tool on Monday added Internet journal entries as a supplement to professional media offerings – an experiment that figures to test the public's appetite for information from alternative sources. Under Yahoo's new approach, a keyword search for online news will include a list of relevant Web logs, or "blogs," displayed in a box to the right of the...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo! Inc. said Monday it will begin featuring the work of self-published Web bloggers side by side with the work of professional journalists, leveling distinctions between the two. Yahoo! News, the world's most popular Internet media destination, is set to begin testing on Tuesday an expanded news search system that includes not only news stories and blogs but user...

Yahoo! has revamped its news search tool to grab material from thousands of blogs in addition to headlines from 6,500 newspapers and magazines. The company launched a test version of the new tool on Monday, saying it aims to give consumers a more complete view of the news. Neil Budde, general manager of Yahoo! News, said in a statement: "Our expanded news search dramatically increases the consumer...

Around 81 per cent of Internet users in India visit online shopping sites but only 55 per cent actually buy something, a recent survey has found. As many as 93 per cent of these users, however, are aware that they can shop online. This is in the backdrop of Rs 570 crore of e-commerce being conducted online in 2004-05, which is expected to grow by 300 per cent to Rs 2,300 crore by 2006-07. The...

Bloggers are gaining a higher profile alongside traditional news sources with Yahoo including blogs in its expanding news search system. The decision could reignite the debate over what constitutes news reporting and whether blogs are as valuable a source of news as that from professional journalists. So-called citizen journalists are increasingly dominating the headlines. User-generated content...

NEW YORK - Look out: The blogs are coming to Yahoo! Some 750,000 blogs and other user-generated content will soon show up on Yahoo! (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) News search pages, presented right alongside news from mainstream media. But is Yahoo! taking another big step in the blurring of lines between professional media and grassroots journalism? The company is testing a new search tool that...