Claire Cain Miller Nyt News Service

Edwin Perello discovered that Bing, the Microsoft search engine, could find addresses in his rural Indiana town when Google could not. Laura Michelson, an administrative assistant in San Francisco, was lured by Bing's flight fare tracker. Paul Callan, a photography...

Google Wave was one of Google's most high-profile new services. Now it is one of its most high-profile flops.On Wednesday, Google said that it will stop developing Wave as a standalone product and that the Web site could be shuttered...

On Friday at lunchtime, as Google employees dined al fresco, a hundred protesters descended on the company's Silicon Valley campus. A group called the Raging Grannies sang a song called "The Battle Hymn for the Internet," and others carried signs...

Google is digging deeper into real-time search, with a new search page that displays only results from timely sources, like updates from Twitter and other social networks.Google is the default search engine for most people searching most topics. But as...

Twitter unveiled a new Web site on Tuesday that it hopes will be user friendly. The redesigned site, which will be available to all users in the next few weeks, makes it simpler to see information about the authors of...

Twitter unveiled a new Web site on Tuesday that it hopes will be user friendly. The redesigned site, which will be available to all users in the next few weeks, makes it simpler to see information about the authors of Twitter posts, conversations among Twitter users, and the photos and videos that posts link to. (Catch a glimpse of the new Twitter....

Google is digging deeper into real-time search, with a new search page that displays only results from timely sources, like updates from Twitter and other social networks.Google is the default search engine for most people searching most topics. But as the real-time Web exploded, other search engines, like Twitter's and Bing, became more useful for...

On Friday at lunchtime, as Google employees dined al fresco, a hundred protesters descended on the company's Silicon Valley campus. A group called the Raging Grannies sang a song called "The Battle Hymn for the Internet," and others carried signs reading, "Google is evil if the price is right."They were there to complain about what they saw as Goog...

Google Wave was one of Google's most high-profile new services. Now it is one of its most high-profile flops.On Wednesday, Google said that it will stop developing Wave as a standalone product and that the Web site could be shuttered by the end of the year. The technology will remain available if people want to develop new tools with it.Despite hav...

Edwin Perello discovered that Bing, the Microsoft search engine, could find addresses in his rural Indiana town when Google could not. Laura Michelson, an administrative assistant in San Francisco, was lured by Bing's flight fare tracker. Paul Callan, a photography buff in Chicago, fell for Bing's vivid background images.Like most Americans, they s...

Google said on Thursday that its search engine was "fully blocked" in China, along with Google ads and mobile search.This is the first time that Google has been blocked since March, when it closed its search service in China and began automatically redirecting users to an uncensored search engine in Hong Kong after a standoff over censorship. Altho...

A new iPad application makes Twitter and Facebook feeds a whole lot prettier.Flipboard, a start-up that is unveiling its iPad app on Wednesday, builds a personalized magazine full of updates, photos and articles shared by a reader's friends or by people they choose to follow on Twitter and Facebook. Soon it plans to incorporate material from other ...

Many coffee shops try to discourage people from buying a cup of coffee and then lingering for hours to use the free Internet access.

Loyalty cards -- those little paper cards that promise a free sandwich or coffee after 10 purchases, but instead get lost or forgotten -- are going mobile. And merchants are looking for ways to marry the concept to games that customers can play to earn more free items and, it is hoped, spend more money.Instead of collecting paper cards and fumbling...

Diners craving a pizza or burger can pull out their phones on their way home from work and arrive at the restaurant to find their meal waiting for them. That is the idea behind Snapfinger, a Web and mobile app for ordering takeout from chain restaurants like California Pizza Kitchen, Outback Steakhouse and Subway.

Edwin Perello discovered that Bing, the Microsoft search engine, could find addresses in his rural Indiana town when Google could not. Laura Michelson, an administrative assistant in San Francisco, was lured by Bing's flight fare tracker. Paul Callan, a photography...

Google Wave was one of Google's most high-profile new services. Now it is one of its most high-profile flops.On Wednesday, Google said that it will stop developing Wave as a standalone product and that the Web site could be shuttered...

On Friday at lunchtime, as Google employees dined al fresco, a hundred protesters descended on the company's Silicon Valley campus. A group called the Raging Grannies sang a song called "The Battle Hymn for the Internet," and others carried signs...

Google is digging deeper into real-time search, with a new search page that displays only results from timely sources, like updates from Twitter and other social networks.Google is the default search engine for most people searching most topics. But as...

Twitter unveiled a new Web site on Tuesday that it hopes will be user friendly. The redesigned site, which will be available to all users in the next few weeks, makes it simpler to see information about the authors of...

Twitter unveiled a new Web site on Tuesday that it hopes will be user friendly. The redesigned site, which will be available to all users in the next few weeks, makes it simpler to see information about the authors of Twitter posts, conversations among Twitter users, and the photos and videos that posts link to. (Catch a glimpse of the new Twitter....

Google is digging deeper into real-time search, with a new search page that displays only results from timely sources, like updates from Twitter and other social networks.Google is the default search engine for most people searching most topics. But as the real-time Web exploded, other search engines, like Twitter's and Bing, became more useful for...

On Friday at lunchtime, as Google employees dined al fresco, a hundred protesters descended on the company's Silicon Valley campus. A group called the Raging Grannies sang a song called "The Battle Hymn for the Internet," and others carried signs reading, "Google is evil if the price is right."They were there to complain about what they saw as Goog...

Google Wave was one of Google's most high-profile new services. Now it is one of its most high-profile flops.On Wednesday, Google said that it will stop developing Wave as a standalone product and that the Web site could be shuttered by the end of the year. The technology will remain available if people want to develop new tools with it.Despite hav...

Edwin Perello discovered that Bing, the Microsoft search engine, could find addresses in his rural Indiana town when Google could not. Laura Michelson, an administrative assistant in San Francisco, was lured by Bing's flight fare tracker. Paul Callan, a photography buff in Chicago, fell for Bing's vivid background images.Like most Americans, they s...

Google said on Thursday that its search engine was "fully blocked" in China, along with Google ads and mobile search.This is the first time that Google has been blocked since March, when it closed its search service in China and began automatically redirecting users to an uncensored search engine in Hong Kong after a standoff over censorship. Altho...

A new iPad application makes Twitter and Facebook feeds a whole lot prettier.Flipboard, a start-up that is unveiling its iPad app on Wednesday, builds a personalized magazine full of updates, photos and articles shared by a reader's friends or by people they choose to follow on Twitter and Facebook. Soon it plans to incorporate material from other ...

Many coffee shops try to discourage people from buying a cup of coffee and then lingering for hours to use the free Internet access.

Loyalty cards -- those little paper cards that promise a free sandwich or coffee after 10 purchases, but instead get lost or forgotten -- are going mobile. And merchants are looking for ways to marry the concept to games that customers can play to earn more free items and, it is hoped, spend more money.Instead of collecting paper cards and fumbling...

Diners craving a pizza or burger can pull out their phones on their way home from work and arrive at the restaurant to find their meal waiting for them. That is the idea behind Snapfinger, a Web and mobile app for ordering takeout from chain restaurants like California Pizza Kitchen, Outback Steakhouse and Subway.