Watch out Zillow, Google is looking to make its Maps service a major player in the real estate market. The company today rolled out a slew of new real estate-centric features, including quicker access to listings and better search. Listings are now ...

A day before the rumored launch of Google Music, word is arriving that Microsoft is looking to bolster its own musical offerings via a proposed partnership with MySpace. The deal would bring music from the social network to Microsoft's MSN portal...

Even 4chan couldn't resist getting in on the "balloon boy" media frenzy. The popular hacker message board, which has been tied to Twitter attacks, YouTube porn, and hacking Time Magazine polls took a more old-school approach with the H...

YouTube is incorporating some Twitter-esque upgrades to its comments section. The Google-owned video site is launching a beta--or Test Tube--version of Comments Search, which will let users search YouTube comments in real time. "The full commen...

Poor, poor Friendster. The site was a pioneer of the social networking space but has since been eclipsed by countless latecomers, including most notably (and lucratively) Facebook and MySpace. Friendster may have fallen out of favor in the U.S. (and ...

YouTube on Wednesday introduced an opt-in, "light" version of the video site intended to cut down on latency. The "Feather" project limits the availability of features on YouTube to reduce the total amount of bytes downloaded by the browser. "A...

Looking to supercharge your site? Google wants to help. The company has launched Site Performance, a service aimed at diagnosing Website speed issues, "a small step in our larger effort to make the Web faster," according to Google. The service offers...

Beginning today, users will be able to sign into Google Friend Connect using their Twitter account login. Signing in via Twitter will also link information from the microblogging service, making it possible to invite friends, tweet membership and...

Regardless of what your hobby or pastime may be, you can find an online social network that will fill the bill. For example, if you're a food lover, you have dozens of popular sites to choose from.  Culinary Culture is one of them, but it's a social...

No, this isn't a late Halloween post. But when you visit Google.com from now on, only the Google logo and the search box will be revealed. Wait, I can hear you saying. What about my Gmail link? And my advanced search capabilities? Fear not, intrepid...