Google has justannouncedthat it’s aiming to bring consumers a better way to search e-commerce on the web by updating its enterprise product, Commerce Search. A few of the new features include search as you type, local product availability, enhanced merchandising tools and product recommendations. Commerce Search uses Google search technology to offer a faster and customizable way to search. It enables your visitors to sort items by category, price, brand or any product tag you set up....

Those of you who use Google regularly may know about the “define” operator, allowing you to search for the definition of an acronym or keyword right from Google’s search bar. Over thelast month, Google has been experimenting with a new layout for its definitions service, changing the way the operator is displayed within organic search results. It appears that very recently, Google switched the new design live for all users, providing a new way to look up the meaning of specific words....

Highly targeted, politically motivated attacks that affect all supported versions of Microsoft’s Windows operating system are being carried out on Google users, requiring the search giant to issue a bulletin warning those who use its services. Attacks on Google users utilise an unpatched MHTML vulnerability that, although disclosed in January, allows attackers to steal sensitive information by exploiting the way Internet Explorer users on Windows parses MIME-formatted webpages, also allowing trusted websites to be spoofed and actions to be performed without authorisation....

Google is currently ‘dogfooding’ its telephony serviceGoogle Voicein Europe ahead of a planned launch outside the US, the company’s European Director of Business Development, Jens Redmer has just told The Next Web. Redmer made a surprise appearance at theEuropean Pirate Summitevent in Cologne, Germany today to hold an ‘Ask Google’ session for the attending entrepreneurs. One question regarded when Google Voice, the telephony service offered in the US, would be more widely available....

Earlier this year, Google expanded their presence in Southeast Asia byopeninga new office in Malaysia. Since then, the search company has been rather quiet until today after announcing the release of a localized Google Voice Search service to understand queries made in Bahasa Malaysia. According to Google, Malaysia has a staggering mobile penetration rate of 108% — meaning there are more phones in the country than the population. This triggered the search company to extend its service locally by incorporating Bahasa Melayu (and even Kelate) in addition to the 19 languages that the service currently recognizes....