Microsoft complains to senators about Google buying DoubleClick (San Francisco Chronicle)
"This merger will undoubtedly result in higher profits for the operator of the dominant advertising pipeline, but it will be bad for everyone else," Brad Smith, senior vice president and general counsel for Microsoft, told the Senate panel. "It will be bad for publishers, bad for advertisers and, most importantly, bad for consumers."
David Drummond, Google's senior vice president for corporate development and chief legal officer, went on the offensive at the hearing, noting that his company is not the only one gobbling up online advertising companies this year.
In April, Yahoo bought Right Media, an online ad exchange, for $680 million. In May, Microsoft bought aQuantive, an online ad company, for $6 billion, and AOL bought AdTech AG for an undisclosed amount.
Drummond insisted the deal does not violate antitrust law because the two companies are in related businesses, but do not directly compete.”
Friday, September 28, 2007
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Women Execs Have Better Online Presence
(Search Engine Watch Blog)
“An online career survey indicates female executives at the VP and C-levels have a considerably better career presence online than male executives at the same level.
Results from the Career Distinction Online Identity Calculator showed that female, VP-level executives had an average score of 6.26 out of a possible 10, compared to 5.86 for their male counterparts. At the C-level, the female scores were slightly higher: 6.59 compared to 6.33.”
(Search Engine Watch Blog)
“An online career survey indicates female executives at the VP and C-levels have a considerably better career presence online than male executives at the same level.
Results from the Career Distinction Online Identity Calculator showed that female, VP-level executives had an average score of 6.26 out of a possible 10, compared to 5.86 for their male counterparts. At the C-level, the female scores were slightly higher: 6.59 compared to 6.33.”
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
The History Of Google (Micro mart, UK)
“In just eight years, Google has grown into one of the largest companies on the Internet. But what's behind its spectacular success, and what does the future hold?”
“In just eight years, Google has grown into one of the largest companies on the Internet. But what's behind its spectacular success, and what does the future hold?”
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Monday, September 24, 2007
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Google Shares Hit All Time High Friday
(Seeking Alpha)
“Google (GOOG) shares Friday hit an all time high. The search engine giant now has a market cap of close to $175 billion, just a few billion below Wal-Mart (WMT) (to provide just a modicum of perspective here, current Street revenue estimates for the current year are 33x higher for Wal-Mart than for Google: $377.8 billion vs. $11.5 billion).”
(Seeking Alpha)
“Google (GOOG) shares Friday hit an all time high. The search engine giant now has a market cap of close to $175 billion, just a few billion below Wal-Mart (WMT) (to provide just a modicum of perspective here, current Street revenue estimates for the current year are 33x higher for Wal-Mart than for Google: $377.8 billion vs. $11.5 billion).”
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Friday, September 21, 2007
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Web Searchers (About.com)
“Every time I need to find something on the Web, I am successful. Right? Uh, not exactly. Eventually, I get to where I'm going, but it takes some work sometimes.
Over the years I've developed a few search habits that have made me a more effective searcher, and with just a little practice, you can too. After all, searching the Web is a snap - it's actually finding what we're looking for that's the trick!”
“Every time I need to find something on the Web, I am successful. Right? Uh, not exactly. Eventually, I get to where I'm going, but it takes some work sometimes.
Over the years I've developed a few search habits that have made me a more effective searcher, and with just a little practice, you can too. After all, searching the Web is a snap - it's actually finding what we're looking for that's the trick!”
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
The Best Firefox Add-ons for Web Search (About.com)
“Some of the most underrated Web search tools out there are Firefox add-ons, small tools that add functionality of some type to your Firefox browser.
The following are just a few of the best Firefox add-ons I've come across so far to help me in my Web searching.”
“Some of the most underrated Web search tools out there are Firefox add-ons, small tools that add functionality of some type to your Firefox browser.
The following are just a few of the best Firefox add-ons I've come across so far to help me in my Web searching.”
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Users Wrongly Trust Higher Google Results
(The Post Chronicle)
“A U.S. study suggests Internet users mistakenly have an inherent trust of Google search results that appear higher on a page.
A College of Charleston eye tracking experiment revealed college students participating in the study trusted Google's ability to rank results by their true relevance to the query.
When participants selected a link from Google's result pages, their decisions were strongly biased towards links higher in position, even if content was less relevant to the search query.”
Why Google Web Accelerator Is (Very) Bad For Your Business (Dev Mechanic – Search Engine Tricks)
“Google's production is truly a thing of wonder. They are constantly churning out new tools that are truly fascinating, even useful.They're also very controversial. Google Maps' expansion to include street views of addresses has angered more than one resident. The prospect of people finding out you don't live in that Brownstone you're always talking about isn't a welcome one.
Google's Web Accelerator goes one step further by striking truly home - in your business pocketbook. Basically it boils down to 2 big reasons why it could hurt you, especially if its popularity spreads. You might be saying "Only 2 reasons? That's it. Doesn't sound like a big deal." Maybe, but that's like saying the only 2 things bad about being shot is that you might get hurt or die.
Basically what the Accelerator does is this - when someone searching on Google decides to click on a site's listing, instead of actually going to the site, it shows you the cached version of it from Google's servers. What's wrong with that? Plenty.”
“Google's production is truly a thing of wonder. They are constantly churning out new tools that are truly fascinating, even useful.They're also very controversial. Google Maps' expansion to include street views of addresses has angered more than one resident. The prospect of people finding out you don't live in that Brownstone you're always talking about isn't a welcome one.
Google's Web Accelerator goes one step further by striking truly home - in your business pocketbook. Basically it boils down to 2 big reasons why it could hurt you, especially if its popularity spreads. You might be saying "Only 2 reasons? That's it. Doesn't sound like a big deal." Maybe, but that's like saying the only 2 things bad about being shot is that you might get hurt or die.
Basically what the Accelerator does is this - when someone searching on Google decides to click on a site's listing, instead of actually going to the site, it shows you the cached version of it from Google's servers. What's wrong with that? Plenty.”
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Google, at age 10, is the official heart of the Internet
(Yahoo! News)
“Born 10 years ago, the Google Internet search engine has grown into the electronic center of human knowledge by indexing billions of web pages as well as images, books and videos.”
(Yahoo! News)
“Born 10 years ago, the Google Internet search engine has grown into the electronic center of human knowledge by indexing billions of web pages as well as images, books and videos.”
Friday, September 14, 2007
Google raises internet privacy concerns
(vnunet.com)
"Three quarters of the countries in the world have no privacy regimes at all, and among those that do have laws many were largely adopted before the rise of the internet," he [Peter Fleischer, Google's head of privacy] told The Guardian.
"It is said that every time you use a credit card, your details are passed through six different countries."
"A lot of data is being outsourced from Europe and the US to India, for example, but India does not have any privacy regulation," he said.”
(vnunet.com)
"Three quarters of the countries in the world have no privacy regimes at all, and among those that do have laws many were largely adopted before the rise of the internet," he [Peter Fleischer, Google's head of privacy] told The Guardian.
"It is said that every time you use a credit card, your details are passed through six different countries."
"A lot of data is being outsourced from Europe and the US to India, for example, but India does not have any privacy regulation," he said.”
Thursday, September 13, 2007
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INTERNET USAGE STATISTICS - The Big Picture
World Internet Users and Population Stats
(Internet World Stats)
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INTERNET USAGE STATISTICS - The Big Picture
World Internet Users and Population Stats
(Internet World Stats)
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Friday, September 7, 2007
Japan Backing Device-Specific Search Tech To Compete With Google (Search Engine Land)
“The Japanese project is comprised of 10 partnerships, each tasked with a specific next-generation search function. For example, the government has matched NTT Data with Toyota InfoTechnology Center and Toyota Mapmaster to create an interactive, personalised car navigation system.
Other partnerships involve NEC, Hitachi and Sony Computer Science Laboratories. The ministry of trade has allocated Y14bn-Y15bn (€89m-€95m) to the project.”
The multimedia search engine Quaero, Europe’s answer to Google (Pandia Search Engine News)
“The Quaero project was announced last summer by the French president Chirac. AFP has been talking to Jean-Luc Mollet at Thompson, a project leader of the Quaero project.
Several companies are involved in the Quaero project along with Thompson. AFP’s article mentions Deutsche Telecom, France Telecom, and the search engine Exalead.
AFP also mentions some French and German research institutes: Inria (Institut national de la recherche en informatique et en automatique), IMSI-CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique), RWTH-Aachen och Universitetet i Karlsruhe.
In addition there are content providers like INA (Institut National de l’Audiovisuel) and Studio Hamburg. There are ongoing negotiations with other partners.”
“The Japanese project is comprised of 10 partnerships, each tasked with a specific next-generation search function. For example, the government has matched NTT Data with Toyota InfoTechnology Center and Toyota Mapmaster to create an interactive, personalised car navigation system.
Other partnerships involve NEC, Hitachi and Sony Computer Science Laboratories. The ministry of trade has allocated Y14bn-Y15bn (€89m-€95m) to the project.”
The multimedia search engine Quaero, Europe’s answer to Google (Pandia Search Engine News)
“The Quaero project was announced last summer by the French president Chirac. AFP has been talking to Jean-Luc Mollet at Thompson, a project leader of the Quaero project.
Several companies are involved in the Quaero project along with Thompson. AFP’s article mentions Deutsche Telecom, France Telecom, and the search engine Exalead.
AFP also mentions some French and German research institutes: Inria (Institut national de la recherche en informatique et en automatique), IMSI-CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique), RWTH-Aachen och Universitetet i Karlsruhe.
In addition there are content providers like INA (Institut National de l’Audiovisuel) and Studio Hamburg. There are ongoing negotiations with other partners.”
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Top 20 Temporary and Disposable Email Services
(Sizlopedia)
“Now a days Internet has become a home to spam.
Millions of spam bots crawl the web daily to find email addresses and then bombard them with spam emails thus destroying their efficiency and creating problems for users.
The best solution to this is to get a temporary or disposable email inbox which automatically expires after a certain time period.”
(Sizlopedia)
“Now a days Internet has become a home to spam.
Millions of spam bots crawl the web daily to find email addresses and then bombard them with spam emails thus destroying their efficiency and creating problems for users.
The best solution to this is to get a temporary or disposable email inbox which automatically expires after a certain time period.”
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