Google Shares Massive Data

Google is to share the most frequently 5-word n-grams from a massive dataset, the web! I am sure search engine marketers and PPC experts are now thinking how they are going to make good use of this massive piece of data for their PPC advertising campaigns. The question is that will this data release put [...]

Google Makes 100 Top Brands

Businessweek and Interbrand have ranked the 100 top brands of 2006. Google moved up to position 24 from last year’s 38, and Yahoo! moved up 3 positions to 55. Microsoft remains at position 2 in two consecutive years. Businessweek explains how the brand rankings were determined. Interbrand takes lots of ingredients into account when ranking [...]

10 Facts About Google

Google has the great mission to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful. However, do you know some of the true facts about Google? It will take Google 300 years to put the entire world’s information online. Google reckons only 10% of the world’s information is online. Google believes up [...]

Google Search Patent Applications

Google has applied for 12 patent applications including 7 that focus on geographical information and local search. 1. How good a match ads may be to the content on pages they are served upon through a program like Adsense 2. A process for improving the targeting of ads 3. Real time transportation data for travelers [...]

Google Goes into Dictionaries

The word Google is to be included in both Oxford Dictionary and Merriam Websters Collegiate Dictionary. In the next update, Oxford will add Google, FedEx, TiVo and Xerox to its database of words.

Is Google Trademark or Synonymous

Google foresees one of the major risks it will be facing and stated in its latest Q-10 statement of Q1 2006. To quote Google’s filing: “We also face risks associated with our trademarks. For example, there is a risk that the word ‘Google’ could become so commonly used that it becomes synonymous with the word [...]

Google Goes Number One in Wired Top 40

Google has been voted the number one company in 2006 by Wired Magazine. The criteria in selecting the top 40 companies include strategic vision, global reach, killer technology, and hunger for new ideas. Other well-known web companies that made the top 20 include Yahoo!, Amazon, eBay, Microsoft, and InfoSpace. Google (#1 in 2006, #2 in [...]

Adobe To Distribute Google Toobar

Google bumped off Yahoo! to sign a distribution deal with Adobe to include its Google Toolbar in the installation process of Adobe products for Windows. Many believe that this is one of Google’s latest strategies in competing directly against Microsoft who has built in a RSS feed reader into its new Internet Explorer. Adobe has [...]

Google Search Market Share Growth

Google’s US search market share jumped from 43.1% in April to 44.1% in May, which is Google’s 10th consecutive month in market share gain, according to ComScore. Yahoo! remained in the second spot with 27.9%, followed by MSN’s 12.9%.

Google Subdomains vs Google.com

Google may be almighty on its core business, Google.com, but how are the Google subdomains performing? According to Hitwise, the expected big hits of Google subdomains Google Base and Google Finance have not been doing so well as destinations. Here are the 20 most visited Google properties: 1. Google (79.98%) 2. Google Image Search (9.54%) [...]

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