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Archive for December 2006

December 29th, 2006

Google Blog Search Passes Technorati

Google’s Blog Search is gaining market share while top blog search provider Technorati is losing it, this is according to stats made public recently by Hitwise.
This week Hitwise data show that the market share of visits to Google Blog Search surpassed visits to Technorati for the week ending 12/23/06. Google Blog Search began catching […]

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December 28th, 2006

Google’s 2006 Top Searches are Not Really

After much controversy and criticism about it’s 2006 top searches list which started after terms such as “bebo” topped the list while the service itself is not as popular. Google came out and publicly commented about the way in which they measure those results.
In their clarification, Google writes today:
we do not simply retrieve the […]

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December 26th, 2006

Google Clarifies Take on Adsense and Images

Placing images next to Adsense ads had become a growing trend and can clearly increase one’s CTR significantly. It was also a gray area which Google never really commented about, and just “let it go”.
Whether it is the growth in popularity of this trend or complaints from advertising, Google had decided to put an […]

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December 25th, 2006

Merry Christmas from SEH

A bit late but just wanted to with all of our readers, Merry Christmas or happy holidays for anything you may be celebrating in the next couple of weeks.

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December 23rd, 2006

New Search Engine from the Founder of Wikipedia

A new search engine is in the works and is already getting media coverage all over. You may wonder why and the reason is that it is to be launched by Wikipedia’s founder Jimmy Wales.
Wales claims that his planned Internet search engine, Wikiasari, could rival Google and Yahoo!.
Jimmy Wales told The Times of London his […]

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December 22nd, 2006

Google Stock in 2007, Not Even for Fools

Earlier this week I wrote that it was going to be economy that’ll stop Google’s growth in 2007. Now, it is The Motley Fool which claims that The Worst Stock for 2007: Google.
According to “The Fool” Google market cap is way above and beyond it’s earnings and predictions of tougher competition ahead may be limiting […]

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December 20th, 2006

ASKX.com, The Future of ASK

I just stumbled upon a new experimental ASK interface at ASKX.com. They write about it here:
Thanks for stumbling upon Ask X, our double-secret sandbox for testing Ask experiences of the future.

In today’s version of Ask X, you’re not just getting back a list of links, but a slick, new three-panel interface (much like the new […]

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December 20th, 2006

Did Google Lift Yahoo’s Design?

If nothing else, Yahoo’s splash pages for any given service or event is much better than the ones of Google. This happened last week but I found it most entertaining that I had to post about it.
Last Monday, a Yahoo engineer, Jeremy Zawodny, had noticed that Google’s new IE7 toolbar download page:

was looking a […]

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December 19th, 2006

Google Adsense Ads Gets a New Logo

Seems as if Google has been experiencing with their Adsense “Ads by Google” logo placed on all their Adsense ads. This is just one of a few variations I’ve ran into in the last few days:

Another variation I noticed is the same as above but all black logo.
UPDATE: This seemed to be a temporary thing […]

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December 18th, 2006

Will Economy Stop Google?

A WSJ piece this morning predicts that Google “may soon hit a speed bump” and not due to any flaw in their income from their services and ads but more due to the fact that economy isn’t likely to treat them as good as it used to.
According to the article, Google, which has over $10 […]

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