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Archive for December 2006

December 18th, 2006

Yahoo Loses Top Spot

If nothing else, Yahoo held the award as the most visited site on the Internet for as long as I can remember. This is no longer true as comScore reports this morning that Myspace had passed Yahoo for the first time with 39.5 billion pages viewed in November compared to 38.1 billion of Yahoo. Third […]

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December 18th, 2006

Google’s Top Searched in 2006

Social Networking, Web 2.0 and Software Piracy were in the top Google searches for 2006. With Bebo and Myspace holding the top 2 spots, most other spots dominated by web 2.0 developments, such as video site Metacafe, music streaming service Radioblog and encyclopaedia Wikipedia.
Two other terms which require attention is Video at number 7 and […]

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December 14th, 2006

Search Results are Getting Safer

A recent survey done by security leader McAfee found that the amount of search results which led surfers to risky websites was was lowered to 4.4% down from 5% six months ago (May).
The survey defines risky websites as those which led Web surfers to malicious sites designed to infect computers with spyware, viruses, pop-up […]

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December 13th, 2006

Google Patent Search

Google Patent Search was introduced today. This feature makes it easy to search the full text of the U.S. patent corpus and find patents that interest you.

The site uses much of the same technology that powers Google Book Search, so you can scroll through pages and zoom in on text and illustrations just like […]

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December 8th, 2006

BSkyB Now “Powered by Google”

British Sky Broadcasting, a British satellite Internet provider had signed a deal this week with Google to provide search services as well as advertising and communication services for Sky Broadband customers.
Google will provide a Gmail interface for the sky.com that will also include access to Google Calendar and Google Talk. On top of that […]

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December 8th, 2006

Google Uses Autodialers to Call Advertisers

As Google is growing and adopting more and more toys properties, it also acquires a growing number of users and clients whom it seems to be handle quite efficiently without a standard customer service per-se.
So what does such a monster do when in need for a quick customer rapport? Autodialers. That is according to this […]

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December 8th, 2006

How Fair is The Game When Competing with Google

Have you ever thought what would happen if Google had suddenly decided to buy your competitor and start advertising it’s newly purchased toy service through Google Adwords? That’s exactly what happened to this guy and it doesn’t look pretty.
The problem started when Google acquired Jotspot, a business team collaboration tool which goes in direct competition […]

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December 6th, 2006

Yahoo’s Top 2006 Searches

As the year is almost over, we’re set for search engines publishing their top searches for the year. Yahoo was the first to publish their search data today. Among the different searches:

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