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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Google threatens to pull out of China - Telegraph

Google threatens to pull out of China - Telegraph

January 13, 2009 by Malcolm Moore in Shanghai and Peter Foster in Beijing:
"Google, the internet search engine, has said it is ready to close down its business and quit China because of the country's increasing censorship."
But do the Chinese care?

Google Docs Becomes Google ‘Any File’ as Cloud Wars Heat Up | Epicenter | Wired.com

Google Docs Becomes Google ‘Any File’ as Cloud Wars Heat Up | Epicenter | Wired.com
Ryan Singel writes:

"Google is now offering a small virtual hard drive in the cloud so you can access all sorts of files anywhere — the latest salvo in an arms race to become the dominant player in cloud services.

As with many Google initiatives, this one may be deceptively modest: When it is completely rolled out, Google Docs will accept uploads of any kind of file — not just text and spreadsheets. That move heightens their competition with Microsoft, and takes on Apple and a number of small startups in the business of creating backup and storage space on remote servers."

Monday, January 11, 2010

Search Engine Stats : Google, Yahoo, MSN, Bing

Three PPC Predictions For 2010 | PPC Without Pity
"An August 2009 study by Search Engine Watch indicates that Google gets about 65% of total searches, Yahoo gets 15%, and MSN/Bing gets about 10%. Looking exclusively at PPC market share, a Rimm-Kaufmann group blog in March 2009 shows that Google dominates with 80% of PPC market share, while Yahoo gets about 15% and MSN/Bing lags with only about 5%."

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Google's 2009: A Glimpse of the Web's Next Decade

Jennifer Van Grove at Mashable, the Social Media Guide, gives us Google's 2009: A Glimpse of the Web's Next Decade

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Official Google Checkout Blog

Official Google Checkout Blog

Google Checkout - Google Code

Google Checkout allows buyers in over 140 countries to purchase goods and services using a credit or debit card through our fast, secure checkout process....

For more, see Google Checkout - Google Code

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Digits at WSJ Blogs writes that Rupert Murdoch at News Corp. Considers a Google Ban

Stories such as this one at Digits of WSJ Blogs

News Corp. Considers a Google Ban - Digits - WSJ

suggest that some leading entrepeneurs in the news business perhaps do not accurately understand the revolution that is going on in the new technologies of human communication.

NEWS is going to be "delivered" differently in the future than it has been and search engines will not be circumventable. News entrepeneurs should therefore probably start spending more time figuring out how they can capitalize on these new technologies rather than fighting them - to no avail, we think.