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When I went to Google today it looked different.   It had a different logo/banner instead of actual logo of Google.  Then when I put my mouse over the image/logo it read “Samuel Morse’s Birthday” with a link to Samuel Morse.   Samuel Morse born in 1791 was the American creator of a single wire telegraph system [...]

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“Adsense Video Units to be retired.” That was the subject of my email I received from adsense yesterday. So yes it is finally going away. I had also tried adsense video units but was not satisfied with the result.
Below is the body of the email..
“We’re writing to let you know that we’ll [...]

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According to the news by Infoworld, Microsoft had the highest traffic in the month of December, 2006.  Below is the figure according to the comScore Networks :-

Approx 509 million unique visitors went to Microsoft (ages 15 and up)
Google was second with approx 494 million
Yahoo was third with approx 477 million unique visitors

Microsoft was also the leader [...]

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How often do you search for coupons online?
I did use a coupon that I printed online couple of weeks ago for my car repair, and was useful.
I m sure you all at some point have gotten mails full with coupons. But now Google is also taking part where it is displaying coupons from merchants that [...]

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Yes, Google’s interface is very simple with one search box, and it is the leading website/search engine in the world. However, that’s the not case in South Korea. Google is not the leader in that country. People in South Korea are considered some of the most internet-savvy in the world. According to WebSideStory (Web Analytic [...]

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Is Google really trying to compete with Paypal? Eric Schmidt (CEO) of Google denies that Google is trying to compete with Paypal, however, according to Wall Street Journal, President of Paypal Jeff Jordan doesn’t believe what Eric is saying. According to Jordan, Eric had said in the past that Google would not introduce online payment [...]

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I guess by now most of you might have heard of Google censoring its site in China. Not long ago Google was in the news for not being cooperative with US federal Government. You can read about that in my previous post.
Due to the request of Chinese government, Google launched its censored version of search [...]

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No doubt that Google is the number one search engine in the world. Millions of searches are being done at Google everyday. Topics range anything from books to sex.
Federal Government is pressuring Google to hand over the report of all kinds of searches that are being done at Google. It means several [...]

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What started as a search engine, Google now goes beyond searching.
Its getting hard not to see giants like Google and Yahoo in the news.
Seems like they are all in a race to expand their business.
Sort of like USSR and USA back in the cold war era, competing with each other.
Google now is eying on [...]

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I had written earlier about European companies working on a search engine (more than a search engine) to challenge giants such as Google and Yahoo.
There is a company called Thompson who is also one of the key player behind upcoming project “Quaero.”
Thompson is a pioneer in video and imaging, and provides service to the clients [...]

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