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More and more people have stopped going on to Google.com, not because they do not like the search engine, it is just because it is built into a number of web browsers now. People using Google for search is now more popular than ever, but that is because the competition is a bit out of the loop, but not anymore. Microsoft has been working hard on their latest search engine, and Bing is it.

Google should never underestimate Microsoft, they have been like a sleeping giant and have now woken from a long sleep and they are now ready for a fight. Thankfully, they now have the tools to do it, and Cnet News has suggested that Microsoft Bing is the first real Google alternative.

Cnet have only spent a short amount of time with Microsoft Bing and already the writer of the article is rethinking his search engine options. They explain how fast and accurate Google search results are, but the whole experience is a bit of boring one, there is no fun to it.

Bing is different; they have traded a fraction of the speed in exchange for an improved user experience and a site that is not so boring that it will send you to sleep.

For a full review on Microsoft Bing, visit our source link within the post.

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Google announced its move to launch a venture fund of its own named Google Ventures. By the looks of it Google ventures has a very broad investment philosophy. The google ventures site states and I quote “We’re studying a broad range of industries, including consumer Internet, software, hardware, clean-tech, bio-tech and health care. We invest anywhere from seed to mezzanine stage and embrace the challenge of helping young companies grow from the garage to global relevance.”

There is no minimum amount of funding outlined and also no geographies mentioned. But rest assured given that this fund is lead by Bill Maris who was the founder of Burlee.com, which he sold to Web.com its almost certain that this fund would be initially focused on the US markets. Also as their contact address suggests there is no presence in India.

Google has been known for acquiring startups around the world and has done very few direct investments. It has though been an investor in the Seedfund and Ventureast a seed stage venture fund in India. But this new launch of a venture fund should not affect that engagement as Google ventures clearly looks like a US focused fund.

Fund to acquire strategy?

Startups looking towards google as a prospective investor might be concerned on one issue is that Google may be the kind of investor that might fund to acquire. After all thats what it has been doing the last decade as acquitions have been the way google has taken to grow its multi billion dollar empire. Its very possible that google would have an affinity towards investing in startups and technologies that it wants to acquire at a later date. After all you wouldn’t expect a google funded company being acquired by microsoft would you?

Google has updated page rank for all sites and blogs at 31st December 2008. In this PR update, I have gain PR of my exclusive Blog on Guinness World Records 2009 http://www.worldamazingrecords.com  Also i have found PR update 0 to 2 in my clients website  http://www.development-india.com . Even some of our get good ranking and traffic in sort time.

Google has updated Pagerank in September 2008 and I was hoping that google will start this Pagerank update after 20-25 December and it looks google has actually started Pagerank update from today. I have seen many blogs and websites with updated Pagerank.

Well all the blogs which I have seen got lowered PR which made me to think another Google nightmare of mass blog penalty but I think that’s not the case. Since this is just started we will see Pagerank fluctuations till 1^st week of January 2009.

Please keep in mind that Actual pagerank of website changes daily and this is just toolbar Pagerank update.

Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, Verizon and FedEx for the first time have made an annual ranking of the top 20 most trusted companies in the United States.

Google, However, dropped off the list, released today by the Ponemon Institute and TRUSTe in San Francisco, as did Countrywide Financial, Bank of America (which acquired Countrywide) and Weight Watchers.

Financial companies were tarred by the subprime mortgage crisis and the subsequent meltdown of investment banks on Wall Street, said Dr. Larry Ponemon, who conducted the survey, but not all financial companies were equally hit.

Nationwide retained its place as the ninth most trusted company, and U.S. Bank and eLoan managed to stay in the top 20, although both dropped a few places.

At No. 1, for the fourth year in a row, was American Express, followed by eBay, IBM, Amazon and Johnson & Johnson.

This is the fifth year the survey has been conducted.

The Ponemon Institute got 6,500 people - weighted by age, gender and household income to match the U.S. census - to name the five companies they trusted most and least.

Concern about privacy is higher than ever, the survey showed. Less than half of consumers - 45 percent - feel they have control over their personal information. That’s down from 48 percent last year and 56 percent in 2006.

More than 60 percent said identity theft negatively affects how they think about a company, and more than half get concerned when a company sends notifications of data breaches.

“Consumers are getting more astute about” privacy, said Fran Maier, the CEO of TRUSTe, which evaluates online privacy practices.

Ponemon said some companies, like IBM, might be trusted because they have big brands; others, like Apple, because consumers like their products.

He speculated that people felt sorry for Yahoo because of its difficulties with Microsoft and Google, neither of which made the list.

“Google (and Microsoft) suffer from big company syndrome,” Ponemon said. “People figure that if you’re big and collecting data, there must be an issue.”

In general, Ponemon said, companies that are seen by consumers as most trusted do tend to have good privacy practices.

Facebook’s chief privacy officer, Chris Kelly, said the company has worked hard to earn people’s trust by giving Facebook users more choices over what happens to their personal information.

“It shouldn’t be binary, where you either reveal a piece of data to everyone on the Internet or Facebook or not at all,” he said. “We think people want to share more information, but they want choices.”

Half of the top 20 this year have won seals of approval by TRUSTe, which co-sponsored the survey but had nothing to do with conducting it.

Google and the Hallmark Channel announced Wednesday that they have formed a partnership that will make Google TV Ads the channel’s exclusive advertiser. All of the ads will be placed on both the Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel.

According to Hallmark, many of the advertisers it’s now trying to attract through Google’s TV Ads platform are new to the television platform, so it will provide more in-depth viewership data to help advertising partners make “real-time adjustments” to campaigns.

Google TV Ads are unique in the television advertising business. Instead of employing conventional techniques for television advertising, Google takes its online model and applies that to the medium. The company aims to provide greater relevancy by using proprietary targeting tools and an auction-based pricing system, which only costs advertisers when impressions are delivered to their ads.

Hallmark and Hallmark Movie Channel now join Google’s growing list of TV advertising partners, which includes Sci-Fi, MSNBC, CNBC, and Bloomberg Television.

Bookmakers and online casinos will be able to advertise on Google, the world’s most popular internet search engine, from today.

The company, which yesterday received royal approval when the Queen visited its British headquarters near Victoria station, was condemned as “irresponsible” by MPs and church leaders for lifting its four-year ban and allowing gambling companies to buy “sponsored links” on its site in Britain.

Google introduced a global ban on gambling adverts on its site in 2004, but decided to end it for British customers after rules on television advertising for bookmakers, casinos and gambling websites were relaxed.

Google insisted that all advertisers using the service would have to be regulated in Britain or Europe and would have to have internet links to organisations helping problem gamblers. But critics condemned the move, saying the adverts could attract people hit by the global economic downturn.

The Church of England led attacks on the decision, which came a day after figures were released showing a 25 per cent increase in people seeking help with gambling problems.

A CofE spokesman said: “Whatever people are searching for on Google, it probably isn’t the chance to risk developing a serious problem that could have a hugely negative effect on themselves and their family. As people are facing more financial uncertainty, the fantasy of instant wealth could become particularly attractive and the consequences of losses correspondingly serious.”

Figures released this week by the gambling addiction charity GamCare showed a huge increase in the numbers of people seeking help. Nearly 38,000 called its betting hotline last year, compared with just more than 30,000 the year before. Callers had racked up average debts of £17,500.

Last night, MPs of all parties warned Google not to exacerbate the problems of online gambling. Peter Kilfoyle, the former Labour Defence minister, said: “It’s the height of stupidity. It seems probably the worst of times for people to be encouraging gambling… after we have been facing a financial crisis built on reckless gambling in the markets.”

Don Foster, the Liberal Democrat Culture spokesman, added: “Clearly this is perfectly legal but it is of huge concern that we have further expansion of the advertising of internet gambling when we know it creates problems.”

Jeremy Hunt, the shadow Culture minister, added: “At a time when calls to GamCare have increased by a quarter I would hope Google would exercise some corporate social responsibility… At the very least [it] should ensure all advertisers meet UK gambling regulations irrespective of their country of origin.”

The Salvation Army said the move was “effectively encouraging vulnerable people into debt” warning that it contributed to a “creeping normalisation” of gambling in society.

A spokesman said: “With widespread use of the internet, use of online lotteries and betting opportunities [are] increasing. And with 16- to 24-year-olds among the most frequent users of the internet, it is not unrealistic to be concerned this group will be particularly affected by this poor decision.”

Google insisted that its UK-based advertisers would have to be registered with the British Gambling Commission before advertising, while European operators would also have to be licensed in their home country. All would have to have links to the GamCare website.

He said it would be for companies to decide which search words would trigger adverts for their services but stressed that the advertisements could be screened out by users.

James Cashmore of Google said: “We’ve decided to amend our policy to allow text ads to appear against search queries related to gambling in Great Britain. We hope this will enhance the search experience for users and help advertisers connect with interested consumers. Gambling ads will automatically be classified as Non-Family Safe which means they will not show on any search where the user has applied the Safe Search filter.”

When Larry Page and Sergy Brin, two geek graduates of Stanford University, started a search engine called BackRub, they had no idea it would go on to become Google, the world’s biggest search engine, and would land them in Forbe’s richest peoples’ list.

And now the search engine has completed 10 years of reigning supreme in the virtual world of Internet. On Sep 7 1998, Page and Brin erased the phrase ‘lack of information’ forever for anyone who owns a computer and an Internet connection.

Ranked number one in India and the US as the most visited website and settling for the second spot globally right after Yahoo!, Google has rushed towards its success considering the company is just a baby with only 10 years of experience to boast about.

But it makes up for it more than enough in its revenue sector. Only last year Google reportedly earned $16.5 billions.

From only 10,000 search requests in 1998, it is said that Google handles 235 million searches in a normal day in 2008. But this is one query on which there is ‘no information’ on Google.

Only last week, Google decided to extend its tentacles and launched a brand new web browser, Chrome, which is causing ripples across the net community already.

For some, Google has become synonymous with any Internet search or query. And as for students, who trust nothing except Google to complete their assignments, it is like a second teacher.

‘Google’s still my number one search engine, because the results are better and related, Despite complaints from high pressure seo industry enthusiast, Google’s improvements are much needed by those who are honest and don’t try their fancy tricks to get their SPAM listed. Despite some worries, Google continues its dominance as best search engine,  says Paavan Solanki, Director and SEO Trainer Targetseo.com, India

Google’s been pretty busy recently, launching its Chrome browser at the start of the month and following up with news that it’s currently working on a project to digitise the world’s newspapers so that they can be browsed online.

The massive undertaking has actually been underway for a couple of years already as in 2006 Google began archiving issues of the New York Times and Washington Post.

The idea is that you’ll be able to browse the papers in their original format complete with photos, crosswords adverts and all.

“We’re launching an initiative to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives,” says the internet giant.

The content will be available via its news archive service and will run alongside existing digitised material from relevant publications where possible. The database is being built as we speak, though there’s no details on exactly when it’ll be finished. We imagine there will be some late nights ahead. - Paul Lester

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GOOGLE BROKE into the crowded internet browser market on Tuesday with the release of Chrome, a product the world’s most popular search engine is hoping to turn into platinum.

While a Google browser comes as a surprise to many, rumours had abounded for years that the search giant would eventually want more browser real estate than a small search box add-on in a corner.

Google has offered a free download for some time that supplies this feature for other browsers like Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, and it is standard on Apple’s Safari browser.

But getting computer users onto a Google browser gives the company many more opportunities to link in its lucrative ads and offer users its many other desktop services, which include e-mail, word processors, calendars and other tools.

Like competitor browser Firefox - which makes most of its income off a search deal with Google - Chrome is an open source browser, meaning its code is freely available and can be accessed easily by developers who wish to create small plug-ins, or add on programmes, for the browser.

But analysts say Chrome’s real threat is not to other browsers, but to operating systems such as Microsoft’s Windows and Apple’s OS X, because the browser contains a “Java engine” that will run software applications that currently depend on an operating system.

Chrome is a potential “Windows killer”, according to influential TechCrunch.com blogger Michael Arrington. “Expect to see millions of web devices, even desktop web devices, in the coming years that completely strip out the Windows layer and use the browser as the only operating system the user needs,” he said in a blog post.

While the eventual move to web-based computing - often called “cloud computing” - has been predicted for some time, Chrome threatens to accelerate the process at a nerve-racking pace for companies like Microsoft, long in Google’s crosshairs.

“Google knows that the way to beat Microsoft is to become the operating system for the internet,” Michael Masnick, chief executive of analyst firm Techdirt, said on the company’s website.

However, the browser is still only in a beta - or test release - format and lacks many basic features such as the ability to run Java or Shockwave applications. And it cannot even integrate Google’s own popular Google toolbar.

And as PC World notes, by using Chrome, users hand over another aspect of their online privacy to a company already widely criticised for how long it hangs on to users’ information.

But don’t expect that to tarnish Chrome, at least yet. This week, the web world is talking about nothing else.

Google Inc’s new browser software is designed to work “invisibly” and will run any application that runs on Apple Inc’s Safari Web browser, company officials said on Tuesday.

The company said the new Web browser, dubbed Google Chrome — a long-anticipated move to compete with Microsoft Corp, Mozilla Firefox and other browsers — is now available for download at http://www.google.com/chrome/

The public trial of the Google browser will be available in 43 languages in 100 countries, Sundar Pichai, Google’s vice president of product management said at a news conference at the company’s Mountain View, California headquarters.

“You actually spend more time in your browser than you do in your car,” Brian Rakowski, group product manager for the browser project, said of the significance of offering a faster browser and forcing greater competition in the market.

Google Chrome relies on Apple’s WebKit software for rendering Web pages, he said. It also has taken advantage of features of community-developed browser Firefox from Mozilla Corp. Google is a primary financial backer of Mozilla.

“If you are Webmaster, and your site works in Apple Safari then it will work very well in Google Chrome,” Pichai said.

Officials said Chrome’s code would be fully available for other developers to enhance. A Google official said it planned to share code that makes Chrome work with WebKit openly with other WebKit open source developers.

Apple WebKit is widely used by Web developers, not simply for Apple applications like the iPhone but also by Google itself with its mobile phone software, called Android.

“We have borrowed good ideas from others,” Pichai said. “Our goal here was to bring our point of view but do it in a very open way,” he said in response to a reporter’s question.

“We don’t want to live in a world where all that (innovation) is locked up and kept secret,” Google co-founder Larry Page told the news conference. Page was a primary supporter of the Chrome project among Google’s executive team.

Sergey Brin, Page’s fellow co-founder, said Google planned to continue to work closely with Mozilla and hoped to see future version of Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox become more unified over time.

“It is probably worth noting that they (Mozilla Corp) are across the street and they come over here for lunch,” Brin said of Mozzilla employees’ visits to cafeterias at the Googleplex headquarters. “I hope we will have more and more unity over time.”

Chrome introduces various features that promise to make Web browsing faster, more secure and stable.

The browser allows users to keep working even when one of its open windows crashes.

Chrome is designed to take advantage of multi-core chips, recently offered by Intel Corp and Advanced Micro Devices, which allow computers to handle multiple processes simultaneously and with greater speed, Google engineers said.

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