Google has been voted the number one company in 2006 by Wired Magazine. The criteria in selecting the top 40 companies include strategic vision, global reach, killer technology, and hunger for new ideas. Other well-known web companies that made the top 20 include Yahoo!, Amazon, eBay, Microsoft, and InfoSpace.
* Google (#1 in 2006, #2 in [...]
Baidu, the number 1 search engine in China, is to launch Baidu Space which many predicted it would be similar to MSN Space and Google Personalized Home Page.
International search engine giants Google, Yahoo! and MSN are all already offering blogging services in China. Bokee, BlogCN, and BlogBus are other blog services in the local Chinese [...]
Google bumped off Yahoo! to sign a distribution deal with Adobe to include its Google Toolbar in the installation process of Adobe products for Windows.
Many believe that this is one of Google’s latest strategies in competing directly against Microsoft who has built in a RSS feed reader into its new Internet Explorer.
Adobe has had 200 [...]
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eBay launched its contextual advertising network, known as eBay AdContext earlier this month. eBay AdContext is an automated keyword-based contextual ad system, which is similar to Google Adsense.
eBay AdContext differs from eBay’s current manual ad placement system as currently partners create their own selection of eBay ads on their web pages, by manually entering specific [...]
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Google has sold its $63 million stake in Baidu, its biggest Chinese search engine rival, on 25 May.
Google was once considered a potential acquirer of Baidu and is believed to make a 12-fold return on its $5 million investment in June 2004. At the time of the August 2005 IPO, Google’s stake represented 2.6% of [...]
Pay Per Click or PPC originates from the Internet advertising model: every time a search engine user clicks on a text-based PPC ad, the advertiser is billed for the cost of that click for that keyword (or search term).
PPC text ads usually appear on the right side of search engine results as ‘Sponsored Links’.
PPC advertising [...]
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Yahoo! Search has certainly been catching up closely to Google search results.
Enter ‘Fifa 2006 England’ into Yahoo! Search gives you England’s scores from their three latest Fifa World Cup matches.
Put ‘Fifa 2006 Group B’ into Yahoo! Search, you will get Group B’s standing.
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The Internet has certainly become the source of information for Fifa World Cup 2006.
The official Fifa 2006 site on Yahoo! recorded 4.2 million visitors in March and 5.7 million visitors in April according to comScore, while the first match of Fifa World Cup 2006. In April, the regional distribution of the visitors in percentage are [...]
Google may be almighty on its core business, Google.com, but how are the Google subdomains performing? According to Hitwise, the expected big hits of Google subdomains Google Base and Google Finance have not been doing so well as destinations. Here are the 20 most visited Google properties:
1. Google (79.98%)
2. Google Image Search (9.54%)
3. Google Mail [...]