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Nielsen: Google Maintains Half of All Searches in November

Earlier today I was bemoaning how Web stats are unreliable, but here I am, blithely reporting Nielsen's November search share numbers.Guess what? Not much...

Google Makes 3 of Top 10 Media Acquisitions in 2006: AdAge

AdAge released a list of media acquisitions in 2006, and Google is featured no less than three times. YouTube by Google, $1.65B Massive by Microsoft, $200M...

The Web Is Supposed to Be About Metrics, Only Whoops, You Can’t Measure Anything

OK, well, Tim Berners-Lee didn't create the Web so he could measure traffic, or count page views, or deliver top search terms and the...

West Point: Googling Considered Harmful

While stumbling around the Web this weekend I ran across a paper published by West Point comp. sci. professor Gregory Conti, titled "Googling Considered...

ABC, NY Times Top Most Linked Sites on Google News

Newsknife.com last week released its top ratings for news sites most often linked on Google News in 2006. The top 10: ABC News New York Times Reuters Washington...

Orange You Glad I Didn’t Say GPhone? Oh Wait.

Google is in talks with British mobile carrier Orange to develop a co-branded mobile phone, according to the UK's Observer.The handset would probably carry...

Lawsuit Against Yahoo Involving Google AdWords Dismissed with Prejudice

A Colorado judge yesterday dismissed with prejudice a lawsuit against Yahoo, in which Yahoo was sued for allegedly using a company's trademarked terms in...

Google, Video and China: Xin Hai Shuang Shi

Google and its Chinese search rival Baidu are exploring similar options in their quest to expand into online video in China.According to Reuters, both...

Google Sells Domains

Google announced today that it will offer domains for $10 a year. The domain registration service, made possible through a partnership with GoDaddy.com and...

Google’s New Patent Search Is … Different

While you may assume that only Web geeks and overzealous bloggers search for patents, truth is there's a would-be inventor inside all of us...