The Church of Google have compiled a list of "nine proofs which we believe definitively prove Google's title as God". This isn't as daft as it sounds - Oprah could start her own church and instantly have a congregation of 10s of millions. They even have a very active members forum.
This is great news for anyone already using AdWords that wish to venture into print advertising. The news of this, published at the Inside Adwords blog, had an interesting statistic:
Even with the growth of online news sites, newspapers are still a leading source of information for Americans. In fact, over the course of a typical week, nearly 3 out of 4 adults (115 million) in the top 50 markets read a copy of a daily or Sunday newspaper (Scarborough Research USA, Release 2, 2006)That's right, to help promote Google Print, Google have used a statistic from 1 year ago, but if it has come from the same set of data as this one (Scarborough Research USA, Release 2, 2006), the data is actually from late 2004 to late 2005, meaning that on average the statistic is 2.5 years old - an eternity in internet time.
"With about a hundred million stars and two hundred million galaxies, Sky in Google Earth lets you explore the heavens like never before."
Wenda (wen da meaning “ask and answer” in Chinese) is the latest "Google Answers 2.0", and is in China, in cooperation with Tianya.cn, a popular net forum in China. It is using the same framework that Google already launched a free Russian Q&A site recently.
Google are considering removing this much-moved component of the Google ToolBar. If they do, it could be enough to destroy Google!
The big brother of Open Office, was $70, now free as part of the Google Pack
Just like Google Answers, the side of Google Video where consumers pay to own/rent commercial video offerings is closing down. Just like Google Answers, it probably made money, but not enough, and Google will want to use those staff elsewhere on other experiments.
Added are LA, Houston, Orlando, & San Diego.
Google will start allowing people to post comments to stories appearing in Google News - but only if they are connected to the story, and this has been verified by Google. So if an article says Britney Spears is pregnant again, she could add a comment that she isn't, as long as Google have checked out that it really is her commenting.
It's been done before, but here is the latest mathematical look at why some sites rank higher than others in Google. It seems to say that reciprocal links are a good thing, when combined with other linking patterns.
In other words, the vector I is an eigenvector of the matrix H with eigenvalue 1. We also call this a stationary vector of H.
This is an excellent example of not relying on Google for all your customers, because the Google rankings always change, and it could all disappear in a puff of smoke. And when you are a company like Answers.com that licenses its data from elsewhere, and similar data exists from other providers, you must accept that another site with similar data could turn up out of the blue and rank higher...
Eric E. Schmidt sold 57,100 shares of common stock under a prearranged trading plan, according to a SEC filing Tuesday.
