Monday, October 15, 2007

Google News

Google tops charts in global search
Google topped global search charts in August, but search engines in China and South Korea are challenging the search company in their own countries, according to Internet research firm comScore Inc. This was the first time comScore evaluated online search activities on a worldwide basis, the company said in a statement.

According to comScore, more than 750 million people 15 years old or older, or about 95% of the Internet audience around the world, performed 61 billion searches in August. That's an average of 80 searches per users, comScore said.

According to the study, in the Asia-Pacific region, which includes China, Japan and India, 258 million users performed 20.3 billion searches, while in Europe, 210 million users performed 18 billion searches, and in North America, 206 million users performed 16 billion searches. In the Middle East and Africa, which ranked at the bottom of the pack, 30 million people conducted 2 billion searches, comScore said.

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Check out Google's latest ideas
Google is always experimenting with new features aimed at improving the search experience. Take one for a spin and let us know what you think. New! Join an experiment and you'll see that feature whenever you do a Google search. Note that you can only join ONE experiment

Read more HERE.

Discover the .EDU Underground
Little appreciated outside the world of academia, there are literally thousands of .edu (AU - or edu.au, of course) sites bursting with incredibly useful and interesting information and resources. Most of these sites won't pop up to the surface of the average search engine quest, and so they wait, neglected and underused...until now. Keep reading for a quick tour through the mysterious underground world of .edu

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iGoogle meets Desktop gadgets
Google Desktop now lets you run Desktop gadgets on your iGoogle homepage. And that means you can check your wireless signal, grow a beautiful plant, or play music right from iGoogle.

Read more HERE.

Google Friends
If you are a user of any Google product this monthly newsletter should be on your list.

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