Category: Google

How Facebook can be bigger in 5 years than Google

4/10/2010

Remember three years ago, when Microsoft paid a quarter-billion dollars for 1.6% of Facebook and the exclusive right to run banner ads across Facebook.com? Tell the truth, how many of you thought that was a killer business decision? I can’t say I did at the time. But as that deal is about to expire in 2011, Facebook’s status as a revenue juggernaut is rarely questioned any more.

In fact, I have been mulling over data from both companies, and I’m ready to declare in public my belief that Facebook will be bigger in five years than Google is right now, barring some drastic action or accident. Futhermore, Facebook will grow without needing to cut into Google’s core business of text ads, which are still 99% of Google’s profits. Even if every single Facebook user performs just as many searches with Google as ever—including Google Instant, mobile search, and YouTube—Facebook will inexorably grow as big as Google is today and maybe bigger, because Madison Avenue’s brands are less interested in targeting than they are in broadcasting to vast mother-loving buckets of demographically correct eyeballs, and Facebook has become the perfect platform for that.

What do I mean by bigger? Facebook already has more page views than Google. People already spend more time spent on Facebook than Google. I’m referring to the life blood of any business: revenues.

Read more, and find out more @ TechCrunch.com

Former Google Engineers Launch New Search Engine: Cuil.com

27/7/2010

According to eWeek.com, former Google engineers have launched a new search engine that could index even more sites than that of Google. The name of the search engine is Cuil (pronounced “cool”) and has already gone live.

Cuil is said to index sites online faster and cheaper than that of Google, but that is yet to be seen. Can a new engine in the market really compete against Google? Yahoo which is the 2nd largest search engine in the U.S. is having a very tough time competing with Google in search, thus an agreement has been made public with both companies forming a partnership within the search sector, having Yahoo outsource search to Google.

“Our significant breakthroughs in search technology have enabled us to index much more of the Internet, placing nearly the entire Web at the fingertips of every user,” Tom Costello, Cuil co-founder and chief executive, said in a statement.

As eWeek describes it, “Cuil clusters the results of each Web search performed on the service into groups of related Web pages. It sorts these by categories and offers various organizing features to help identify topics and allow the user to quickly refine searches.”

Doing a search for traffic on Compete.com, it looks like in July, the traffic of cuil.com was a little over 2 million visitors. Forget about competing with Google, look at the other two giant search engines, you also have to compete against them.

Source: Search Engine Journal

Introducing, the new... Google Toilet

24/7/2010

SuperNews! is a comedy series where the absurdities of everyday life are pushed beyond reality in a hilarious universe of animated characters. And now Google has finally developed technology that can literally sift through your *bleep*.

Opera Browser does the Google Chrome parody speed test

29/5/2010

Seems Google Chrome has started a trend, because now Opera wants to prove it's even better then Chrome.

Google lets you control its fonts!

22/5/2010

During the first day of the Google I/O 2010 event, a certain piece of news would have made web-designers jump out of their seats with joy. Google announced its new Google Fonts API, a tool for adding non-standard web fonts on any web page.

Typography is a big part of the print industry, but nowadays people tend to think more of it as the problem in modern web design. This is mainly because browsers have been lagging behind other desktop applications when it comes to font support.

The new API from Google will enable developers to embed a series of open-source high-quality fonts on their page through simple lines of code. To do so, Google set up a new service called the Google Font Directory (still in beta) to host those fonts.

Google Logo Becomes Playable 'PAC-MAN' Game for 30th Birthday

22/5/2010

In celebration of PAC-MAN's 30th birthday, Google has resurrected the arcade classic for its home page. Users only need to click 'Insert Coin' or wait a few seconds for the ghoul-munching mayhem to begin. If you click the 'Insert Coin' button again, Ms. PAC-MAN magically appears so that you can play with a friend. (PAC-MAN is controlled with the mouse or arrow keys, while his lady moves with the WASD keys.) The game's only up for 48 hours, so be sure to hop over to Google for some tasty ghost meat. Too bad you're stuck with the original music, instead of 'Pac-Man Fever' or Aphex Twin's classic, delirious 'Pacman' remix as Power-pill.

Google HQ vs Facebook HQ

16/5/2010

About Google: (as if you needed this) Google Inc. is an American public corporation specializing in Internet search. It also generates profits from advertising bought on its similarly free-to-user e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking and video-sharing services. Advert-free versions are available via paid subscription. Google has more recently developed an open source web browser and a mobile phone operating system. Its headquarters, often referred to as the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California. As of March 31, 2009 the company had 19,786 full-time employees. It runs thousands of servers across the world, processing millions of search requests each day and about one petabyte of user-generated data each hour.

Facebook, Inc. is a company that operates and privately owns social networking website, Facebook. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region. The website’s name stems from the colloquial name of books given at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better. Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while he was a student at Harvard University. The website’s membership was initially limited to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It later expanded further to include any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. The website currently has more than 350 million active users worldwide.

Google Chrome Browser versus Potato

7/5/2010

These speed tests were filmed at actual-webpage-rendering speeds. With the use of a potato, lightning and sound, we can now see how fast Google Chromo really is.

Grand Theft Auto done on Google Earth

27/4/2010

Remember the first 2 classic GTAs? They might not have been superior to the next gen versions, but they were definately fun to play with! And somebody clever enough made a cool video using Google Earth images as the background for hot pursuits.