1. facebook
2. YouTube
3. google
4. ebay
5. hotmail
6. yahoo
7. real estate
8. maps
9. commonwealth
10. white pages
Fastest-rising news stories 2010
1. chile earthquake
2. haiti
3. ipad
4. iphone 4
5. vancouver 2010
6. melbourne storm
7. android
8. volcano
9. oil spill
10. world cup
Fastest-rising election stories 2010
1. australia election
2. bob katter
3. julia gillard
4. election results
5. voting
6. abc election
7. nla newspapers
8. greens party
9. labor party
10. poll bludger
Fastest-rising people 2010
1. Cody Simpson
2. Andy Irons
3. Justin Bieber
4. Julia Gillard
5. Lara Bingle
6. Katy Perry
7. Kim Kardashian
8. Jessica Watson
9. Andrew Bolt
10. Kevin Rudd
Fastest-rising celebrities 2010
1. casey johnson
2. bruce jenner
3. christina hendricks
4. heidi montag
5. joseph gordon-levitt
6. kendra wilkinson
7. jared leto
8. kim kardashian
9. sandra bullock
10. jake gyllenhaal
1. vanessa hudgens scandal
2. nrl scandal
3. masterchef scandal
4. lara bingle scandal
5. hey dad scandal
6. indian scandal
7. st kilda scandal
8. miley cyrus scandal
9. watergate scandal
10. tiger woods scandal
Most popular celebrity deaths 2010
1. andy irons dead
2. carl williams dead
3. justin bieber dead
4. gary coleman dead
5. tiesto dead
6. taylor lautner dead
7. johnny depp dead
8. lil wayne dead
9. lady gaga dead
10. slipknot bassist dead
Most popular celebrity weddings 2010
1. anna paquin wedding
2. chelsea clinton wedding
3. hilary duff wedding
4. kate ritchie wedding
5. katy perry wedding
6. miranda kerr wedding
7. robbie williams wedding
8. royal wedding
9. megan fox wedding
10. kyle sandilands wedding
1. the crazies
2. resident evil afterlife
3. ben hur
4. percy jackson
5. iron man 2
6. mary poppins
7. the avengers
8. transformers 3
9. breaking dawn
10. jesse james
Happy Birthday Google, which turns 12 years old on 27 September 2010. The California-based company was first incorporated as a privately held corporation on 27 September 1998.
To mark the occasion, users of Google’s home search page are met with a Wayne Thiebaud cake, reproduced by permission of VAGA, Visual Artists and Galleries Association. Most of Thiebaud’s cakes were painted in the 1950s and 1960s.
Although Thiebaud is associated with the Pop art movement due to his interest in objects of mass culture, his work is earlier than Andy Warhol.
Eight-year veteran David Ku, senior vice president of advertising products, and a key player in its search marketing platform, is the latest in a string of execs to leave the global giant as it attempts to reinvent itself under Chief Executive Carol Bartz.
Amongst other execs calling it quits have been Chief Technology Officer Ari Balogh (April 2010), advertising sales boss Joanne Bradford (March 2010) and Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen in 2009.
In other news, Yahoo! will revamp its search pages to include more visual content, a move the company hopes will engage more of its users.
The move encompasses improvements to search, mail and advertising, as market share continues to fall, with Bing recently overtaking Yahoo! in search, meaning the laggard fell to third place.
The Internet giant will also integrate news, as well as search and conversational trends, moves that could be directed at blunting the impact of popular sites like Twitter Inc.
Google has rekindle its love for speedy Web searches with Google Instant, a new version of the search engine that displays results as you type.
When typing a search query with Google Instant, results appear after the first letter is entered, and they update as the user types. Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of search and user experience, said results are actually delivered “before you type,” because Google Instant predicts and automatically completes search terms.
According to Google, a typical searcher spends nine seconds entering a query, and 15 seconds searching for answers. Google hopes to shave two to five seconds per search using Google Instant as each keystroke triggers a predictive search which eventually will display the target of your ferreting. Watch this video to learn the basics.
Okay, the latest news is that GOOGLE has bought social games start-up SocialDeck, the latest in a series of acquisitions that it is currently collecting so that it can compete against Facebook.
It’s on a not-so-secret mission to build an enormous social networking service.
Sorry to rain on the parade, fellas, but yer going to fail.
That’s right folks, you heard it here first, the Google entry into the social media world will be the latest addition to the growing list of Google flops and failures.
As much as I love Google (and truly I do), time and time again, Google falls into the trap of trying to be all things to all man – which is why it fails.
It’s getting to the point where Google simply cannot abide someone else having a decent brand profile on the Internet. Think I’m kidding? Here is some proof. Continue Reading
Bing is now fully fueling English language Yahoo! search results in the U.S. and Canada, Yahoo! and Microsoft announced in the US today, with the roll-out for other languages and remaining countries expected to be completed within 2 years.
The announcement marks a major milestone since the two companies signed a 10-year deal last year for Microsoft to power Yahoo! search and for Yahoo! to use Microsoft’s AdCenter advertising platform.
The U.S. Department of Justice and European authorities approved the deal in February this year.
While people can continue to use Yahoo! for search, they will see “Powered by Bing” displayed at the bottom of searches that use Microsoft’s results. The transition to AdCenter is still underway according to Microsoft. Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz has already said that she expects Yahoo! to be using AdCenter by October.
Fact is, for many businesses, the Internet is all about local search.
That’s because for many small businesses, the majority of their revenue is generated from a local catchment area.
(Let’s face it, no-one is going to drive halfway across town to a supermarket, especially when there’s almost certainly one that’s closer to home.)
So if this applies to YOUR business, there is a post over at UndercoverStrategist that you really should know about.
It is called Small Business SEO and Local Search – and it shares a 10 step strategy for taking your local corner store from obscurity to the local limelight.
Of course, local search traffic doesn’t have the glamor of huge search numbers – so lots of businesses don’t bother with it.
They are like a wild animal, blinded by oncoming headlights at full beam, overwhelmed at the possibility of somehow getting those huge numbers of traffic coming to their website. Continue Reading
