China will have 79 million people on broadband by 2007, whereas the US will have 51 million. “The number of broadband subscribers in China is growing at a staggering 79 per cent annually, and will reach 79 million in 2007, consulting firm Ovum predicted in research released today. Recent estimates from Leichtman Research suggest that …
200 Years Of News
Google have released a news archive stretching back 200 years. Their spider has been busy since 1795. “News archive search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. In addition to helping you search, News archive search can automatically create timelines which show selected results from relevant time periods.“ Google has partnered with …
How To Avoid Being Stomped By Google
Interview with Paul Graham, partner at Y Combinator, a Mountain View firm that invests in very early tech startups. Interesting search-realted snippets: “I wouldn’t advise competing with Google in things they’re good at. So what is Google good at? As a first approximation, making things their own developers use at work. So they’ll do a …
Google Apple Mashup Worries Some
As you may have read, Eric Scmidt, Googles CEO, is joining the board of directors of Apple Computer. What this meansis anyones guess. It’s pretty certain that Microsoft will see it as a threat. Om Malik thinks it’s probably going to impact anyone who has digital media ambitions: “Even though Google is being overtly aggressive …
How Google Detect Arbitrage MFA Sites
Shoemoney posts that Google claim to be using conversion data to identify arbitragers: “Kim explained that in many cases they are using Adwords conversion data to tell what MFA sites were actaully converting for advertisers. She said using this data helps them easily identify arbitragers. I think everyone in the room was a little shocked …
Weird Adsense Case: Google Being Sued For $250K
From Google Watch: “A would-be AdSense customer is suing Google for $250,000 because it took her 100 hours to place and review AdSense advertisements on her Web site, which Google subsequently removed” A few curious aspects of this case: 100 hours to place Adsense code? The site has 24 pages. The site itself – bravacorp.com. …
Google And Ebay Team Up
Google to provide advertising and team up on delivering click-to-talk systems on Ebay: “In a deal between two of the Internet’s most prominent properties, Google Inc. will begin selling advertising on Web auction leader eBay and help buyers quickly ring an online merchant to do business. Under the partnership, Google would become the exclusive provider …
