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• Google Insights For Search, for advertisers and marketers

  Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

  Google launched a new product very useful for advertisers and marketers. It include a world heat map for the search volume and regional interest, the evolution for a specific search term and the top related and rising searches.
  With Google Insights For Search, it is possible to compare search volume trends across multiple [...]

• Google Knol, the paid Wikipedia

  Thursday, July 24th, 2008

  Writers has now a good occasion to make profit. Google launched this week Google Knol, the user-generated encyclopedia similar to Wikipedia. And every author can earn money from his work, depending on the hits of his articles
  Google official blog says that “Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people [...]

• Google Health and Search Factory Tour

  Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

  Google shows the latest research in various search-related fields and announced the official debut of Google Health.
  R.J. Pittman, Director of Search Properties, showed some of the amazing advances Google made in image search, as well as how ads might work to enhance the user experience on image search. “There are over 300 [...]

• The digital Europe - i2010 Initiative

  Sunday, May 18th, 2008

  Preparing Europe’s digital future i2010 Mid-Term Review {SEC(2008) 470}
  INTRODUCTION

  Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) continue to be a major driver of economic and social modernisation. Today, businesses in the EU devote 20% of investment to ICTs, and the sector accounts for 26% of overall research expenditure. Moreover, 60% of basic public services [...]

• eBay auction business downgraded

  Thursday, January 24th, 2008

  In my opinion as an user eBay was losing its competitiveness due to its own rules. Too many rules, too restricting rules, a very complicated system for sellers, not a very good search system for buyers, and not a very good integration of all its parts. Now the new CEO, John [...]

• Google and Yahoo! top search keywords for 2007

  Monday, January 14th, 2008

  Big differences between the two statistics for top search keywords for the last year. It seems that Yahoo! search was used mainly for entertainment, while US people searched with Google for a more diversified terms, especially social networks.
  As specified by MandarinMusing.com:
  Google fastest rising U.S. search terms for 2007:

  iPhone: a [...]

• Outsourcing predictions for the new year 2008

  Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

  A high importance is given to the IT outsourcing industry. From this point of view, there are two special “destinations” for the corporations: India, and Eastern Europe.

  Phil Fersht suggests some trends for the new year:

  Offshoring panic will continue, but will force providers to innovate
  The standardization of technology platforms within [...]