Google continues to amaze the market

Google posted 70% increase in its revenues of US by $2.69 billion and also recorded a whopping 92% increase in its net profit of US$733 million when compared to the previous quarter.

It is rapidly becoming more globalize and giving its access to the wider market. The international component of Google’s revenue is growing faster than domestic US market. Revenues from outside US were 44% in Q3 compared to 39% Q3 2005.

Yahoo to buy AdInterax

Yahoo now agrees to buy AdInterax, which helps companies make and also manage online marketing ads that incorporate animation and video, at undisclosed amount. Yahoo says it will provide help to afford rich advertising to be created and good campaign for marketers.

Till now AdInterax doing business as developed tools for building floating animations, expandable banners and streaming video. This also offers technology tracking and reporting capabilities.

Google exposes the plan for solar array

Google has now chosen EI Solutions to build up a 1.6 MW solar power system for the Mountain View location. The array needs to produce enough electricity to power 1000 California homes, but would generate only 30% of Google’s power needs. Savings would only be around $393,000 per year or $30 million over its lifetime.

The system costed Google $3 million dollars, but it would pay for itself within 15 years according to EI Solutions.

Yahoo expands video lineup with CBS’s

CBS’s television stations would now begin providing local news clips to Yahoo coming this week in a precedent setting partnership, which gives the local broadcasters a bigger place on the Internet and provides the Web Company more video content. Local News Clips is going in Revenue Sharing Deal.

Yahoo would be selling ads linked to the 16 CBS-owned stations’ reports on a national basis and the companies would split the revenue, by the director of the companies.

Google Docs & Spreadsheets free for all its users

Google has now made its word processing and spreadsheet programs accessible for free to all its users, marking the Internet search leader’s the latest effort to offer an alternative to Microsoft’s dominant software applications.

This big move continues Google’s attempt to gather a group of good software applications, which are tethered to an Internet connection instead of a single computer’s hard drive, which makes it easier for people to work on the same document from different locations as well, a convenience that also is meant to cheer up more sharing among users with common interests or goals.

Yahoo! makes online time capsule

Yahoo! is lately looking to make and also believes it would be the world’s largest time capsule in history. Yahoo! users are offered to visit the site timecapsule.yahoo.com. Content could be submitted online to the website and could also include writings, movies, and photos.

After 30 days, the site’s contents would be saved on a digital archive and then sealed. A copy of the content would also be given to the Smithsonian for archives. Yahoo! plans on opening the content of the time capsule by 2020 that would also mark the company’s 25th anniversary.

Google mixes up letters and numbers

Google has now combined its online word processing and spreadsheet applications through a common line with single sign-in and data repository. Launch has been devised to make Google’s personal efficiency software simpler to use for user.

The launch is contributing to something called as a “feature, not product” initiative. The goal is just to simplify Google’s collection of services, and would apparently see Google’s calendar added to its spreadsheet and word processing.

YouTube belongs to Google

The worlds largest search engine has just purchased the worlds largest online broadcaster, where millions meet over the internet to watch and share their videos.

Google paid $1.65 billion pounds for the You Tube website – a move which hasn’t gone down well with many of its users.

Google Launches Blog and Site to Showcase Its Mac Services

Google has launched a blog to keep Mac (Message Authentication Code) users update of new services for the Apple Computer machine. In addition, the search engine group has created a new site to showcase all of Google’s applications for the Mac. It offers all the “news, tips and insider stories about Macs at Google.

Google’s Mac software carries widgets for checking the company’s Web mail, posting to blog and check search history.

Yahoo Structure Updates Coming Up Soon

Yahoo would soon be introducing the new sponsored search. With it Yahoo wants their advertisers to know about a few constant changes that are about to take place. In their newest journal edition of “On Target”, Yahoo noted a few key point advertiser needs.

1. Account upgrades are now expected to be released in this fourth quarter of 2006. At this time some of the account terminology would be changed.

2. Listings would now be known as ‘Ads’ and would also be joined into Ad Groups (not to be confused with Google AdGroups). This would allow them for bidding based on the full group, or by any individual keyword.

3. Categories would now be known as ‘Campaigns’ that might consist of one or more ‘Ad Groups’.