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Google + Yahoo = Advertising Powerhouse
We all know that these two companies are been negotiating the deal but then no clue on how fat the deal is done. The two week testing of advertising program is also been done last month. Google’s software did a superior job than Yahoo’s at publishing profitable text ads next to search results, and Yahoo is taking into account its options. Using Google’s software, other than its own, could boost Yahoo’s earnings and fend off another gaining attempt from Microsoft. Actually, part of the cause Microsoft dipped its bid for Yahoo was may be because Yahoo was so fast to edge up to its main contestant and get all cozy.
Google falls in Paid Click Advertisement
Google Exposes Google Transit
Google is soon going to expose its online public transport service in
Enter found and end points for a preferred journey and Google Transit would show a way map with exit points and trip times for the public move services on each prop of the journey. The tool could also help you to plan trips weeks beforehand.
Once again Google is a Lead among Search Engines
Search Engine Giant Gives Access to Trends API
Now Enjoy Search Suggestions from Yahoo.com
Musical March by MSN India
MSN India, a source of online entertainment, had announced its association with Control Room during last October. The partnership would see MSN as the elite online worldwide purpose for Control Room’s live music indoctrination, via live and on-demand brooking, the company said.
Google granted US patent for ‘similarity engine’
The US Patent and Trademark Office have finally granted two patents to Google, one for methods and apparatus estimates similarity and another one for a digital mapping system. This patent number 7,158,962 was initially filed during 2001 and took five years to receive approval.
It will describe the method whereby a similarity engine creates compact representative of objects called ‘Sketches’. These sketches that contain weighting could further be compared for similarities.
Google’s Digital Mapping Systems patent explains different methods, systems and apparatus for implementing aspects of a digital mapping system’. It comprises the methods for using map tiles and grids in client-server environments.
Cognos adds link to IBM-Yahoo search engine
Cognos has recently added a link among its BI search engine and a new IBM-Yahoo search tool. It would let the users collect structured and unstructured data at the same time. IT executives said that such combined searches could even help users more promptly gather the key data needed to make business decisions.
The Cognos 8 Go Search engine, exposed last spring, could be used to find BI data housed in reports, scorecards and dashboards, company stated. A new interface in the Cognos tool would allow both search engines to be used to conduct a single search.
Google’s top searches
In 2006 people were more interested learning about online social networks, Borat’s American invasion, Paris Hilton and definition of promiscuous, according to Google’s annual list of top searches.
Today Google processes billions of searches every month and calls the results the zeitgeist – a “general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era.” Myspace and Bebo were top most two searches during 2006. It just shows the increasing popularity of social networks between young web surfers.
Google’s video sharing website YouTube did not appear in top 10 lists, but any how its similar site, Metacafe, came at No. 4. One of the site’s ticks is to pay users for actual content, which is viewed more than 20,000 times.