Social Networking
The Biz: Yahoo! brings in Rivals.com to the big time
Yahoo! soon launched Rivals.com national college sports news and recruiting website. This site is paid by the college sport lovers to get the desired information. Previously, 185,000 subscribers paid $99.95 yearly or $9.95 as monthly fees. With Yahoo! Taking over it more subscribers are expected. Latest sports features and quizzes are daily updates.
Microsoft and Kommersant to Introduce MSN in Russia
The Microsoft Corp. proclaimed the commencement of the MSN portal in Russia on 29th June 07. This portal is expected to become one of the three top servers on the Russian Internet within 3 years. The news content for this portal will be made available by Kommersant Publishing House, Reuters and AP. MSN Russia will permit utilizers to read news, generate blogs, swap messages, send and receive e-mail and search the web.
MSN Getting Ready for Live Earth
Microsoft’s MSN division is getting ready to bring hot events never seen before in Internet era. This will be launched in another two weeks. It is expected that Live Earth will make a boom among the viewers. This can be viewed in 24 markets globally; 5 million streams can be served as expected.
Populace Relies on Yahoo! & Google for the Brands
A recent study at Penn state research institute reveals that web searchers usually prefer the logo Yahoo! And not the search engine Google. This study was among 32 participants and the researchers grabbed the information from four different search engines; Google, MSN, Live Search, Yahoo! And one was specifically developed and designed for studies. On illustrating differences, there was no major changes found, finally the conclusion was “only emotional branding matters”
Google Earth outreach to benefit non-profit organizations
Google Earth outreach now permits non-profit organizations to get advantage from satellite viewing technology. Google Earth Outreach assists organizations make use of the satellite-based viewer to utmost effect, utilizing it to make map layers to get information crossways rapidly and efficiently.
It lets non-profit groups make use of wide online guides and other digital resources to get the most out of the famous software, and launch forums to promote the sharing of ideas and media with likewise-focused organizations.
Latest Yahoo! Mobile contributions: – "Yahoo oneSearch"
The very famous Yahoo! finalized an accord of strategic mobile partnership with Maxis Communications at CommunicAsia 2007. This will allow users to search for and get fine results and quick answers on their personal mobiles. Yahoo! oneSearch gives customers access to news, web images, financial information, weather conditions, Flicker and both web and mobile websites.
Google China news grab readers focusing on images
Google is allowing users of its Chinese site to locate news by initially searching for images available inside the articles. The function was jointly built-up by Google’s lately established engineering centre in Shanghai, and its centre in California, spokeswoman Jin Cui said on Wednesday.
Google to commence PowerPoint rival
There will be soon a PowerPoint tool added to Google Apps and other application such as video, note-taking, blogging and group-discussion to its software as a service desktop suite. This will help the visitors to enjoy many needed applications via google.
How Google is Benefiting from YouTube
Since the time google has bought YouTube it is benefiting to the core. The popularity of the YouTube has made the Google most used site for amazing videos. There are about 57.4 million visitors who watched the video clips and among them 53.5 million came via YouTube. Yahoo is actually enjoying the 6.2% market share of videos present online were as Google enjoys 16.7%of the market.
MSN UK Prefills Search Box with Advertisement
According to a report MSN UK home page presently has the search box prefilled with the query “The Apprentice BBC,” successfully making it into an ad.
By clicking on “Search” it would take you to the search results for The Apprentice BBC. The first result seen is at http://www.bbc.co.uk/apprentice/ with information about the show provided by the BBC.