The Chinese government is fighting back against Google’s comments yesterday, saying they would no longer filter out information on their website.
“The Chinese government administers the Internet according to law and we have explicit stipulations over what content can be spread on the Internet,” said Jiang Yu, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman. (more…)
The most recent report from Nielsen, shows that Google continues to dominate the search engines, but the most surprising news, is that they are gaining more users. The report documents the top 10 search engines for the month of December. Google took 67.3% of those searches. That’s nearly 6.7 billion people searching Google, compare that to only 1.4 billion on Yahoo!, which followed Google with only 14.4%. That’s a drop from November, when Yahoo took roughly 15.3% of searches. That’s close to an entire percent, which is drastic in terms of search. Bing dropped to 9.9% of all searches, which is down from 10.7% in November. It looks like those users went over to Google, since in November Google only had 65% of searches in November but jumped 2.3%. (more…)
It seems like the world’s most used search engine, maybe leaving the country with the most people. Google announced late Tuesday afternoon, that after much thought the company is working closely with the Chinese government but may close down it’s website in the country very soon.
“The decision to review our business operations in China has been incredibly hard,” said Google’s David Drummond, “and we know that it will have potentially far-reaching consequences. We want to make clear that this move was driven by our executives in the United States, without the knowledge or involvement of our employees in China who have worked incredibly hard to make Google.cn the success it is today.” (more…)
This Week In Social Media: December 11, 2009 from iePlexus on Vimeo.
From Google’s new search features, to AOL relaunching their site, Kyle Aevermann from iePlexus takes a look at some of the stories that made headlines this week in the world of social media and on the world wide web. (more…)
Facebook seems to have yet another statistic which will amaze us once again. Last week on December 4, Facebook’s feature, Facebook Connect celebrated its one year anniversary since joining the site. Late Wednesday, the company announced some pretty amazing statistics.
“Today, we are celebrating the first anniversary of Facebook Connect from the LeWeb conference in France,” said Ethan Beard, director of the Facebook Developer Network. “Facebook Connect is now available on more than 80,000 websites, and more than 60 million people are using the service to connect with their friends everywhere.” (more…)
Last week, Google rolled out an additional feature in its personalized search results, which is based on your experience on the search engine. This feature has been slowly rolled out to users signed into their Google Accounts. An example Google likes to give is, searching for recipes. Lets say you simply search “recipes” and have clicked on epicurious.com a number of times. Google will start ranking their site higher the next time you search for recipes. It’s as easy as that.
It is a nice feature to have, but as previously stated, the feature was only available for users who were signed into their Google accounts and had their web history enabled. That’s changing now and anyone using Google will be able to use the feature, even if you don’t have a Google account. (more…)
Right now, I’m in the midst of my Christmas shopping, while getting adjusted to living in a new city. I’m trying to learn the in’s and out’s along with trying to find the little hidden secrets of Seattle. Personally, I’m an explorer, so whether I’m in the mountains of Peru, on the streets of Paris, or walking down Main Street USA, one of my life goals is to experience and see as much as possible. I love doing everything from the touristy things, to randomly picking a street to walk down, not knowing what lies ahead. (more…)
Yahoo, the second most popular search engine behind Google, is trying to gain some momentum. Yahoo announced today that the company would be integrating the popular social networking site, Facebook to the search engine.
Yahoo has rolled out Facebook Connect on a number of its sites in hopes more Facebook users will use Yahoo to share items with the 350 million other users on the networking site. Facebook is also likely to see an increase in users with the new integration. Yahoo Mail, News, Sports, along with several other Yahoo sections, will connect with Facebook, allowing users to leave comment, share stories, and check out what their friends are posting from their news feed. (more…)
It’s hard to believe that today we entered the last month of the year. This is the time of year where it seems Barbara Walters reviews just about anything and everything from the year. From news events to the people that made headlines, and I’m sure In the weeks ahead, we will be seeing an abundance of reports and reviews from the past year. We’ve already started with them. Just last week, CNN showcased their Heroes of the Year show, while NBC aired ‘People of the Year.’
While the year were filled with high and lows, both Google & Yahoo have released the top search terms for 2009. (more…)
From “what’s happening” with Twitter, to Facebook becoming one of the top video sites, this is what happened this week in the world of social media. (more…)
