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Google traffic on iPhone is over 50%

January 28, 2010 - 9:31am | Figures | News

According to a recent report from Chitika Research the presence of Google on the iPhones is more significant than it is thought to be. Chitika says that Google searches alone reach over 50% of all Internet traffic from mobile device running the iPhone OS. Thus Google outstrips all other traffic, including other search sites and all visits to Websites in the phone's browser.

The report also reveals that across the Internet as a whole--not just iPhone or mobile Internet--Google search makes up nearly 31% of all the traffic.

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Malware hotbeds in Google search results are increasing

May 15, 2009 - 5:00am | Fraud | News

Mary Landesman with real-time malware scanning specialist ScanSafe tracking the attacks since March reported that a number of websites identified as infected have almost tripled. Cybercrooks behind malware attacks set up websites that appear in a search result listing at Google and after the user visits such a malicious destination his/her computer gets infected with an application that tracks their Google search results.

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Yahoo! launches mobile NCAA tournament site

March 11, 2009 - 7:44am | News | Other themes

Yahoo! announced the launch of a new mobile sports website designed specially for the men's NCAA basketball tournament. Jimmy Pitaro from Yahoo! Sports told eMarketer that the company is targeting younger consumers and females as part of its online strategy.
The website includes special tools that enable users to follow the games of their favourite teams directly from mobile devices. Moreover, the fans can track their brackets and the progress of others in their group.

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Google’s 15,600 inside bondholders to see a profit. What about outside?

March 11, 2009 - 4:34am | News | Other themes

On Tuesday Google reported that over 15,600 employees exchanged options to buy roughly 7.6 million company shares under the unusual program launched to retain the Internet giant's top talent even as its share price is sliding down. Earlier in January Google announced that it would allow employees with stock options that have lost value thanks to the company's falling share price to substitute them for new options with a lower strike price.

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Google expects the recession is yet to hit its business

March 4, 2009 - 9:36am | News | Other themes

On Tuesday during the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt uttered a rather dark perspective awaiting the world economy within the current year. he said that in spite of Google’s better position against the background of other companies the ubiquitous meltdown experienced by corporation worldwide may penetrate into the world of Google. Schmidt cited 2010 as the nearest year for economy recovery.

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70% of users accessed Internet search through their mobile phones

February 26, 2009 - 2:14pm | Figures | News

The survey conducted by ABI Research in 2007 and 2008 had found out that 70% of respondents used their mobile phones to search for information on Internet search engines in 2008, which exceeds the proportion in 2007 by 14%.

More than 1000 mobile phone users in the United States aged 14-59 from a wide range of demographic profiles had participated in both surveys, aimed at finding out the users’ preferences of a variety of mobile email and web usage. They were held in November of 2007 and December of 2008.

ABI Research | email | mobile Internet | mobile phone | searching engine

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Yahoo does not mind selling its searching business?

February 26, 2009 - 2:55am | News | Other themes

During Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference held in San Francisco Yahoo Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen on Wednesday made some clarifications on the potential outsourcing or selling its search business. In this regard Jorgensen made a note that the key factor in the transaction will be an ability to retain data about users' online intentions.

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Baidu delisted first 15 sellers with fake goods

February 20, 2009 - 7:50am | News | Other themes

In line with the recently launched initiative called Spring Thunder Chinese Internet shopping platform Youa.baidu.com that belongs to the searching engine Baidu.com, has already announced first party of 15 stores that were closed on the grounds of their violating the regulation of the online marketplace. These stores were selling fake goods in breach of the platform’s rules.

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Google is too googol on the market, TradeComet sues the giant

February 18, 2009 - 4:24am | Law aspects | News

On Tuesday a small Web site operator TradeComet.com applied with an antitrust suit against Google, accusing it of unfairly manipulating its advertising system to harm a potential competitor. Google was accused by TradeComet, that operates a site SourceTool.com, a vertical search engine for seeking business products and services, of raising the advertising rates it charged the company after it realized that SourceTool as a potential competitor.

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UK Parliament minds Google’s gambling ads

February 13, 2009 - 1:58am | News | Other themes

In response to Google’s October announcement to reintroduce online gambling advertisements on its searching engine for UK users the Church of England expressed its concern that what backed by the Members of the Parliament. Khalid Mahmood, Labour MP, brought the motion which said that during the current economy decline Google’s actions appear to be irresponsible and unwise.

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Google buys a ‘selling space’ in China for $1 million

February 11, 2009 - 3:30am | News | Payment systems

Chinese media report that Google is planning to enter China’s ecommerce market with the purchase of a domain to be used as a C2C platform. Google reportedly bought the domain Baobei.com for $1 million and is expected to go live with the C2C site within the next few months.

The new move of Google is the company’s first entry into Chinese ecommerce market which will likely pose it in a direct competition against Alibaba’s C2C-industry-leader Taobao.com and Baidu’s newer Youa.

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Malware warnings at Ask.com to be more efficient than Google’s

February 5, 2009 - 3:05am | Fraud | News

In light of the error occurred at Google searching engine last week Ask.com, which is the Internet’s fourth leading search engine after Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft Live Search, announced that the company is partnering with Symantec to provide online users with the safety alerts on the potentially malicious websites. But, as reported by the Register, unlike Google Ask says, that it will not be keeping the list on their own, instead the list will be entirely controlled by Symantec.

Ask.com | google | malware | searching engine

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