Top 75 Countries in Facebook

Country	08/12/2007
United States	22 366 340
Canada	8 075 980
United Kingdom	7 887 620
Turkey	2 192 340
Australia	2 113 660
France	1 063 100
Sweden	1 062 080
Norway	1 003 500
South Africa	677 880
Columbia	622 900
Mexico	531 480
Egypt	512 640
India	447 320
Germany	417 940
Singapore	352 700
Israel	330 960
New Zealand	284 700
Spain	275 020
United Arab Emirates	248 820
Malaysia	225 640
Lebanon	217 440
Italia	200 780
Ireland	199 380
Switzerland	184 440
China	166 740
Netherlands	166 140
Saudi Arabia	162 760
Pakistan	151 580
Belgium	135 208
Japan	124 500
Greece	103 145
Philippines	94 324
Indonesia	82 280
Brazil	70 112
Venezuela	66 288
Argentina	60 059
Poland	56 652
Taiwan	53 384
Thailand	49 114
Russia	49 047
South Korea	45 789
Dominican Replublic	43 000
Nigeria	39 868
Bangladesh	35 819
Sri Lanka	30 948
Peru	30 635
Kenya	30 000
Hungary	26 746
Syria	26 309
Portugal	24 597
Morroco	22 442
Guatemala	21 842
Romania	21 694
Vietnam	15 694
Ukraine	14 856
Ghana	11 323
Iran	11 303
Sudan	9 886
Nepal	8 602
Iraq	7 880
Tunisia	7 093
Tanzania	6 691
Uganda	5 724
Algeria	4 475
Ethiopa	3 692
Afghanistan	3 086
Cuba	1 855
Yemen	1 849
Cameroon	1 817
Uzbekistan	1 766
Mozambique	1 686
Myanmar	1 536
Madagascar	1 164
North Korea	406
Total	53 780 257

The country in green are not in the Advertiser statistics

Here is the percentage of population using Facebook

Country	Population	% of pop.
Canada	33 087 000	24,408%
Norway	4 727 777	21,226%
United Kingdom	60 587 300	13,019%
Sweden	9 150 000	11,607%
Australia	21 129 222	10,003%
Singapore	4 436 000	7,951%
United States	303 545 000	7,368%
New Zealand	4 249 600	6,699%
United Arab Emirates	4 380 000	5,681%
Lebanon	4 099 000	5,305%
Ireland	4 301 000	4,636%
Israel	7 208 520	4,591%
Turkey	74 877 000	2,928%
Switzerland	7 508 700	2,456%
France	64 102 140	1,658%
Columbia	44 055 000	1,414%
South Africa	48 577 000	1,395%
Belgium	10 457 000	1,293%
Netherlands	16 387 773	1,014%
Greece	11 147 000	0,925%
Malaysia	27 544 000	0,819%
Egypt	75 498 000	0,679%
Saudi Arabia	24 735 000	0,658%
Spain	45 116 894	0,610%
Germany	82 314 900	0,508%
Mexico	106 535 000	0,499%
Dominican Replublic	9 760 000	0,441%
Italia	59 206 382	0,339%
Hungary	10 053 000	0,266%
Venezuela	27 657 000	0,240%
Taiwan	22 935 000	0,233%
Portugal	10 623 000	0,232%
Guatemala	13 354 000	0,164%
Sri Lanka	19 299 000	0,160%
Argentina	39 531 000	0,152%
Poland	38 125 479	0,149%
Syria	19 929 000	0,132%
Peru	27 903 000	0,110%
Philippines	88 706 300	0,106%
Romania	21 438 000	0,101%
Japan	127 718 000	0,097%
South Korea	48 512 000	0,094%
Pakistan	161 930 000	0,094%
Kenya	37 538 000	0,080%
Thailand	62 828 706	0,078%
Morroco	31 224 000	0,072%
Tunisia	10 327 000	0,069%
Ghana	23 478 000	0,048%
India	1 169 016 000	0,038%
Brazil	185 130 000	0,038%
Indonesia	231 627 000	0,036%
Russia	142 499 000	0,034%
Ukraine	46 205 000	0,032%
Nepal	28 196 000	0,031%
Iraq	28 993 000	0,027%
Nigeria	148 093 000	0,027%
Sudan	38 560 000	0,026%
Bangladesh	158 665 000	0,023%
Uganda	30 884 000	0,019%
Vietnam	87 375 000	0,018%
Tanzania	40 454 000	0,017%
Cuba	11 268 000	0,016%
Iran	71 208 000	0,016%
Algeria	33 858 000	0,013%
China	1 322 413 000	0,013%
Afghanistan	27 145 000	0,011%
Cameroon	18 549 000	0,010%
Yemen	22 389 000	0,008%
Mozambique	21 397 000	0,008%
Uzbekistan	27 372 000	0,006%
Madagascar	19 683 000	0,006%
Ethiopa	77 127 000	0,005%
Myanmar	48 798 000	0,003%
North Korea	23 790 000	0,002%

The population data are from Wikipedia

Microsoft Live Search and Yahoo promote Fake Ads Site on first result page with undertaker domain parking company

It will be the second aniversary of the death of ConstellationW3.com*. It was a collaborative blog in french were in Quebec we where between august 2002 and december 2005 two dozens of Web passionates of IT who was writing on that blog.

*It was sponsored by Michel Cartier a professor and researcher at the Department of Communications at the University of Quebec in Montreal and consultant in new information and communication technologies (NICT) for various companies and governments in both Europe and North America.

Now the surprise, a query on my name on Microsoft Live returns today for first result : ConstellationW3.com !

The domain name seem to have been purchased after the end of that blog more than a year after the site was closed, and this smart guy from Australia who use Switzerland server, have seems to study the old links pointing to our city and use it to put sponsored links to Montreal now.

Yahoo, also give me a third position and this, 23 months after the site was closed and where my name was never been there!

I don't really explain to be a mistake, just a deal with the undertaker domain parking company Sedoparking !

I'm Feeling lucky cost more than a hundred million to Google

A bit surprizing !

Larry Page to get married : Pretty costly this wedding !

Seem Goog don't like Lucy ;-)

I choose the wrong job!

Too funny : Google options put masseuse in crowd of multimillionaires.

Facebook Pages Stats

Quite good for focusing on different age segmentation with those statistics provide by the new FaceBook Pages !

Almost 25% of all the canadians are in Facebook !

Exactly 7,759,540* Canadians have a profile on Facebook. If you look at the last demographic data (end of september 2007) of Statistics Canada we are 32,976,000, now. An huge percentage no ?

Well, theses numbers was also confirmed by the first FaceBook Camp held this week in Montreal, Quebec where, - in less than a week of promotion in... FaceBook Events -, we get almost 250 peoples met together with also some folks of Toronto and also as far as New York too.

In Quebec province (the only french province of the Canada) we have 749,740 profils in FaceBook which represent 10% of all the Québecois for a english interface social network!

*This number come from the FaceBook Social Ad of FaceBook witout any age restriction.

Google China : Other culture, other design

Here is the new look of Google China.



Here a automatic translation of the new Google China homepage.

Myspace jump in the Google OpenSocial Network

Nice move and it will make pressure on Facebook to jump in too. But I think it will wait after the launch of their ad platform.

Google Transit jump out to Canada

And it is Vancouver the first of the canadian cities to be include in this handy feature :

View Larger Map

More than 20% of all the canadians are in Facebook

The small ads network page The Flyers Pro give us the statistics of all of those countries include in the location dropbox !

Geo Targeting Clicks for Ads

If the US dollar keep that pace may be the ads networks like Adwords/AdSense will have to manage the geolocation of clicks ?

Peter Kopimi take on the ifpi.com domain and giving back to Pirate Bay

Too funny and a good lesson for domain's owner. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry - IFPI.com- (org site still here) have been transferred to The Pirate Bay and the accronym have been change to International Federation of Pirate Interests.

Hello Google

Seem to be serious this time, the venue of the Google Phone and the stock price (wow $50 in 5 day) fly like the Google guys !

Google brains switch to Facebook !

I think Larry, Sergey and Eric have to sit down and brainstorm now !

Almost 3 Canadians on ten have a profile on a social network !

That's huge !

Nokia goes in the maps and local business for $ 8 billion

Nokia throw out a press release from their hat, informing us that they will acquire Navteq for 8.1 billion dollars. Huge deal and a good step to the advertising market for mobile.

Navteq is the principal provider of maps for Google Maps and Google Earth and a few other. I'd love to hear something form Google about this deal !

More information about that huge deal here.

Facebook & Microsoft Deal : Why not a advertising platform for local and mid-size advertisers instead ?

The Facebook platform have been at this place in the top place in the Web since few months in America for two reasons :

1. A developers platform . Great viral effect and massive new applications developed since end of may.
2. The switch of the primary focus clientele from colleges to everyone.

But where is the money ! For now, more than half seem to come from insignificant ads from Microsoft. And now, they will sell 5% to MSFT ?

After seen the possible with MSFT, I was wondering why the Facebook team are so dependant of Microsoft for their revenues ? They got a huge community divide in a lot of cities network with a lot of open profile. Why they not start their own advertising platform instead ?

You got the answer ? Please comment on it down here.

Google and Baidu stocks are going very well

After Apple, it's Baidu (China leader search engine) who go very well in the last year, is stock growing from around 80 to $300 while Google goes with new all-time high.

For the search engine market shares of China, Baidu still have the lead by far :

Google Web2Print new tool

A new tool to compose your Ad for the Google's print network (225 of U.S.-based newspapers) have been quietly released last week. Here how it's look like.

Nice acquisition for Google

The guy behind one of the best latest project of Yahoo who surprized me a lot and the only one I use everyday have been hired by Google. Hope will seen that kind of RSS aggregator going out as a new service at Google.

Google Shared Stuff

A good article with the best and worst of this new service launched a bit to soon in my opinion.

New York Times goes free and open up their archives

Finally another one catch-it up ! I laughed a bit specially reading this part of the article :

“What wasn’t anticipated was the explosion in how much of our traffic would be generated by Google, by Yahoo and some others,” Ms. Schiller said.

They will be suprised a lot in a few month if I compare this to a small newspaper from Montreal who I managed to make their archives really easy to crawl with a bit of SEO. The traffic from Google grew from 4,000 UV/month to around 600,000/month !

Facebook launching a new business model

Interesting concept to promote a platform. I think it was time to make a clean-up and to try to manage the thousands of all kind of sometimes stupid application in there !

Panoramio photos now in Google Maps

After Google Earth it's now the turn of Google Maps to embed photos from Panoramio. You'll have to check the Panoramio box on the left side column to display it.

PS: A got one here, the orange sunset.

Lenovo goes really green

Lenovo, who acquire IBM’s Personal Computing Division less than 3 year ago, is one of the first company producing electronic devices to go really in the green manufacturing.

Not only his new desktop use only 45 watts of power, it also can be use with a solar panel to provide energy input and also contains up to 90% of reusable and recyclable materials and 90% recyclable packaging.

Wow ! The others will have to follow soon !

Google Drive up for the ninth's birthday of Google ?

Seem to be soon and the 27 september seem a good date where Google will turn nine !

Google Reader add finally the search feature

Great!!!! The new search functions allow you to search in :

• All your items
• The starred items
• The sharred items
• The sub-category generated by your tag
  
• The individual RSS feed
• The use of classical search operator ( OR |, " ", -)
  

Very nice. Here a few other thing they should add in it :

• A vacation button to stop the aggregator with a calendar option
• A way to classify the post on the same subject with your historical click preference to sort the most click at the top and gray out the bottom one automatically
  
• A RSS feed at the end of a query in Reader. With that, you can extract some nice data from multiple or single feed and share those results for users who don't use google Reader.

Google Bug : Interface language affect a lot the positionning of the results

Another weird bug at Google almost unknown. The language of the interface modify a lot the positionning of the results even of local declinaisons. (like google.ca, google.fr, etc).
Here a example with Google.com : http://www.google.com/search?&q=top%20challenge%20montreal%202007

My picture blog (vupar.blogspot.com) on this query got the 25e position.

But now, go to the preference and change the Interface Language to French :

Get back in the first page of results : Tadam ! Vupar.blogspot now showing in first place !

Soem countries like Switzerland or India have a lot of common language used there. Not very easy to know in which position a page are ?!?

Note: If you don't wan't to pass by the preference you can add &hl=en (english) or &hl=fr (french) at the end of the resulting URL

Odd Google suggestion

Sometimes all the products can't be use used ;-)

Martin Bouchard is now president of Mamma

Good news for that meta search engine. I met this guy a few years ago when he was at Copernic and i'm pretty sure he will dynamize that company. Good luck Martin.

Technorati Tags: mamma, copernic, martin+bouchard

AskX : Really nice and a good backup to Google

Quite a good job for the Ask team who release Ask X 4 day ago. This will be a very good second place to test your query and a good tool for recherchist.

Technorati Tags: ask+x, google, search+engine

Mamma launch a metasearch for video

Nicely done and the results seem good. Mamma Video search in ; YouTube, Revver.com, Guba, stupidVideos.com, Grouper, EVTV1, Addicting Clips, Aol.com, Flixya, Encyclomedia, DailyMotion, Blastro, BusinessWeek, Reuters, Sharkle, Roo Media, USA Today and Metacafe.
Where is Google Video ?


Technorati Tags: mamma+video, video+search, multimedia+search

My favorite Christmas jingle

So surprising and well done !

Aljazeera got a 8

NYT got a 10, CNN a 9, Washington Post a 8 and the new Aljazeera in english got a 8.

* PageRank at Google

Google Earth and Maps new features

Earth

Google Earth now allow you to trace transparent polygons over the maps in his free version and even put your own picture over it.

Maps

Now you can put your Google Earth files over Google Maps. This will allow you to put *your* information layer over the Google Maps. I make a fast test map to see all the possibilities offer by that new feature. Click on the Belvédère link in the left column to see what you can do with it !

Technorati Tags: google+earth, google+maps

Lowest cost per customer acquisition : Internet Search

A study from Piper Jaffray & Co named The New eCommerce Decade: The Age of Micro Targeting show us thoses data :

Average Cost Per Customer Acquisition
Internet Search	$8.50
Yellow Pages	$20.0
Online Display Ads	$50.0
E-Mail	$60.0
Direct Mail	$70.0

sIFR2 : Scalable Inman Flash Replacement 2 now open source

I saw that new technology more than 2 year ago. I give a try for one client, but in that time the server was not enough powerful to serve the replacement of the text in the Flash file for that mid-size traffic site.

Now it seem to work nice with the version 2 of that technology. And the good news it's now open source, under the CC-GNU LGPL license, so anyone can use it free of charge.

Here a live example of the technology use at the Journal Le Devoir, a site who get around 500,000 visitors each month.

Technorati Tags: sifr, flash,

Google Custom Search Engine

Suppose to be launch tomorrow. A scoop from ... the Financial Time !
Hard to tell if it will be a mix of Google IG, Google Alert and Google Adwords Search for your own vertical search plus a taginng function. Here is the most interesting part of this article :

Users of Google Custom Search Engine will be able to select the websites they want to be included in their searches, and add to this list in future by “tagging” websites they visit. Any searches will then return results just from that slice of the Google search index.

On your browser tomorrow !

Update 24/10 01:30 : A big shit not worth much than half of Northern Light have made in 2000 ! Marissa you should shut-up sometimes !

Technorati Tags: Google+Custom+Search+Engine

PhishTank : Nice initiative

http://www.phishtank.com/ is a repository for phishing emails with an open API. Go to the Mathew Ingram post on it to have more information.

Technorati Tags: phishing, Phistank, opendns

Google News Archive : A first step to free archives

Finally a services to search multiple archives. Some of us have already have already taste, - for a small week -, the possibility to search Alexa's Web Archive. Now we can digg up to 200 years in the archives of a few of open archives (BBC News, Time Magazine and Guardian) and some other who require fees (Washington Post Archives, Newspaper Archive, and New York Times Archives).

But they are also some Canadian (Bravo to Canoe and the newspaper Le Devoir) and even french's articles in it !

How to use

Here is the help page to digg on it.

Napterization of an archaic model of business ?

I bet, somme of the publishers will drop soon the fees to have access to it. Why ? The media are facing two majors problems since a few years with the WWW. Lost of readers and not enough reach for the young market. By opening theirs archives they will solve both. They will also give more authority to their site and make more money with targeted ads.

Another big big lost for Search Engine Watch

Seem Incisive Media, the company who bought Search Engine Watch from Jupiter Media just more than 1 year ago, won't renew the contracts of Danny Sullivan, the founder of SEW and the first Guru on the search engine and marketing sector. I'm sad !

Incisive Media who let go THE "Reference" of the SE sector and the first librarian who catch the importance of search engine in the new web culture, may be want to make more place to the new generation, or IMHO, want to save money and trow out the Gurus who cost them to much !!!

You will definitely missed me, good luck Danny !
PS: If they let go Chris Sherman, I predict the death of SEW in a near future !

Flickr add Geo Tagging today

Flickr finally add geo tagging like some other have done in the past. The funny thing about what GeoBloggers have enable like the use of tag "geo:lat=" and "geo:lon=" have been adopt by Flickr. Some of my photos have been already geotagged by the new application.

Here what is looking like with my pictures.

Technorati Tags: flickr, geotagged

Allpeers : Not sure !

Allpeers was supposed to be online today !

Its a P2P Firefox extension for file sharing on YOUR computer. After reading the Techcrunch post this afternoon, i go to the site and the "Coming soon logo" was, - and still is at 0h20 thursday EST-, on the site !

I test the site for fun and simply add /the-normal-keyword/ to the domain name url and voilà ! I'm on the page offering the extension for Win/Mac/Linux. After installing the extension you'll be prompt to a screen for username, password, email... and activation key. Oups..... In clicking the link below explaining what is the activation key, the tell us the key have 12 digits. Ok ! I try the simpliest combination and bang i'm on it and everything works !

Ouf ! This 200,000 line of c++ extension who weight about 13 megabytes and who will open my computer for file sharing is open like that without invitation and a bit more secure activation code ? A bit scary no ?

I test-it half an hour and it was working not so bad. But the bummer is you can't use Firefox without been connected to Allpeers even if you got a Allpeers logo in your Firefox status bar saying your connected. You've got also an Allpeers status in the status on WinXP but the only thing you can do is to quit Firefox or open Allpeers. Not very good if you're doing some intensive transfer with other net application and still need Firefox to surf the web.

Hope they will soon add a way to close or disable the Allpeers connection without to uninstall it. This is what I will do in the next 30 seconds.

Sorry folks but you should not post your blog news about opening with that open "hidden" directory and really stupid activation key number.

Technorati Tags: allpeers, security

Google Maps add Local business center

Another nice strategy to the local market ! This will hit the yellow page market in US, Uk, Canada, Japan and China !

Web 1.0 : Gmail Hard Drive, Web 2.0 : GDrive

Just after Google launch Gmail, Gmail Hard Drive extension pops-up. Now the real thing should come soon as this swiss guy find out.
It will give you a lot a new services like synchronization and collaboration, even if you guys run different operating systems !

The Best Deal in the World : W3C PR9 Links for less than $100 by month

The W3C Supporters Program offer you a PageRank 9 link for a thousand dollars a year. I'm not sure this will last long, but for thoses who spotted this mega deal it seem to work nice. This screen shot have been obtain with this handy tool.

Click on it to zoom in

Update 15 july : There a Nofollow metatag (meta name="ROBOTS" content="INDEX, NOFOLLOW" /) that prevent search engine to tranfert some of the PageRank to the linked site !

Technorati Tags: pagerank9, w3c, best+link+deal

Google Maps New Features in Canada

Google Maps have integrated the new features to the canadian maps. We now see address and details tabs in balloons like this query show you.



We also have the "send to phone" option in the balloon but the list of the carrier seem to not have many canadian carrier in it ?



Technorati Tags: google+maps, send-to-phone

Google Checkout... US only for now

Google Checkout is out. Both the merchant and buyers have to reside in US for now. The cost is 2% and 20 cents by transaction. Cheaper than PayPal, but you can't use Checkout to transfer money from one account to another one. May be soon.

Checkout have a nice integration with Adwords users too. For every $1 the merchant spend on AdWords, they process $10 in sales for free.

Technorati Tags: checkout, google, google+checkout

Huckabuck : An Search Engine Equalizer

Nice new (2.0 ;-) generation of an meta search engine who query the old folks like Google, Yahoo and MSN and also the new generation like Technorati, Del.icio.us and... Digg.

The search tuner of Huckabuck give you the same twist as the Search Builder of MSN but with more sources it can give you more accurate results.

Good

• The six sources of data with the equalizer can give you nice or fresher results better than any other metasearch for now
• The control of the six sources the equalizer give us
  

Less Good

• Stemming and the too much consideration of the stop words like; on, the... in the results ?
• Many results from the same domains without duplication control

Like to see

• Possibility to save our own equalizing preference
• Adding new sources

Great new tool. Hope the speed will be faster and they will found fund to enhance this promising tools !!!

Technorati Tags: huckabuck, metasearch, search+equalizer

Google will test Cost-Per-Action ads model

Google seem to go on the Affiliate Network Market. It will bring a lot of new customers who where afraid of the clicks fraud problem. Nice move and it will be easier for both publishers and merchants to see what make a good ROI between CPC (cost-per-click), CPM (cost per 1,000 impressions) and CPA (cost-per-action).

A lot of them will have huge surprise !!! Hope Google analytic will implement the CPA in his product soon.

Technorati Tags: google, cpa, cpm, cpc, cost-per-action, affiliate+network

PayPal on GBuy

PayPal President Jeff Jordan have said it will "compete rigorously" if Google launch a similar service in two weeks. That's not very a pro-active way to keep their market !

If Google can launch a good product here it can be a huge step in the diversification of their business model. A Google 2.0 ;-)

We gonna see it in the next couple of weeks.

Technorati Tags: gbuy, paypal,

Google Analytics get his blog

Google Analytics have his own blog. Hope they will post a lot there because Analytics is a huge product.

Technorati Tags: google+analytics, blog

GBuy to come at the end of june

Since february we didn't heared much about the PayPal competitor GBuy also named Google Wallet or Google Purchase. Now, the Forbes web site tell us it should come at the end of the month. Hope we will see it soon.

Technorati Tags: gbuy, google+wallet, google+purchase

Google open up it's News in XHTML

A new line in the robots.txt of Google open up its news to crawlers and others scraping utilities.

Allow: /news?output=xhtml

Here how it's look like.

Big Brother Strike Again

Two years of Web records from search engines for the US government !!! And no more social networking for youth ! Really crazy, the next two years of the republican will be so long and crucial for the planet.

The turning point of the News Business

Here two greats article on the media sector. First, from the Financial Times, the internet advertising will soon close the gap on newspapers in UK.

Second, the democratization of the News Business from Chris Peck at Commercialappeal.com

• News will be generated by the people who are chosen, not the chosen people.
• News will be more a conversation about making sense of the world, less of a sermon from on high.
• News will rely on the wisdom of the many, not the insight of the few, with journalists being knowledge leaders.
• News will be multilayered, from very personal accounts to highly evolved overviews by real pros.
• News will be available anytime, from your phone, computer or new technologically advanced device.
• News will be framed according to your social networks, your age and your tribe.

Technorati Tags: news, media, ads, news+business

ICANN has had no comment on domain kiting

35 million names registered in April. 32 million were part of a kiting scheme.

Technorati Tags: icann, domain+kiting

Pay per Click fraudulent BotNet Network

After DDOS, hackers have found more lucrative way to make some money. Rent some network of computers infected with the bot Clickbot.A. Their become a genuine business model for cyber-crooks according to Help Net Security !
Technorati Tags: pay-per-click, fraud, botnet

Little interview in french about SEO and SEM

A little interview i've done with Philippe Martin and a "old" friend of the TI here in Quebec M. Christian Aubry of Économie Logique Communication. Nice work and thanks to Philippe and Christian and another special thanks to MCeTech2006 and Michel Leblanc!

Eric Baillargeon-Intercommunication
Vidéo envoyée par pmartin

Skype open up free calls to all US & CA phone

Really a useful thing Skype and the Web give us this week. Any call from a PC to an ordinay phone or cellular are now free anywhere, -in and for-, United States and Canada.
Skype launch this yesterday but I was only able to use it today because they have some bugs with certains IP addresses starting with 69 to 73.

Even conference calls up to 4 peoples also work with that. Great !

Technorati Tags: skype, free+call

Tuangou : A new chinese craze for BargainMob

You know what is a Flash Mob ? Now the chineses do the same for shopping in group to get discount.

Google Trends

Google Trends have been release today at the Press Day.
This new service show you the trends of keywords since 2004 on a graph with associate articles. The upper part of the graph show you the searches trends while the bottom one give you the news volume. You can also drill down by cities, countries and languages.

Comparison tool

As you can see you can also use it for comparison up to 5 subjects.

It will be an excellent tool for the marketing people. The asiatic data seem a bit poor but will see over time.

Technorati Tags: Google+Trends

Hummer Laptop

Are the battery last longer than 15 minutes and how many watts it is using when plug with the DC ? ;-)

Google to put hands on Olive Software ?

A rumor by the Mercury News SiliconBeat blog tell us that Google is negociating to buy Olive Software of Santa Clara. Seem full of sense when you look what products Olive have developped.

Theirs featured demos section is very informative about the technology involved. It's a great technology who pleased everybody. The embeded flash presentation give you the fealing of reading a real magazine and the XML treatment of the information is great for SE.

If that transaction go through we may be see a Google Catalog 2 ?

Technorati Tags: google, olive+software, google+catalog, xml

State of the WeboSphere

In one page.

Intention Cloud

Interesting tool based on Google suggest. The idea is based on the merging of Database of Intention + Tag Cloud = Intention Cloud. The french version seem to have not enough data in it.

Google better-than-expected Q1 Earnings

• Q1 Revenues $2.25 billion
• 17% increase over the PQ
• 79% YOY
• Operating income $743 million
• Traffic aquisition $723 million.
• Google’s sites brought in $1.3 billion
• AdSense sites generated $928 million
• Google now have 6,790 employees, hiring 1,110 people in three months.
• After hour trade up $35.25 for 8.49%

Technorati Tags: google, goog, q1, earnings, adsense

35.3 million or 72.5 million of blogs ?

David Sifry of Technorati claim they tracks over 35.3 Million blogs. Only that ? At the end of last december, Baidu alone, (the biggest search engine in China and the fouth most visited site in the world), estimate the number of chinese blogs was about 37 million from the 658 blogging service providers(BSPs) in China ! Are they have more chineses blogs now than any other langages blogs tracked by Technorati ? May be or probably soon it will !

Technorati Tags: blog, blogs, china, technorati, sifry, bsp

Google patented application on micropayments

After the reputation system on payment, after the rumors on PayPal competition, a patented application on micropayments was issued today. More information on the nice resume by William Slawski.

This will probably speed things on the Google agenda to launch micropayments ! Hope so, because PayPal don't sleep, they will offer credit card to the british folks using eBay !

Technorati Tags: google, patent, micropayments, paypal, ebay, credit+card

Censorship IS Both Way Sometimes in China

We all knew the people living in China have some trouble to see some sites outside their territory but this metropolitan site censor the news of Shangai to the outsider's user of China !!!
- Here is one of the commercial metropolitan sites of Shangai with a direct access . Look at the "Top Treads" in the right column,
- Here is the same commercial metropolitan site of Shangai with an access (proxy) via the translation tool of Google !

All the "Top Treads" column now say: Referer restriction is taking effect. Referer restriction is taking effect. Referer restriction is taking effect.........

First time I saw that !

Wow ! Microsoft release an really useful tool

The Strider URL Tracer is a new tool from the Microsoft labs who include a Typo-Patrol feature that generates and scans sites that capitalize on inadvertent URL misspellings, a process known as typo-squatting !

Why this kind of tool are not included in the OS or even better in the backbone routers ? This will close down a lot of Web's parasites !

PayPal on your phone with Click to Buy

PayPal make a first step in the InfoLust World. Here a few items of what you can buy with your phone on the web.

More on Adotas.
French thoughts on the InfoLust by Martin.

Google Health : A doctor soon on your search engine ?

Danny received a mail from the Googleplex telling this is an area of interest at Google.

Another hint is to always test the "normal" path to it. If you use http://www.google.com/doctor you'll have the classical error page. But if you're using http://www.google.com/health... Tadam ! A redirection to the Advertising Programs page at Google. The health sector have always a cost ;-)

Update: May be the recent entry in the robots.txt was not for "Mobile Business Division" but more for Medical Business? Database" !

Technorati Tags: health, google, google+health

GeoPortail : A GoogleEarth Clone Soon Online for France Territories

The IGN (Institut Géographique National) of France should launch soon (june) a GeoPortail looking like a real clone of GoogleEarth. The june version will be in 2D only and in the beginning of the 3D should be online.
I really doubt the 3D version will offer enough speed to be seen online. But we will have a good cue in june with the first version. They have plan to also release an API but the different services involved have not make an agreement yet.

Hakia : Search Engine by Meaning

If Hakia is really at 18% of it's evolution, it will be a really serious contender at the end of this year.

Hakia is planning to debut its full-capacity search engine in fall 2006

I will follow this closely.

Related Links by Google contaminated by AdSense Text ?

Google have released a new related links module for your Web site. I try it for a few minutes and I don't really saw a more real relation between the posted text of my post compare to AdSense.



AdSense contamination ?

When I test them on each post of this blog this one show up. It seem been contaminated by the AdSense text of the ads on my page because no post was related to that subject.

May be only for the News tabs it can be sometimes a plus value !

Web 2 Top 300 and Chinese Web 2 Top 100

The guys at SEOmoz.org and a lot of contrbutors like the folks at SEW have rated and awarded sites with user empowerment and open-source applications online.

In China, the Internet Society have done the same exercice the same day ! Here is a automatic translation of the chinese Top 100.

It's funny to see a lot of blog and podcast oriented site in the China version. As I read in a few blog out there, the major players have problem to follow up with the very fast pace going out there. You can find in China a few advertising system for your podcast feed, but you can't have any AdSense like ads in your blog !?! Wake up Google !

Technorati Tags: Web2, china, adsense, google, isc

Google on a TV near you

Seem Google is going also in the IP TV business too.

JupiterMedia on a break up move

After ClickZ and SearchEngineWatch last september and the Search Engine Strategies trade show business in last august, now it's the turn of JupiterResearch division to be sold to MCG Capital Corporation to form a new company to be Jupiter Kagan Inc.

Technorati Tags: jupiter, clickz, searchenginewatch

The Chinese Internet Bubble to Blow ?

Not really sure and I doubt it will be the same as us in summer 2000 in the west, but after a few weeks navigating thoses countries, and specially China, they seem to reproduce the same bad patterns we saw between 98 and 2001 over here. Overloaded site with ads and oversaturate with flashy colors and stupids animated gif files floating around your screen with the new css layers they discover. But the market is there and you can saw more and more professional site if you use the good SE to find it.

But for us, it is a really huge work to write text to avoid censor. If you talk about a spring collection with a red blood color, your can be in trouble with the automatic censorship system.

Google plotting the way to ads

Google is working very in the mobile ads business. And in the patent application too. Its start by (sort by date of the filed demand)
Method and system to provide advertisements based on wireless access points and then 3 months later a Method and apparatus for customizing travel directions and this new one for Visually-oriented driving directions in digital mapping system last summer. Lately, it was that small addition to the robots.txt.

Via Rusty, William and Michel.

Google new service to coming out soon ? Google MBD ?

After the release of Google Finance today (post about it in french here), a new line also appeared in the Robots.txt :

Disallow: /mbd?

Seem to not be redirect nor giving any error !

Mobile Business Division ?

Technorati Tags: google mbd, google finance

KinderStart Files Complaint against Google

Sometimes Forbes should evaluate the quality of Associated Press article before to "publi-shit".

KinderStart, a Norwalk-based Web site devoted to information about children, says it was dropped from Google's index a year ago without warning...

- First it's not a site, it's a directory. A competitor in a way.
- Second, it's an automatic submission directory without children information from the site owner.
- A year ago ? May be you should make some little verification if that occurs after they implemented some new features in their site...

This time, KinderStart is the one making accusations of free-speech violations - in Google's case, by reducing the traffic sent to Web sites that have been wrongfully punished.

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DOJ vs Google : Billions of search queries vs 50K URL

Nice decision. The ruling is here.

West Side Story ?

Did american search engine make a good crawling of asian sites and specially on the leader Baidu?
Anyway, Microsoft make a good job on his own site !

Alexa Top 9
Rank	Indexed pages	Linkdomain
1. Yahoo.com - Google - Yahoo - MSN	238,000,000 477,000,000 4,856,446	107,000,000 49,667,070
2. MSN.com - Google - Yahoo - MSN	162,000,000 46,300,000 388,791,735	28,500,000 164,709,226
3. Google.com - Google - Yahoo - MSN	57,800,000 4,130,000 1,484,038	122,000,000 56,430,746
4. Baidu.com - Google - Yahoo - MSN	1,510,000 1,350,000 46,611	485,000 3,684,584
5. Yahoo.co.jp - Google - Yahoo - MSN	109,000,000 67,000,000 1,053,401	5,580,000 5,389,044
6. Sina.com.cn - Google - Yahoo - MSN	41,400,000 17,600,000 462,298	934,000 4,626,251
7. Ebay.com - Google - Yahoo - MSN	140,000,000 32,600,000 2,004,409	13,300,000 6,013,712
8. MySpace.com - Google - Yahoo - MSN	44,400,000 13,300,000 1,191,699	7,030,000 5,015,049
9. Sohu.com - Google - Yahoo - MSN	20,300,000 37,700,000 270,110	589,000 2,824,340

Note : Google data come from 64.233.167.104

Google Reputation System

Seem Google is in the way of another good move to diversify their revenue. The big thing missing at the Google Buy/Purchase seem to be in beta testing.