Google said “Facebook is the Most Popular Website in the World”

Google announced “Facebook is the most popular website in the world”, after releasing its top 1,000 sites in the world. In fact Google didn’t included its own page into the ranking.

LATimes.com report : According to Google, which ranked the sites based on unique visitors, Facebook welcomed 540 million unique visitors to its site in April, helping it reach a whopping 35% of all Web users. The company served 570 billion page views during the month, easily besting every other site on the Web.

Google, which didn't include its own page views in the study, said Yahoo was the second-most-visited site in April. It captured 490 million unique visitors and served over 70 billion page views. In third place, Microsoft's Live.com domain welcomed 370 million unique visitors and served 39 billion page views.

Google is Considered to be the Word of Decade

The American Dialect Society has named “google” the word of the decade and “tweet” the word of the year.
"Notably, “google” is lowercase. It’s not the name of the company; it’s a catch-all term for searching the Internet, whether you use Google, Bing or another search engine. One member of the panel of judges said he thought “blog” would become the word of the decade, but “google” won out in the end." -Mashable

France is think ing to Tax on Google

France thinks that the Google is Marketing all over the world but their only taxed within their home countries.

"France Looks to Tax Google (GOOG)... currently these advertising giants are only taxed within their home countries, something President Nicolas Sarkozy of France wishes to change.


If the French government starts to tax companies like Google, they plan to use the money to assist creative industries that have taken a hit due to the digital revolution."

Quickly check whether your Site is Google indexed?

Every bloggers wants to know whether his or her blog is got indexed by Google? But to know it, they tries many ways and sites... But when you are in hurry and you want to check which page of blog is indexed or not, in a one word Answer "Yes!" or "No", then you can use the IndexedByGoogle. IndexedByGoogle is a site that gives the information in only one word.

So, now if you have less time then no need of searching "site:googletasks.blogspot.com" over your search bar to see the page indexed.
Indexed By Google? [via Tech Spikes]

Google Site Clinic is Annonced by Google India

Its a latest announcement by the Google India that they are bringing a clinic for the website. So, if you are chosen by the Search Team then your blog will be given advice by the Google Search experts as Doctors advices their patients.

What is Clinic?
It is actually a program, where you will be Advise by the Google Search team to increase your visibility over the the search result page and to gain more popularity and traffic. They will also offer constructive information, which will help you in creating a quality content.

All you need to do just send request for your site with this form- here. But before submission, you need to accept some guidelines.

1. Your websites must be registered to the Google Webmaster Tool and is verified- this will ensure that the submitter is the owner of the site and they have the owner's permission to use the site for the clinic. And If you are not registered to the webmaster tool then you can register now.
2. Your website should meet the Google's quality guidelines.

They will not be selecting all submitted website as they said in their blog post:
Our team will analyze websites submitted to the clinic. The plan is to offer constructive advice on accessibility and improvements that can lead to better visibility for your website in Google’s search results.

Important : The Site Clinic goes live today and submissions will be accepted till the 20th of Jan, 2010.

Top 12th Google's 2010 Predictions

Take a Look on the Predictions of Google by the Google Sysytem Blog. The Predictions is very informative and will give you some ideas of what Google will be doing in this year! I added the Top twelves Predictions from that post.

1. Google Chrome's bookmark sync will be extended to sync the documents stored in Google Docs.

2. Google will launch a service that indexes and ranks web applications.

3. Google will use different interfaces for displaying search results, depending on your query.

4. Google's search engine will group related results.

5. Google Image Search will let you upload an image and will show related images from the web.

6. Google Street View's images will become searchable and Google will start to show information about different places in Street View.

7. Google will release an online development environment optimized for building web applications.

8. An open platform for search experiments: tweak Google's ranking factors, customize the interface and create a better search engine.

9. Android will have more users than Windows Mobile.

10. Many browsers will copy Google Chrome's features: the simplified interface, the rapid development model, the lightweight extensions, sandboxing, compiling JavaScript code.

11. Google Drive will finally launch, but it will only be an extended version of Google Docs. Instead of sending attachments, you'll be able to upload files to Google Drive from Gmail.

12. Google Wave won't become successful, but its features will be used in other Google products.

Do Groovle is confusing and sounds like Google?

Groovle is such name which sounds like Google, claimed by Google. But this is the second time, Google lost a domain. Earlier, when it claimed on the Domain name Froogles in 2004, it lost...

Actually, Groovle is a website that allows its users to upload photos, & create a customized online portal.But how such site can be related to Google? According to Arbitrators, Groovle wasn't simple enough to confuse people, and people probably thought of the word "groovy" or "groove" more than Google when they saw Groovle.

"Google never had anything to fear from our website," said founder Jacob Fuller in a statement and The arbitrators' decision that "the two domain names are sufficiently different should put Google at ease and we look forward to a renewed positive relationship with Google."
Do you think that Buying a Domain similar to a Brand name is a wrong decision? Comment, what you think.
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