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Google Losing up to $1.65M a Day on YouTube

Submitted by: KnightMare @ 12:51 PM | Tuesday, April 14, 2009 | (url: http://www.intern...)

Google is spending more than $2 million a day on YouTube -- and it is nowhere near seeing a return on that investment. Indeed, it may be losing up to $1.65 million daily on the video site.

According to financial firm Credit Suisse and Internet measurement provider comScore Inc. , YouTube Inc. is on track to serve 75 billion video streams to 375 million unique visitors in 2009.

That's the good news. The bad? To support those visitors, Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) will spend more than $2 million dollars daily -- to be exact, up to $2,064,054 a day, or $753 million annualized, according to Internet Evolution calculations of YouTube's costs derived from a range of sources, including Bear Stearns & Co. Inc. , comScore, Credit Suisse, and Google itself.

Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL search up; Google down

Submitted by: KnightMare @ 09:31 AM | Thursday, February 19, 2009 | (url: http://news.cnet....)

Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL each carved out a little more U.S. search market share in January, but Google still had the biggest piece of the pie, according to a report Wednesday by ComScore.

Yahoo Web sites accounted for 21 percent of the market (up half a percent) compared to the month before, while Microsoft grabbed an 8.5 percent slice (up 0.2 percent), and AOL nabbed 3.9 percent of the market (a 0.1 percent increase).

Google, while still holding the largest slice of the market by far, accounted for 63 percent of the search industry in January, down half a percent.

One interesting observation from Silicon Alley Insider is Yahoo's consecutive five-month run in posting modest monthly gains in U.S. search market share.

Google Explains "Harmful Site" Glitch

Submitted by: KnightMare @ 11:54 AM | Saturday, January 31, 2009 | (url: http://googleblog...)

We work with a non-profit called StopBadware.org to get our list of URLs. StopBadware carefully researches each consumer complaint to decide fairly whether that URL belongs on the list. Since each case needs to be individually researched, this list is maintained by humans, not algorithms.

We periodically receive updates to that list and received one such update to release on the site this morning. Unfortunately (and here's the human error), the URL of '/' was mistakenly checked in as a value to the file and '/' expands to all URLs. Fortunately, our on-call site reliability team found the problem quickly and reverted the file.

Google's Chrome Beta Released

Submitted by: KnightMare @ 01:55 PM | Tuesday, September 2, 2008 | (url: http://www.google...)

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

Google's Browser, "Chrome"

Submitted by: KnightMare @ 01:18 PM | Monday, September 1, 2008 | (url: http://blogoscope...)

Google Chrome is Googles open source browser project. As rumored before under the name of Google Browser, this will be based on the existing rendering engine Webkit. Furthermore, it will include Googles Gears project.

The browser will include a JavaScript Virtual Machine called V8, built from scratch by a team in Denmark, and open-sourced as well so other browsers could include it. One aim of V8 was to speed up JavaScript performance in the browser, as its such an important component on the web today. Google also say theyre using a multi-process design which they say means a bit more memory up front but over time also less memory bloat. When web pages or plug-ins do use a lot of memory, you can spot them in Chromes task manager, placing blame where blame belongs.

Google URL Index Over 1 Trillion Uniques

Submitted by: KnightMare @ 06:45 AM | Saturday, July 26, 2008 | (url: http://www.pcworl...)

In a discovery that would probably send the Dr. Evil character of the "Austin Powers" movies into cardiac arrest, Google recently detected more than a trillion unique URLs on the Web.

This milestone awed Google search engineers, who are seeing the Web growing by several billion individual pages every day, company officials wrote in a blog post Friday.

"We don't index every one of those trillion pages -- many of them are similar to each other, or represent auto-generated content ... that isn't very useful to searchers. But we're proud to have the most comprehensive index of any search engine, and our goal always has been to index all the world's data," wrote Jesse Alpert and Nissan Hajaj, software engineers in Google's Web Search Infrastructure Team.

Google's AdSense for RSS Feeds

Submitted by: KnightMare @ 04:19 PM | Saturday, May 31, 2008 | (url: http://blogs.feed...)

We've been hinting at this for awhile, but it's finally time to spill the beans: Starting next week, we'll be rolling out AdSense for feeds to a small group of publishers, in anticipation of a full launch to all FeedBurner and AdSense publishers "coming soon". If you start seeing "Ads by Google" on an ad in a feed somewhere, that'd be us.

Andriod working on AT&T Tilt and possibly other PPC phones

Submitted by: Dumpy Dooby @ 03:25 AM | Wednesday, April 9, 2008 | (url: http://www.tribal...)

As the title states, Android is Google's mobile phone operating system. It is what media hype keeps misconstruing as the "G-Phone" - there is no such thing as a G-Phone, nor is there one planned - and it's been looking extremely promising from a developmental standpoint. Anyway, some devs have gotten the Linux-based Android to work on Windows-based pocket PC phones (touch-screen phones with Windows on them).

EU approves Google-Doubeclick merger

Submitted by: KnightMare @ 02:11 PM | Tuesday, March 11, 2008 | (url: http://www.baynew...)

- European Union regulators cleared Google Inc.'s $3.1 billion bid for online ad tracker DoubleClick, saying the deal will not hurt competition for online ads.

Critics have complained the deal would give Google too much power.

But the European Commission said Tuesday it found no proof that Google and DoubleClick would be able to squeeze out competitors. That is because Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL provided "credible" alternatives for placing ads on Web sites.

The commission says Google and DoubleClick are not currently rivals. It says Google's purchase even of a potential competitor would not hurt competition in the online ad market.

Pakistan temporarily knocks Youtube offline

Submitted by: KnightMare @ 05:36 AM | Monday, February 25, 2008 | (url: http://news.bbc.c...)

Pakistan's attempts to block access to YouTube have been blamed for a near global blackout of the site on Sunday. Google, the owner of YouTube, blamed the outage on "erroneous internet protocols", sourced in Pakistan

BBC News has learned that the nearly two hour blackout was almost certainly connected to Pakistan Telecom and internet service provider PCCW. The country ordered ISPs to block the video-sharing website because of content deemed offensive to Islam.

Google Releases New Android SDK

Submitted by: Zengei @ 10:14 AM | Monday, February 18, 2008 | (url: http://arstechnic...)

Google has released version m5-rc14 of its Android SDK for mobile devices (i.e. smart phones). Android is a relatively open platform based on Linux and is designed to be a consistent platform for use in mobile devices. According to Ars, this version of the still pre-release SDK is a significant improvement over previous versions.

Yahoo to team up with Google instead?

Submitted by: KnightMare @ 07:09 AM | Monday, February 4, 2008 | (url: http://www.reuter...)

Yahoo Inc would consider a business alliance with Google Inc as one way to rebuff a $44.6 billion takeover proposal by Microsoft, a source familiar with Yahoo's strategy said on Sunday.

Yahoo management is considering revisiting talks it held with Google several months ago on an alliance as an alternative to Microsoft's bid, that source said. At $31 a share, Yahoo believes the bid undervalues the company, two sources said.

A second source close to Yahoo said it had received a procession of preliminary contacts by media, technology, telephone and financial companies. But the source said they were unaware whether any alternative bid was in the offing.

Google removes thousands of malware sites

Submitted by: KnightMare @ 08:16 AM | Thursday, November 29, 2007 | (url: http://www.comput...)

Google Inc. has purged its index of the thousands of malware sites that wormed their way into results lists for hundreds of legitimate search phrases, researchers confirmed today.

"They look gone to us," said Alex Eckelberry, the CEO of Sunbelt Software Distribution Inc., the company that broke the news Monday of a massive, coordinated campaign by attackers to spread malware through search results on Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live Search and other sites.

Earlier today, Sunbelt malware researcher Adam Thomas said his spot searches on Google the night before had come up sans malware URLs. "They appeared to be zapped," Thomas had said.

Google officially announces mobile OS.

Submitted by: Ksera @ 12:00 PM | Monday, November 5, 2007 | (url: http://www.engadg...)

Google offically has come out with their new mobile OS named "Android". Looks like lots of phone makers have jumped on board, but only one service provider, T-Mobile has joined in.

Google Phone plans to be announced Monday?

Submitted by: KnightMare @ 08:08 AM | Saturday, November 3, 2007 | (url: http://www.electr...)

We wont have to wait much longer to hear from Google about its big plans in wireless. The company looks set to make a splash in the mobile market on Monday, announcing an alliance with various handset makers and cellphone operators around the world that are willing to push its open platform for cellphone applications, sources say. Its always possible the announcements timing could change, but Monday looks like the day at this point.

Dont expect to see any devices soon the middle of next year is the earliest Google-powered phones could come to market.