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Google's stated goal of organizing all the world's information is almost guaranteed to give its advertisers headaches. If Google has its way, every word ever written and every image ever created will one day be cataloged on its servers.
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Buzztracker visualizes frequencies and relationships between locations in the Google world news directory. Buzztracker tries to show you how interconnected the world is: big events in one area ripple to other areas across the globe. Connections between cities thousands of miles apart become apparent at a glance.
It's unlikely all the documents included in the World Digital Library will be indexed by Google or other search engines. That's because the technology that search engines use to crawl the Web still can't figure out how to recognize some documents, like handwritten letters. But Brin expects Google to eventually figure out a way to index almost everything in the World Digital Library.
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Debuting just 2 weeks ago, "The Next Millionaire, is mentioned on over 65,000 web pages (according to Google), with bloggers around the world sharing their thoughts. The website shot up the charts on Alexa.com and was rated as the 1626th most popular site on the web on August 18th, beating American Idol.com, CBS.com & NBC.com that day" (Yahoo! News, Aug. 20th, 2007).
UK search engine market share statistics. Google 74.67%, Yahoo 9.30%, MSN 5.46%, AOL 4.21%, Ask Jeeves 2.28%, Others 4.08%. Google's average market share for the US and the whole world is 55.39% and 62.4% respectively. Although significantly less than in the UK, these figures show that Google is still very much in front of its rivals in these markets.
The real excitement could come from the competition stemming from the Google/Nike partnership versus Yahoo/Adidas, the latter two being official sponsors for the World Cup. PaidContent.org noted how Google and Nike "develop buzz the unofficial way" with Joga. How might Yahoo and Adidas respond, if at all?
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