On Wednesday, Google announced that the company is going to expand advertising kingdom by adding online computer games.

AdSense for Games software is being tested in the US and it will allow website operators to weave text, video, picture advertisements into online games.

Some industry statistics show that almost more than a quarter of Internet users (around 200 million people) like to play games online and there is a 17 percent annual growth in their number. Read the rest of this entry »

According to Comscore monthly figures, in the US search market, Google’s market share has climbed up by a percentage point in the records of the past month and it’s getting even closer to two-thirds mark.

The Comscore released figures for August doesn’t give a nice reading for Google’s major search rivals including Yahoo and Microsoft.

In the US, almost sixty-three percent web searches are made via Google while Yahoo with its 19.6 per cent searches is languishing far behind. In Yahoo searches, there is a fall of almost 1% on data from July. Read the rest of this entry »

You may get fed up using words for your internet searches, you may or may not but Google is as it has announced a new audio search service named “Gaudi”.

The new service has been trialed for two months on iGoogle and now its running for video provided to YouTube’s political channel.

Gaudi would use video content on the web straight from Google Labs and apply speech recognition when you mutter your search term.

Let’s if you type Google, it will bring forward all videos where ever Google is mentioned in the political circuit. Read the rest of this entry »

Taking aim at another market, Google is going to purchase Korean blogging developer Tatter And Company. It seems that Google wants to continue its goal of breaking into new markets where the company is not considered a dominant force.

However, no word about the figures that Google is going to pay for the blogging developer. The news has been posted on the co-chief executive’s blog.

In Korea, Google is currently is not enjoying success like of Yahoo and this step is being taken by considering that fact. In a blog post, Tatter’s chief executive says, “we are going to be Googled!” Read the rest of this entry »

Google is planning to digitize almost 100 newspapers as the company has partnered with all these newspapers. The scanned copies of these newspapers will be available online.

Thus, the users could see the entire pages of the newspapers as they were when newly printed.

According to Google’s Marissa Mayer, “Google is about to introduce a new form of content for the web and this is really huge for us.”

The feature was announced at the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco by the vice president of the company’s search products. Read the rest of this entry »

Have you got your copy? Well, it takes less than 30 seconds to download and takes another 30 seconds to install.

Google Chrome looks nice with its neat and clean appearance and so far Google’s decision to show the browser tabs to the top of windows is concerned, it’s not odd at all as we are quite use to them under the very name of address window in IE and Firefox. However, you have to push mouse cursor a little higher to close the tab and that’s why the insufficiency of mouse gestures is somewhat frustrating.

The good and the bad

Though there are already enough information, Google just wrapped up its press conference where the company told in details why did they create a new web browser. You will have related details soon.

Quick one after another launch of Google App Engine on Monday which is also a proposal to open Google’s computing communications to third-party developers — Google has also opened a new online store that has been named as the Google Solutions Marketplace, a gateway for functions that create use of Google’s application programming interfaces.

The online marketplace, a comparatively small development in itself, is an added sign of Google’s rising interest in the venture. Google branded again JotSpot — a business focused Wiki Company it obtained last year — as Google Sites. And on Monday, Salesforce.com — which defined business software again with its demanded model — is set to publicize that it will begin reselling Google Apps to its clients, as reported by the TechCrunch blog.
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If you know anything about the internet, you know that Google has become a super power over the past couple of years. Not only do they dominate the online search world, but the same thing holds true of online advertising. Of course, a company like this never slows down. Next in line: a joint venture with Cleveland Clinic which will bring Google to the forefront of the electronic health records industry.

Just last week, the two companies announced that they have joined together for a PHR pilot program that will be tested be a small group of patients at Cleveland Clinic who have been using another system.

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