Google Fast Flip is http://fastflip.googlelabs.com a new web application launched by the google where you can get the fast overview of headline pages of top newspapers. How does it work? We capture images of the articles on our partners' websites and then display them in an easy-to-read way. The stories are grouped by categories, such as Entertainment, Business, Opinion, Politics and Most Viewed. Readers can flip through stories quickly by simply pressing the left- and right-arrow keys until they find one that catches their interest. Clicking on the story takes them directly to the publisher's website. How are the Topics selected? Can I choose my own? The Topics are generated automatically by rising stories in the news. Users can also search for any subjects they want and basically create their own topics, almost like a custom magazine, on the fly. How are stories recommended in [+]

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world today released a study focusing on Google’s relative dominance in the two emerging Internet markets of India and Brazil. As background, Google Sites ranked as the most visited Internet property worldwide with 854 million unique visitors age 15 and older in July, an increase of 18-percent during the past year. Nearly 75 percent of all Internet users worldwide visited the Google Sites property, which accounted for 9.4 percent of all time spent online. Nearly one out of every ten minutes a person spends online around the world is spent on a Google site.

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lThere are more addresses than there are people on Earth. The current global population stands at more than 6.7 billion. lThere are about 150 web addresses per person in the world. lIf you spent just one minute reading every website in existence, you’d be kept busy for 31,000 years. Without any sleep [+]

Well truely speaking Digg was never in my strategy of search engine promtion. Whenever i try to use it i found y self in trouble, however i am a gr8 frnd of Digg and visit it on daily basis to see my as well as my client's competitors activity. One of the post by John , " We’ve made a few changes to the way Digg links to external sites that may impact some folks in the SEO community. These changes reduce the incentive to post spammy content (or link spam) to Digg, while still flowing ’search engine juice’ freely to quality content. We’ve added rel=”nofollow”to any external link that we’re not sure we can vouch for. This includes all external links from comments, user profiles and story pages below a certain threshold of popularity. This work was done in consultation with leading experts [+]

A disruption to Google's Gmail service frustrated users throughout the world on Tuesday and flummoxed engineers at the giant internet company. Google said the problems started early in the morning and were not resolved until approximately 2330 GMT. The problem prevented users from accessing Google email and stymied customers who use the popular software to sync their information with the Microsoft Outlook email programme. In Google's Gmail forum, users claiming to be in Italy, Germany, France and Taiwan, along with users from various states in the US, reported being unable to access Gmail. The snafu increased concerns about the safety and integrity of online data as more computer users migrate to using popular internet services offered by the likes of Google, Facebook and Microsoft. Google is the third-most popular online email service in the US after Yahoo and Microsoft's Hotmail. The service suffered outages in February [+]

Com Score a leader in measuring the digital world today released a study of the global search market showing that more than 113 billion searches were conducted in July 2009, representing a 41-percent increase versus year ago. Google Sites attracted significantly more searches than any other engine with 76.7 billion searches conducted, or 67.5 percent market share. Yahoo! Sites ranked second worldwide with 8.9 billion searches (7.8 percent share), followed closely by Chinese search engine Baidu with 8 billion searches (7.0 percent share). Most of the top search properties worldwide experienced significant growth in search query volume versus last year, with Russian search engine Yandex growing at the fastest rate (94 percent) among the top ten.

Well i am late in publishing it, I have shifted to new house and got my Communications on ACM quite late. Firstly i would like to say thanks to ACM because this time i got my subscription magazine at my door. Coming to the point now... The web has become one of the primary ways people interact with their computers, connecting people with a diverse landscape of content, services, and applications. users can find new and interesting content on the Web easily, but this presents a security challenge: malicious Web site operators can attack users through their Web browsers. Browsers face the challenge of keeping their users safe while providing a rich platform for Web applications. Browsers are an appealing target for attackers because they have a large and complex trusted computing base with a wide network-visible interface. Historically, every browser at some [+]

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comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In July 2009, Americans conducted nearly 13.6 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 64.7 percent search market share. Microsoft Sites grabbed 8.9 percent market share, a 0.5 percentage point gain versus June. July 2009 U.S. Core Search Rankings Google Sites led the U.S. core search market in June with 64.7 percent of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! Sites (19.3 percent), and Microsoft Sites (8.9 percent). Ask Network captured 3.9 percent of the search market, followed by AOL LLC with 3.1 percent. comScore Core Search Report* July 2009 vs. June 2009 Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations Source: comScore qSearch Core Search Entity Search Queries (MM) Jun-09 Jul-09 Point Change Jul-09 vs. Jun-09 Total Core Search 100.0% 100.0% N/A Google Sites 65.0% 64.7% -0.3 Yahoo! Sites 19.6% 19.3% -0.3 Microsoft Sites 8.4% 8.9% 0.5 Ask Network 3.9% 3.9% 0.0 AOL LLC Network 3.1% 3.1% 0.0 * Based on the five major search [+]

As you might recall, Microsoft has recently unveiled their new search engine, Bing. And with the recent announcement that Microsoft's Bing is going to soon power the Yahoo organic search results, Google needed to do something to keep their market share of search. Google has unveiled a new test version of their search engine, which is being called "Caffeine". This is being touted as the "next generation of search". Google says… To build a great web search engine, you need to: Crawl a large chunk of the web. Index the resulting pages and compute how reputable those pages are. Rank and return the most relevant pages for users' queries as quickly as possible. For the last several months, a large team of Googlers has been working on a secret project: a next-generation architecture for Google's web search. It's the first step in a process that will let [+]