Jun. 1, 2006
Yahoo wants to emulate YouTube
To minimize the chances of an offensive video appearing before a big audience, Yahoo editors will
screen all the clips that are featured on the service's front page, said Jason Zajac, the company's
general manager of social media. Yahoo will have to make up a lot of ground to catch up with YouTube,
which boasts of streaming more than 40 million videos per day.
May 31, 2006
Google under fire for aggressive capital spending plans
Lately, Google came under fire for what many have considered aggressive capital spending plans.
The company said that it expected to spend more on real estate, as it continues to hire more
workers in Silicon Valley. The company is headquarted in Mountain View, Calif. At the end
of the conference call, Eric Schmidt said it was highly unlikely that Google would use any
of its approximately $8 billion in cash to make any major acquisition in order to expand its
global market share.
May 30, 2006
Larry Page more and more involved with R&D at Google
Google's Larry Page is involved in a project being carried out at its US research and development
labs that will revolutionise television advertising. Paid search, the paid ad links that appear to
the right of all Google searches, is the revenue generator that made Google the fastest growing company
on Nadsaq. Page believes that if the company is to continue to be successful in the era of internet
television, it must develop a new form of paid search.
May 29, 2006
Search engines such as Google use contextual text ads to generate revenue
This is, interestingly enough, not an area dominated by Google, although Google owns number
2 on the list: the online blogging tool Blooger.com. However, Google Groups is not on the
list, and Google Video is clearly beaten by YouTube. Nielsen said if you measure the number
of visitors to brand Web sites, thus counting the number of visits to Yahoo web sites (Yahoo
Mail included), instead of the number of searches only, the numbers again confirm that
Google is not the obvious US leader.
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