The Chinese Government refused to allow access to websites like Facebook, YouTube and Blogger. Then relations between Google and China have become more stressed because of Chinese hacker attacks on the search engine. Today, Google has finally stopped all censorship on Google.cn by redirecting users to Google.com.hk (Google Hong Kong). Source: googleblog.blogspot.com/….
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This news is not a surprise, everybody were expecting this after a series of cyber-attacks from China. Google has drawn up a plans for the closure of its Chinese search engine. Google is now 99.9% certain to go ahead, even though Google has taken 30 per cent of the Chinese search market.
Google added biking directions to Google Maps. There are now more than 12,000 miles of trails included in biking directions and outlined directly on the map. There is also data on bike lanes and recommended streets for 150 cities across the USA.
According to the latest data from comScore about the US search market in February: Bing had 11.5% of the search market (up from 11.3% in January), Yahoo’s had 16.8% (slipped from 17.0% in January), Google search growth to 65.5% in February from 65.4% the month prior.
Web analytics firm Compete released data for the top 50 websites in the U.S. Most shopping sites recorded a large drop in unique visitors since December 2009, tax services and travel sites are seeing very high growth rates. A complete list of top 50 websites you can find here. Below a list of top 10
Google constantly expands its online maps service. The Google Africa blog announced that the company is launching Maps domains for 30 countries across Africa. “Google Maps users can now find local businesses. This could be a burger place in Lagos, a garage in Kampala, a hairdresser in Accra or an airport shuttle in Dakar,” –
New data released by web analytics firm Compete.com shows that Facebook is the second most visited website in U.S. Google is still number one, third place belongs to Yahoo. Facebook’s traffic rose in January 2010 to 133.62 million visitors, Yahoo shrunk down to 132.00 million. Google’s US traffic grew by over 1 million visitors between
Facebook is driving more traffic than Google. Information from online media shows that in December 2009, 13% of the traffic to major internet portals like MSN , Yahoo and AOL came from Facebook. Traffic from Google generates only 7 percent, while eBay generates 7.6 percent.
Do you have some problem with your brand new Nexus One? You can call Google for help. To reach the hotline (open daily between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. Eastern time) dial 888-48-NEXUS (63987).
Google announced its new service called Buzz, which will compete with Facebook and Twitter. “Today, with Google Buzz, we’re introducing a new way to share and communicate inside of Gmail. Buzz is like an entirely new world inside of Gmail,” said Todd Jackson, Google Buzz product manager. Try live blogging with Google Buzz and read
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