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Top Search Engines

Hitwise US reported of top search engines in August, 2007. Not suprisingly Google has 64% of the search market. But what suprised me - is low percent for MSN, but well... So the main player in the field is Google now. I don't forget we live in the Web 2.0 Age when social networking plays a big role. Can HITWISE report on Web 2.0 search engines? I don't think so, because Hitwise still into Web 1.0 game, but a whole world continues Web 2.0 round.

Rank         SE          Volume
1. www.google.com   64.14%
2. search.yahoo.com 22.88%
3. search.msn.com    6.59%
4. www.ask.com?      3.35%

Mobile Adsense

Google announced Mobile AdSense which allows to put contextual ads within mobile Web content. Mobile AdSense is a server-side script based on PHP, Perl, JSP and ASP.

The Mobile Social Networks Grow

M:Metrics tells over 12 million people from U.S. and W. Europe accessed mobile social networking services from their cellphones in June 2007. Thats 3.5% of mobile subscribers, more than the total number of people which downloaded mobile games in June.

MySpace was the leader of popular social networkings with 3.7 million U.S. and 440.000 UK mobile users.

It seems to me that with development of such directions as individual branded mobile social networks more and more users will go away to mobile social networks.

Google Test

Would you like to be hired for Google? You can try Google Test, called GLAT - Google Labs Aptitude Test. You have to fight for "perks, including free cafeteria meals, free use of laundry machines, a child-care center, a free annual one-night ski trip (resort destinations vary depending on office location), dog-friendly offices and an on-site doctor. Engineers can devote 20 percent of their time to projects of their choice. What's not mentioned is that much of the largesse is designed to keep workers at their desks longer."