1 of 4 Google searches on YouTube
Video is major part of the Web and YouTube dominates Web video. ComScore has a report that says video search on YouTube accounts for 25 percent of all Google searches.
Google owns YouTube, by the way. But the report says even separated, YouTube would be the second largest search engine.
Read the report and TechCrunch’s analysis of the report here.
Video search on YouTube accounts for a quarter of all Google search queries in the U.S., according to the latest search engine numbers from comScore. Its monthly qSearch report, which was released on Thursday night, breaks out the number of searches conducted on YouTube. If it were a standalone site, YouTube would be the second largest search engine after Google. More searches are done through YouTube than through Yahoo, which has been the case for the past few months.
New Google iPhone app?
Two quick iPhone updates:
CNet is reporting Google’s iPhone app is getting a new voice. Yours.
Google on Friday is expected to release version two of its mobile search application for the iPhone. The new version works much like the old one, letting users query Google outside of the mobile Safari Web browser, as well as search through contacts and narrow down results by their current location. The big change is the addition of search-by-voice, which lets you skip the keyboard entirely.
There’s also the rumor about a new software upgrade for the iPhone next week.
Sorry, Google maps does not work with the iPhone
What?
Google announced that it’s cool mobile team has taken the Google Maps street view to the hand held screens. But not to my iPhone.
Visiting the Google site with an iPhone produces this message: “Sorry, Google Maps does not work on your Apple iPhone.”
Google to launch Web browser
Saw this on TechCrunch tonight. Google is launching its Web browser this week, tomorrow it is being reported.
The Apple version won’t be ready quite yet. Boo.
Chrome, the Webkit-based Google browser that launches tomorrow at Google.com/chrome, will give them a real foothold on the desktop and way more control over how web applications perform. While it seems that Chrome is aimed at IE and Firefox, the target is really Windows.
Gmail offering remote log out
This is pretty cool. Gmail is letting you log out from remote locations. So if you’ve left your work machine and didn’t log out of your Gmail account, you can log in from another machine and see what IP address is still logged on. And then sign out if you want. Not a bad level of security from Google.
Ten things Google has found to be true
1. Focus on the user and all else will follow.
2. It’s best to do one thing really, really well.
3. Fast is better than slow.
4. Democracy on the web works.
5. You don’t need to be at your desk to need an answer.
6. You can make money without doing evil.
7. There’s always more information out there.
8. The need for information crosses all borders.
9. You can be serious without a suit.
10. Great just isn’t good enough.
Happy 25th Birthday: :-) !
Google continues to go after Microsoft. This time Google has created its own PowerPoint. You may have already noticed. For those of you who use Google Docs, when you select “NEW” there is now something called Presentations. Google Presentations is the G version of PowerPoint. It’s all free, just go to google.com and sign up. Works pretty well too.
TMZ.com is letting its users vent. Readers can post audio comments about items on the Hollywood gossip site. Other users can then listen. TMZ.com, which stands for Hollywood’s 30 mile zone, is the No. 1 most-visited entertainment site. It is also planning to let readers post videotaped comments. It’s all the rage for user interaction. The New York Times just published its first videotaped letter to the editor. Meanwhile the San Francisco Chronicle is posting readers’ voice-mail messages.
But, here’s the story of the day. Straight outta Pittsburgh. Happy birthday SMILEY FACE! Who knew? And who keeps track of this stuff anyway? Get this: Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman claims he was the first to use three keystrokes — a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis — as a horizontal “smiley face” in a computer message. No one really knows whether he’s the first or not. But that’s not stopping Yahoo from presenting the Smiley Award, an annual student contest worth $500.
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