"Stock" beats "sex" on Google China
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The names of three banks and the word "stocks" beat "sex" to become four of the most Googled words in China last year, according to a Google China list seen on Thursday.
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Shares in Google jump to a new high in after-hours trading as the internet search firm reveals its first results since floating on the Nasdaq.
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By Wang Xing  Google yesterday signed a deal with Chinese portal Sina.com, giving the US search engine a leg-up in its race to catch up with rival Baidu.com.  Under the terms of the agreement, Google will provide Web page search service for Sina.com.
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UnanimousCoward writes &quot;A spokesperson has responded to the &#39;censorship&#39; questions in this article: &#39;&quot;Google has decided that in order to create the best possible search experience for our mainland China users we will not include sites whose content is
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Google Inc. (GOOG)'s recently launched news service in China doesn't display results from Web sites blocked by that country's authorities, raising prickly questions for an online search engine that has famously promised to "do no evil."    Dynamic Internet Technology Inc., a research firm striving to defeat online censorship, conducted tests that found Google omits results from the government-banned sites if search requests are made through computers connecting to the Internet in China...
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An analyst downgrades Baidu at the expense of Google. Irony at 11.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc.'s recently launched news service in China doesn't display results from Web sites blocked by that country's authorities, raising prickly questions for an online search engine that has famously promised to "do no evil."   Dynamic Internet Technology Inc., a research firm striving to defeat online censorship, conducted tests that found Google omits results from the government-banned sites if search requests are made through computers connecting to the Internet in China.    Steered by an identical search request, computers with a United States connection retrieved results from the sites blocked by China...
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(InfoWorld) - Google Inc. has enhanced Google Finance, which was launched in March but hasn't become very popular in the financial information Web sites category. The company has made a number of changes, hoping to make Google Finance more competitive. Google improved the site's charts, which now can display up to 40 years of historical data for U.S. stocks, up from 5 years previously, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. The company also added a "top mover" module to the site's home page that spotlights companies with the biggest changes in stock price, market capitalization and trading volume, as well as those that have been searched for the most in Google's search engine, she said. Google also increased the ways to customize and organize portfolios, and made it possible to import portfolios from other Web sites, she said. It remains to be seen how much these latest improvements will help boost the site's popularity. For the week ending Dec. 9, Google Finance ranked 31st in Hitwise Pty. Ltd.'s Stocks and Shares category of business and finance sites with a measly 0.48 percent of visitors. Yahoo Inc.'s Yahoo Finance ranked first with almost 24 percent of all visits, while Microsoft Corp.'s MSN Money nabbed a distant second place with 8.4 percent. Google Finance came in 23rd place in Hitwise's Business Information category with 0.70 percent of all visits. Yahoo ranked first with almost 35 percent of visits, while MSN Money was second with 12.4 percent. Â
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Google Inc.'s stock reached a new high Friday, reflecting Wall Street's renewed faith in the Internet search leader as it introduces new ways for advertisers to reach its steadily expanding online audience.
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If only the rest of my investments worked out this way. One week ago, I submitted a bid for Google Inc. stock that overestimated the eventual auction price of the computer search company's initial public offering by nearly 30 percent. But I sold my shares shortly after Google stock began trading yesterday and still walked away with a nice profit, ...
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A new Chinese news service launched by Google displays no results from websites banned by China's officials. The search engine that promises to do no evil says why include links that come up empty? anti-censorship advocates are watching.
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Google Inc.  has won  preliminary approval from Beijing to provide Internet content  in China, the firm said on Wednesday, potentially allowing it  to offer news in the world&#39;s second-largest Internet market.
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According to a survey, 62.1% of Chinese users turned to local favorite Baidu Inc. for search -- up from about 52% in 2005 -- and much of that growth came at Google's expense.
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Chinese are uploading more Internet videos of sex, scandal and protest. It's big business  -  and a headache for Beijing
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By Jonathan Thaw and John Liu  Baidu.com, China's most-used Internet search engine, forecast first-quarter sales will grow at the slowest pace since the company went public, as competition from Google increases.
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Today's announcement from Facebook is the reason why Google announced OpenSocial last week. They must have gotten a leak from one of the companies that stood with Facebook, so they knew what was coming. They weren't scared of Facebook's technology, because they didn't respond with technology. They were scared because Facebook has a better advertising story than Google does. They are getting ready to offer some very premium web real estate that (pay attention now) Google can't compete with. And advertising is Google's bread and butter, advertising is to Google as operating systems are to Microsoft. They can't let somebody appear to be better than they are in advertising. Yet that's what Facebook is, better than Google in advertising. Here's what Facebook can do.  Let's say I bought a Wii and I like it. They can tell all my friends "Dave bought a Wii and he likes it." That's a lot more likely to result in a sale  than an intrusive ad like this one, that was displayed next to an email I sent to some friends about their New Networked Living Room. Google thinks I might want to buy Moroccan Lamps, or something called a Unique Shabby Chic (huh?) or Crate & Barrell bedroom furniture. Of course I tune that shit out, I don't even see it. It has zero impact.   Anyway, I was talking with Doc Searls a few minutes ago and he mentioned OpenSocial and I told him it was just a lot of noise meant to distract people from what Facebook was doing in advertising. He hadn't heard anything about it even though he was at a tech conference in Denver today and yesterday. I said there you go, Google's strategy worked. But to no effect, longterm, because Facebook has the momentum and Google, try as hard as they want to stop it, will not be able to, any more than Alta Vista or Infoseek were able to stop Google once they figured out that their lunch was eaten. Google will be around for a long time, I'm not saying they will go away, but Facebook will be around too. And Google will have a hard time catching up to them.  Long-term, however they both have problems because advertising is on its way to being obsolete. Facebook is just another step along the path. Advertising will get more and more targeted until it disappears, because perfectly targeted advertising is just information. And that's good!  8/3/06: "Information is welcome, advertising is offensive."
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Google.cn word search results The Chinese appear to have dismally failed to grasp the primary use of Google, with searches on the word "sex" ranking way down the list of most-Googled terms in the country last year.â¦