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Those of you looking for your own little bit of paradise can thank Google Earth for providing it’s exact location: Nevada, USA……………………More at……………..

The US company confirmed that it had disposed of its 2.6% holding in Baidu - acquired before the latter’s 2005 stock market flotation - on Wednesday.

Baidu is the leading web search firm in China, a market in which Google lags behind the domestic provider…………More At…..

comScore Network recently released an analysis of the online travel market in the U.S., finding that nearly 150 million consumers visited a travel Web site in 2005, a 35-percent increase over the previous year. Annual online travel revenues exceeded $60 billion in 2005, representing a 20-percent increase versus 2004, with all travel segments posting gains. 

Sara Stevens, director of comScore Travel Solutions, said “The Web is extraordinarily well-suited to helping consumers make travel plans, and increases in home broadband penetration should continue to fuel growth in the online travel sector.” ……….More At……..

GOOGLE doesn’t like to admit that it makes mistakes, but at its Zeitgest conference yesterday Eric Schmidt, the chief executive, conceded it needed to reintegrate its mushrooming family of products back into its original search offering… Read the rest of this entry »

Google’s ultimate aim is to create a search engine with artificial intelligence to exactly answer any question a user puts to it, the company declared last night.. Read the rest of this entry »

IN St Albans the locals are obsessed with diets and gyms; in Liverpool they prefer fashion; in Aberdeen money is a key concern; and in Gateshead they have a thing about Kate Winslet. Read the rest of this entry »

Benchmark Capital, the venture capital fund that backs Irish pay-TV group Setanta, has joined the race to find the next MySpace.com by making a $15m (£8m) investment in Bebo, the British online networking site. Read the rest of this entry »

I always get the feeling that with every new product from Google, there is a hugely ambitious, hugely ingenious, not-yet-revealed plan behind it. Google Earth, one such new product, might very well be worth watching just to see how far the search giant can push the technology. Read the rest of this entry »

The report lists the top 10 parent companies, how many unique visitors they get per month, and how long, on average, each person uses their site over the course of the month. Read the rest of this entry »

Google Inc. has dropped Trillian from its Google Pack software suite with nary an explanation, prompting a terse reaction from Cerulean Studios, maker of the popular instant messaging application. Read the rest of this entry »

Google has just added “/music” to their robots.txt file which can only mean one thing — Google Music is getting closer. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s odd to hear Vinton Cerf, regarded as one of the founding fathers of the Internet, to gush over ink-on-paper books. The electronic pioneer and computer scientist, who now works as Google’s chief Internet evangelist, is also a bibliophile who has a collection of about 10,000 hard-copy volumes lining shelves at his home in McLean. Read the rest of this entry »

Google overnight sneaked out much anticipated street mapping data for Australia and New Zealand cities within Google Maps in a move that is likely to spur a frenzy of mapping mash-up activity. Read the rest of this entry »

After teaming up with Nike for a soccer community, and after teaming up with Sony’s Da Vinci Code for a series of mini games, Google is now getting together with movie The Break-Up (with Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston). ……… Read the rest of this entry »

HONG KONG (AP) — China Mobile (Hong Kong) Ltd., China’s largest cell-phone carrier by subscribers, said Thursday it’s in talks with Google to launch an Internet search engine for mobile services in China.
China Mobile is keen to explore mobile data services to offset declining revenue from the traditional voice services. Read the rest of this entry »

In April 2006 Yahoo!, Microsoft.com, MSN and Google received over 90 mln unique visitors. Yahoo! was the only one to break the 100 mln unique visitors barrier, according to Nielsen//NetRatings data. Read the rest of this entry »

Google’s latest sneaky launch is Google Notebook - a tool that allows you to collect notes and web addresses while browsing the web.

In simple terms, it’s an online notepad you can add pictures, text and links too. As well as keeping your own notes, you can choose to make notes public. You’ll need a Google account, like a Gmail registration to use it, and it only works on Firefox and Internet Explorer.. Read the rest of this entry »

What really irks Terry Semel, boss of the internet giant Yahoo!, is to hear the name of his arch rival used as a verb.

Because while tens of millions of people go “googling” for information on the web every day, a yahoo is still just a crude person. Read the rest of this entry »

Submitting an ad through Google Base is a quick and easy way to drive
additional highly targeted traffic to your Base items. . Read the rest of this entry »

“Google Notebook makes web research of all kinds-from planning a vacation to researching a school paper to buying a car-easier and more efficient by enabling you to clip and gather information even while you’re browsing the web. . Read the rest of this entry »