I love Gmail very much and i have never even turned back to any other service since i started using this. It has all the features which i need and a simple and clean interface. There are many add ons which will make you to work more efficiently. the one which i found very useful was a task management tool. Check out some cool gmail skins and tools.
The results of Google for the quarter ending Dec 31 are out and many say that it is not in line with the expectations. Although Google has shown a 51% increase year on year some of the streams are yet to be monetized properly like the social networking one. The earnings per share is at 4.43 dollars. Check out this entry from zdnet which gives out all the break ups and other interesting announcements.
Google is by far the best search engine available on the internet and no one can deny the fact. Google is one company which aims at constant innovation and in the mid of last year they announced about the Universal search where in the results will be blended from its own vertical search results. In the universal search comparative ranking and blending will happen.
In an unexceptional fall in the markets the shares of Google have dropped more than 160 points and it had been even low. From a opening of 750 points it has come down to 584 and the investors have not got used to such a fall in the recent times. Google has been consistently delivering and this quarter has been good but and so the fall is a very unpredicted one!
Google is one company which keeps on innovating and comes with super cool product which have a very good utilization factor. Google Maps is an absolute killer project which has been used by many of the developers to built applications using the API. Now the weather channel has been included in the Google Maps and it definitely a valuable addition.
After the launch of the Iphone last year the much anticipated thing in the gadget market was the Gphone but Google made an unexpected move by releasing the Android developer platform and also put in good prize money for the best developers. This made many of the intelligent guys to lock up in their garages and start crushing their brains. A software guy has come up the first Android prototype.
The Page Rank update took place and it is a quick move an many of the bloggers around have got an increase. It was updated only recently and it is a very good move that an update happened in a month’s time. Many of the web masters who care a lot about Pagerank for their business feel it is unexpected and they have got to fine tune!
We all Google is hell busy company processing all our requests round the clock. Are you curious of knowing how much data processing is done by Google in a day/month/year? If you have any clue what is a petabyte then here you go, the big G processes 20 petabytes of data in a single day. I know it is massive but how big is it and imagine the multiplication factor with your system. I am already going to faint imaging the numbers.
Search is by far the biggest online industry and it is currently dominated by a single player and i don’t have to let you know the name. There have been many players who have tried to break the monopoly but have miserably failed. The Yahoo search has been there for a long time and it is the only valid competitor. The wikia search is a new venture and initial reports say it will fail. Microsoft has not had a good market in search and are now in plans of acquiring FAST a major player in the enterprise search market. The money dealing is supposed to be $1.2 billion but the main question will it make an impact.
There are lots of people who are constantly watching every move from the big Google. Every move which the company makes will create an impact on lots of people. I recently heard that Google is experimenting to venture into wikis. They are no doubt one of the most powerful tools and some peeps have been invited to write about their field of expertise. Today i also read about the Google Profile. Lets see what all kicks off well!