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(By Jennifer Bosavage, ChannelWeb 2:39 PM EDT Mon. Mar. 17, 2008)

Bejing has banned access within China to YouTube and to Google News, in an apparent attempt to block coverage of riots and demonstrations in Tibet, according to several published reports.

Last week, protesters, mainly Tibetian monks, gathered to commemorate the 1959 uprising against Chinese rule that resulted in a number of Buddist clergy, including the Dalai Lama, into exile. The protests have become increasingly violent, with rioting that may have left as many as 80 people dead, some reports said. Chinese government reports have put that number closer to a dozen. YouTube andGoogle (NSDQ: GOOG) have been specifically targeted by the government and rendered inaccessible in an attempt to stop the spread of video footage and news coverage documenting the riots and protests.

A video entitled, "Protest in Lhasa (Tibet)," exemplifies the types of videos the Chinese government is trying to block. Posted to YouTube by a subscriber known as "Amdo2007," the video offers a minute and 15 second look at the scenes in the streets of Tibet today. >>>MORE

"Is Google pulling a Facebook?"

"In its attempts to add social elements to products, is Google pulling a Facebook?

Google Reader has allowed people to share items they are interested in with others since 2006 with hyperlinks, clips on blogs and storing them on a public page that you had to know the URL for to see.

Last week, Google tweaked Google Reader so that your shared items are automatically made available to your Google Talk contacts.

But, as anyone who uses instant messaging knows, not all of your IM contacts are friends. Many are acquaintances or people you barely know and with whom you may not want to share a reading list.

Recently, Facebook was forced to modify its new Beacon ad targeting service that notifies friends in your network when you buy things on sites of Facebook partners. Facebook made that an opt-in feature, however, after consumer groups and Facebook members complained the service violated people's privacy." >>>>Gimme More!

99% of Google's Advertising comes from...

Remember the bad Spock from the parallel universe? The Vulcan who wore a menacing goatee? Well, it seems that Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) has its own bearded evil twin, and he's ready to make another cameo.

Google's original courtroom victory in a patent-infringement suit has been dealt a blow, now that an appeals court will let part of Google's successful defense be contested.

Initially bringing the lawsuit was HyperPhrase, which charged that Big G's AdSense product and AutoLink toolbar feature trampled on its intellectual property.

Thankfully for Google, only the AutoLink feature will get a second run through the court system. Since Google relies on online advertising for 99% of its revenue, any setbacks to its AdSense cash cow would have sent chills down shareholders' spines.

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Gmail hacked, dot com held for ransom

Web developer and top notch logo designer, David Airey, had his Gmail hacked! here is his story and send this to friends in order to save them or yourself from such a terrible situation.

"What would you do if a criminal stole something very personal, and very valuable from you?

What if they were able to target your business and criple your income?

You wouldn’t be too happy now, would you?

What if you also discovered that this was happening because of a Google security infection that can affect every GMail user on the planet?

That’s what has just happened to me, and here I’m going to tell you my story..."

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Google, DoCoMo Partner Up.

Japan's biggest mobile carrier, NTT DoCoMo Inc., will partner with Google Inc. to provide search and e-mail on its handsets, news reports claimed today.

As early as this spring, DoCoMo subscribers may be able to access Google's search tool, as well as the Gmail e-mail service, Google Calendar scheduler and Picasa photo-sharer, using the former's i-Mode network, said the Reuters news service and Japan's main business daily, The Nikkei. Each cited unnamed sources within DoCoMo.

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Google and that DoubleClick deal news

Nearly lost in the news about the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's approval on Thursday of Google's acquisition of DoubleClick was another action by the agency: the publication of a proposed set of privacy principles governing online behavioral advertising.

The release of the privacy principles is an important and welcome step, said Peter Swire, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, and a law professor at Ohio State University. Although some privacy groups blasted the FTC for approving Google's DoubleClick deal, the acquisition has helped place focus on the entire online advertising industry's privacy practices, Swire said.

"It's good that the FTC is shining a spotlight on this industry," Swire said Friday. "Online advertising is in its second boom. They're trying lots of new techniques; some of those techniques have privacy problems."

The FTC hosted a workshop on behavioral advertising and privacy in November. The agency's proposed privacy principles, a series of "self-regulatory" steps the FTC is recommending for online advertisers, come in part from that workshop.

Among the FTC's proposals:

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No Double Take on DoubleClick

The merger between Google and DoubleClick cleared a major regulatory hurdle Thursday when the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted not to block the acquisition.

In a four to one vote, the commission ruled that the merger "is unlikely to substantially lessen competition" in the online advertising market.

Google announced in April that it would purchase online ad provider DoubleClick for $3.1 billion in cash. The FTC opened an antitrust review of the deal in May.

Critics of the merger are worried about the vast amount of data to which Google will have access should the DoubleClick deal be approved. The search engine stores information on user queries, IP addresses and cookie details for approximately 18 to 24 months. With the addition of DoubleClick, Google will potentially have access to information about the activity of users across hundreds of Web sites.

The FTC did not see this as problematic. "The customer and competitor information that DoubleClick collects currently belongs to publishers, not DoubleClick," according to the ruling. "Restrictions in DoubleClick's contracts with its customers, which those customers insisted on, protect that information from disclosure, and we understand that Google has committed to the sanctity of those contracts."

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Viacom & Microsoft team up against, The Google!

Viacom (VIAB - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr) and Microsoft (MSFT - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr) have teamed up in a five-year content and ad deal in their latest effort to fend off the online ad juggernaut Google (GOOG - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr).

The financial terms of the agreement, announced Wednesday, were not disclosed, but the companies said the deal has a projected base value of $500 million over the first five years. It includes revenue sharing, guarantees and content licensing deals, and the companies have the ability to expand the pact in the future.

The partnership amounts to the latest effort by content and technology companies to make money with premium content and advertising on the Internet, where nearly everyone is bleeding market share to Google.

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Virus gaga for google ads!

A new Trojan that hijacks Google text ads and replaces them with ads from a different provider has been picked up by BitDefender.

The antivirus company has identified the threat as Trojan.Qhost.WU which modifies the infected computer's host file, a local storage for domain name/IP address mappings.

The infected machine's browser then reads advertisements from a server at the replacement address rather than from Google.

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Spectrum shootout: Paul Allen vs. Google

Paul Allen, the billionaire Microsoft co-founder, will bid against Google for a spectrum license that could be used to roll-out a wireless broadband network across the United States.

Mr Allen and Google join 94 other bidders so far approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the regulator that is running an auction for a portion of the US airwaves expected to raise as much as $15 billion, documents show.

Other deep-pocketed bid backers include Carlos Slim Helu, the Mexican telecom mogul whose personal fortune was put at $59 billion earlier this year by Fortune, making him the world’s richest man – just ahead of Microsoft’s other co-founder Bill Gates.

However, the most intense competition is likely to come from US mobile incumbents such as AT&T and Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon Communications and Britain’s Vodafone Group. Both groups face being toppled from their dominant positions in the US mobile industry should they be outbid.

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The radio spectrum being sold off by the FCC is situated around the 700MHz band, an asset described as the “Mayfair and Park Lane” of the airwaves.

Made available as television goes digital, it can travel long distances and penetrate walls easily. Crucially it has the potential to become, alongside cable and telephone lines, a wireless “third broadband pipe” – a mobile internet network that would boast speeds comparable to current conventional broadband services.

Mr Allen has applied to bid in the FCC auction, which is scheduled to begin on January 24, through his investment vehicle, Vulcan Spectrum.

A noted philanthropist and collector of Jimi Hendrix memorabilia, he co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975 and is now the fifth-richest man in the United States, with a personal fortune estimated at $18 billion by Forbes.

He also heads an investment company called Vulcan Capital and is also a majority shareholder in Charter Communications, the US cable operator.

>>>Gimme more! (Times Online)

Google Vs. Microsoft

A CEREBRAL computer-scientist-turned-executive, Eric E. Schmidt has spent much of his career competing uphill against Microsoft, quietly watching it outflank, outmaneuver or simply outgun most of its rivals.

At Sun Microsystems, where he was chief technology officer, Mr. Schmidt looked on as Scott G. McNealy, the company’s chairman, railed against Microsoft and its leaders, Steven A. Ballmer and Bill Gates, as...

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Google vs. Wikimedia pt. 1

If you are an avid reader of Googleverything, I salute you, you are likely one of the first. This is in reference to the fact that this blog is brand spanking new and will often discuss new developments in API, IPOs, and everything Biz.

So what's cooking?

Google is taking on Wikimedia's wikipedia AND at the same time, Wikimedia is taking on Google Search. Controversary? Dyn-o-mite.

Here is some knol on that and what is sure to be the biggest battle of 2008 outside of telecommunications and social networking...

Google has come up with a more workable alternative to Wikipedia's approach of creating content through anonymous committee. The search giant's new service, Knol, hopes to cover all topics, but unlike Wikipedia, continuous editing and revision by anonymous trolls, wannabes, policy wonks and nit-pickers will not be allowed. And as anyone who has ever been party to a report written by committee can attest, this is a good thing.

Jack Schofield in the Guardian agrees with this assessment, noting that in theory, the thousands of edits "are supposed to improve the original. As a matter of observation, they often make it worse." In fact, Jack makes another valid point, noting that Google didn't attempt to buy another existing online encyclopedia site, instead creating their own -- indicating that those that are already out there "are not doing the job properly."

I've never liked Wikipedia, and wrote about this in my other blog where I suggested that Wikipedia admit that its project is a failed experiment and let it die.

A Wired blog takes the viewpoint that Knol isn't a serious threat to Wikipedia, but brings up an innovative idea -- that being, some publications actually have editors and fact checkers, who enhance the author's and the article's authority with additional verification. Neither Google nor Wikipedia does anything like that.

The Scobleizer sees Knol as somewhat akin to Jason Calcanis' Mahalo, a people-driven search that delivers more accurate results. Although Knol isn't a search engine, it will naturally be tied to search engines, with the obvious goal being for the Knol pages to rank highly in search results on various topics, and preferably above the Wikipedia entries.

Salon's Machinist blog doesn't think that Knol will mean the end of Wikipedia, rather, it will make it stronger, since the Knol articles could, and probably will be, used as authoritative sources for Wikipedia entries.

>>>>Gimmee More! (IT World)

Google, Sex, and Pandora's box

Google, Sex, and pandora's box has long been a featured spot on Thunk Different, an Apple new Blog found in the 2.0weblogs family. However, as Googleverything plans to include just that (everything) the post will now be found on this site.

And Action...

Google is a young company, yet a powerful one that commands the attention of the advertising, tech, and lost and found industries. There are however, more industries that should pay attention, namely everything. Sex, sales, markets, academia... anything and everything is found in the google universe and it is this company that helps you the reader, searcher, and superstar to find exactly what you desire as soon as possible.

What have you been searching for lately? Here is a video for the curious...

This is a video of Google earth catching two people in the act. (haha)

There's no "i" in team, only an "m" and a "e" - Google it!

Have you Googled yourself lately? According to a survey (PDF) by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, there is a good chance you have.

The survey, released Sunday, found that 47 percent of Internet users have searched for themselves through Google - up from 22 percent in 2002. Only 3 percent of those searching for themselves on Google claim to do it on a regular basis, with 22 percent claiming to search for themselves "every once in a while." A majority of 74 percent said they have searched for themselves once or twice.

Another interesting tidbit from the Pew survey is 53 percent of Internet users have Googled someone else’s name. Reasons include reconnecting with past friends (36 percent), searching about a coworker (19 percent) or a job applicant (11 percent), or even finding information about someone they are dating (9 percent). >>>Gimme More! (PC World)

Wikimedia to Challenge Google Search

The open-source search engine backed by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales could go live as an early test version as soon as next week. Unlike Google, Search Wikia will not share search data with advertisers, nor invade privacy by storing users' search terms.

In a SETI@home-style project, 500 volunteers are running web-crawlers to compile Search Wikia's web index, which so far totals 100 million pages. Jeremie Miller, the project's technology chief, hopes an "alpha" version of the engine will be running by Christmas. As well as search, it will offer "wiki-style tools to improve search and basic social networking", he says. Users will also be able to vote on the effectiveness of search hits.

But don't expect too much, too soon. "The alpha version will probably break in numerous ways we can't predict, but that'll help us improve it," Miller says. >>>More

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Google to challenge Wikimedia

Search engine giant Google is reported to be developing an online publishing platform that's similar to the user-contributed Wikipedia encyclopedia that lets people write entries on subjects they know about.

Google's Wiki project is still in an early beta stage and participation is only through invitation. Entries in the Google Wiki are called "knols", which stand for units of knowledge organized by topics like entertainment or history.

However Google's rival Wiki offering comes with a few different twists, like paying greater attention to identifying bylined authors, not allowing other people to edit or revise knols and the inclusion of ads... >>>more

• Wiki to challenge Google Search
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iPhone tops Google search in 2007.

Google has published its annual Zeitgeist roundup of most searched-for terms over 2007, and there are no prizes for guessing that Apple's iPhone tops the list of fastest rising global search entries.

Each year the search engine giant scours billions of queries to uncover what's hot and what's not in the search term rankings.

Google's top 10 list for 2007 proves that the world's thirst for technology shows no sign of abating.

Nipping at the iPhone's heels are Facebook and YouTube, which logged the number three and number six slots respectively.

In an apparent sign that the popularity of P2P music downloading is on the way out, Kazaa and 'MP3' were among the fastest falling search terms across the globe. Kazaa was the fifth fastest descending term and 'MP3' the tenth fastest.

However, global users are not just social networking geeks with a penchant for much-hyped mobile phones. As in past years, 2007 also witnessed an ever present interest in more cerebral and existential issues.

"Particularly interesting were some of the timeless themes, such as 'what is love?', 'who is God?' and 'how to kiss'. No matter how much changes over time, these seem to be constants," said Google Zeitgeist team member Susan Straccia.

Google's fastest rising search terms (global) for 2007:

1. iPhone
2. Badoo
3. Facebook
4. Dailymotion
5. Webkinz
6. YouTube

>>>Go to article to find top 10.

Hello, Welcome to Google Everything.

Hi,

This is the first official post in the googleverything universe. This blog is not only about Google, but wikiasearch, yahoo, ask, live, and lycos (just kidding about lycos.)

This blog is about search.

It is also about everything Google does, from wikis to renewable resources, stock options, and even business strategies. Find everythingoogle @ googleverything, including everything.