It has barely been weeks since Google launched their new social network – the Google+. Despite its earlier failures at getting their social strategy right, Google appears to have cracked the social code this time around. The company has already announced the registration of 10 million members – a far cry from the 750 million [...]

Google has an overwhelming presence on the internet and it is very unlikely that any of us remains untouched by their service yet. Even if you do not use their search engine, it is likely that you read blogs on blogspot, watch videos on YouTube, or read emails on Gmail. Despite this massive presence, do [...]

Apple and Google have been fighting a lot over numbers of late. Steve Jobs had recently mocked Google’s claims of activating over 200,000 devices everyday by claiming that Apple was a notch higher – activating 230,000 devices. As both the companies have clarified, this number does not include OS upgrades and is hence a likely [...]

British Petroleum deals with products that really don’t need to be advertised on Google. At least that used to be the thinking of the marketing team at the company till the great oil leak happened. However that changed in June this year during the height of the oil crisis when the company went on a [...]

It’s a no-brainer to say that Google leads the way by a huge margin in the search engine rankings. But considering that the mobile internet took off relatively later, one may have imagined that the rival search engines may have been able to compete more effectively against the big G on the mobile front. Not [...]

Close to 40% of iPhone users earn more than $100K a year in the US. While this may sound impressive, it also needs to be noted that the iPhone users are, on an average, older than the Android users. Consequently, just over 28% of Android users earn five digit salaries in the US. Here is [...]

In its latest report, Admob has compared the geographic distribution of Android OS devices against iPhone OS. While Apple has seen a major portion of its sale in the US, it is interesting that Android is predominantly American. Three-fourths of Android OS sales have apparently come from North America. Considering the influence that companies like [...]

Hitwise has released its latest report for March 2010 where it has published its list of the most searched terms on Google. Unsurprisingly, it is ‘Facebook’  that is the most searched term on Google. Unsurprising because of two reasons – One, because Facebook is the most popular social network with a lot of people likely [...]

Google has released a new online tool called ‘Government Requests‘ that chronicles the number of data requests and removal requests the several Governments have issued on Google. As Google notes, this is not exactly a measure of the censorship among Governments since countries like Brazil and India are in the top of the list primarily [...]

Microsoft has been slowing clawing its way up the search engine market share. But no, Google is not feeling the heat. Rather, it is the other search engines in the fray that have been losing search engine market share to Bing. Google, on the other hand is still steadily increasing its own market share. Compete.com’s [...]