The rise of Google has been an amazing success story in the past decade. As of July 2008, over 1 trillion pages had been indexed on the Google search index and the number could have well multiplied over since then. Despite the various properties that the company owns, nearly 97% of all its revenues come [...]

Companies spend thousands of dollars in trying to get their websites up on the first page of search engine results. A recent study by iCrossing underlines the need for the same. The report claims that hardly 2.5% of website traffic comes from Page 2 of search engine results. Here are some interesting stats Google Page [...]

Google is no doubt the biggest online ad network worldwide. As we had reported earlier, nearly 50% of Google’s ad revenues come just from the US. So, how much has its revenues grown over the past year? The list below is the global advertising revenues that includes the share paid to publishers via Adsense Q4 [...]

As an Adsense publisher, most of us would have wondered the exact share of the ad-click revenue that Google shares with us. Interestingly, this can be roughly measured by looking into Google’s quarterly financial reports where they specifically mention these details. Here is what publishers roughly made through the past one year   Q1 ’09 [...]

Remember our post on the cost of iPhone components? The manufacturing cost of the iPhone worked out to $178. Nexus One is just marginally cheaper – at $174.15. Here is the breakdown of the cost Component Manufacturer Price Baseband Proc Qualcomm $30.50 Memory Samsung Semiconductor $20.40 Bluetooth/WLAN Broadcom $8.20 Power mgmt Qualcomm $2.50 Radio Frequency [...]

With more and more webmasters focusing on SEO to get to the top of the search results, it is probable that the users are finding it more difficult to exactly find an answer to their query. The result – increase in the use of long tail keywords in search. Here is the current share of [...]

India and Brazil are pretty similar when it comes to website preferences, be it in search, social networking or anything else. Google dominates in these two countries. Here is how Google fares in these two countries in each of the different categories (based on the percent time spent on the Google site compared to others) [...]

In India, Google is omnipresent. The top five websites in India are Google.com,Google.co.in, Yahoo, Youtube and Orkut – a 4/5 dominance by Google. So is Google’s dominance in Brazil. Here are the top ten global markets for Google in terms of the percent of time spent by the internet users on Google sites. 1. Brazil [...]

Personally, how many searches do you do on a monthly basis? I cannot tell for myself, cos I search a lot! Probably that is why the worldwide internet search volume has shot up by 41% in the past one year! Number of Internet searches in July 2008 : 80.55 billion Number of Internet searches in [...]

A study of the most important search engine ranking factors according to 72 expert SEOs at SEOMoz revealed the following list: 1. Anchor text from external links 2. Keyword use in title tag 3. Raw link popularity 4. Diversity of linking domains 5. Keyword use in root domains