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 [...]

What percent of the world’s total internet users come from USA? or China, Japan or India for that matter? According to reports from Cisco, China and USA alone contribute more than a third of the total internet users in the world. By that same measure, China and Japan together constitute one-fourth of the total users. [...]

If you own a website, you may well be convinced of the plain fact that your website cannot hide itself from Google. There are so many products like Adsense, Google Analytics, Webmaster tools, toolbar,etc. from Google that are so needed for our website that it so happens that Google gets to know about how our [...]

A recent report published by ComScore shows that internet users in Brazil – those who are less than 15 years old – constitute as much as 12% of the total internet using population. This report pegs the total number of users in this South American country at 40.7 million. Note that this number is only [...]

In October last year, Hitwise had published a report that suggested that the maximum number of search engine queries were one-worded. And as it looked obvious back then, the percentage of search volumes decreased with increasing number of words. However, a conflicting report now published by Chitika shows that a majority of users are actually [...]

Ookla, the company behind the popular ISP speed measurement tool, SpeedTest has introduced a broadband index that assimilates data from the over 1 million internet speed measurement tests conducted around the world to round in on the city with the fastest internet speed. As in any test, this may only be indicative since the company’s [...]

Nielsen’s latest report for internet use in the United Kingdom shows that social networking comprises close to one-fourth of all user time spent online. For a perspective on how this has grown, Nielsen notes that time spent on social networking among UK citizens was just 8.8% in 2007. There has hence been a 159% jump [...]

Mexico has been one of the fastest growing countries in the world in terms of internet users. A recent report by ComScore concluded that the number of home and work internet users over the age of 15 had increased by over 20% in the past one year. Interestingly, it is not Google that rules in [...]

The first Instant messaging program was launched in 1993 – CU-SeeMe. Another popular IM Client called PowWow launched two years later. But it was not until AOL trademarked the ‘Instant Messenger’ service did the Instant messenging services really take off. Here are the most popular IM clients today according to Pingdom (by number of registered [...]