Gary has a long list of domain names transferred to Google name servers in the last week, and there are some interesting ones. The most thought-provoking domains:
GTaxes.com - Google doing some sort of financial management/tax preparation service?
Foogleaddon.com - Foogle? FirefoxGoogle?
GoogleSecret.com - I’m thinking Google lingerie
NoLimitDVD.com - What could Google possibly need that for? Are we seeing a big hint to a future service?
androidsdk.com, androidsoftware.com and many others - Google finally putting the sites for its secret Android project in its own name, now that the news is out.
Doodle 4 Google, the competition where schoolchildren create Google logos and voters determine which goes on the homepage of Google in that country, just wrapped up the British edition for this year. The winning Doodle, by Claire Rammelkamp, 14:
Fox News Porn, a website that makes fun of the high amount of sexual content on Fox News Channel by pretending the channel is a porn network, had their trailer flagged by YouTube as inappropriate for younger viewers. Trying to view the video on YouTube, by clicking this link, will get you a landing page that asks you to confirm your age before you can view the video, due to strong sexual content.
The punchline? 100% of the footage is from the most popular news channel in the country.
Take a look (it’s not exactly safe for work, but there is no nudity):
I really am amazed at this stuff. What’s the connection between Republican-biased TV news and third-rate “ACTION NEWS!” crap with T&A and car chases? Maybe we need Fox News to split into the Fox Conservative News Network and the Fox X-Treme News Network? This stuff must be turning off a good amount of Fox’s base. I know I watch it a lot less than I used to, because I used to be interested in a news network with a different point of view, but I’m not interested in hours of Anna Nicole Smith coverage.
You’d think that at some point, Google would have so much market share that it couldn’t possibly grow any further, but despite having a lock on the top spot, Google continues to claim a larger slice of the pie month after month. This time, Hitwise is reporting that Google now has 64% of the search engine market, up from 61% market share a year ago and up a point from last month. Live Search and Yahoo declined both from last month and last year, while Ask.com was up slightly.
Percentage of U.S. Searches Among Leading Search Engine Providers
Oct.-07
Sept.-07
Oct.-06
www.google.com
64.49%
63.55%
60.94%
search.yahoo.com
21.65%
22.55%
22.34%
search.msn.com
7.42%*
7.83%*
10.72%*
www.ask.com
4.76%
4.32%
4.34%
Note: Data is based on four week rolling periods (ending Oct. 27, 2007, Sept. 29, 2007, Oct. 28, 2006) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US Internet users.
* - includes executed searches on Live.com and MSN Search.
