Google Docs Gets Lots of Updates Google Docs added lots of new stuff, including saved searches, offline Google Gears access for spreadsheets and presentations, custom document stylesheets (using CSS), speaker notes in presentations, and embedded YouTube videos in presentations.
Move Your Life To Gmail With Gmail Uploader Google released last month the Gmail Uploader, a free application that moves your email and contacts from Outlook, Outlook Express or Thunderbird (on Windows XP and Vista only) to a Google Apps Gmail account. Considering the huge number of limitations (only three email programs, two operating systems, and one very specific and less popular edition of Gmail), you may never get the chance to use it, which is a shame, because most new Gmail users would love the easy migration method.
Google Charts Now Does QR Codes
Google has been trying out QR Codes (a type of 2D bar codes) in its print ads, and now they’re making it easier to generate them on the web. Before, you’d have to use a web app or software to create a QR Code, then save the image to use on your website, but now the Google Chart API can be queried to get them automatically. Right now, all you get are website URLs, though hopefully Google will extend the API to handle more complex data.
Here’s an API-generated image for this site, using the URL http://chartserver.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=300x300&chl=http://google.blognewschannel.com/:
Blogger Adds Future Posts
Google’s Blogger has added the ability to schedule posts to be published in the future by specifying a date yet to come for your post. This feature was tested in Blogger In Draft, and is yet another feature to make its way into the ever improving Blogger.
Google Invests In New Clearwire Google entered into an agreement with Sprint and others (Comcast, Intel Capital, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks and Trilogy Equity Partners), investing half a billion dollars in a new formation of wireless ISP Clearwire. The new company will be 51% Sprint-owned, taking Sprint’s Xohm WiMax business. Google’s a wireless provider of sorts, now, and will help get open devices, including Android devices, on the network, and provide search and applications for the network.
Google Me - A Documentary About Search
This documentary features a guy searching for others with this same name as him. A concept we’ve heard before, though it seems to have resulted in an interest project.
Google’s Head of PR Goes to Facebook
Elliot Schrage leaves for Facebook, costing Google its vice president of global communications and public affairs. Of course, Google’s corporate PR policies haven’t been that smart the last few years, so maybe this isn’t great news for Facebook.
Google Maps Interface Slimmed Down
Google has finally trimmed some of the cruft building on Google Maps, combining and simplifying an interface that was getting too complicated and cluttered.
Blogger Gets Integrated Analytics
Google has integrated Google Analytics into Blogger for Blogger users that are interested, giving access to stats inside the Blogger Dashboard along with special stats tracking relevant to blogs. They’re also letting Measure Map users roll over their accounts into Google Analytics now.
Add Images To Gmail’s Interface Xoopit is a Firefox plugin that adds dynamic image preview to Gmail. You see a strip of images above your email, and there’s some sort of social networking theory at work.
H-1B Visa Situation the Usual Giant Disaster
Read at Techdirt about the H-1B (foreign guest worker) visas, which are once again running into problems due to the government not providing enough visas for American tech companies to bring skilled workers to this country. As usual, the visas for the entire year ran out in a single day, and the Department of Homeland Security is doing what it can to keep those jobs in the U.S. by allowing certain industry grads to stay in the country longer on their student visas.
Google Earth Adds Street View Google Earth now has Street View built into it, in order to see street level photos of buildings and pedestrians. Not only that, but you can blow the Street View full screen, in order to gawk at total strangers having their privacy invaded in the utmost fidelity.
Google Most Valuable Brand Again Google has been named the most valuable brand by market research firm Millward Brown Optimor, value at $86 billion and beating out GE and Microsoft ($71 billion apiece). Google’s brand value grew 30% over the last year, though Google has now won three years running.
Earth Day Search Logos
Search Engine Land has a bunch of logos that ran on Earth Day, including this one from Google:
Google Stock Earnings Benefit From Failing Dollar
Google’s earnings report, released last week, showed it beat Wall Street’s expectations by $101 million, sending the stock way up. However, Valleywag explains that, due to the sinking dollar, Google’s earnings were $202 million higher than they would have been if the dollar were stronger, meaning the surprise extra growth didn’t exist almost at all.
Google News Shows Quotes Google News has a new feature that lets you search for people who are quoted in news articles. Just throw a name into Google News and you’ll see a quote from them at the top. Click their name, and you’ll see a page full of quotes in various news stories they’re in.
Google-Monopoly (The Game)
Box HQ has put together a version of the popular Monopoly board game that replaces everything in the game with Google-related items. For example, the properties are all web companies (Microsoft and Yahoo replace Boardwalk and Park Place) and jail is the Deadpool. You can just print out the PDF and get started, or go all out and modify a Monopoly game board to turn it into Google-opoly. One problem: there aren’t enough I’m Feeling Lucky and Google.org cards.
Google Finds New CIO Google has named a new Chief Information Officer, with Benjamin Fried from Morgan Stanley’s Application Infrastructure group taking over next month. Fried worked on Google’s IPO four years ago, giving him some experience with the company. Fried takes over for Douglas Merrill, who left for EMI earlier this month.
If you haven’t used Google Website Optimizer yet, perhaps the benefits of A/B Split & Multivariable Testing and Intuitive Reports will woo you. The goals, of course, are to increase sales, improve landing pages, get more leads, determine cost per acquisition (CPA), increase time spent on site, estimate guesswork from your site design, and more.
Lots of Google Doodles
Zorgloob’s got lots of Google Doodles you may not have noticed over the weeks.
AdWords API Price Dropped Google has droppped the prices on using the AdWords API. Search Engine Roundtable has the chart of revised prices, with the cost per API unit dropping as much as 70% on some services.
AdSense Ad Review Center Available To All Google has released its Ad Review Center for Google AdSense to all publishers. The Ad Review center allows AdSense publishers to control site targeted advertising on their website, including banning and approving targeted ads.
Download YouTube Videos As MP4 Ionut shares the URL parameter that will let you download videos from YouTube as MP4 files, perfect for loading onto a portable media player. Just use a URL like this one, except change the letters “ID” with the video ID code:
A Funny Google Interview Story Read this story about one guy’s experience interviewing for a job at Google. I guarantee you won’t see where it’s going.
(via Digg)
Arrest Caught On Google Maps Street View
One unfortunate fella was being arrested by authorities, and what happened to pass by? The Google Maps Street View van, that’s who! As a result, he wound up with that moment in his life, one he’d probably like to regret, recorded into Google Maps and now pictured on a number of blogs. Whoops.
Entire Internet Goes Crazy Over April Fools
As usual, April Fools day was the internet’s Christmas, with many major and minor websites getting in the holiday spirit, most with unfunny fake news stories. A few were interest or stood out:
YouTube turned all the Featured Videos on its front page into links to Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up. The video, already the center of the Rickrolling meme, is now the unofficial anthem of April Fools day, with multiple pranks involving it somehow. The video pulled 6 million views in just one day.
Phillip listed a ton of others from Google, including a retread “We’re going to space” joke from Google (this time with Richard Branson and Mars and YouTube videos, but even less funny than when they did it in 2006), scratch-and-sniff Google Book Search, Google Talk auto converting everything you say into acronyms, a paper airplane template in Google Docs, custom email time in Gmail, Google Calendar’s Wake Up Kit (which pours a bucket of water on you if you ignore the alarm) and I’m Feeling Lucky button (random blind dates), Orkut renamed Yogurt, and more.
Blogger launched “Google Weblogs”, essentially a look at what a blog service by Google would have looked like in 2002, before Google discovered UI design
Andy talked about a Google USB Search Watch. Yes, a watch, as in what you wear on your wrist.
Google Docs Finally Gets Gears Offline Access
Google Docs, the most obvious candidate for offline access, has finally been enabled to work with Google Gears. You can now access and edit your text documents (but not spreadsheets or presentations, yet) without an internet connection, provided you’ve installed the Google Gears plugin. Wonderful news, and hopefully the start of a wave of Google products taking advantage of Google’s offline platform.
Here’s a video about it:
Google Spreadsheets Adds Gadgets Google Spreadsheets has added a directory of Google Gadgets you can use to extend its functionality. It includes charts, new table functionality, pivot tables, maps, search results, organization charts, and many other features Spreadsheets lacks. It also now has email notifications, autocomplete and a new visualization API. Unlike Docs, Spreadsheets is one area where the majority of users won’t be satisfied with an underpowered Microsoft Word, and any way Google can get advanced features in there, the better.
Google’s Search Lead Continues To Grow comScore saw Google share of the search market grow in February (surprising no one), reaching 59%. Yahoo fell to 21.6%, Microsoft slipped slightly to 9.6%, and Ask added .1% to reach 4.6%.
Viacom Will Not Get Punitive Damages Vs. YouTube A judge ruled that if Viacom prevails in its lawsuit against Google-owned YouTube over copyrighted videos, it would not be entitled to punitive damages. Instead, Viacom will have to prove actual damages, with each successfully proven “willfull” violation costing Google up to $300,000, and other costing as little as $750. Gonna have a hard time getting $1 billion out of Google that way.
Easter and Purim Search Logos
The biggest search engines didn’t mark Easter at all, but Ask.com did run this homepage on Sunday (all screenshots via Barry):
Also, Dogpile:
And Cre8asite:
And Bruce Clay:
SER ran this on Friday to mark Purim, the Jewish holiday celebrating Queen Esther and crew saving the Jews from the evil Haman in long-ago Persia:
A Collection of Bad Google Interview Stories Silicon Valley Insider has another of those stories about Google job interviews, and the unique experiences candidates have had on them. This one features blown interviews, and at least one somewhat disgusting story where a veteran of the armed forces was asked an insulting question about how many people he’d killed, and if he’d done it efficiently. The general feeling is that Google’s famous arrogance is alive and well. This one was really interesting too:
They have a process which intentionally filters out people who are single minded and focused on a goal in favour of people who like to spread around and tinker with things. At some point in the process you end up in a room with gadgets and things. The room actually has either a CCTV camera or a double mirror (no idea what is the actual technical implementation). If you open your bag and read a book so that you do not lose concentraion at that point and ignore the shiny gadgets you are most likely going to fail the interview. If you tinker with the shiny trinkets around you, the likelihood that you will pass will vastly improve.
Also, Valleywag has an ex-Googler venting about the company’s recruiters being out of touch. Former employee Hans Cardinal says, like we’ve heard many times, that 20% projects are a fiction, Google’s new hires work mostly on ads, the new engineers are hideously unskilled, and the PMs are territorial and unpleasant.
Google Releases Search Plugin For Windows Mobile Google has released a very basic searching plugin for Windows Mobile devices. The plugin adds a Google search box to the device’s home screen, letting you run a search without first opening your browser. It doesn’t do anything else, but it is a convenience and can supplant a similar implementation by Microsoft in Windows Mobile 6. If you’re interested, go to mobile.google.com.
Google Updates Charts API Google has updated its API for free chart generation, removing the limit of 50,000 queries a day and adding new chart types. Now, not only can you use the API without worry (those using over 250,000 queries a day are only asked to call in, nothing more), you can also make cool new charts, like this one:
How To Always Get Higher Quality Videos From YouTube
Now that YouTube is offering videos in different qualities and choosing for you automatically the best one for your connection, you may feel like you are missing out and not getting the best version every time. Turns out there’s a new preference option under Account > Video Playback Quality that lets you tell YouTube to always play higher quality videos, never do it, or keep deciding what’s best for you. Use this new power with great care, young one.
Google Sky Makes It Into Google Maps
Google Sky, a pretty cool but almost forgotten feature in Google Earth, where users could see the constellations and multiple star layers in Earth, is now available in your web browser. Just head to sky.google.com and you’ll get a tricked out version of Google Maps with much of the features of Sky in Google Earth, though I just can’t figure out if the cool time slider is there. While this pales in comparison to Microsoft’s in-development WorldWide Telescope project, it’s light and easy and available now, so check it out.
Google Book Search Gets API Google has released an API for Google Book Search, letting application developers query Book Search and return if a book is available in Book Search and if it has a scanned copy. Using this, some interesting mashups can be created, like a site that shows you if a book is available in your library, available to read online at Google, or showing you how to purchase it at Amazon.
MapQuest Offers Unlimited API
While MapQuest, purely on name and longevity alone, is still in some areas the number one mapping site on the net, it is certainly losing the battle among power users and critics to newer services like Google Maps and the like. One way MapQuest could distinguish itself and show off the abilities of recent upgrades would be to get mashup developers to start using its API, and a recent announcement may help. MapQuest is now letting API developers have unlimited free use of the API.
While Google and its ilk limit use of their API to certain number of views or users per day, MapQuest’s API is both without limits and without costs, making it in some ways the only option now available for super-popular mashups. MapQuest’s API comes with many popular or unique features, including aerial/hybrid views, smooth zoom transitions, a Google Earth-like Globe View, speed and friction settings (possibly perfect for iPhone flicking), and advanced shape overlays. If, in order to avoid API key errors, enough mashups make the switch, users could start noticing that MapQuest is getting a lot better these days.
The Yahoo Search Blog is proudly touting the results of the latest Keynote Customer Experience study measuring customer satisfaction with search engines. Yahoo is showing off that from May 2007 to November, its satisfaction rating rose from 837 to 878, vaulting it past both Google and Ask.com. Yahoo credits its new Search Assist feature, which walks users through refining a search query, for the boost.
Keynote uses a panel of 2000 representative users to study how the major search engines stack up in terms of performance, relevance and customer satisfaction. The report also looked at how the major engines performed in terms of providing search assistance and suggestions. Keynote found that since launching Search Assist, our ranking jumped by 41 points to 878, taking us from third to first place in this category.
Recent Compete market share numbers show that while all four of Yahoo’s competitors increased their volume of search queries over 30% in the last year (with Google up 51%), Yahoo’s volume was up a practically non-existant 0.3%. Even if Yahoo’s users are more satisfied, Yahoo is failing to attract new users, or at least convince existing ones to search more. Happy customers are nice, but apparently no one is spreading the word.
Google News has added a new type of section: Local news sections. You can now add to your personalized Google News page a section tied to any Zip Code, or State in the United States, or any City name, pretty much anywhere. If you don’t want to use a personalized page, just enter a zip code, state or city at the end of this URL:
The targeting seems spot-on, featuring mostly news sources that publish from that area, plus articles from other areas with a dateline in that area.
Cool hack: You can add “&topic=X” to the end of the URL, in order to get a local section limited by topic. For example, &topic=b will get you a business section, t for technology, s for sports, m for health, e for entertainment, n for national news, w for international news, po for popular news, and el for elections.
Google has started decorating its search results for the Chinese New Year, returning some special window trimmings for certain searches. Search for “chinese new year” or “新年” in the U.S. or China, and you’ll see some firecrackers lining the sidebar AdWords advertisements, just like Google does for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa every year.
(via Philipp)
Number 64 on Google Trends yesterday was a search for “Puppy Bowl”. The Puppy Bowl is an annual event on Animal Planet, where for three hours puppies play and run around on a fake puppy-sized football field with a number of toys. There is an in-water bowl camera, a referee, two MVPs, and a kitty halftime show, and it’s consistently the most popular show on all of cable TV during the Super Bowl.
Puppy Bowl IV was last night, and I’m sorry I missed it. Me and the wife like to watch the pups go at it during halftime, especially when guys we aren’t that interested in, like Tom Petty or Mick Jagger are performing, but our cable system never carries the big “game”. No one ever seems to put the Puppy Bowl on bit torrent, and DVDs are $15 ($10 each for Puppy Bowls I-III, $20 for all three, and $7-13 on Amazon), so that might be an option*.
So, did anyone else watch the Puppy Bowl yesterday? The video highlights seem to indicate the best Bowl yet. The early ratings indicate the Puppy Bowl was a huge success for the fourth year in a row.
* - on the other hand, this was the first Puppy Bowl in High Definition, and there’s no Blu-Ray/HD-DVD option, so maybe I’ll wait. Or I could call Animal Planet and try to convince them to put it on the Xbox Live Video Marketplace… This is sad.
This is a tad unfair: On the day of the Super Bowl, halftime show performer Tom Petty was the number one search on Google Trends. Wait, you say, what’s wrong with that? Who wouldn’t want to be the number one search? Well, see, the search term wasn’t just his name, but rather the top search yesterday was “How old is Tom Petty?”
Sad to say, my wife asked this question and I did Google it during the performance (though I just Googled his name, knowing Wikipedia had the answer). Petty’s 57, which prompted both me and my wife to exclaim that Tom looks a whole hell of a lot older than he actually is. The little lady said, “He isn’t aging well”. I think a lot of people thought that, hence the top search position.
Google has added a new search experiment and a new UI to its Google Experimental service. The site, which lets you try out different variations on Google search, still has the timeline view, which displays search results based on the date of the content, and the map view, which is like Google Maps with webpages instead of businesses. The new view is the info view, which shows images, locations, measurements and dates associated with the search results.
The big change is that the three experimental search types are now integrated with regular Google search (referred to simply as List View), and you can click tabs beneath the search box to switch between the four types. This means you can use Google Experimental alongside regular Google search, and get the benefit of the old and new.
If you are ever running a regular search, add “view:map”, “view:timeline” or “view:info” to the search box to activate Google Experimental and the corresponding view
Google has changed the way its More drop-down menu acts at the top of search results pages. Whereas before, the list was alphebatized and getting too long and out of control, the list is now ranked and split into two sections. The new setup:
As you can see, Google has moved Video, previously the second-to-last item on a very long menu, all the way to the top. This is likely in response to user complaints that Video, previously on the main menu (replaced by Shopping) was very hard to reach.
The other thing to note is that there is a singificant difference between the first and second sections. The items in the first section correspond to search engines, and whatever has been searched for on the page will be pre-entered into that search engine. Items in the second half are services, not search engines, and users will be taken to the service’s front page.
This change can be attributed to the confusing nature of the “YouTube” link in the More menu. Previously, Video and YouTube sat on top of each other. Hitting Video plugged the current search term into the Google Video search engine, while hitting YouTube brought the user to youtube.com and did nothing search-related. By seperating the list, Google warns the user beforehand, preventing the confusion and annoyance of the old behavior.
It’s also worth noting the link in the menu for “Photos”, which actually goes to Picasa Web Albums. Just name it Google Photos, willya?
I was a bit surprised when I saw this comment in Google News from Philip Morris USA, the tobacco company. No, I was not surprised so much at the comment, or where it was coming from, but rather the content. Namely, there was none. Instead, the comment consisted of a link to Philip Morris’s website and their policy on the issue discussed in the news story.
So, this is okay for Google News now? I understand that a link is in some ways preferable to the commenter copying the page from their website and duplicating content, but it seems so cheap, and renders the entire act of having Google News comments pointless. If all you’re going to do is link, then Google should just provide a list of related web links and junk the entire comment system. The comments need to be quality, or they don’t need to exist at all.
At the least, SEOs should try to do what Philip Morris did, in order to get free links from Google News. I don’t know if it passes PageRank, but it’s definitely worth trying.
Thomsom, maker of GE-branded telephones, has teamed up with Google to release a number of GE phones with a prominent GOOG-411 button above the keypad. Pressing the button will call Google’s toll free voice controlled business search service. With every consumer who buys one of these phones most likely becoming a serious user of GOOG-411 (really, who would use any other service if the button is right on their phone?), this could me some serious uptake in usage of Google’s service.
Great partership for Google, and it really shows how serious they are in making GOOG-411 a success.
Google Invents New Way To Game Popular Searches
Google has made a big mistake in the way it treats popular searches. Ionut Alex figured out that Google isn’t just indexing new pages faster than ever before, it is changing the search results when a search term spikes and hits Google Hot Trends. If Google sees unusual activity on a search term, it will start promoting recently created web pages in order to give those searches the latest news on the topic.
Since Google Hot Trends shows the spiking searches of the day, spammers have figured out that the easiest way to get free traffic is to just write about stuff that makes Hot Trends, spamming up the search results with meaningless crap. I know that I just have to tell you how much I love Mike Holmgren, want to go into the cathouse, and have no idea who Marcus Trufant is, and I’ll get extra traffic.
The combination of Hot Trends and the new page promotion is ruining search results, and Google needs to fix it. In the future, how about only promoting authoritative websites, like those in Google News and popular in Google Reader? It’s a start.
Google News Archive Improves
Google News Archive added a timeline view, which shows you when a search term had more or less news about it. As Ionut says, you wind up with a meaningful webpage that shows you the history of a term and its news coverage over the last several hundred years.
Magellan GPS Integrates Google Local
Magellan is introducing at CES their Maestro Elite 5340+GPRS, a new GPS that connects to the cellular network. It uses that capability to connect to Google Local, letting users search for local businesses while driving and get relevant search results from Google. That means that not only can this GPS connect to its satellite as usual to say where you are, but to the internet to search for “pizza” or other stores, without the GPS maker having to compile a huge (and immediately out of date) list of every business in the country. That becomes Google’s job.
Panasonic Building YouTube/Picasa Connecting TVs
Also at CES, Panasonic announced it will start developing televisions that can connect to YouTube and Picasa Web Albums and view videos and pictures shared on those services. Consumers will even be able to edit and share their Picasa albums, right from the television set.
Wikia Search Releases, To, Uh, What’s The Opposite Of Fanfare?
Wikia search, the wiki-based search engine from the creator of Wikipedia, has launched in an early alpha version. A lot of reports are completely unimpressed with it, given that, as with any wiki, there are a ton of pages with no information or just bare-bones summaries, probably a lot like what Wikipedia looked like when it first launched. I expect Wikia to be a failure, but at least give it time before making the declaration that it already is.
Greg Linden Predicts The End Of It All
Finally, Greg Linden, formerly of Amazon.com and Findory, is predicting that 2008 is going to be the second dot-com crash of the internet age, and it will be longer and deeper than 2000’s crash. It’s the boldest and biggest prediction I’ve heard anyone make this year, and I hope he’s wrong. I fear he’s right. The economic indicators are already there. If things start slipping with the tech companies, the online advertising industry will start to sink, and even if Google stays strong, its earnings will slip with it.
The holidays have not been kind to me, or to this blog, and I apologize. Here are all the stories left lying around that aren’t going to get a full post:
Google Files Patent For Text Recognition In Images
It is now being reported that back in June, Google filed a patent for a machine recognizing the text in images, a very useful technology for Google Image Search, Google Shopping, signs in Google Maps Street View, and other Google products. Three days before Google filed for it, Microsoft filed for a very similar patent that includes many of the elements of the Google patent. If the patents are similar enough, it’s Microsoft’s patent that’s going to get passed, since it was first, so Google might have something to be worried about.
YouTube Brings Back Science & Technology Category
Shortly after retiring the Science & Technology category, YouTube has brought it back, reportedly after complaints from tech bloggers that they had no place to put their videos.
Google Builds Spectrum War Room Forbes reports that Google has set up a war room for planning its strategy for this month’s FCC wireless spectrum auction. The company is consulting with game theorists and auction experts, hoping to figure out what the competition is planning to bid in order to win the auction.
gOS 2.0 Coming At CES
Everex, makers of the Green Operating System that is often referred to as a Google Operating System, plan to release version 2 at the Consumer Electronics Show next week. The new version will include Google Gears integration, the better to run Google programs while offline. The system is extremely reliant on online apps as programs on it, and Gears is the best way to bridge the desktop and the browser.
Don’t be shocked if gOS is the number one Linux distribution in the world by the end of the year. With Wal-Mart backing it, it should be easy.
Baidu CFO Dies During Christmas Vacation
The Chief Financial Officer of Baidu, China’s premier internet search engine, died while on vacation last week. CFO Shawn Wang died under circumstances that have not been revealed to the media, but Baidu’s stock, normally a high performer, has slipped almost 5% in the week since, due to uncertainty over the company’s financial future.
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As always, Google search is the big boy, with Google Images the only other vertical that performs spectacularly. However, strong growth in Google Maps and Gmail mean that the two have a shot of breaking out of the pack and joining those two.
In the third tier are Google News and Google Video, one growing slightly, one sinking slightly. Guess moving around Video and changing its focus every few months hurt Video, though not as much as you’d expect. The fourth tier has Books, Earth and Groups, which enjoyed moderate growth, Scholar, which sank 32% due to neglect, and iGoogle, which exploded and grew over 250%. iGoogle is Google’s success story for the year, which is great news for the struggling personalized homepage product category and Google’s Gadget developer ecosystem.
There are the also-rans at the bottom, including Blog Search, the Google Directory (shockingly still popular than many of the others), Google Talk (most neglected product of the year), Calendar and Finance. Google Product Search is Google’s biggest failure, losing 73% of its users from when it was Froogle. A year ago, Froogle had a good ten million unique visitors and a nice brand name, now it has maybe two million and two generic names. Google killed Froogle, and hurt itself badly with this one.
Missing from this list is another Google success story, Google Reader. This suggests that Reader, while disrupting the RSS market, is too small to make the list, or that comScore screwed up (since we know Reader had a ton of growth). Also: No Google Apps or Google Docs, no Blogger or YouTube or SketchUp or Desktop.
It’s important to note that, of the 17 Google products listed, the only ones being monetized are Web Search (#1), Gmail (#3), Google Maps (#4) and Product Search (to a very small extent). Not making any money are Images (#2), News (#5), Video (#6), Earth (for the most part), Groups, Books, iGoogle, Scholar, and any of the others. Google would love to monetize Images, News and Video, but the amount of content it doesn’t own in there makes it damn near impossible to do so and not get sued.
