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The increasing battle for a share of the blog search market is moving in Google’s favour, as new figures show the search giant is gaining a larger share of the market.

Google’s Blog Search, which trawls the internet for blog sites as opposed to any other type of website, has been particularly successful in the past few months and according to metrics firm Hitwise, it has now become the top blog search site in the world. …continue reading the story
called Conquering the Blog Search Market the Google Way

Blogs, podcasts�.what’s next when it comes to getting your message across to the widest audience possible? It could just be that the new trend for ‘moblogging’ rises inexorably - with at least one high-profile provider now ready to roll this out to the awaiting masses.YouTube, fresh from its takeover by Google, is that firm - having stated that it will spread its video-share capabilities to mobile phones amid high public demand. This could have interesting implications for businesses which have already chosen to capitalise on YouTube’s ability to snare internet users, with mobile phone customers potentially very amenable to viewing short, sharp clips which can be loaded up by doing little more by putting their hands in their pockets. …continue reading the story
called Moblogging - The Next Step?

The 17^th century philosopher John Locke spoke of the “tabula rasa” - the blank slate onto which experiences are etched, subsequently affecting our ideas, sensations and characteristics. There were, he said, no innate ideas stamped upon the mind from birth. A budding entrepreneur might construe this as a sign that Locke was suggesting, by extension, that a man must become successful in business through training, application and experience rather than through an innate drive - but can we say that this is true?

A recent survey by the US’s Northeastern University, in Massachussetts, tends to fly in the face of this. Studying the responses of over 200 entrepreneurs from across the Atlantic, it gleaned that a majority (62 per cent) believed they were born with the desire and ambition to found their own businesses - suggesting that nature may be more valuable than nurture when it comes to realising one’s goals. …continue reading the story
called Entrepreneurism - Nature Or Nurture?

Names: Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Dates of birth: 26/3/1973 (Page); 21/8/1973 (Brin)

Mini CV: - Met in 1995 as PhD computer science students at Stanford University

- Created Google as a research project early the next year

- Still co-running the company along with - since 2001 - Eric Schmidt

Larry Page and Sergey Brin provide the classic example of a pair of entrepreneurs who latched onto an existing concept and took it further than anybody else could imagine - creating what is now ranked as the world’s third most valuable technology company. Seeing a gap in the nascent search engine market of the mid 1990s (essentially that search engines might better analyse the relationships between website than rank according to search term occurrences), they created Google after using its concept as a base for their research theses, seeing its popularity and profitability mushroom soon after. …continue reading the story
called Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Founders of Google) - Entrepreneur Profile

The world of online video has been growing at an enormous rate over the past year and many online companies have been trying to get in on what is the next big thing.

One of the major attractions for companies to video sites is simply the sheer number of people now using them. Websites such as YouTube and MySpace have seen a massive uptake in popularity and it is therefore little surprise that the industry is seeing considerable consolidation, with search engine rivals Google and Yahoo! among those moving into the arena. …continue reading the story
called Yahoo! Takes A Hard Look At Rich Media Advertising

Google’s acquisition of YouTube, the video-sharing website, for £883 million this week has thrust the role of internet TV and videos firmly into the spotlight - bringing into view the exciting possibility of an organised and archived video library which would be easily searchable. …continue reading the story
called Google and YouTube - What Might They Do For You?

By 2010 there will be 60 million podcast downloaders in the United States alone, according to research carried out last year. The average worldwide user already downloads up to six per month and, with this figure rising all the time, it is easy to see why companies small and large are paying podcasting serious attention as they look to map out their plans for the future.

…continue reading the story
called Podcasts - The Way Forward