According to a Hitwise study, Youtube currently has 73.18% share of the US online video market out of a group of 68 online video site. SO this means 73.18% of US visits amongst such online video sites ends up in Youtube. Youtube’s current online video market share is up by 32% over March of 2007, [...]

Recently, SEJ posted a story on how Google is experimenting on crawling hidden web pages through HTML forms indexing.
Now it has been reported that yahoo has updated its search crawler with Slurp 3.0. Although the full implementation of Slurp 3.0 would not really pose a big issue on webmaster’s part but still it is [...]

Microsoft Live Search has recently launched its new web service known as the Live Search News (LSN). The Live Search News is very similar to Google News, which is an automated news aggregation site created by Google.
The portal looks pretty simple and yet aesthetically pleasing design very similar to Techmeme (Probably because of the white [...]

A couple of newer iGoogle gadgets are now shareable, Google announced.
This is a very similar to the feature that is already available in Google Docs, where you can also collaborate with others on documents if you want to. A list of all shareable gadgets – like sticky notes, or crossword puzzles – can be [...]

A new Firefox extension called Stylish allows you to easily load homemade stylesheets in your browser, to be applied to any specific websites.
These custom stylesheets can easily change a couple of colors or font sizes and deliver a full-featured redesign of an web application. One such complete redesign is currently being offered for Gmail [...]

Orkut has recently released a mobile version of their homepage at m.orkut.com (you can view it on the your desktop browser too), as the Inside Orkut blog reports. Inside this new Mobile Orkut, you will see a reduced version of the default Orkut, including features like Scraps, Updates from your friends, an alphabetically sorted list [...]

ComScore recently released an overview of search engine market share in Russia.
According to the survey, which excludes traffic from public internet cafes and mobile phones as well as users below the age of 15, Yandex is the leading search engine with above 47.4% of the share of searches, “Google sites” are second with about [...]

The Google Maps Street View feature has now been added as a tab to Google’s 3D Warehouse, in case the model includes geographical information. The Google Warehouse directory offers 3D models for Google SketchUp users and for integration into Google Earth. (These days, any other site can integrate Street View too, via the API.) Frank [...]

Google Maps China has put up a mini site showing the location of the Olympic torch that’s currently being carried over the globe in preparation for the China Olympics. The mini site also links to Google Image search, Google mobile search, Google Earth, language tools, and coverage over at China’s CCTV. When you click on [...]

There is one thing that iGoogle doesn’t currently allow you to do and that is move your tabs around to change the order of them. A quick Google search returns hundreds of pages where iGoogle users are asking how to do this. Until this feature is officially added, here’s a short tutorial on how you [...]