WIRED writes this weekend:

“Google continues to gain market in search queries while continuing to face a bevy of competitors,” Peck released in a research note today. “Further, Google’s efforts in online video, radio and print have added a layer of value that is absent from its competitor’s portfolio of offering and which has the potential to yield significant financial rewards.”

Washington Post adds:

“Your Googles and Apples of world are doing great. They’ve really been really innovative, which is what technology is sort of all about,” said Karen Dolan, an analyst at investment research provider Morningstar.

In the third quarter, tech funds showed a 6.6 percent return, Morningstar said. The funds were up 17.8 percent for the first three quarters of the year and 24.9 percent for the past 12 months.

“These funds did experience a quick rebound in 2003, but really tech funds have lagged since the bubble burst,” Dolan said.

Both articles also bash on Yahoo that while they did form some alliances with several newspapers and magazined they are more of a follower company always trying to keep up with Google’s innovation and may, therefore, struggle in making it.

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Google Domination in Print and Video in 2008

Martin lists 6 reasons for why he thinks the gPhone “ain’t happening”:

1. Google is a software-and-advertising company, not a hardware manufacturer.
2. The margins are low.
3. The competition is fierce.
4. No carrier will sell it.
5. It’s not fun.
6. Google doesn’t need to.

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Is gPhone only a Rumor?

The move Wednesday is the latest in a series of forays Google is making into the enterprise space. Google Apps Premier Addition goes up against established enterprise messaging services, most prominently Lotus Notes from IBM and Microsoft Exchange. Google Apps includes a suite of services, such as GMail, Docs, Calendar and GTalk, which are available for business use. However, with Postini, Google Apps Premier Edition will now have a large customer base from which to draw.

Google obviously realizes its weaknesses and is making moves to improve its offerings based on that. This seems to be a smart move on their behalf will most definately help them capture marketshare.

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Google Tightens Apps Security

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Google Celebrates Sputnik’s 50 Anniversary

Sellers offer the product/service within a specified price range, and buyers accept the offer, in exchange for the opportunity to close the transaction at the lowest price offered by achieving a high score during the collateral activity. The ultimate price is within the agreed upon range, but is determined based upon the buyer’s performance during the collateral activity.

According to Eric Goldman, Santa Clara University law professor and tech law blogger, the suit resembles the sort of “lawsuits that we’re concerned about when we worry about patents being used as a way of shaking down people for cash as opposed to advancing social interests”.

This is obviously one of those, “lets patent this idea” rather than an actual system in place. This concept is bein debated by the congress these days for a bill that would overhaul patent litigation, and both Google and Microsoft have lobbied in its favor.

[via THEREGISTER]

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Texas Businessman Sueing Google, Yahoo and Microsoft

Maurene Caplan Grey of ZDNET like to think that along with the benefits of acquiring Zimbra itself, Yahoo had seen further benefits in a further collaborating with Comcast whose in beef with Google anyways and may be able to use Yahoo to further enhance its offerings. After all Comcast is the second largest ISP in the US.

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Hidden Agenda for Yahoo’s Zimbra Deal?

If enabled, the browser will send Google all of the URL’s the surfer uses at all times. This is much like Google’s Accelerator tool which was launched with much hyped and proved to be just another data collection tool. It will be interesting to see the adoption rate of such tool given the average individual does not know what happens “behind the scenes”.

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Google to Power Anti-Malware Tool in Firefox 3.0

The top 10 properties remained unchanged in August, as Yahoo! Sites topped the ranking with more than 135 million visitors. CBS Corporation experienced a 16-percent gain, lifting it 6 spots to number 24. Comcast Corporation also experienced a sizable jump, moving up seven positions to number 26 in the ranking with more than 25 million visitors. United Online enjoyed a four-position gain, drawing more than 26 million unique visitors in August.

In the “Ad Focus Ranking” category, Google climbed to #7 in over all ads served.

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Yahoo Continues to “Rule” The Net

First of all, subscriber stats are now available. Webmaster Tools now show feed publishers the number of aggregated subscribers you have from Google services such as Google Reader, iGoogle, and Orkut. We hope this will make it easier to track subscriber statistics across multiple feeds, as well as offer an improvement over parsing through server logs for feed information.

I’ve seen assumption that once Google gets his arms around these subscription stats, an implementation of this data into its Universal Search platform (& algorithm) would be a breeze, and it may as well happen. However, what do you do if you have no current subscribers or anything to offer as a feed?

Some verticals are obviously not “feed materials” but not necessarily need one either. So I guess the trick would be to look around and see what your competitors. Obviously, a newly updated feed would be a sign that you may be missing something, but if no one has it and there isn’t really any frequent news to report I wouldn’t worry about it for now.

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Google Webmaster Central adds Subscription Data

Here’s a quick introductory video off Yahoo Teachers:

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Yahoo Presents Yahoo Teachers