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Most watched videos on YouTube in 2009

admin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:25:37 +0000

YouTube released the most watched videos in 2009.

Most Watched YouTube videos (Global):
1. Susan Boyle – Britain’s Got Talent (120+ million views)
2. David After Dentist (37+ million views)
3. JK Wedding Entrance Dance (33+ million views)
4. New Moon Movie Trailer (31+ million views)
5. Evian Roller Babies (27+ million views)

Most Watched music videos on YouTube (Global)*:
1. Pitbull – I Know You Want Me (82+ million views)
2. Miley Cyrus – The Climb (64+ million views)
3. Miley Cyrus – Party In The U.S.A. (54+ million views)
4. The Lonely Island – I’m On A Boat (48+ million views)
5. Keri Hilson – Knock You Down (35+ million views)

Then, to determine the fastest rising search terms for each month, we examined the billions of queries that people searched for on YouTube (through December 15):

Fastest Rising YouTube search terms by month (Global):
January: inauguration
February: christian bale
March: the climb
April: susan boyle
May: pacquiao vs hatton
June: michael jackson thriller
July: michael jackson
August: usain bolt
September: kanye west
October: paranormal activity
November: bad romance
December: tiger woods

Fastest Rising YouTube search terms by month (U.S.):
January: obama inauguration
February: on a boat
March: watchmen
April: susan boyle
May: pacquiao
June: michael jackson thriller
July: wedding
August: send it on
September: kanye west
October: paranormal activity
November: adam lambert
December: tiger woods

Yahoo Search Provides Filter Options

admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:04:00 +0000

Recently Yahoo announced a new filter options in the search results. Filters will include major web sites for searches. For example searching for Sony LCD Display will allow you to filter by CNET Reviews, Best Buy, Walmart, Dell and other major online retailers. It’s also available an option to search by category – in this case shopping sites only.

Searching for example ‘Valencia’ will have filters like from Wikipedia or Travel cites only.

Yahoo search also claimed to have better analyses the search user’s habit over a certain period of time. That way the search engine supposes to come up with logical connections between past and present searches.

Technorati Claim Token

admin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:27:25 +0000

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Google Acquires AdMob

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:28:39 +0000

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Google signed an agreement to acquire AdMob, a mobile display advertising company based in San Mateo, CA. AdMob was founded in 2006 by Omar Hamoui. Over the past few years, Omar and his talented team have built a thriving company with great mobile advertising products.

For publishers of mobile websites and applications, this deal should offer better products and tools and more effective monetization of their content.

For advertisers who want to reach users when they are engaged with mobile content, this deal expects to bring better, more relevant ads and greater reach. It will also offer more interesting and engaging ad formats.

LeapFish – Real Time Social Search

admin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:33:29 +0000

LeapFish is the newest upcoming web search engine and social media that will pretend to capture the new multi-media and real-time search and communication. The new platform will gives consumers the most convenient and personalized way to experience and share the real-time Web.

LeapFish plans to offer a customizable homepage with expanded search functions. The homepage will perform as a personal web based dashboard, aggregating multiple applications and portals into a single homepage. Community sites like Digg, Facebook, and Twitter will provide search results in real-time.

Finday – Innovative Social Web Directory and Search Engine

admin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:35:54 +0000

Finday is an innovative social web directory and search engine. The search engine claims to be the first global directory of websites commented and evaluated on by users. Finday also stands to be the only website that is based human criteria rather than statistical ranking system.

Finday is designed to be simple and intuitive. The user searches for a word or phrase on the Internet as they would on any other search engine, Finday then uses the powerful Google engine to present the same results the user is used to getting. On the same listing the user will also be able to see the scores which have been given by other users to the various sites shown according to parameters such as quality, confidence level, activity, price or design as well as opinions and comments about each site. This way, you’ll be directed to the best valued sites without having to waste time surfing the web and clicking on each result to find exactly what you are looking for.

Finday (http://finday.com) currently supports English and Spanish languages.

Operator Site

admin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:19:59 +0000

Operator [site:] – search within a whole class of sites (site:). For example [ careers site:.gov ] will return results only from a .gov domain and [ vacation site:it ] will return results only from Italian sites.

Operator Link

admin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:14:57 +0000

Operator [link:] – webpages that have links to the specified URL (link:). The query [link:] will list webpages that have links to the specified webpage. [link:www.wikipedia.org] will list webpages that have links pointing to the Wikipedia homepage.

Operator inurl

admin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:13:16 +0000

Operator [inurl:] – restrict the results to documents containing that word in the url. For instance, [inurl:vacation hawaii] will return documents that mention the word “vacation” in their url, and mention the word “hawaii” anywhere in the document (url or no).

Operator [+] – Search exactly as is

admin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:09:26 +0000

Operator [+] – search exactly as is (+). For example sometimes search engines helps out a little too much and gives you a synonym when you don’t really want it. By attaching a + immediately before a word (remember, don’t add a space after the +), you are telling to match that word precisely as you typed it.