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Google Top Searches 2007 vs Yahoo Top Ten: iPhone and Britney Spears No. 1

Published on December 5, 2007 in Anna Nicole Smith, Beyonce, Britney Spears, Club Penguin, Facebook, Fantasy Football, Fergie, Google, Google Inc., Google Top 10, Heroes, Jessica Alba, Lindsay Lohan, MySpace, Naruto, Paris Hilton, Rune Scape, SEO, TMZ, Top searches 2007, Transformer, WWE, Web 2.0, Web technology, Webkinz, Yahoo Top 10, YouTube, hot, iPhone, top keywords, web traffic and yahoo. 12 Comments

Hottest searches for 2007: Technology and entertainment. Britney Spears sure knows how to be in the news!

Check out the top search keywords for Google and Yahoo 2007.

Top Searches

Google fastest rising U.S. search terms for 2007:

1. iPhone: iPhone, the Apple mobile phone with music and video player and web browsing features tops the Google top searches 2007 list.
2. Webkinz: Webkinz is a stuffed animal that customers can register and play with online.
3. TMZ: A telepictures production and America Online joint venture that provides an inside look at the latest celebrity scandals.
4. Transformer toys: Transformers are highly flexible toys that shift shape, and became wildly popular from the 2007 hit movie transformers
5. YouTube: online video-sharing site
6. Club Penguin: Networking site for children
7. MySpace: Social networking site
8. Heroes: Heroes is an American science fiction serial drama television series created by Tim Kring on NBC.
9. Facebook: Social/business networking site
10. Anna Nicole Smith: Anna Nicole Smith was an American sex symbol, model, actress, celebrity, and spokeswoman.

Yahoo Top 10 Searches for 2007:

1. Britney Spears: An American pop music singer, songwriter, dancer actress and author.
2. WWE: World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE) is a publicly traded, privately controlled integrated media (focusing in television, Internet, and live events), and sports entertainment company dealing primarily in the professional wrestling industry, with major revenue sources also coming from film, music, product licensing, and direct product sales.
3. Paris Hilton: An American celebutante, businesswoman, singer, model, actress, author, and television personality.
4. Naruto: Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimotoanime adaptation. The main character, Naruto Uzumaki, is a loud, hyperactive, unpredictable adolescent ninja who constantly searches for recognition and aspires to become a Hokage, the ninja in the village acknowledged as the leader and the strongest of all.
5. Beyonce: An American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, music video director, actress, dancer, and fashion designer, the creative force and lead singer of the R&B girl group Destiny’s Child, the world’s best-selling female group of all time.
6. Lindsay Lohan: An American actress and pop music singer.
7. Rune Scape: The massive online adventure game by Jagex Ltd
8. Fantasy Football: A fantasy sports game in which participants (called “owners”) are arranged into a league.
9. Fergie: An American pop, hip hop, and R&B singer, songwriter, and actress.
10. Jessica Alba: An American actress, whose TV and film credits include Dark Angel, Honey, Sin City, Fantastic Four, Into the Blue, Idle Hands and 2007′s Good Luck Chuck.

NBC Fox launch Hulu.com: If you can’t sue them, imitate them

Published on October 29, 2007 in Fox, Google, NBC, Prison Break, TV shows, The Simpsons, YouTube, copyrights, hulu.com and media. 0 Comments

huludotcomFrustrated by the efforts (or lack thereof) of YouTube to curb the blatant violations of copyrights held by media giants NBC and Fox, these companies decided to do it all by themselves.

Invitations started going out yesterday and there is still room for signing up as a beta user direct from hulu.com. Users will have access to Hulu’s content lineup that include hits such as The Office, Prison Break, The Simpsons and Heroes.

Hulu.com also promises to offer a large number of classic television series, including The A-Team, Arrested Development and Miami Vice. Now that is good TV!

YouTube Launches Video Piracy Identification Software

Published on October 17, 2007 in Google, YouTube, claim your content and video piracy. 6 Comments

claim your contentYouTube introduced “Claim your Content” a few months ago. Here is one more step towards curbing online video piracy. A new software, i.e. the YouTube Video Identification Software put into use at the website is in the Beta version, and will be used by the copyrights holders themselves.

So how soon will Viacom get rid of the pending billion-dollar lawsuit against YouTube for not blocking pirated videos thus far? Who knows, whatever be it, this is not the best alternative.

YouTube needs to find more scalable solutions for such massive problems, and while it might be difficult to check each and every upload, the best thing to do would be to enforce strict laws to punish the offenders with more than just a ban, something like a fine would suffice and for that, the sign-up process could be made a little more serious by including a Credit Card account on check.

Free Web 2.0 Icons

Published on April 27, 2007 in Blog Tools, Feedburner, Icons, RSS, Technorati, Web 2, Web 2.0, YouTube, blog design, delicious, free, graphics, images, web design and web sites. 19 Comments

Web 2.0 Icons

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“Claim Your Content”: Google’s New Filter for YouTube

Published on April 16, 2007 in Blogosphere, Google, Google Inc., Microsoft, Web 2, Web 2.0, Web technology, YouTube, claim your content, copyrights, doubleclick, eric schmidt, ethics, fair competition, filter, media and online videos. 0 Comments

copyrightsGoogle CEO, Eric Schmidt assures a new system called “Claim Your Content” which will automatically identify copyright material in an attempt to decrease the “massive intentional copyright infringement” allegations on the video-sharing site YouTube.

Microsoft recently asserted that Google’s pending acquisition of DoubleClick may be a threat to fair competition and Schmidt did not lose any opportunity to ridicule Microsoft and alleged that Microsoft made arguments only because it’s a competitor.

Are the ethical arguments by Microsoft made against Google justified or merely a fear of competition? Big or small, competition can be brutal.