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Even in Microsoft’s backyard, Google still reigns as the top search engine. The Seattle Press-Intelligencer reports that recent findings by ad network Chitka suggest, as they found that Google represents 79 percent of all search engine usage in Redmond, Washington, home to the corporate headquarters of Microsoft. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s Bing search engine accounted for 16 percent of all search engine usage – almost four times more than the national average but still far below that of Google.
Google today announced Google TV, a new experience for television that combines TV and the web. Users can access all of their favorite websites and easily move between television and the web, opening up the TV to millions of channels of entertainment.
Steve Jobs wants to save us from Adobe Flash, our PC’s and Now Porn
Steve Jobs has gone crazy. Taking the bait on a late-night e-mail from Valleywag Editor Ryan Tate, Jobs defended Apple’s App Store for offering “freedom from porn,” among other things.
One of the hottest trends on the Internet is quitting Facebook. That’s the conclusion reached by InformationWeek after analyzing Google query results relating to the popular social networking site. It appears that a growing number of people are interested in learning how to get off of the site.
According to the InformationWeek article, the phrase “how to quit Facebook” had 16.9 million results as of Tuesday morning while the similar phrase “how do I delete my Facebook account” generated an additional 15.9 million links. While it’s impossible to tell exactly why the spike in interest in learning about deleting Facebook accounts has gone up, recent concerns about Facebook’s privacy policies is a likely cause of at least some of the issues.
Facebook users can either deactivate their account (which removes them from any friend’s lists or groups but lets them become active and start using the account at any time) or delete it entirely. Several high-profile tech names like Matt Cutts of Google and Engadget/Gizmodo founder Peter Rojas have publicly decided to leave Facebook in recent weeks, with Rojas citing the amount of time spent managing privacy settings as a key factor.
In an interview with CNET on Monday, Google Enterprise President Dave Girouard encouraged businesses to consider switching to Google Docs rather than purchasing an upgrade to Microsoft Office 2010 when it is released on Wednesday. According to Girouard, Microsoft is lagging in its cloud computing abilities, something that Google sees as a critical element in future business communication.
“We’re really creating a platform (where) everybody really can contribute to the Web, whether that means in the confines of a company or as a consumer to their family,” Girouard said. “I think that pretty core to all of our apps-related services is (allowing) everybody to contribute and work together to create content. The essence of our platform, and I think of cloud computing in general, is about people working together as opposed to an individual being productive on their own.”
Girouard also said that many customers are finding that Google Docs serves as an excellent collaborative tool for people already using older versions of Microsoft Office.
“They already own (Microsoft) Office. They don’t feel the need to de-install it,” he said. “They may actually be taking it off some desktops in the interest of slimming down and simplicity. Most people find, and they maybe perhaps don’t expect it at first, that Google Docs works quite well with Office and in fact it makes Office better. If you think about the world moving into this cloud computing era, it may well be a very good transitional strategy on some of your desktops or all of your desktops and then have the ability to use a cloud-based application at the same time.”
