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Google Vs Airline, Who’ll Win?

In any business world, there are always many competition, whether it is fair or unfair. American Airlines has sued Google because they claimed that Google has break their trademark policy and give profits to its rivals.

However, this case was finally closed and both sides agree to pay each legal cost. While there was no winner in this contest, we can still say that Google has ‘won’ the case because they don’t have to pay any cent.The spoke person of both sides claimed that this issue has been dealt successfully and both were satisfied with the result.

In this case, American Airlines filed a legal suit against Google because of the appearance of American Airlines rival’s site when someone search for keyword AAdvantage in Google. Read More …

We Now Have One Trillion Websites. Amazing!!!

The growth of websites in the internet always raising sharply. By Google calculation, the amount of websites in the internet at the moment has reached 1 trillion websites.

Google track the websites according to URL which is there on each webpage. However, according to Google’s software engineer, Jesse Alpert and Nissan Hajaj - via their company’s blog, that figure is only for unique URL, not the real webpages. “The amount of websites is huge out there. Just the sample, on the web calendar there is ‘next day’ link, if we follow the link, it always has another new webpage,” says Alpert as quoted from Vnunet Read More …

Nazi Emblem Has Made Google Appologize

The official emblem of the Nazi party, is still a controversial topic until now to some people. Because of that, it is a bit surprising when not so long ago, Swastika symbol is on top of Google Hot Trends list in USA for a couple hours before then disappears.

This thing was mysterious why Swastika can be on the top of the chart? Google even had to apologize about this matter. As quoted from LATimes, they also realize that the symbol is still very sensitive for particular people.

Internet users around the world was shocked when they know that the most searched item in Google was Swastika symbol. Usually, what are listed in the list are something about what recently happen and being hot topics. A lot of theories are coming about the appearance of the symbol in USA Google Hot Trends. Google itself has already doing some analysis about it.

The Google spokeperson claimed that an HTML code of Swastika was being posted in a popular bulletin board, which made the search about Swastika jumped up then showed up in the top list of Hot Trends.

US$152 million Budget, Europe Ready To Beat US in the Internet

Since Google, a search engine in the Internet is so dominant; many other parties are trying to beat Google. These days Uni Europe via Europe Commission, agrees to give budget of US$ 152 million in France. This budget is used to help the mission of ‘Quaero’, a search engine, to beat Google.

The ‘Quaero’ project or in Latin means ‘I am looking’, involves 23 companies with the technology company leader from France, Thomson. However since limited on the budget, this project didn’t grow. The reason is in their first five years, they need more than 199 million Euro. France was only able to give half of the total expense.

Europe Commission party says that after doing an analysis thoroughly, ‘Quaero’ project will bring a lot of benefits to the people. Thus, they are willing to give helps. This ambitious ‘Quaero’ project started in 2005. The France President at that time was Jacques Chirac, came with the idea to beat Google supreme. As quoted from AFP, France at first worked together with the German in this ‘Quaero’ project. However, German then separate themselves and make their own search engine named ‘Theseus’

What Is The Most Expensive Brand In The World?

Google internet search engine has again reach a very good achievement. This time, Google has been named as the top brand in the world with highest value. According to Millward Brown research analysis bureau, Google brand has a very high value, which is USD 86.1 billion.

Millward Brown has just published a list of the highest brands in the world for 2008 in a topic called “Brandz Top 100 Most Powerful Brands”. They did a survey on 50,000 companies and consumers around the world to rank them in the list while still considering the companies and consumers’ financial conditions as well as customer satisfaction.

In the information and technology world, Microsoft has ranked third beside Google with brand valued at USD 70.8 billion. Next is the computer vendor IBM ranked 6th and Apple sits in 7th position.

However, Apple should not be down hearted placed below its competitors, because recently, Apple has been named as “The Most Influential Brand In The World” in other survey.

How Open Source Has Changed Microsoft

Even though Google is considered as one of very competitive threats for Microsoft, but the bigger scary thing that face Microsoft today is open source. This is at least what Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie said at the Sanford C. Bernstein Strategic Decisions conference in New York. According to Ozzie, Google is a strong competitor, but the main threat for Microsoft business model is the open source. Open source programmers have greater power in software market nowadays.

So, why is open source considered as bigger threat for Microsoft? There are two reasons said Ozzie, first is that open source has strong foundation to face Microsoft. Google, Facebook, Yahoo are among open source’s ‘children’, and they are Microsoft competitors too. Second, the presence of open source change consumers perspective about a software value, to become US$0 aka free. Nevertheless, Ozzie said that open source has make Microsoft a stronger company. Want it or not, Microsoft has to change their business model to adapt with open source, such as making compatible softwares with open source products.