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Swine Flu Spreads Panic Over The Web

(April 26, 2009 TechCrunch)

Earlier today, the U.S. declared a public health emergency over the Swine Flu, after confirming 20 cases of the flu spreading to humans in New York, Ohio, Kansas, Texas and California. More than 80 people have died in Mexico from the disease, which has potentially spread to other countries, including Canada and France. Although Federal officials are urging Americans not to panic about the disease, fear of contracting the potentially deadly flu is quickly spreading over Twitter, Google, and blogs across the web.

The panic concerning the swine flu is occurring on the Web.

I hear that the swine flu is the maximum topic in Twitter.

I hear that the appearance rate of the key word named Swine Flu in the blog article will have increased rapidly moreover.

I hear that the retrieval of the key word named Swine Flu will have increased according to Google Trends and.

I hear that Tamiflu and Relenza are effective for the swine flu according to the news of the television in Japan.

I hope the panic doesn’t extend.

Sources: Google In Late Stage Talks To Acquire Twitter (Updated)

(TechCrunch, April 2, 2009)

Here’s a heck of a rumor that we’ve sourced from two separate people close to the negotiations: Google is in late stage negotiations to acquire Twitter. We don’t know the price but can assume its well, well north of the $250 million valuation that they saw in their recent funding.

Will it be true that Google acquires Twitter?

“Twitter” by the Twitter user might become a marvelous number by this news.

YouTube logo

Originally uploaded by YouTube1Fan

YouTube now auto-translates subtitled vids(November 3, 2008　CNET)　

Over the weekend, YouTube introduced a new feature to help make captioned or subtitled videos more accessible to international users. The new system uses machine translation to convert any of these videos into your language of choice in real time.
To access this feature, users simply need to turn it on from the lower-right corner of the player. From there, they can use a simple drop-down menu to pick which language into which they want the video translated. Unfortunately, YouTube won’t remember a user’s translation choices from one video to the next, but this seems like a feature that could be added down the line.

My ideal is that the subtitles or captions attaches to all videos by the automatic operation.

We will firmly understand more videos from doing so.

将棋アワー “Shogi Hour”

Google Knol

Originally uploaded by ALOPES FERRARI

Google Knol Opens In French, German and Italian(October 30, 2008　TechCrunch)　

Google Knol , which we’ve likened to a monetizable Wikipedia upon launch, has quietly released three international versions today, enabling French , German and Italian speaking experts (or people who like to think they are experts) to contribute so-called ‘units of knowledge’ to the site.

The news of Google Knol was heard after a long time.

I hear that Google Knol will open in France, Germany, and Italy.

It is necessary to gather a lot of specialists all over the world, and to make a lot of articles now so that Google Knol may raise earnings.

It seems to take time still.

T-Mobile G1 Wallpapers

Originally uploaded by romainguy

On Call: Welcoming the G1 (October 21, 2008　TechCrunch)　

The G1’s real appeal lies in its promise of an open-source device that puts control in the hands of users.

Because G1 appeared, the leadership of the mobile phone might shift from the career to user.

More Open, More Hope.

Flower shop on Google Maps

Originally uploaded by Larsz

Google Turns On Text Ads In Google Maps(October 9, 2008　TechCrunch)　

With Google’s stock down $100 in the past two weeks, the company all of a sudden isn’t so shy about pulling every advertising lever it can reach. So far this week, we’ve seen new click-to-buy buttons on YouTube (YouTubevertorials), AdSense for Flash games, and now text ads are appearing at the bottom of Google Maps.

I hear that this advertisement can make it jump to the Web site as well as the search advertisement according to the article.

It seems to be interesting if becoming new advertising that uses the map.

In addition, it introduces how much person uses Google Maps and how much page view arose in this article.

According to comScore, 131 million unique visitors worldwide checked out Google Maps in August. They generated 1.3 billion pageviews.

The advertisement might not have been applied to it though a lot of people were using Google Maps.

Two are thought as timing that Google applied the advertisement to Google Maps.

1. Because stock prices fell.
2. Because Google Map was used by people, and infiltrated well.

What advertising development will Google show in the future?

the google brand

Originally uploaded by gritphilm

Report: Google losing aversion to advertising itself(October 3, 2008　CNET)　

It looks like the word-of-mouth promotional ethos that has prevailed at Google for its first 10 years will be getting some new company: Google advertisements.

Why should Google do the branding strategy?

I don’t understand well.

Up to now, Google is corporate that grows up on the assumption that paid search and online ads is more effective than the traditional form of advertisement.

Why Does the Google rely on the advertisement of the branding strategy and the traditional form of advertisement?

It is an act of depreciating the search synchronization advertisement of Google.

Google should turn back to where the roads forked.

Related article

Does Google Need To Spend More On Traditional Brand Advertising? (October 3, 2008　TechCrunch)　

Still Searching For A Video Business Model, Google Introduces The YouTubevertorial(October 7, 2008　TechCrunch)　

Now it is trying to squeeze more money out of the ads on its homepage and just today it introduced the YouTubevertorial. Starting with music and videogame partners, YouTube will begin inserting click-to-buy links below select videos. Right now, these affiliate links connect to iTunes and Amazon (see them at the bottom of the screenshot above?), but more are coming.

I hear that Google applied the link button for which music and the game can be bought with Amazon and iTunes to the animation of YouTube.

Does this attempt succeed though Google devises the method and the business model　who turns out profit with YouTube?

The key in which this attempt succeeds is whether the growing number of companies participates.

T-Mobile G1 launch event

Originally uploaded by MobileBurn

T-Mobile G1 details, price, and launch date revealed(September 23, 2008 Crave CNET)

T-Mobile and Google just announced the first-ever handset with Google’s new Android operating system. Called the T-Mobile G1, it has both full touch-screen functionality, a QWERTY keyboard, a trackball for one-handed navigation, plus access to mobile Web applications like Google Maps Street View, Gmail, YouTube, and more.

I hear that T-Mobile G1 will offer access to Application store “Android Market”, which is an application store similar to the iTunes App Store.

I am interested in three points.

1. How does Google compete with other mobile phones such as iPhone?
2. Trend of application business in the future.
3. Whether does localize do the mobile phone for Japan and Asia or not?

Google Lego 50th Anniversary Inspiration

Originally uploaded by manfrys

Speaking Of Competition, Google’s Search Market Share Just Went Up Again In August To 63%(September 18, 2008 TechCrunch)

Its share of U.S. search queries rose in August to 63 percent, from 61.9 percent in July.

Google has expanded the share of market further.

Yahoo’s share went down.

Microsoft has not extended the share either.

Does the monopoly of the search field by Google advance?