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Google recently launched its UK-based collection of statistics from various range of topics. Named as Google Internet Stats, it brings together all the information and latest facts all in one place. This service came from different third party vendors and they’re also opening the service to all interested contributors.

A wide range of data providers offered their services to Google Internet Stats such as B2Bonline.com, Comscore, Financial Times, Forrester, Google Insights for Research, Hitwise, JP Morgan, Media & Marketing, Motorola, New York Magazine, Nielsen, QuickPlay Media Inc., Reuters, Times Online, TNS, Wall Street Journal, and YouTube among others.

The range of topics are divided into several categories including Consumer Trends, Community, Entertainment, Information, eCommerce, Macro Economic Trends, Rest of the World, UK Media Consumption, Changes in Media Usage, Demographic Usage, Media Consumption Stats, Media Multi-tasking, Personalized Media Experiences, All Media, Online Technology, Broadband, Devices, Mobile and Speed.

Though the service is under the globally known Google, this new service will only be available to UK and that there are no current plans of releasing this tool worldwide.

It’s still a question and part of long discussions whether the domains directly affects SEO or search rankings. But in a recent discussion with Google, nobody says yes, but nobody mentioned a no either. 

Domain registration is a factor to know your website easily. That will help your readers easily search for your site by just typing the name of your site in the URL address. But in terms of web ranking, does it really helps? 

For the record, there’s no search engine that confirmed that they are using the length of registration in domains as a factoring in scoring. It means, as of now, all the scoring are just based on content posts and traffic it gets. 

Trying to think deeper for this scenario, for websites that are popular in its category, length of registration doesn’t matter. Because people already know their sites and could easily browse for it. But for non-popular sites that are struggling to get higher rankings, the domain registration’s length is important in order for the search engines to crawl for it, and have it added on their data banks.

Google, despite its frosty relationship with the newspapers, proposed a micropayment system giving the latter’s industry a chance to charge for their online content. The system is ased on Google Checkout which will be available within a year to Google and non-Google services. 

With this proposal which was submitted to the Newspaper Association of America, Google is giving the newspaper industry a scalable e-commerce system through their Checkout product.  

Google’s proposal includes the following five key features: single sign-on capability, ability for publishers to combine subscriptions, ability to for publishers to create multiple payment options, multiple tiers of access to search, and an advertising system. 
Hopefully, this proposal will make both sides – Google and the newspaper industry – take advantage with their partnership.

Many of you have written asking us if we have seen the change with the Google preferences and whether we know or not what happened.

Yes, we have figured out what happened so we will answer the question for anyone who is still trying to figure it out.

On the Google search page or home page, there was a link called “preferences” in between “advanced search” and “language tools”. It has been removed but not deleted. Really, it has just been renamed and repositioned.

You may now find the preferences under “search settings” in the very top right of the page. In between “igoogle” and “login”.

Hope that helps!

On its quest to provide a more reliable traffic update thru its own service – Google Map, Google recently announce that they are using location-enabled mobile phones to access real-time traffic data.

Using Google Map’s My Location, users send anonymous data thru their GPS-enabled phones to Google describing their speed in moving in a given area. By combining these bits of data with others, Google provide these information back to users to inform the updated traffic layers.

In this way, Google needs user’s cooperation to get accurate data though it didn’t require much effort. Google said that users will just have to turn on their Google Maps before driving and as more people participate on this data transmission, a more accurate traffic report will result.

One catch on this is the users privacy. With this, Google assured that all information sent to Google thru this process will remain anonymous and will permanently delete the data once captured for traffic update purposes.

Also, Google said that this service will be available not only to iPhone and iPod Touch users but also to other smartphone platforms.

Do you handle a site in Lithuanian, Latvian or Ukrainian? Then you should rejoice because you can now have Adsense into your sites. If you have not applied for an account, now would be the right time. Get those blogs up and get the content rolling and get your Adsense account now.

To do this, simply visit Adsense at adsense.google.com and apply for an account. When approved all you need to do is generate an ad code and place it on your site and Adsense will immediately populate it with relevant ads. Adsense is one of the greatest ways to monetize a site and it is working for both beginners and experts.

The complaint on misleading ads has always existed. Some ads are formatted in such a way that it will provide real information only to find out that it leads to a useless website. This happens when the titles and descriptions of ads are misleading and the owner of the website advertised is merely concerned about hits.

With this concern, a member of Webmasterworld thought about having information show up as a person hovers over the text link. This will give the person enough time to think if the site is really worth the visit.

My problem with that is that advertising is meant to lure or bait people. Not in a bad way, but the idea is to create interest and then have people take a look. Words are formatted in such a way as to encourage interest. If more information about the site is going to be shown in the mouse over, it will only be formatted in such a way as to reinforce the original ad. So it is a pretty useless idea if you will ask me.

As Bing has been developing some new ways to capture the audience, Google will not be left behind. They are also working in their rooms to create new applications that will capture their market. One such application is Google Wave.

In this age, multitasking has been second nature to us. In fact, having all things in one secure place is better than having them in multiple areas. This is what Google Wave will do. They will integrate all the important communication and documents in one place.

When I saw the preview, it reminds me a lot of Google apps. It is like creating a place in your browser where everything is integrated. But Google Wave is so much more. It can let people communicate and work together while sharing important texts, photos, videos and more.

The goal of Google wave is common workspace. Online jobs are normal nowadays and projects must be collaborated on an online setting. Google wave does just that. But this does not mean that you should also be online for the wave can rewind back so you can see what has happened. Like Google Docs, editing is done in real time so participants can easily communicate and tell the others what they think. It is a very convenient tools for different types of projects.