Google is responding to the devastation (as worse as Tsumani) in Myanmar caused by Cyclone Nargis with an outpouring of support to Unicef and Direct Relief International for raising donations. Your donation will help survivors and other disaster victims rebuild their communities and their lives. In addition, when you donate on this page, Google donates too. They’ll donate up to $1 million to help organizations provide relief.

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The conquest of the desktop network ended once Google passed 50 percent of the search market. To grow, they need to roll into broader lands beyond their empire.

Firms that measure Internet traffic agree: these days, Google owns two-thirds of the US search market. Yahoo sits in a distant second place spot, with Microsoft and the rest of the search world trailing far behind.

The struggle for search supremacy probably ended once Google scaled to reach peak performance for queries, however many years ago that happened. Google is a verb, much to the dismay of the search advertising company’s marketers and brand experts.

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Orkut, the social networking community site owned by Google, has rolled out OpenSocial applications to its users in India and will continue to expand geographically over the next few weeks. The OpenSocial API, on which Orkut’s platform is based, was launched by Google last year.

Apps are integrated directly into your orkut experience. When you log into your profile, you will be able to add up to 25 apps to your orkut profile. Your friends will see all the apps you’ve added, be able to interact with them, and can add any apps they like to their own profiles.

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Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the market and technology leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Google [Nasdaq: GOOG] today expanded their global strategic alliance to make it easy for companies of all sizes to run their business in the cloud with Salesforce for Google Apps. The combination of the Google Apps™ suite of productivity applications and the Salesforce suite of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications enables businesses to effectively communicate and collaborate without any hardware or software to download, install or maintain. Salesforce for Google Apps also leverages the Force.com Platform and Google’s open APIs, opening up even more development opportunities for developers and partners.

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Google Grants provides free Google AdWords advertising to select charitable organizations. The program is designed to help organizations extend their public service messages to a global audience in an effort to make a greater impact on the world. Recipients of a Google Grant award receive at least 3 months of free advertising through Google AdWords, with a cap of $10,000 per month.

Designed for 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations, Google Grants is a unique in-kind advertising program. It harnesses the power of our flagship advertising product, Google AdWords, to non-profits seeking to inform and engage their constituents online. Google Grants has awarded AdWords advertising to hundreds of non-profit groups whose missions range from animal welfare to literacy, from supporting homeless children to promoting HIV education.

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Is it just me or has Google gone into overdrive? As a professional full-time online marketer I have to keep my mind firmly placed on what Google is doing. As much as I try not to because Google has probably driven more people around the bend than Chrysler and Mercedes-Benz put together.

Like any professional marketer, I monitor my numerous keywords on a daily basis - especially my major targeted keyword phrases that bring in the most sales and subscribers. For years now, I have had top rankings in Google for my chosen phrases; they move up and down, but mostly they don’t leave the first page.

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What is Universal Search and Why Should You Care?Universal Search combines all the information within its Vertical engines/databases into one index to serve a single set of SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages).

An example of Vertical engines/databases are Google News, Google Video, Google Images etc.

What this means is when you go to Google.com, (their most highly trafficked domain) and do a search, rather than just getting websites from their main index, you will also get results from the News, Images, Video, etc databases as well. It is a more comprehensive results page. Read More »

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Dr. Craig Nevill-Manning is a New Zealander who joined Google in 2000 as a Senior Research Scientist to develop more precise search techniques. Previously, Craig was an assistant professor at the Computer Science Department of Rutgers University, where he conducted research in data compression, information retrieval and computational biology. Before that, he was a post-doctoral fellow in the Biochemistry Department of Stanford University, where he developed a software suite used by pharmaceutical research laboratories to identify the role of particular proteins within cells.

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As complex as Google’s PageRank may be, search experts at Yahoo seem to think it’s not complex enough. Based on patent filings, Yahoo is dabbling in ranking algorithms that incorporate more user behavior data in advance of the company’s next run at toppling Google’s haloed relevance.

Seeing will be believing when it happens, of course, as Google is highly secretive about how its search engine calculates PageRank. If history is any indication, they’re already way ahead on behavioral factoring.

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The DataPortability Workgroup (Share and remix data using open standards) has announced that representatives from Facebook, Google and Plaxo have signed on as its members. The group, spearheaded by Chris Saad of start-up Faraday Media, is an alliance of Web thinkers devoted to “(putting) all existing technologies and initiatives in context to create a reference design for end-to-end data portability.”

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