Facebook Christmas Day Traffic Beats Google
It seemed likely and will take many by surprise, but over the Christmas period it’s always going to be inevitable that a social networking website will be just as popular as a search engine. And so it proved, on Christmas Day Facebook traffic surpassed that of the mighty Google Inc. It wasn’t just by a few thousand either, Facebook ended up with 10.5% of all Internet traffic, which is a pretty unbelievable figure considering the platform is only 7 years old. 9.77% of browsers used Google’ search facility. Putting things in perspective however, Google own’s YouTube which appeared in the top 5 as well.
Google Chooses Babylon (for localization)
Babylon has been selected as a localization partner by Google. The translation and language solution company started in 1997, and is a World leader in its field. The work being allocated i based around advertising, covering Adwords and Adsense. The project they are working on is called the Google Translator Toolkit. Babylon provide services to over 80 million computer (via downloaded applications) Worldwide.
Logitech / Google TV Delay
After asking Toshiba, LG and Sharp to postpone presentations of the new Google TV, the US based search giant has yet to announce reasons why Logitech has now stopped production of the Revue altogether. Some are signalling that there is either a sales problem or a software issue that needs addressing. The company who is responsible for building the TV’s, Gigabyte, has now ceased all production.
