Google sees record $1.6bn profit
Google has reported its highest quarterly profit, suggesting that the internet advertising market is bouncing back from the recession.
Google reported net profit of $1.64bn (£1bn) between July and September, up 27% on the same period a year ago.
"The worst of the recession is clearly behind us," said Google chief executive Eric Schmidt.
US computer giant IBM also reported strong profits of $3.2bn for the period, up 14% on a year earlier.
The company also delivered a more optimistic forecast for full year earnings.
Management said they too were seeing some stabilisation in the overall economic environment.
'New advertising'
Revenue at Google for the three-month period came in at $4.38bn, which was well ahead of analysts' expectations of $4.24bn.
"Because of what we have seen, we now have the confidence to be optimistic about our future," said Mr Schmidt.
Turn Internet Explorer into Google Chrome
As the battle between Google and Microsoft continues to wage, Google have once again pulled another trick out of the bag to undermine Microsoft. This time in the form of an add-on for Internet Explorer.
Users can download and install the plugin into their Internet Explorer installation which essentially hands over the rendering of the page to the WebKit engine underpinning Chrome.
It works on a similar principle to the widely-used IE Tab plug-in for Firefox, which uses Internet Explorer to render pages that are incompatible with the Mozilla browser.
The search giant claims this will lead to improved browser performance for IE users, thanks to a faster JavaScript engine, support for HTML 5 and better CSS handling.
Visitors who turn up to Chrome Frame-tagged sites in other browsers, such as Firefox or Safari, will continue to have the page rendered by the native browser.
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Entrecard – Should you stay ?
Okay well with all of the changes to Entrecard many people are starting to question their futures at Entrecard. I myself am considering leaving the network in the next month or so.
However without leaving instantly I believe their are a number of things which will happen to try and fix the issues which have been discovered by the new owners.
The first thing that I believe will change will be the no received credits for other users clicking. I honestly believe that they will reinstate this system but add a tax to it. PErhaps even a system such as "you must click 50 to recieve your return click points".
I hope that I am right about this and they do sort it as this is causing everyone to loose hundreds of points and is stopping them buying ads at certain prices (higher).
Search Engine – Load Test – Who is the best ?
Okay as promised here is my comparison of Bing and the other leaders of the search engine world. I had hoped to do a top ten search engine comparison but after realising the top 4 had a combined market share of 99% I chose to do just a top 4comparison.
Bellow are the 4 search engines and their market shares as at August 2009.
Google ... 70.29%
Yahoo ... 16.96%
Bing ... 9.44%
Ask ... 2.37%
I have chosen to show the top four so you can really see just how much of a difference there is between rank 1 and 4.
Okay the results of my load test were really what I expected to see. Google being the fastest loader and Yahoo being a much slower loader and coming in last.