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Google becomes the single largest contributor tot he new online digital library that the U.S. Library of Congress is putting on. Google donated $3 million to help fund the project of scanning in more and more documents. Google actually is not only the single largest contributor, they are the first business to contribute towards the concept of the new ‘digital library’ that was started about five months ago. The “World Digital Library” is backed by roughly $50 million in privately and publicly donated funds that will help with the process of scanning in these documents.

“Much of this will be one-of-a-kind material that you won’t be able to find anywhere else,” Billington said during a Monday interview. “Getting the material out there (online) is really important. “We have already preserved a lot of material that might have perished in other hands.”

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Google and CBS have been talking about doing a joint venture together about broadcasting video over the web. CBS was looking for an online media to be provided and Google felt it has the resources to do so. Yahoo! also has a hand in this meeting about being able to provide online content for the TV network. CBS is looking for a provider of TV shows and other like footage to simply be available on the Internet. They want to be available and searchable so people can easily find what they are looking for in a timely manner.

So what does this mean for the rest of the community? It means that advertising could be cut down and that TV could possibly be making its way out the door. They might throw in advertising to the online content that they want to make available, but it’s very early to be able to say for sure which direction they are going in. CBS is not the only company that is wanting to go this route; but Viacom, NBC Universal and Disney have all taken a stance on this online content. A lot of this has to do with the recent showcase of Apple’s online content of TV episodes for their iPod Video.

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Google is in the beta phases of their latest marketing products, Pay-per-Call. The marketing product simply lets advertisers add their phone number to the ads and Google helps make the connection between the consumer and the advertiser.

The telephone numbers are not shared with advertisers or anyone else, and are kept on Google servers for no longer than four months after the last time a person uses the service, the Mountain View, Calif., company said. Numbers are deleted permanently after that time.
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Google seems to think that this marketing strategy will take off and it may as well might, we will see how interested in the consumers are about talking to the advertiser directly rather than just viewing their website. It could have endless possibilities, it’s just the matter of it taking off or not.

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As reading over another recently published article about Riya, a recently alpha-released photo sharing company, Google’s name came up again. RedHerring.com talks about the competitive advantage of Google purchasing Riya as a web service to be offered among the other dozens of services already being offered.

The problem is: Will the quality be up to what Google users are used to?
-Gary Stein,
JupiterResearch

Riya.com’s acquisition by Google would help move Google back into the race of community against Yahoo!, whom acquired Flickr.com in March 2005. The community of Google eagerly looks forward to what the move will be and see whether or not the purchase becomes finalized. All we can do is sit back, wait, and maybe ask some more questions to find out more.

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According to NYTimes.com, Froogle is now integrating into Google Base to help localize shopping for its users. The Froogle and Base service will use a third-party database extension of national product inventory that is organized by locality.

Additionally, local merchants will be able to send Google product information that will be searchable from Froogle. For example, if users type “iPod Nano New York,” they will see map information with the locations of stores that have the iPod Nano in stock.

This means that Froogle will be offering a localized shopping experience for users and will be able to offer more extensive product listings. This will help generate more traffic for the less-active stores and/or help generate more revenue for everyone, including Google. The integration of Google Base and Google Froogle will be a good merge between the two application levels. This is a good move. Google is staying innovation, just the way they need to in order to stay on top.

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If anyone has been watching Google stock over the past year, you have seen quite a bit of change. Quite a bit of growth, quite a bit of diversity, and quite of bit of surprising rise.

Looking at the graph, we can tell that Google has been one of the fastest growing companies in possibly all of our history. Above is a graph of the 1 year period starting in Jan. 2005. If you look at the graph of 2 year period, you will see that as of September 2004, it has quadrupled in valued. The stock went from a little below $100 per share to what it is today, over $400 per share. It currently is at $409.36 per share. In all of our history, I do not believe we have ever seen a stock grow this quickly and this faithfully. Google has proven themselves through their actions, products, and services that they are here to stay and are not giving up. Google has shown that they are willing to compete and easily can with the resources they have. Being the fastest growing Search company on the Internet, Google has been able to provide invaluable services such as GMail, Froogle, Suggest, Images, News, Analytics (new!), AdSense, AdWords, Print (new!), and in the near future I am sure they will release new products and services. Google recently, back in September 2005, ended the ‘Google Summer of Code’, which was a large sponsorship for Open Source projects to help push them ahead of schedule.
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Rumors have been going around that Google may opens it’s doors to a local community in North Carolina; specifically Research Triangle Park (RTP), NC. With recent openings of offices in Arizona and Michigan, it would not be such a surprise. There has been a concentration of tech type jobs in the area of North Carolina and Google may see this as an opportunity to expand. It is rumored that Google may simply buy our a local company so that they would not have to moved current employees or look to hire a new staff altogether. We will stay updated with the latest news on whether or not they do eventually open up an office in North Carolina.

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As I had experienced and seen, the ‘Add Profile’ link under the account management for Google Analytics was disabled. The New Sign-Up link was also removed and disabled because Google went from tracking zero to over 500,000 sites in just the matter of one week.

SearchEngineWatch.com reports the very same thing that I had experienced.

Google Analytics stops at 234,725 accounts

One can’t expect much less…or could we? Google is by far the largest, in my opinion, web service provider and search application out there right now. Google should have expected this influx of users and anticipated the amount of users that would want this service.

Here is an e-mail I recently received from them directly:

Thank you for your email. Google Analytics has experienced extremely strong demand. As a result, we have temporarily limited the ability to add new profiles. You will continue to be able to log in and view your reports. You’ll also be able to view reports within AdWords and import your cost data, if applicable. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

For additional questions, please visit the Analytics Help Center at http://www.google.com/support/analytics. If you’re unable to find an answer to your question on our site, please feel free to reply to this email.

Strong demand, we’ll see where it goes from here.

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A lot of people have signed up for Google Analytics already, in the first week of being opened to the public. There are still a lot of people that are backing away from the idea and to be honest, I was hesitant at first as well. I personally don’t like trusting third-party websites to host statistics when I can normally just host them myself on my own server and have full control over them. But Google Analytics is something special. It’s a slightly modified version of Urchin, whom Google purchased back in March 2005.

Below you will find some screen shots of the Analytics in case you are wondering what they look like or if you are still wondering if it’s worth it or not.

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According to FinancialExpress.com, Google has been slowly making progress with Google Base. Google Base will simply be the means and methods of hosting offline and online content to all kinds of publishers and users. Base will start out only supporting English as the language of choice, but I’m sure they will branch out to other languages shortly after launching the service. But what makes Base so special? Google Base will have the functionality to enable users to add specific attributes and custom fields to the content so that the ’searchability’ of the content are much easier to use. Base will be the bottom line for searching through content.

As a thought, Google Base may be able to integrate into Google Print in some sort of fashion so that users could have discussions on books or contribute to other articles. This is just an idea, not a rumor or fact, but a possibility that may happen in the future. But in the end, Google is helping provide a platform for people without a blog, without their own website, and for people that simply may just not be tech savvy enough to handle the ins and outs of the World Wide Web (WWW). Google is helping build the structure needed to bring content globally to everyone and distribute the content that has been needed for years.

Google Base is in the Beta stages of its application and will hopefully be completely launched, final, soon. The fully managed accounts that will be integrated into their ‘Google Accounts’ will be nice to have everything centralized. We, as a community, look forward to the full launch of Google Base and especially look forward to the future and possibilities it brings to our generations.

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