Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Google Help Center taking shape of a Wiki with help from Knol

google knolWhile researching for video formats recommended by YouTube, I came across this article hosted on the Google help center. Now unlike other support articles on Google.com that are written by staff, this one is written by several contributors

through Knol and not all of them may be employees of Google.

Anyone with a Google Account can edit the support article in Knol and once the edit is approved by an official representative, your change could make it to the Google Help Center.

While I haven’t see more Knol articles outside the YouTube support site, they could be coming as Google says - "Knol is a new platform we’re using in the Help Center so you can update articles and share community-edited information with others."

The growth of Knol may be nowhere as planned but Google’s idea of transforming their support center into a wiki-like structure will will definitely help Knol.

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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Google Help Center taking shape of a Wiki with help from Knol

While researching for video formats recommended by YouTube, I came across this article hosted on the Google help center. Now unlike other support articles on Google.com that are written by staff, this one is written by several contributors through Knol and not all of them may be employees of Google.

Anyone with a Google Account can edit the support article in Knol and once the edit is approved by an official representative, your change could make it to the Google Help Center.

While I haven’t see more Knol articles outside the YouTube support site, they could be coming as Google says - "Knol is a new platform we’re using in the Help Center so you can update articles and share community-edited information with others."

The growth of Knol may be nowhere as planned but Google’s idea of transforming their support center into a wiki-like structure will will definitely help Knol.

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Sunday, December 14, 2008

Sarah Palin is Fastest Rising Search Term on Google

Sarah Palin tops the fastest rising search term in Google Search in 2008. The Google Zeitgeist 2008 is out and provides glimpses from Google searches around the globe.

sarah palinGoogle Zeitgeist looks at the big events, memorable moments and emerging trends that captivated us in 2008. The top 5 fastest rising search terms after Sarah Palin are beijing 2008, facebook login, tuenti, heath ledger. Obama comes on 6th position and Sarah Palin sure beats him here. “Fastest rising” means they looked at the most popular searches conducted for 11 months of 2008 (list is out by early December) and rank them based on how much their frequency increased compared to 2007.

A look at the US zeitgeist reveals Sarah Palin also tops the Google Image Search as Fastest Rising term in U.S. followed by Obama. Google News Fastest Rising Search Term is again Sarah Palin and Obama is not even listed in top 5. But Obama tops the Google.com fastest rising term in US searches.

You can also track the International and regional Zeitgeists to get an insight into what is popular in your country. The India Zeitgeist reveals the fastest rising terms are youtube, orkut, katrina kaif, cricket, and irctc. If you are looking for Top Bollywood Celebrities, Google will tell you Katrina Kaif rules, followed by Aishwarya Rai, Salman Khan, Hrithik Roshan and Kareena Kapoor …

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Most Popular Google Subdomains

Google SubdomainsFollowing is a list of 40 most popular subdomains of google.com in terms of unique visitors. If traffic is any measure of popularity, this chart definitely provides some good hints about the relative popularity of various Google services.

For instance, Google Answers service is no longer active but the archive Q&A’s continue to get more traffic that Google Blogs search and even Google Sites, a wiki like service that will soon replace Google Pages.

Google’s experiment with hosted news seems to be paying off as is evident from the traffic on domains ap.google.com and afp.google.com.

*This data is from Compete for the month of November 2008 and counts only unique visitors.

Top 40 Google Subdomains

Rank Subdomain Description Unique Visitors
1 www.google.com Web Search 126,269,804
2 images.google.com Image Search 43,023,240
3 maps.google.com Google Maps 36,914,680
4 mail.google.com Gmail Google Mail 24,895,354
5 news.google.com Google News 13,356,758
6 video.google.com Google Video 10,204,587
7 books.google.com Google Books 7,927,748
8 clients1.google.com
6,706,051
9 picasaweb.google.com Picasa Web Albums 5,298,616
10 groups.google.com Google Groups 4,635,581
11 suggestqueries.google.com Google Suggest 3,474,637
12 docs.google.com Google Docs 3,350,849
13 translate.google.com Google Translate 2,894,445
14 earth.google.com Google Earth 2,569,757
15 spreadsheets.google.com Google Spreadsheets 2,528,648
16 scholar.google.com Google Scholar 1,959,375
17 ap.google.com Associated Press 1,889,635
18 finance.google.com Google Finance 1,858,152
19 toolbar.google.com Google Toolbar 1,767,647
20 partnerpage.google.com Google Start Page 1,764,685
21 video-stats.video.google.com
1,623,872
22 pack.google.com Google Pack 1,507,250
23 adwords.google.com Google AdWords 1,412,911
24 answers.google.com Google Answers 1,277,980
25 checkout.google.com Google Checkout 1,239,261
26 sites.google.com Google Sites 1,237,010
27 blogsearch.google.com Google Blog Search 1,229,263
28 code.google.com Hosted Code Libraries 1,049,731
29 picasa.google.com Picasa Software 978,392
30 dl.google.com Google Downloads 973,467
31 feedproxy.google.com FeedBurner 959,884
32 desktop.google.com Google Desktop Search 951,090
33 services.google.com
635,560
34 talkgadget.google.com Googel Talk Gadget 506,306
35 fusion.google.com Google IG Subscribe 496,913
36 clients.google.com
470,176
37 gmail.google.com Gmail 443,869
38 l.google.com
431,403
39 afp.google.com Agence France Presse 412,095
40 sketchup.google.com Google Sketchup 411,761

Some of the popular Google properties missing in the list are Blogger.com, Orkut, Google Apps for Domains, Google Reader, Google Calendar, Google AdSense (googlesyndication.com), Google Notebook, Google Analytics, Google Base and YouTube.com since they are not Google subdomains.

Google services that are on subdomains but seem to missing from the top 40 list include Google Knol, Google Directory, Google Labs and Google Local.

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