Facebook Beats Google in Weekly Internet Traffic

For the first time in its young history Facebook has outranked Google in internet traffic for the week ending on Saturday.

Last week, the social networking web site pulled in 7.7% of the US internet market, compared to Google’s 7.03 percent.

The massive social networking site has outranked Google on certain days of the year before, but never over an entire week.

With more than 400 million users, it is easy to see how such a site could outrank Google, but it still sounds weird to hear that a web site other than Google was tops in web traffic.

Last month more than 127 million visitors visited Facebook and with more joining the popular site daily this number will surely increase over time.

Google Continue Pushing for No Censorship in China

Boston (DbTechNo) - Talks between Google and China continue however there are signs that the world’s largest search engine could be preparing to leave the country.

The two have a lot of ground to cover if there is any hope of Google remaining in China, mainly dealing with censorship and hacking issues. Read more

Google Testing Television Search Service With Dish Network

Internet search giant Google is testing a new TV search service in conjunction with Dish Network.

The service would allow users to search using Google’s Android system, for shows on either Dish, or YouTube.

The system would come in the form of a television box attached to one’s television set, and would allow for consumers to create customized program lists.

The service began in beta last year but up until now has only been available to some Googlers and their families.

This move would be great for Google as it would also open the door to local advertising campaigns which consumers would run into while navigating the service.

Google are said to be in talks with other major companies to potentially expand this new fledgling service.

Video Captions for Hearing Impaired Coming to All YouTube Uploads

Google is making it easier for the deaf and hard of hearing to enjoy YouTube by adding automatic captions to videos.

There are millions of videos available to YouTube browsers, with thousands more uploaded on a daily basis.

In a massive experiment, Google will be using state of the art speech recognition software to generate text to display inside each video for the hearing impaired to follow along.

“A core part of YouTube’s DNA is access to content,” said the firm’s product manager Hunter Walk.

Up until now, captions have only been available on a select number of videos, but soon all videos uploaded to YouTube will have the service.

“It is not a complete solution but it is a step on the way to the real solution,” said software engineer Ken Harrenstien.

“It’s difficult to get every word exactly right but sometimes that doesn’t matter and other times it’s amusing.”

Initially the captions will only feature the English language.

Conan O’Brien Following Sarah Killen on Twitter

Former host of the Tonight Show, Conan O’Brien has joined Twitter and is actually following people.

NBC gave him the boot when ratings began to fall, giving the reigns of the show back to Jay Leno. Read more

Google Buys Yet Another Company, DocVerse

Google Inc. have just made a big splash in the purchasing arena, snapping up DocVerse.

DocVerse allows users to combine the power of the internet, with the many different types of Microsoft’ word processing, spreadsheet or presentation programs. Read more

Sony Working on Line of Handheld Electronics

It appears that Sony is planning to develop their own line of handheld devices to challenge Apple.

Apple currently lead the way when it comes to handheld computer devices, but Sony want to bridge the gap. Read more

Men Behind the Mariposa botnet Arrested in Spain

Police in Spain have managed to track down and arrest three men responsible for creating one of the world’s biggest and most successful botnets.

The infamous Mariposa botnet is responsible for infecting more than 13 million computers, and thieving thousands of credit card numbers and other personal data. Read more

Google Continue Investagating China Hackers

Google said on Tuesday that they are still trying to figure out what to do regarding whether or not to pull out of China altogether.

Pulling out of China is still a viable option for the company after a severe hack on the Gmail service was linked back to a Chinese IP address. Read more

Google Buys Photo Editing Web Site Picnik

Internet search engine giant Google have purchased a photo editing site for an undisclosed dollar amount.

Picnik, has been around for the last five years now and according to their web site, they have up to 20 employees. Read more

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