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Published: Mon, 28 July 2008, 15:04, also tagged: technology, news, development, internet, statistics, graphs, speeple, speeple news, historical data
A graph is now displayed for certain searches which are grouped by day or month. The graphs display the activity over a time period of 100 days or 100 months.
The Speeple News graphs help outline when keywords were popular in the index, normally by showing a spike. This is most visible during sporting and seasonal events along with major world issues.
Published: Mon, 14 July 2008, 07:16, also tagged: technology, internet, google, search engines, statistics, google trends, swastika, 卐, ǝlƃooƃ, ǝlƃooƃ noʎ ʞɔnɟ
Manipulation of the Google Trends query rankings seems easy as pie. On the 13th of July Google Trends top ten search terms included “ǝlƃooƃ noʎ ʞɔnɟ”. This is shortly after the swastika making an appearance.
Google states that a single post on a large forum community (4Chan) was the cause of the “卐” appearance:
Published: Thu, 10 July 2008, 14:37, also tagged: internet, google, statistics, hindu, nazi germany, google trends, swastika, 卐
Many blogs and news sources are reporting the swastika symbol was a top search term on Google Trends for a brief period. Google seem to have rectified the issue with the swastika no longer in the top searches list.
The swastika 卐 has innocent meanings as a Hindu symbol and negative connotations via the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany and the adoption of the symbol to represent Nazism.
The appearance of the swastika in the top searches list in my opinion appears to be spam via some kind of sophisticated manipulation. I’m not sure Google will issue information regarding its appearance, but nevertheless it’s very strange. The fact that a search for “卐” now produces:
Published: Wed, 18 June 2008, 14:55, also tagged: technology, news, development, internet, speeple, speeple news
The news service provided by Speeple has been indexing content for over a year and half now and in this post I will outline some basic statistics.
News in 50+ languages, top 5 languages:
The news crawler retrieves 8000+ news items per hour, taking 0.5 hours to process the full feed list.
Published: Sat, 14 June 2008, 06:04, also tagged: business, technology, msft, internet, microsoft, google, yahoo, advertising, goog, money, finance, yhoo
Negotiations between Microsoft and Yahoo! are now finally over and now Yahoo! has stepping into bed with Google in an advertising partnership.
Not only did Yahoo! sabotage the original Microsoft acquisition bid (by creating an unattractive severance plan for staff and being suggestive of an advertising deal with Google) they also turned down a new deal that would see Microsoft purchasing $8 Billion of Yahoo! stock at $35 per share and purchase Yahoo!’s search and advertising businesses for $1 Billion with partnership with Yahoo! which would see them see improved returns on advertising supplied by Microsoft.
The original bid by Microsoft was very generous, the last one, not so much.