http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2009/tc20090728_826397.htm

That’s one search giant down. Bing, with the combined searches of Yahoo would approach 30%:

Yahoo will essentially scrap its own efforts to best Google in search and instead rely on Microsoft’s recently debuted Bing search engine, according to reports in The Wall Street Journal and the BoomTown blog. Ads placed next to those search results would be served up not by Yahoo’s ad platform, dubbed Panama, but by a Microsoft technology called AdCenter, says another report from Advertising Age. Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz “is essentially giving up on search,” says Danny Sullivan, editor of Search Engine Land.

Yahoo salespeople likely will continue to sell the search ads that appear both on Yahoo sites and on Bing. And the company that sells an ad—in this case, Yahoo—may get as much as 80% of the resulting revenue.

It’s unfortunate with one less player in the search market although I am partly guilty of it since I kinda pro-Google.

Find out about recursion here: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=recursion

It’s finally gone. It’s been long time since Google Calendar has a significant update. I love to see a cosmetic change and clearer calendar collaboration options.

• http://ridz.sg/blog/2450/post-google-hackathon-09/
• http://apacdeveloper.blogspot.com/2009/07/hello-se-asia.html
• http://www.e27.sg/2009/06/21/google-hackathon-singapore-2009-a-wrapup/

But the PHP community reacts against those tips in Google Groups.

Still, both articles are good read. Codexon also wrote regarding Google’s odd optimization techniques.

Announcing AdSense for Mobile

AdSense for Mobile Applications allows developers to earn revenue by displaying text and image ads in their iPhone and Android applications.

From: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/announcing-adsense-for-mobile.html

It’s amazing how long it takes for one of the Internet giants to go into this space. Since the introduction of AppStore more than a year ago, neither Yahoo!, Microsoft or Google expressed any interests in mobile advertising and the space has largely been dominated by other independent advertising providers whom only came about after the launch of AppStore.

Browsing the web should be as fast as turning the pages of a magazine to enable the next generation of rich web applications. Learn more about why the web can and should get faster by Googlers Bill Coughran, Vic Gundotra, Steve Souders, Dennis Hwang and Arvind Jain. Visit code.google.com/speed to find more information about what you can do to speed up the web.

Visit Google blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/lets-make-web-faster.html

Let’s make the web faster

Pamela Fox (from Google) describes more here: http://googlewavedev.blogspot.com/2009/06/1-wave-sandbox-5-hours-17-awesome-demos.html

Everyone’s getting hopeful and excited?