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While that Microsoft-Yahoo business stole the show for a while, Baidu's found its way into the spotlight again. The Chinese search engine…
If you understood the subtitle reference, congratulations, you're old enough to watch porn, and probably run for President. If you didn't get it, you're awfully young and let me explain something before we move on: My understanding is that there are dirty movies on the Internet; I am told dirty movies are also called "porn" and you can't see them on TV or YouTube.
YouTube is dominant enough among video websites that, in order to keep its rivals from getting squished together at the bottom, it had to be removed from a graph showing Australian market shares. Still, MSN Video and CNET TV are doing well under its rule.
Mexico's primary provider of fixed-line phone service, Telmex, is prepared to introduce Internet-based television and is waiting for the government's approval to launch the service.Telmex, controlled by Carlos Slim, one the world's wealthiest men has seen profits and ad revenue decline in the last several quarter's, due to increased competition from cell phone and cable providers.
Despite no ads or any obvious revenue generation, Google News is worth $100 million to Google, according to VP Marissa Mayer. How does zero equal $100 million? As one of Google's many for free peripheral services, enough people sort of ride the Google wave over to the search engine from the News page. In Google's estimation, all that referral traffic is worth a pretty penny.
We've noted time and time again the way in which Wikipedia receives loads of traffic from Google, and to be honest, there's no clear sign that this will change. But Google has gone so far as to launch Knol, a sort of would-be competitor.
