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 We’ve gotten a few “tips” that YouTube has actually grown larger than Google in terms of page views according to Alexa.

This is, of course, complete fiction. And it shows just how useless Alexa has become as a method for measuring web traffic and reach. Comscore tells a much different (and more accurate) story - Google is nearing 100 billion monthly page views; YouTube sees around 16 billion.

Even newcomer Compete, which measures traffic in a similar way as Alexa, seems to be getting it right. Alexa needs an overhaul. It’s long since become less than useful.

[Alexa Says YouTube Is Now Bigger Than Google. Alexa Is Useless]

Via Seobook.com 

Google recently announced they are offering an ad free search service to small businesses for as little as $100 a year. They are also rumored to be working on creating a mobile search offering to search for ringtones, cell phone games, and other high margin cell phone services:

[Read:Google Ringtone Search Beta… the Utility of Search & the Value of Relationships vs Data : SEO Book.com]

The Bakers over at Google have changed their cookie recipe to shorten its life span to 2 years.
In regards to the heated pressure that Google has received concerning user privacy they have announced that their PREF cookie will now have a much shorter life span. The full story can be found here at the Official Google Blog.

In the coming months, Google will start issuing our users cookies that
will be set to auto-expire after 2 years, while auto-renewing the
cookies of active users during this time period. In other words, users
who do not return to Google will have their cookies auto-expire after 2
years. Regular Google users will have their cookies auto-renew, so that
their preferences are not lost. And, as always, all users will still be
able to control their cookies at any time via their browsers.

But with more than half of internet searches done through Google it doesn’t seem like 2 years would be short enough for the cookie to expire before auto-renewed. Tricky Google… very tricky.

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Google has just add a nifty new feature to there 1-800-GOOG-411. For those of you who don’t know what this number is it’s a free directory line hosted by Google that’s completely voice automated. In addition to the great feature of it being absolutely FREE Google gives users the ability to receive a text message with details and a link to a map of the results just by saying the magic words “Map it.” Amazing! Check out the full scoop at the Official Google Blog.

The fine folks at Google have just announced the ability to find dictionary translations for words depending on the context. Now I can finally fulfill my dreams of cussing someone out in another language thanks Google. I wonder how you say domination in Italian. Check out the full details here at the official Google blog.

Google’s at it again. Add one more fish to the belly of the beast known as Google. According to the Official Google Blog Google has acquired yet another company and its intellectual properties: Zenter an online slide presentations software company.

You’ve heard us talk a lot about using the web to improve group collaboration and information sharing. These days, when you create a document — whether it’s a text document, a spreadsheet, or a presentation — you usually want to share it, collect feedback, or communicate about it in some way. We on the Google Docs & Spreadsheets team focus on making this experience easier and more powerful for you. In particular, we’re working to add presentation-sharing capabilities to Google Docs & Spreadsheets, and we’re excited about the addition of Zenter’s technology and team to that effort.

Youtube crosses the cultural boundaries and will soon come in nine different flavors. With increasing demand for multilingual and multicultural videos Google has announced that Youtube will now have nine new domains in Brazil, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Ireland and the UK. You can read the entire story at the Official Google Blog.

In response to many requests, each new site is fully translated and localized for each country including content (Featured Videos, Director Videos, Promotions), as well as the interfaces, search, user support, and such community features as video ratings, sharing, and content flagging. And these new localized versions are built using Google
search technology, so you can quickly find more of what you want to see. Perhaps best of all, you can continue to use youtube.com, or move to one of these localized sites — and switch seamlessly between the two. Happy creating, viewing and sharing!

Oh I’m so excited now I can watch people from around the world act stupid… and think of the foreign girls. Thank you Google for being so damn good.

Say goodbye to your old SEO tricks and make way for the new more rounded SEO tactics. With the advent of Google’s Universal Search and the recent launch of Ask3D text heavy SEO tactics may take backseat to digital asset optimization. SEO may have to broaden its perspective to encompass the new larger horizons brought about by multichannel search results. Lee Odden of toprankblog.com offers his full take on the SEO overhaul.

Both Google’s Universal Search and the new Ask3D interface that show users more information from more sources (news, images, products, video, etc) in the first page of results illustrates the need to consider more media types than standard text documents. There are already quite a few opinions on what effect such a combination of data sources presented within first page search results will have on the future of SEO. Google offers some advice here.

The smarty pants over at Google launched an interesting new feature to customize Custom Search Engines. By adding a small amount of code to your page you can now have a Custom Search Engine powered by Google that searches all the sites that link to your page for your specified query. You can read the full story at Googlecustomsearch.blogspot.com.

You can now create a CSE by simply placing a small piece of tailored code on a page on your site. With
that one piece of code, Google’s search technology will automatically include in your new CSE all of the sites you have linked to from that page, creating a dynamic, powerful and tailored search experience really quickly. Moreover, your new CSE will update itself periodically to include any new links added to that page.

Oh Google you make it so easy for people to love you.

What’s better than the leading computer manufacturing companies coming together to make an energy efficient PC desktop that could help reduce entropy and possibly slow global warming? 20+ leading computer manufacturers and one Google combining forces to form the Climate Savers Computing Initiative. That’s right Google dawns the superhero cape and tights to help save the world, one search query at a time. The Official Google Blog has the full details of their most recent altruistic efforts.

Last fall we talked about our work on efficient power supplies in the capable hands of Ben Jai, Ken Krieger and the rest of our power supply team. Since then, we’ve become involved in several projects focused on environmental stewardship. Today, for example, together with Intel, Dell, EDS, the EPA, HP, IBM, Lenovo, Microsoft, the World Wildlife Fund, and more than 20 other companies, we announced the Climate Savers Computing Initiative. After working on this initiative over the last few months, we’re delighted to join with so many organizations to form this new group. In particular this project should speak to every business with computers.

Looks like Google’s one step away from actually embedding itself into your PC desktop. I guess that’s one way of surpassing their most recent privacy issues.