According to a study Conducted by Cisco Systems , the internet will grow to 25 BILLION users by 2025 and will produce $3 TRILLION in commerce. The report says that in 1995 there were 16 million Internet users worldwide and today there are about 2 billion. So the internet has grown 100x from 1995 to 2010. So no one should we be surprised that values of domains rose drastically since … [Read more...]
TechCrunch Covers About.Me: Is This a .Tel Killer? & How To Reserve Your UserName Before Its Gone
TechCrunch just covered a great .Me domain that is launching its site soon, About.Me. According to TechCrunch.com, About.me allows users to put up a personal page "that points people to your content around the Internet, allowing you to pull all this information together to build a single online identity." "There’s a lot more to the product on the back end to help users understand how many … [Read more...]
SearchEngineWatch.com: 15% Of All Searches Include The Domain Extension & Not Just .Com’s
A VERY interesting post tonight by Search Engine Watch on people's search patterns and how often people include the domain extension while searching and which extension they include. The author calls it "Navigational Search" when someone goes to a search engine like Google and searches for say Amazon.com rather than just Amazon. "A navigational search is defined as any search phrase that … [Read more...]
Google Instant Doesn’t Like Adult
One of the early observations many have made about Google Instant is that is doesn't seem to like adult terms. Unlike non adult terms that start showing search results as you type as well as offering your suggested search terms, when you type in an "adult" term Google Instant doesn't make suggestions or show results. Try typing in the "f" word , no suggested results or suggested … [Read more...]
Google Launches Live Instant Real Time Search: Google Instant
Yesterday we told you Google might have a big announced today at its event, and now comes the official word that Google is rolling out an Instant live-updating search called Google Instant. The update already went into effect an hour before the announcement. When you do a search from Google's home page the search box says: "Welcome to Google Instant," "Feelings of weightlessness and … [Read more...]
Will Google Make A Huge Announcement Tomorrow On Search?
Tomorrow on Wednesday September 8th, Google will be holding a by invitation only event they are calling; an inside look at the evolution of Google search. Some blogs and sites are claiming that BIG changes maybe announced at the event, even looking for a hint of what is to come on Google's home page today, where a bunch of floating colorful dots whirl around the screen to for the word … [Read more...]
1,000 Busiest Site On The Net Shutting Down: Vox.com: How Much Will The Domain Sell For?
News today that VOX.com will be shutting its door. The site which mixes social networking in with a blog hosting site, like Typepad.com. The site ranked by Alexa as the 1,037 busiest site on the net, gets according to Compete.com over 1.2 Million visitors monthly. According to comScore the site generated 5.7 million unique visitors a month. Yet it appearently didn't produce enough … [Read more...]