Google acquisition strategy is phenomenal. The following graphic is an easy way to track what companies has been bought by Google and how they integrated into Google products.

Via SCORES, research by SCORES.

Picture below illustrates Google’s market share in various countries. Red indicates, in the country Google represent more than 90%, Orange more than 70%, Blue more than 50%, and Grey indicates less than 50% market share. Other than Puerto Rico, Russia, Czech Republic, China, South Korea and Japan, Google have more than 50% market share.

What interesting is the search giant’s share in South Korea, which is only represent 7,30% of search market. Search Engine Land suggest that search engine leader in South Korea is actually Naver. Well, sometimes i feel that everyone in the world are using Google. In fact, no .

This simple but fantastic infography was made by Search Engine Feng Shui. Click on the image to see real size.

This blog ranks #5 in term ‘malau‘

And #5 in term ‘robin‘. Both in Google Indonesia.

Oh, this is cool

This is super brilliant. I am truly amazed to see what people can do with Web Browser and Javascript, and no flash needed. Below is how Browser Talk works. Simply enable your computer’s microphone, then your browser talks.

Detail experiment here, more experiments here.

Found out in my music site that without knowing, YouTube put a f**king awkward search bar at the top of its embeded video player. A very-very-very good reason to move to other video hosting site.

Hell, i’m amazed, that’s embarrassingly awkward!!

Update: Seems like YouTube give some make up. The search bar will only visible if user hover its mouse to the top part of video player. Which is better.…

PortableApps make my life simpler. Now i don’t need to bring my laptop for client presentations. My geeky tools only consist of a 2gb USB stick filled with PA installations to stick to my client’s laptop, a pack of Marlboro, a PDA, my wallet and my scooter ride.

Ha.

Now life only gets better. A Google Chrome also runs on my tiny USB stick. Thanks to this awesome guy – English translation (dude that is fast – when did the new browser launched, yesterday?).

(via Digital Inspiration).

If you ever search through WordPress’ Plugin Repository you’ll know the search suck. It’s easier to search from Google than from the Wp’s extend site.

There’s a chat in WP-Hackers mailing list and today i found out Joost De Valk has made a Google custom search for searching through the site which work a lot better. Of course… it’s a Google search.

However, the URL of the Google’s CSE homepage is too long as ever, i’ve shorten it using TiNyURL.

Here’s the link:

http://tinyurl.com/wp-plugin

Here’s the search gadget for your blog or Google homepage:

This guest post was initiated when Aaron Wall asked his readers whether he can write a guest post on his reader’s blog. So i immediately asked him if he wouldn’t mind to write SEO for non tech as at topics like Football, Music or even Pranks. Below is what he wrote for me. Hope this is useful for you too.

Every topic worth writing about has passionate people talking about it – after all, what attracted you to the topic? If you are in the tech field you can write a great post and get hundreds or thousands of links out of it. In some niche fields that might be near impossible. But it is worth remembering that you are only competing against other people writing about the same topics. So if you write a blog about a niche topic the measurement for success might not be 100 links, but 5 links, or maybe even only 1 good reference.

As far as SEO for blogs goes, I think the Blogger’s Guide to SEO (http://www.seobook.com/bloggers) is probably one of the better documents available on the topic. But lets say that your niche is so small that it seems like many of the ideas about communication and link building in that guide are irrelevant. The truth is, that no matter how small your topic is there are going to be other people who care about the topic too.

The key is figuring out where your passions align with their passions. Are you going to write a site about the NFL and break onto the market as the quick leader? Not likely. But if you created a site about the Chicago Bears, and wrote it religiously (like you were Mike Ditka’s son) then eventually people would notice it. The key there is that a team is something people are already passionate about… it is an established brand with fans. There are lots of right wing political blogs and lots of left wing political blogs…those party affiliates are brands. With music band names are brands, and so sites like GreenPlastic.com follow the latest Radiohead news, syndicate videos, and share lyrics and guitar tabs online, etc.

If you want to create your own brand the two options are to follow on someone else’s brand (which is easier), or to create something that people are passionate about and want to share. That passion can be creating great topical content built up over months and years, content that strokes the ego and identity of targets (award programs and interviews work great), or content ideas where your topic overlaps with other topics.

For example I created free SEO tools http://tools.seobook.com/ and made many of them open source. Not only does that content tie in with SEO, but it also ties in to people who like free and open source software. Don’t just think about your topic… think about how it
relates to other topics and other people. Taking that one step further, if you are going to run a prank why not do one about viagra or credit cards http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit/?

Just my another Google evangelism. From Official Google blog:

You may have heard about the recently launched Google Checkout for Non-Profits, which is a fast and easy way to make online donations to your favorite non-profits. Now we’ll begin displaying the Google Checkout badge on the AdWords ads of non-profits, which will help connect donors with the organizations they’d like to support. Visit our Checkout Blog for more details.

The first time since the i understand RSS that my Google Reader is empty. Amazing.