Here’s an interesting report speculating that Google might actually be planning to make YouTube as a hosted gaming site.  Sometime in February 19, 2009 Google applied for a patent which carries the title – “Web-Based System for Generation of Interactive Games Based on Digital Videos.” The patent application which was published earlier this month states that: “the collaborative generation of interactive features for digital videos, and in particular to interactive video annotations enabling control of video playback locations and creations of interactive games.” This seems like somehow games would be built atop videos that are being submitted to hosting sites such as YouTube

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Is Google Expanding YouTube into a Gaming Site?

Although a little earlier than usually done by other search engines, Bing has released its top trending topics for 2009 .

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There are various reasons why you would need to see the archived version of the page: to see the content of (temporally) unavailable page, to analyze on-page SEO (Google text only cache) , to see when the page was archived by Google (Google cache), to see how the page used to look like or when it was first recorded (Wayback machine). Here are the tools to help you accomplish any of the tasks: 1. Resurrect Pages I personally don’t use it but many people report it is one of the most comprehensive ones.

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3 Ways to Easily See an Archived Version of a Web Page

Does anyone remember how, less than a year ago, several commentators suggested Google was compiling a series of products that…

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Google’s Growing Online Office

I wrote about the pending economic recovery and its influence on search advertising and search engine stock values earlier today GOOG, YHOO, MSFT : Search Stocks Gaining on the Rebound and it looks like if anything is an indicator of this trend it is that Google seems to be steadily approaching the 500 mark . Currently teetering around 488, GOOG has been climbing for the past two days and may hit 500 before the end of the day, if recent economic trends and consumer confidence result in an increase in search advertising spending, and increased Google partnerships

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Google GOOG Stocks to Hit $500 Today?