Chrome browser released by Google in early September 2008 gained much buzz just after hot gadget iPhone. More than one week since launch the share of Chrome seems horizontal. These stats are based on a total sample for the period of over 450 million page views globally. All daily stats are based on the relevant GMT 24 hour periods. More details at StatCounter blog.

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The international brand rating and consultancy Interbrand has released the 2008 ranking. In the Wall Street crisis, brands of financial services companies lost much of their values.

Source: Swivel

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At the Interactive Adverting Bureau’s Mixx conference in New York recently, Chrysler Chief Marketing Officer Deborah Meyer said the auto maker would allocated 30% of ad budget to digital marketing. Chrysler plans to use Specific Media’s targeting tools and Vibrant’s in-text video for its campaigns. SEO is a high priority also. This is the second big auto maker to switch to digital marketing after General Motors had announced its digital budget early this year.

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According to comScore’s release, Google Sites led the U.S. core search market in July with 63 percent of the searches conducted, up from 61.9 percent in July, followed by Yahoo! Sites (19.6 percent), Microsoft Sites (8.3 percent), Ask Network (4.8 percent), and AOL LLC (4.3 percent).

Americans conducted 11.7 billion searches at the core search engines, nearly identical to the number of core searches conducted in July. Google Sites handled 7.4 billion core searches (up 2 percent), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.3 billion and Microsoft Sites with 977 million.

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Some months ago local media bombarded article stating that Vietnamese people were most interested in Sex based on Google Trends. However we just tried the Google Insights for Search with some keywords relating to Sex and found out some interesting figures:

For Sex keyword: Vietnam is the second after Pakistan in volume of search, but plus Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India made South Asia on top, North Africa is the second group.

Update: 21st September down to 4th position

For Porn: no clear winner but Bangladesh is till the runner-up

With Nude keyword: all top five positions went to South Asian countries with Pakistan and Bangladesh shared the top.

Tried a combination of video + sex: Cambodia took the crown, but Bangladesh is the second again plus two other South Asian (India, Sri Lanka)

From these results we can say that Vietnamese people are far behind South Asian people in searching Sex related keywords. Bangladesh is truly the top country that its people most interested in sex matters using search service from Google. Maybe Vietnamese Internet users are not as sophisticated as South Asians in using keywords.

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