In what could be a preview of an impending battle between Facebook and Google in the coming days, Facebook has beaten Google as the most visited website on both Christmas Even and Christmas Day, says a tweet from Hitwise's Twitter account. It was the first time that Facebook become the number one site during Christmas Day. Last year it was Google as the most visited site with Facebook closely following behind. But come to think of it,

What could be a better way of starting the new year but with a new Google Phone?Well, Google surely knows how to create the hype and the buzz to build the excitement over the Google Phone, which up to know is tentatively called Nexus One. What started out as a rumor, has been blown out of proportion. So, are you excited about the Google Phone or Nexus One?

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,

Still remember MyBlogLog? Sometime in 2006, it was one of the hottest social networking tool for bloggers because of one simple reason - it allows bloggers to put a face on their blog visitors.  I remember using MyBlogLog for quite some time until Yahoo purchased it in 2007 and MyBlogLo started offering blog site analytics tools both as free and paid service. MyBlogLog was a pretty useful blog management tool back then. It's widget feature was interesting.

It's like saying, if Twitter, Facebook, Google and all the other sites can implement their own URL shorterner for sharing links why can't  YouTube have its own too? After all, YouTube videos are one of the most shared stuff on Facebook and Twitter. So, the YouTube folks joined the rage with its own YouTube URL shortener . So now if you don't trust unknown sites hosting videos being shared to you,

Is Google up to something when user login for Chrome OS was moved to the Chrome browser instead?  We couldn't help but agree with Arrington's belief that Google might just be setting the stage for the actual login interface for the Chrome OS, which could be by using Google Friend Connect. But that's in the future, what's the issue now is why Google decided to move user login of Chrome OS to Chrome Browser? Well,

Citing reliable sources,   TechCrunch is reporting that Google may be on the brink of acquiring yet again another company. Interestingly, this company called DocVerse provides service that allow users to work together around Microsoft Office documents. And if this push through, DocVerse will be receiving around $25 million from Google. DocVerse was founded by Shan Sinha and Alex deNeui who are both former Microsoft product strategist,

Forget about the recent reports on most-searched terms and Twitter trending topics.  As Symantec just released a more controversial top searches report for 2009 . And this time while YouTube, Google and Facebook are the most-searched topics among teens, and so is Sex. The report, top 100 favorite search terms was based on the search tracking done by Symantec's OnlineFamily.Norton service.  Respondents were children 18 years old and under.

The Amazon Associate blog just announced that its affiliate program has just been directly integrated with Google Blogger.  This means that you can now earn some dough from promoting Amazon products even without spending money on a blog hosting site. While if you're a Blogger.com user, this means that you can now easily add Amazon Associates product links directly from your Blogger dashboard. I'm not really sure about which of these will benefit from this integration.

YouTube just released their Year End Top Video Report for 2009 and not surprisingly Susan Boyle's audition video in Britain's Got Talent show emerged as the most watched video on YouTube globally and Pitbull's "I Know You Want Me" tops the the music video category.  But aside from these two, YouTube also published their 2009's fastest rising search on a monthly basis. Some of the fastest rising search terms are correlated with the most watched videos list.

Latest comScore data for November search volume is showing a slightly unexpected result. For the second time Bing managed to beat Google in terms of total US core search volumes, while Yahoo's search volume continues to go down. So while the total US core search volume increased from 13.2% in October to 17.8% Y/Y in November, Microsoft sites domestic core search market share increased by .4% from 9.9% in October to 10.3% in November. Likewise,

After Hitwise's Top Search Term and Top Visited of 2009, it's now Twitter's turn to release its Top Twitter Trends of 2009 . Since Twitter is considered as the major source of real-time and up-to-date information, its trending topics would enable us to understand what was happening around the world as well as show us how people everywere can be united in their concern for what is happening in the world.

What could be a more fitting way for Bing  to end the year on the right note but to release its very own native iPhone app.  It's free and available now at the iTunes Apps Store )iTunes Link(. Key Features of the Bing iPhone app include: Daily image from Bing.

Google has quietly rolled out a new feature for ranking and showing different aspects about businesses on   Place Pages for  Google Maps. The new feature will let you read reviews of business establishments as well as see how their fare through color coded rankings. In case you forgot, Place Page is a web page for every place in the world containing snippets of information about a place. Place Pages for Google Maps cover  businesses, points of interest, transit stations,

Experian Hitwis e has just released two significant data of 2009 - top-search term and top-visited site with Facebook and Google earning the top spot respectively. Facebook beats dislodged last years top-searched term - MySpace. While Google obviously retained its last year's position. Moving from last year's 10th spot, Facebook accounted for 2.48% of the top 300 searches in 2009.  Including other variations of searches related to Facebok such as facebook.com,

Yahoo just made a minor enhancement to its search results by making it easier to find local businesses . This is done by adding the Yahoo local business shortcut everytime it displays search results for business-related query even if the query does not contain the location. Additionally, search results can now be refined further by neighborhood or nearby city right on the search results page.

The order of battle for Google this week seems to be on URL shorteners. This has been quite a trend on Twitter and Facebook with various third-party URL shortener sites offering this kind of service. But while others offer it as a stand-alone service, Google is taking the URL shortening thingie on a different approach - via Feedburner and Google Toolbar . As mentioned by the a post from the Official Google Blog ,

Couldn't decide on what to get for your techie friends who got almost all the gizmos released this year? Google has a solution for that. How about giving them the gift of Google Chrome instead? Google quietly rolls out this new marketing campaign for its Chrome browser. It's actually a neat and clever way of marketing the Chrome Browser, tying it up with the Christmas festivites. The idea is,

Frankly, it's about time that Google come up with its own phone. Not just the co-manufactured phone running on Google's Android platform but a real Google phone with the Google brand and to be sold through Google not through network carriers or any mobile company. Guess what? It might soon become a reality as there have been strong proofs of a new Google phone which even have a name already - the Google Nexus One.

Google has introduced two new search-related features - universal search features to Google Suggest and Quick Scroll extension for Google Chrome. Both features are aimed at making it easier and faster for users to find the information they need and are good examples of how Google is extending the power of Google search beyond the results page. Universal search feature adds more suggested search terms beneath the Google search box after you've typed in your search query.