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Google has published its annual year end Zeitgeist, which revel’s the internet search habits of users across the globe. Facebook, BBC, Youtube were at the top of the most searched keywords in the UK “Zeitgeist” means “the spirit of the times”, and each year Google reveals this spirit through the aggregation of millions of search queries which are receive every day. The Top 10 Most searched UK Terms were:


1 Facebook
2 BBC
3 YouTube
4 eBay
5 Games
6 News
7 Hotmail
8 Bebo
9 Yahoo
10 Jobs


Social networking featured in 4 of the top 10 fastest rising search queries, this trend gives weight to the importance of social media and networking during 2009 and the impact it will have on the search marketplace.

It had to happen as some point, MySpace.com is teaming up with Internet search giant Google Inc. in a bid to extend MySpace’s exposure and to take on the rapid growth of their rival Facebook Inc.
Facebook’s unique social environment and user experience has seen the company grow at an astonishing rate. With over 130 million active users Facebook is the 4th most visited website in the World (comScore). It’s also the number 1 photo sharing application in the world (comScore), with over 10 billion photos uploaded to the site and over 30 million photos uploaded daily. The potential advertising exposure and revenue generated by the company is huge, but Facebook did not decide to partner with Google, the largest supplier of internet advertising content, they controversially went to Microsoft.

Myspace could be considered one of pioneers of Social Networking, established in 2004 and acquired by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, MySpace currently has over 127 Million active users. It came to fame as part of the MTV generation, a place for bands, actors and film companies to showcase their work and interact with their fans.

The details of the alliance between Google and MySpace were released on Monday in Paris. Over the past seven months MySpace have been working on easier ways to allow their users to connect their MySpace accounts to other social networking sites. MySpace will be working with Google’s existing services to allow this to happen. Smaller sites with blogs and limited technical ability will be able to use Google Friend connect in the future, which will allow them to add social networking elements to their sites.

MySpace and Google started working together over a year ago on a service known as “Open Social” which was designed to compete against Facebook’s massively popular online software plug in repository. But the news of a new alliance must come as a shock to Facebook and their potential marketplace domination.

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Yahoo are to lay off 1,430 employees on Wednesday of this week, as reported by the Dow Jones’ AllThingsD site. Yang has also noted that more jobs might be at risk in 2009, an anonymous source is said to claim another 500 positions may go.

Yahoo move to reduce its workforce by 10% is a direct result of the current economic situation. Let’s hope 2009 see an end to the financial downturn, is Yahoo at risk of closure and are Google slowly monopolizing the online search engine industry. Only time will tell.