100 Most Popular Websites in Turkey According to Google
2 Comments by Fırat Demirel on April 4, 2011
Google DoubleClick AdPlanner, announced its First report for the First month of the new year. The ranking does not include Google website, while Facebook is on the first rank for Turkish, and Şehir Fırsatı (Groupon) is among the first 100 for group shopping websites. Google has nearly 100 percent of the search engine market in Turkey, [...]
Twitter Hacked And Recovered… But What About Google Index?
One Comment by Arda Kutsal on December 18, 2009
Today popular micro blogging service Twitter is hacked by a hacker group called “Iranian Cyber Army”. The screenshot below was taken by TechCrunch and was on the site for a while. Then the image has removed but Twitter.com and some sub domains were unreachable. Couple of minutes ago site has become reachable, so we can [...]
Internet or Google?
One Comment by Fırat Demirel on December 9, 2009
Google’s advances push me to deeper thinking on this subject since the article I questioned whether Google might swallow the Internet. The latest news that fired this idea was on Gmail’s innovation in the past days. As is well known, Google let us continue our e-mail addiction in places that do not have internet access with [...]
Google Zeitgeist: Most Searched Words of 2009 have been published
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on December 3, 2009
Google’s traditional Zeitgeist list, which lists most searched words on Google, has been announced for 2009 as of today. Michael Jackson tops the list’s 2009 version, while Spanish social networking website Tuenti and Facebook follow it. Twitter is on the 4th place on the list, and a name that shows the influence of young population [...]
93 Percent of Turkish Internet Users Googled in September!
One Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on November 24, 2009
comScore released a new report concerning Internet usage in Turkey based on September data. According to this report, than 19.7 million people age 15 and older accessed the Internet from a home or work location in Turkey during the month, viewing an average of 3,070 pages of content and spending an average of 31.6 hours [...]
Minister Binali Yildirim’s Reaction to Google Tax Issue
No Comment by Hasan Başusta on November 9, 2009
As we have mentioned in the previous article, Webstar Turkey awards took place with Minister of Transport Binali Yildirim’s address to the audience. Yildirim’s speech lasted for half an hour and he made striking comments on Google’s tax issue. In the awards ceremony, Yildirim underlined without naming Google that tax penalty of 71 million Turkish liras [...]
71 Million TRY Tax Penalty to Google in Turkey
2 Comments by Arda Kutsal on November 4, 2009
Today, Google, the biggest player in Turkish online advertising market, has been fined a total of 71 million Turkish Liras (approx. $47 million) with the claim of tax dodging, as we learned though the news report at Sabah newspaper. Here is the deal: Google has a legal presence in Turkey under the name Google Advertising [...]
Can Google Socializing Everyday Swallow The Internet?
One Comment by Fırat Demirel on September 18, 2009
When Google shed its Beta label, it started to lay importance on socializing for the new features it added to its services. New features such as sharing our task list with our friends with Gmail Tasks, sharing modules added to Google Reader, sharing services like Google Calendars, Google Sites and Google Documents on Google Groups, [...]
iGoogle Has Been Added Video Chat!
No Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on September 18, 2009
iGoogle, which we have made news about recently, has been added new features. From now on, you can video-chat on iGoogle, which has gained a more social structure with the latest changes. Previously video chat was only available through Gmail, now video chat added to iGoogle allows you to communicate whether you or your friends [...]
Google Wave Redefines the Concept of Email
One Comment by Hasan Başusta on September 18, 2009
We are getting closer and closer to the time that Google will introduce its innovative email platform, Wave, to the market. First 100 thousand invitations will be sent starting from September 30. In development process for two years, Google Wave is a product that will change the way that we communicate online. Lars Rasmussen, one [...]