They wanted “to develop services that significantly improve the lives of as many people as possible”

Larry Page, Google

2013 Founders’ Letter (Excerpts): 

Sergey and I started Google because we wanted “to develop services that significantly improve the lives of as many people as possible” (Founders’ IPO Letter, 2004).  We’ve stayed true to that mission, placing long-term bets on new technologies that users truly love—from Search to Gmail, Maps, Chrome, YouTube, and Android.  We’ve covered a lot of ground in a short space of time and so people naturally ask, what is Google today, and where are you heading?  It’s a good question.

 - Larry Page


For more details: http://investor.google.com/corporate/2013/founders-letter.html

What to expect in the next few months in terms of SEO for Google? [Matt Cutts Video]

What should the Internet users expect in the next few months in terms of SEO for Google? Let us take a look at this Matt Cutts YouTube Video.

'The Day We Fight Back' Campaign - February 11th 2014

What was "The Day We Fight Back Campaign against Mass Surveillance" all about?

Here's what a few media giants think about NSA and mass surveillance. Take a look.

The NSA "has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world."
 - The New York Times

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The NSA collects the content and metadata of emails, web activity, chats, social networks, and everything else from fiber-optic cables "that carry much of the world's Internet and phone data."
 - Washington Post


We invite opinion from readers if they think 'mass surveillance is a violation of inalienable human rights'.

A sweet birthday for the Flickr team

Birthdays are times, when everyone gets a chance to start ‘new’. Join us to see, how Flickr celebrated its 10th Birthday.

Flickr turned 10 today! Happy Birthday!

Birthdays are time for reflection...! Best wishes to Flickr from the Web Listings Inc team. 

The Google Cast SDK

"Chromecast now open to developers with the Google Cast SDK": http://t.co/54ftwVNFwZ
— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) February 3, 2014

Stay tuned with Web Listings.

The Holiday Storefront of today

Follow Web Listings Inc on the World Wide Web

"The web has become the holiday storefront of today" - learning from our recent quarter.
— Nikesh Arora (@nikesharora) January 31, 2014

Nikesh Arora (Google - Senior Vice President, Chief Business Officer)

SleepBot for better mornings @GooglePlay

Everyone heard a lot about GoogleBot – the web crawling bot/spider of Google. Now, what is this SleepBot all about? Join Web Listings Inc to GooglePlay store to explore it.

Sleep Bot - Sleep Cycle Alarm

Worried about link building and ranking in search engines?

Wonder – how search engines rank websites? Leave your link building worries aside for a while and try to build authority sites for the Internet community that people trust.

Be with Web Listings Inc.

Guest Blogging for SEO benefits? Matt Cutts of Google has a different version

Guest blogging - how effective it is, today?

For in-depth study, follow Matt Cutts, here.

Essential elements of an effective SEO

Queries about Search Engines and Internet Users

Google Analytics - Summit 2013 - what's next?

How people navigate through your website? How many people visit your site? What drives web traffic? Which page is more popular? Google Analytics can help with all your queries. Here's a video from Web Listings Inc of Google Analytics - Summit 2013. Take a look!

Pubcon Vegas 2013 - Matt Cutts on Google Hummingbird and more

Did Google Hummingbird hit your site? Let Web Listings know about it!

Twitter: who visits it the most?

Twitter Facts and Figures

Here, are details about Twitter country-wise visits. The US tops the chart preceding India and other countries.

Twitter - Monthly Active Users

Monthly Visits - Quarter 3

Stay tuned with Web Listings Inc for SEO tech news updates.

TOP Search Engines, Browsers and OS

Graphical representation from Web Listings Inc: Top browsers, Operating Systems and Search Engines, from September 2012-September 2013. (Source: StatCounter)

‘Babylon and Ask’ to share advertising revenues

What’s your question? Has Babylon joined hands with Ask.com?

Yes, for better business prospects - Babylon (free translator and dictionary) joined hands with Ask.com. This partnership guarantees better search engine web searches for the Internet users.

Babylon ltd signed a cooperation agreement with Ask. Media sources report this is short-term agreement for 3 months and Babylon will evaluate possibilities and decide about the long-term agreement, later.

Under the agreement, both parties will share the online advertising revenue.

Spokeo - to find and locate someone...

Founded by a group of Stanford graduates in 2006 – SPOKEO is not new to many. Be it - a person’s name, email address, phone number, username or physical address, SPOKEO makes it easier to locate just anyone, with a click of the button.

Recently, it launched a new search feature for Smartphones, to refresh the look and feel. It introduced first mobile web product in 2010.

Affiliated to various social networks and email services providers, Spokeo has been helping many with people search features. Its mobile users are on the rise.

Testimonials and success stories on the site vouch for the site reliability. What does everyone wait for – why not find/locate someone through Spokeo, right now?

Stay tuned for search engine news and updates.

Baidu’ Qunar with plans of US IPO

The travel site Qunar.com of Chinese search engine (Baidu) prepares for a US Initial Public Offering.

As per the latest media news report, Qunar is in discussion with Goldman Sachs [Investment banking company] and Deutsche Bank [the global banking and financial services company] for sale.

For a majority stake in Qunar, the Chinese search engine Baidu paid about $306 million in 2011 to capture the mobile travel app market.

Qunar generates revenue mostly through advertising. The CEO Zhuang Chenchao said the company expects to double sales, this year to about $163 million.

The company even prepares for a recruitment drive and will hire many software engineers, corroborates the CEO.

If Google killed the Reader, then is back with Google Alerts - RSS Feed option

If the search engine giant Google disappointed many after discontinuation of Google web feed reader service in July 2013, then it is back with feed delivery option [added] to Google Alerts.

Now, everyone can receive web alerts through RSS, once again. Google introduced RSS support in Alerts, in October 2008 which disappeared in July 2013.

People worried about possible alternatives of Google Reader can now breathe a sigh of relief.

The Internet users can log into Google Alerts and create new entries to receive RSS feeds - news, blog, videos etc.