At Microsoft they are using ... Google to check for Netvibes

I was just checking my stats and I found this referring url:

using http://blogsearch.google.com/to search for Pageonce and Netvibes.

The Fun thing is not the result (well, 1st result is my blog ;) ) but the following:

Domain Name : microsoft.com (commercial)
IP Address : 131.###.# (Microsoft Corp)
ISP : Microsoft Corp
Location: Continent: North America
Country : Unitated States
State : Washington
City : Redmond

At Microsoft they are using ... Google to check for Netvibes ;)

Hi,

While we wait for The Big Update why not give a look at the WEB TREND MAP for 2008 ?

Netvibes is on the Innovation Line near Twitter, Slashdot and Wired... and at 2 stops from ... GOOGLE ! check it on the PDF .

Google robot already found 745 Netvibes Universes & Modules

Hi,

if you make a search with Google with the string: "site:www.netvibes" you will find today 745 Universes and Modules

My Universe, http://www.netvibes.com/netviberexperience is there. And yours ?

If you do not want to check all the results just add also your Universe' name in the search box ;).

I have a lot to choose from for my Best Universes by NetEx.

Total number of Modules (Multi-Feeds Content Widgets from Media sources) is 203.

How Netvibes could look with Ads by Google ?

Hi,

I was trying to figure out how Netvibes would look if it was getting some (big) revenues from an Advertising Agreement with Google.

I think it probably would look like this:

The Netvibes-looklike page is from http://www.wireseek.com/

No sex in Netvibes

Hi,

After my post of yesterday about the necessity for Netvibes to increase their offer of Content, I wanted to evaluate the Content offered today by Netvibes, so I went for the Netvibes Ecosystem.

But there is no Directory to choose content from. The only Directory I found in Netvibes is in the Add Content of the Netvibes home page, in Feeds, where you have a Feed Directory: Top Headlines, Sport, Finance, Business, Tech, Internet, ...

So I tried with their Search but as I wrote yesterday it is not effective so I figured out to test the TAGS which gives the number of Widgets, feeds, Universes, tabs, ... that are tagged with the chosen word.

Here are the number of results for any chosen tag:

news = more than 300

podcast = more than 100

finance = more than 180

internet = more then 160

google = more than 80


But in an optic to have a more popular Netvibes I looked for everyday words:

food = more than 150

music = more than 420

sport = more than 200

love = more than 130

weather = 31

Then also because I can be a naughty boy, I checked the S word:

sex and guess what I was expecting at least 100 like podcast, or 200 as sport but the result is just 23 !!!

Well it was perhaps the Tag a bit to strong so what about:

erotic = just 2 !!


Then I went to Google Trends to check about the searches made in 2006 worldwide and here is the resulting graph with the following terms in dicreasing order:

red=sex than light blu= google than yellow=music than green=love and finally dark blue=sport.



So SEX is a much searched word in 2006 (2005, 2004, 2003...) than Google but also than love, food, sport,... That was no surprise to me as markets for VCR recorders, Satellite TV and of course Internet were and are driven by sex.
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The lack of significative erotic presence is there to signify that there is no real business to be done in a homepage-platform like Netvibes? Or it is just that there is not enough audience ? Or, that personal homepages are the last "no-sex" territory?