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Google is the most powerful search engine on the planet. Its used by millions of people from all over the world. But how does it manage to differentiate the right search result from the rest of the trash? The Answer: “PageRank.” A complex mathematical formula which, to put it simply, labels a website as imporant depending on how many times it’s link shows up on other websites. In other words if Page A shows up on Pages B, C, D…. all the way to Page Z, then it would have a high PageRank.

Also, the more important the page, the higher the rank will be. As an example, if www.vapaeso.com happens to be linked in www.google.com or www.microsoft.com, then you can bet that by the next day www.vapaeso.com will have a higher PageRank because Google and Microsoft are important web sites. Check out Google’s Technology Page for more info.

Anyone heard of Flock? The new social browser using the Firefox engine. It’s designed specifically for that aspect of the web and is uniquely more intriguing than Firefox. It has a built in function of sharing and uploading photos using either Flickr (Yahoo) service or Kodak’s photo gallery, posting on a Blog, and all the current capabilities and extensions for Firefox. The downside? It will eat more CPU than Firefox due to the built in capabilities.

The question here is, “Will this be the future of Firefox, Social Web Browsing?” There will be lots of people who will use Firefox to Work and not play, but then again it’s only logical that Firefox will evolve into a social web browser, and should it choose to do so, there will be a large crowd that will follow. What’s your take?

Google has purchased Doubleclick for $1.65 Billion Dollars and is valued even more so than YouTube. Doubleclick has been selling advertisement to more than 6,000 companies for 11 years. Their profits have risen and fallen as the market’s unexpected turns rise and fall through the years. This is something Microsoft and even Yahoo should be interested in as the Corporate Giants are falling behind in generating Ad revenue such as Google is doing. The purchase of Doubleclick, in theory, could rise profits from ads. There are plenty of other companies worth purchasing if such an idea strikes their fancy. Companies like Valueclick perhaps?

eBays CEO, Meg Whitman, is nearing the 10 year dead line running as the company’s Chief Exectuive. Whitman, should she choose to retire, has become a billionarie running the Leading Market Giant for all these years and will have no problem finding a new job in the corporate world. She could try her hand at politics? Recent reports suggest that she already has a head start in as a national finance co-chair for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in the 2008 campaign.

Critics argue that, even though the company has held steady it has shown sluggish growth. eBay should think twice about filling in the gap from within the company. Who will fill the gap should Whitman decide to leave?