Five years ago in February 2005, according to legend, the idea of YouTube was born after Chad Hurley and Steve Chen experienced difficulty sharing videos that had been shot at a dinner party at Chen's apartment in San Francisco. Click to read the rest of this post.

Relevancy is a good thing. It makes search and the world more efficient. Many attempts at relevancy, like search is getting more social , may just create more noise. But computers are getting better at understanding language is a good thing "our measurements show that synonyms affect 70 percent of user searches across the more than 100 languages Google supports." But it seems each increase in relevancy justifies additional increases in irrelevancy to increase monetization.

Hi blog readers, it's Anuj from the communications team here. I'm writing to let you know that personal payments to and from India and transfers to local banks in India have been suspended while we work with our business partners and other stakeholders to address questions they have about the service. During .

The governments of France, Germany, and Italy are all arguably annoyed with Google. China's not thrilled with the search giant, either. And now, because of the way in which Google's portrayed a disputed border, Cambodia's quite mad at it. According to Reuters , Svay Sitha, the secretary of state of Cambodia's Council of Ministers, wrote a letter to Google complaining about its interpretation of the area where Cambodia and Thailand touch.

Image: Happy Beaver by stevehdc . Welcome back to the weekly Twitter column. Yesterday many people on Twitter cried out in outrage about a misled tweet from @vodafoneuk - in it some apparently tweeting under the influence employee made a badly spelled comment about the hygiene of homosexuals. Then the person also threatened to hunt for beavers! This is indeed outrageous! As you probably know beavers are an endangered species and have been extinct a few years ago in the UK.

comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the results of its annual Super Bowl pre-game survey. The survey of 1,065 U.S. Internet users conducted from February 2-4, 2010 revealed several interesting insights into Americans' opinions and expectations for Super Bowl XLIV, featuring the Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans Saints.

Here are some of the search engine oriented articles we have found interesting this week. Lost that users manual? You can find it on the Web There are search engines to target manuals (About Feb 4 2010) Microsoft's Bing 'will make money' Bing, which has struggled to make headway against Google,

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I was just trying to find out the PageRank of a couple of sites using Internet Explorer's Google Toolbar, but something was broken. Google Chrome has a nice PageRank extension , though. As you can see in the screenshot, it's helpful by immediately showing the actual value instead of just a green bar. A couple of times it reverted to zero after loading, but otherwise the values it was showing looked like they were the correct ones.

In Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland Google is celebrating the Sami national day with a special logo today. The Sami people, one of the largest indigenous groups in Europe, lives in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. Their traditional languages are the Sami languages, which are members of the Finno-Lappic group of the Uralic language family. February 6 was the date the first Sami congress was held in 1917 in Trondheim, Norway.