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You have to hand it to Google... They have long been the innovators in web business. They may have been late on the free email scene with their Gmail offering coming in well after Microsoft's Hotmail, but they have made ground and surpassed their rivals by providing a home and attractive benefits to anyone with innovative potential.

The latest product their dugout has come up with is a Google Map detailing the affected areas of the swine flu.

I'm looking forward to attending next week's two-day Web Forward internet marketing conference, which is running as a side to the always-growing CeBIT Australia Exhibition.

This year, the big bonus is that General Manager of Google Australia and New Zealand; Mr. Karim Temsamami will attend and speak to us delegates.

I had the good fortune of attending the CeBIT Web Forward internet marketing conference as a delegate representing KayWeb Holdings Pty Limited (incorporating KayWeb Creations, KayWeb Marketing and KayWeb Systems).

The event, held at Darling Harbour's Exhibition Centre on May 13 and 14, attracted speakers representing various businesses and areas of expertise. Among the talent on show were representatives from Google, Sensis, Fairfax Digital, News Limited, the Interactive Advertising Bureau and Citrix Systems.

As with all such events, there was plenty of good to come out of it, and some bad.

The good is definitely associated with the feeling me and my KayWeb colleague and fellow-delegate Mark Simon had that we felt better educated after the experience. The bad is chiefly associated with certain businesses using their 20 minutes on stage to launch into a diatribe about their offerings, or as one delegate called it... speeches resembling an "infomercial".

Google Australia is tipped to crack the $1billion-in-revenue mark this year, making it the first internet business to reach that milestone downunder.

In typical Google fashion, the company is keeping their figures close to their chests, however a simple maintenance of their 25% annual growth rate will see Karim Temsamani (Google Ausralia General Manager) and Co. crack the big billion.

Fairfax says: "That would make Google bigger than the entire commercial radio sector and bigger than the total magazine and outdoor advertising markets."

"Power to the web", I say!

Microsoft will not give up, and for this Bill Gates and his crew must be commended.

Realising search is so far the best way to make money online, Microsoft is set to unveil its new search engine in California next week.

The Wall Street Journal says a key feature of the new search engine - being worked on under the code-name Kumo - is that results will be grouped into categories.

The latest comments from Google CEO Eric Schmidt suggest a 'partnership' of sorts, if not a complete takeover, is on the cards with micro-blogging website Twitter.

Twitter has experienced 1000+% growth every month this year, and although its retention rate has been a debate worth having by some (see Nielsen Report criticism and VentureBeat's Jesse Farmer's reply), Google obviously sees enough value in it to engage in talks with the company which is the biggest thing on the social media scene since Facebook.

The UK Telegraph quotes Schmidt commenting on rumoured takeover talks: "We do not have to buy everyone to work with them."
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