Several web pages with health information and services, or travel, and local businesses have accused Google of prioritizing their own content over the search results it provides. The Internet giant is firstly their own products, like Google Maps or Google Health.
Therefore, several companies whose websites have been adversely affected by the relevance that the search engine gives its own services have accused Google. These appear placed first above the found results of a search performed by any user. For example, the browser places a Google map with the locations of certain places depending on search terms.
The links to Google services, which have the most privileged location, make the traffic of web-pages-decrease immediately after this, although the first results of the search. The criticism comes from sites like travel website Trip Advisor, the webbed health or sites with local interests such as Yelp and City search, among others, as recorded by The Wall Street Journal.
“There is no denying that today Google is competing [with many websites] for the same traffic and the same money from advertising,” said Jay Heretic, president of CITY green Media, a unit of IAC / InterActiveCorp, the belonging City search.
Shares of Google to promote their own content over the results shown in harm to such sites. According Heretic, form movements are hurting the growth of their sites, although the manager also recognizes the difficulty of measuring impact.
From Trip Advisor, its chair, Stephen Chauffer said that the traffic your site gets from search engine Google has declined by 10% since mid-October, a date that coincides with changes to the search made in dealing information about local businesses. This is unfortunate for such a portal, offering hotels and other services for travelers and tourists, so most of its traffic comes from search engines.

Until recently, the Internet was a sales channel more and more and more important, but in the end sales channel. Over there, agencies, hotels and airlines could sell their products, skip some intermediate and more easily reach consumers. To some extent, the network simply modifying some aspects of business, leaving out some players, but not much else. Only now, we are falling into the account that the issue is much deeper. Internet has altered the flow and use of information in the travel market, and increasingly, users they realize they no longer have to pay for things that do no more than 10 years, were part obvious costs trip.

First, users are now increasingly able to compare prices quickly, especially in a retrieval system, as there are sites for airlines. Ever needed a travel agent that will do the job of comparing prices, but that is in decline for some time.

Second, they have found new ways to get information about prices in the destination you are visiting. In other words, they know the reasonable costs for many products. They are found in bogs, forums and social networks.

Third, many users realize that it is possible to skip certain costs before seen as essential. For example, they can combine with a person in another city to stay at home, through networks like Couch Surfing. Sure, many people would never use such resources, preferring to go to a hotel. However, many others if they can save the cost of accommodation, which is usually a substantial portion of expenditure. To this, we must add that for many of us have more contact with local people is very interesting. Remember that traditional tourism industry contact between tourists and locals was very limited and often nonexistent.

There is good news for Colombia and is leading the increase in Internet penetration in Latin America with 467 users per 1,000 inhabitants. Reviewed by Jorge Silva, General Manager of Microsoft Colombia.

Ever is a consultant specializing in business, development and maintenance of technological applications? A few days ago presented the latest edition of the Society Indicator Information (ISI) in Latin America to measure the overall performance of each country based on the analysis of indicators of the social, economic, institutional, infrastructure and access to Information Technology and Communications (ICT) in every nation.

The good news of the report on this indicator is that Colombia leads the increase of Internet penetration in Latin America with 467 users per 1,000 inhabitants. I listened to Luis Redone, CEO and partner of Colombia ever is “This represents an increase of 18.9% compared to the same period of 2009, well above the average growth of countries like Argentina, Brazil, Chile , Peru and Mexico. ” An important fact because it shows part of the efforts of governments and various sectors to narrow this digital divide.

This fact, coupled with economic factors and environment of the Information Society (ESI) and others primarily as a reduction in inflation (two and a half points less than the same period last year), is what makes that the ISI of Colombia has risen 0.4% compared to previous results. This means that for this year reached 4.34 points. Remains the lowest in the region.

In the case of mobile telephony, the country also presents interesting data. ISI calculations ever are say that next year there will be 948 phones per thousand inhabitants. Not bad considering that it is through the mobile communication platform that many Colombians (about one million) have access to the Internet to improve their quality of life.

Other figures from the ISI in the region tell me that Colombia is ready to quantum leap. Contributed to these results, for example, annual spending on ICT per capita rose to U.S. $ 485 equivalent to an annual rise of 17.4%, online retail sales increased to $ 40 per person per year corresponding to an increase of 36.6% and the strengthening of most currencies against the dollar with the exception of the Argentine peso. Also in terms of projections, according ever is for the second quarter of 2011, the ISI could overcome the effects of the global financial crisis, reaching a new high of 4.61 points.

Therefore, a quantum leap in different scenarios: infrastructure, access to computers, sect oral policies and programs that encourage the technology and telecommunications are appropriate with greater vigor in all sectors of our society. Efforts should be-then-for Colombia to become the third largest economy in the region.

The bet is not crazy and becomes a clear target. For the technology industry, which touches on a cross all sectors, the challenge is important. Business and investment focused on empowering business processes and pave the way for people to have more opportunities with the technology.

The official daily Grandma released complaints about the lack of information about when people begin to surrender licenses for self-employment or the actual amount of taxes to be applied Friday.

“Lack of what has begun to do with great interest to the country, some important details to be added in addition to phones, and others to places they can go,’ said a” letter to the address published” by the newspaper, mouthpiece of the Communist Party.

The permanent section on Fridays usually reflects comments or report specific cases, some very critical issues of today.

Under the title: “Need more information on self-employment,’ the letter signed by the citizen HM Alvarez (not offered other details of identity) is a question echoed increasingly sounded on the island: how and when to implement the measures announced by the government in September on the granting of licenses for a list of more than one hundred categories of legal self-employment options.

We all use the internet almost automatically; the Internet is to become so routine for our life.

The influence of Internet on society is very important because not only used as an information medium but as a social activity and entertainment. Social networks are booming in recent years, in which users have a profile or personal page, which is visible to your contacts, such as Face book, Hi5, My Space and others. In addition, in fact these pages can become somewhat addictive. In Mexico, 57% of Internet users have a personal site.

Another “new” use is for online dating, according to a study, 31% of Internet users have accessed a page to find romance (AMIPCI, 2007). Some pages are more effective than others are, since most only a matter of creating a profile and find a mate. In some others, more effective, creating a profile and make you a compatibility test, then you start coming shareable profiles of potential partners, and believe that sometimes works very well.

The Young Entrepreneurs Association (AJE Catbrier), organized on Friday a new networking session to be held at the Centre for Social and Cultural Action (CASYC) of Cava Catbrier, from nine to 10.30 hours.

This initiative, according to Catbrier Age information gathered by Europe Press, the aim of this organization to promote business between its members.

To do this, we develop these networking sessions on the last Friday of each month, in which young entrepreneurs meet and relate to each other to open new avenues of business, find new suppliers or new customers to, among other objectives.

AJE recently decided to turn around this conference, emphasizing on the busbies business. Thus, in just half an hour every company can meet 20 other attendees.

The Association of Young Entrepreneurs of Catbrier is an independent nonprofit that represents and defends the interests of entrepreneurs less than 40 years.

The Association’s mission is to improve the environment in which businesses develop, enabling the creation of wealth and especially jobs.

Its purposes are to represent, manage and defend the professional interests of young entrepreneurs in the province of Catbrier, and address their needs for information, training, advice and funding.

The association aims to facilitate the creation of new enterprises and promote the growth of output and trade volume of existing, relationship (Networking).

AJE belongs to CEAJE Catbrier (Spanish Confederation of Associations of Young Entrepreneurs), which brings together national associations other similar regional