Google is not one of the MOST trusted sites

Recently I read about  a survey was done by the Penemon Institute and Truste surveyed near about 6, 500 users about which company they felt is most secure, trustworthy  protected their private data and their information online. After surveying consumers they published the list of top 20 companies which they feel are most secured. Along with the security of the data, users are now concerned about their computer security as well.

Now, it seems users are more concerned about their privacy and data, they are aware and have followed the Privacy group’s suit. This year Google is not in the list of most secured companies. Last year, it was on 10^th position, this year it didn’t even make to the list. Even Microsoft is not on the list. In a article, a spokesperson for the Ponemon Institute said "Google (and Microsoft) suffer from big company syndrome. People figure that if you're big and collecting data, there must be an issue."  But that doesn’t explain the reason of Google’s dropping off the list.

I have read somewhere that even installing a Google toolbar on your PC helps Google to take your half of the information.  And Google Chrome helps it in getting near about 90% of you data.

American Express is on the top of the list, it’s second in the row for them, followed by eBay at second position and IBM on third. Than it was Amazon who was able to make it for fourth position. Other high-tech companies on the list include Hewlett-Packard (number 6), Apple (number 8), WebMD (number 13), Yahoo (number 14), Facebook (number 15), AOL (number 16), and Dell and eLoan (tied for number 20).

The thing is that Google collects more information about users than any other company and they are not comfortable or feel unsecured about their data, which may be is possible that it get used in a wrong way. Finally Google has to work on its privacy policies.

Let’s see when Google gets into action to resolve the issue…

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Ready to tackle Google- Microsoft’s Online services President

Dr. Qi - Lu, the newly named president of Microsoft's Online Services Group, did something that many Microsoft executives have typically avoided even mentioning. He mentioned Google by name. He was asked a question on his website where he answered-

"I think Google is a very, very powerful company, they are definitely ahead in the search space. There are a lot of challenges ahead. We've got our work cut out for us."

Lu was former executive vice president of engineering for the Search and Advertising Technology Group at Yahoo is the latest in a series of several high-profile Yahoo search executives who've left the struggling search giant for Microsoft.

When Lu joins Microsoft on Jan. 5, he'll join a third-place search market player that has had trouble gaining share from its more entrenched rivals. In October, Google had 63.1 percent of the U.S. search market, followed by Yahoo with 20.5 percent and Microsoft with 8.5 percent, according to comScore.

But despite Microsoft's trailing position in search, Lu seems optimistic about the software giant's future search prospects. Not only is Microsoft's search product quality improving at "a very fast rate," Microsoft is also focused on building a powerful advertising platform, Lu said in the Q&A.

"The advertising we see today will be very different in the future because of new platforms for it. Ads will be truly relevant and useful, and the experience will be compelling," Lu said in the Q&A.

Microsoft has been experimenting with a variety of tactics for getting more users to use its Live Search, including agreements with Dell and HP to include the Live Search Toolbar on new PCs, and the much-ballyhooed Live Search Cashback, which gives Web users rebates for purchasing products from participating Microsoft vendor partners through the Live Search site.

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Microsoft denied the deal with Yahoo

Microsoft’s Chief Executive, Steve Ballmer, cleared the air on Friday that the company might still be interested in buying Yahoo, setting off a 13 percent decline in Yahoo’s share price. Yahoo shares dropped $2.20 to a paltry $9.35 in afternoon trading. The news also sent Microsoft shares down 57 cents to $19.02 and is just above a ten year low of $18.74 which it reached last week. 

Yahoo's stock, which jumped on the company co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang's departure from his position at the helm, opened the door to the renewed speculation that a Micro-hoo deal might be back on the cards, was brought crashing back down to earth in mid-day trading on Wednesday.

Some analysts said that Ballmer is still interested, but that the public disinterest is a duplicitous tactic to purposefully drive down Yahoo's value. Microsoft had offered $47.5 billion or $33 a share back in May, which must seem like light years away for throngs of irate Yahoo shareholders.

“We moved on,” Mr. Ballmer told a business luncheon in Sydney on Friday, when asked for the company’s plans after a possible Web search advertising partnership between Yahoo and Google fell through this week.

Mr. Ballmer said Microsoft made several attempts to reach a deal with Yahoo but that they failed. “We are not interested in going back and relooking at an acquisition. I don’t know why they would be either, frankly,” Mr. Ballmer said. He added that he thought there were still opportunities for some kind of partnership around search engines. No news on the replacement for Mr Yang, which is expected to take anywhere up to 12 weeks.

With an additional 1,500 layoffs announced by Yahoo scheduled for January, a failure to close a shared advertising revenue deal with rival Google, an inability to come to terms with Microsoft, a drop in profits and the stock in the proverbial toilet, the future is looking less than peachy for the struggling web giant.

Just as with the new appointment to the White House commencing in January will face unprecedented economic hardship, certainly in more than a generation, the victor taking on the leadership duties at Yahoo will no doubt feel a similar strain.

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AVG Claims: Microsoft is copying us

I was just going through the news …when I got something really interesting... AVG (free anti-virus provider ) is calming that Microsoft is copying them and they said that Microsoft is ‘clearly’ following its lead in the security market but that it will face many challenges pursuing a free model, including a severe reseller backlash.

Microsoft announced last week that it would discontinue its OneCare offering and replace it with a free offering from next year, code named Morro.

AVG, which claims to have over 85 million users in 167 countries, said that chief among the challenges Microsoft faces in supporting a free anti-virus software product are the ‘enormous’ overhead costs it will incur for customer service and support issues, as well as for ongoing product management and upgrades.

The Redmond giant will also likely have to contend with a ‘severe’ backlash from dissatisfied channel partners, whose margins and unit sales will be negatively impacted as a result of the free product offering, according to AVG’s chief executive J.R. Smith.

“Microsoft is clearly following our lead,” said Smith.

“The real threat in this scenario is to Microsoft’s own profitability and channel partner relations.”

AVG also highlighted the challenges facing Microsoft to keep pace with the growing proliferation of online threats.

The free Microsoft anti-virus software will have even less protective features than its current OneCare offering – further heightening computer users’ vulnerability to fast-spreading viruses and other threats, Smith claimed.

Hmmm… After reading this...I was wondering… Why would Microsoft Copy AVG Technologies … Because of decreasing Market share??  This year Microsoft’s -only Internet Explorer went into October with 71.52 percent of the browser market, but slid down to 71.27 percent as it moved into November. Firefox almost topped 20 percent of the browser market for the first time in October, ending the month with 19.97 percent. In comparison, Firefox ended August with a 19.75 percent market share, but dipped slightly in September to 19.46 percent.

Personally I think, this is true …that Internet Explorer is losing market share year by year. I have used internet explorer years back…I myself has got addicted to Mozilla Firefox…, .Because of its add-ons and extensions. Though I would agree to this as well that there are some websites or webpages which are better viewed in Internet Explorer.