Google's Q1 earnings show continued ad growth
Originally posted at Relevant Results
Originally posted at Relevant Results
We wrote on Monday that Apple had accepted Opera's mobile browser into its app store. A day after it debuted it has topped the list of free apps in all of Apple's online stores.
Opera is now #1 from Australia to the United States.

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If, like me, you live outside of the U.S. and you’re waiting for your chance to purchase the iPad, you’re out of luck. Apple has delayed the international launch of the device until the end of May because it has sold more iPads (over half a million) than it anticipated.
Here’s the official announcement:
“Although we have delivered more than 500,000 iPads during its first week, demand is far higher than we predicted and will likely continue to exceed our supply over the next several weeks as more people see and touch an iPad™. We have also taken a large number of pre-orders for iPad 3G models for delivery by the end of April.
Faced with this surprisingly strong US demand, we have made the difficult decision to postpone the international launch of iPad by one month, until the end of May. We will announce international pricing and begin taking online pre-orders on Monday, May 10. We know that many international customers waiting to buy an iPad will be disappointed by this news, but we hope they will be pleased to learn the reason—the iPad is a runaway success in the US thus far.”
Note the “large number of pre-orders for iPad 3G models”. Yes, the iPad has been selling well so far, but is it possible that the 3G model will be even hotter?
Tags: apple, Apple Tablet, ipad, trending


Google’s adding an intriguing new feature to its Twitter search options – the ability to “replay” a moment in time to see what people were tweeting about a given topic at any point between the present and the advent of the microblogging tool.
In a blog post, Google explains that this could be used to “explore any topic that people have discussed on Twitter. Want to know how the news broke about health care legislation in Congress, what people were saying about Justice Paul Stevens’ retirement or what people were tweeting during your own marathon run?”
The feature will be accessible from Google’s advanced search options under “Updates,” where users can then zoom in on a specific date or a date range on a timeline to pull up tweets about their query. Initially, tweets will go back only to this February, but Google plans to offer up tweets going all the way back to the very first one, which took place on March 21, 2006.
This feature marks a big addition to Google’s existing real-time search features, which pull in tweets (and Facebook and MySpace updates) for queries breaking news topics. It’s also exactly what’s made possible through the data partnerships that Twitter has formed with Google, Microsoft, and more recently a number of startups. It’ll go live for English-users within the next few days, but you can already test it here.
Tags: Google, real-time search, Search, twitter


Microsoft’s Bing has started to show tweets in search results in an effort to improve its ability to respond to queries about breaking news.
Writing on the Bing search blog, Microsoft says that, “Bing now pulls in social content generated on Twitter to surface the most relevant updates within seconds of a breaking news event.” Those updates show up near the top of search results, with an option to click “more social results” to see additional tweets.
Microsoft signed deals with both Twitter and Facebook to integrate status updates into Bing last year. Google did similar deals, and has already integrated Twitter, Facebook and MySpace into its real-time search results. Bing says they’re currently testing their features with a small subset of users, but plans to launch them to everyone (in the US anyways) shortly.
Are you using real-time search? Let us know about your experience in the comments.
Tags: bing, microsoft, real-time search, Search, twitter