US Elections became more alive than ever, Google & YouTube are offering interesting mobile tools that put elections 2008 presidential candidates at your finger tips. These little tools offer you access on your mobile device to the relevant content for both presidential candidates.

Google mobile provides McCain and Obama search results, elections 2008 news, political blogs using Google Reader, and Maps to find your way around the convention cities.

Google Mobile is also provides links to YouTube Mobile, where you will have access to McCain and Obama YouTube channels and all the videos used in the presidential run.

Try them, this is the link to access election 2008 in Google mobile and YouTube mobile.

Google wants to make a new revolution on those white spaces with wireless services of all kinds, including an universal wireless Internet. Let’s remember that Google, Spring Nextel and some other companies also want to implement wireless internet across all the U.S. territory.

www.FreetheAirwaves.com is inviting people to sign the petition and help spread the word about this new campaign. You can even upload your own video trough YouTube to support the campaign, the URL channel is http://www.youtube.com/freetheairwaves

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Your voice can help convince the Federal Communication Commission to open up the unused “white spaces” radio spectrum and unleash a revolution in wireless innovation.

By the way, Google is using his own tools in this new site, Google analytics is monitoring the site behavior.

You can read all about it in Google’s new site: Free the Airwaves, This is the promotional video.

China search engine Baidu dominates completely the Chinese online scene with 60 % of the search market; Google takes 2nd place with 26% and Yahoo 3nd with almost 10 %.

Baidu offers search services like the other search engines, but there are some interesting options that we wont find in Google, Yahoo or MSN. It’s interesting how culture is an important factor to Baidu, the search options result logical with the China ancient culture, the image shows you Baidu search services, where you will find options like: Culture search, youth search, ancient literature & MP3 search.

In China, piracy is a big problem, and the music is not the exception, industry analysts estimate that 90 % of Chinas 162 million online users access pirated music from their computers every single day. The industry has made several attempts to stop Internet companies (including Baidu) from facilitating access to unlicensed music, but they have received mixed results from Chinese courts. Free music also entices more users to come back for another services and helps Baidu to sell more advertisement.

Badu search traffic for MP3 music is at least 7% of its total, and Google is trying to grab more traffic offering MP3 music search only for legal & licensed music.

With only 8 years online, the influence of Baidu in China is too much, Robin Li, Baidu cofounder explains:

We’ve been the No. 1 Web site in China for a number of years, and in fact we are the largest Web site outside of the U.S., when people get to know about the Internet, the first Web site they learn is about Baidu in China.

Google rules search engines around the world except in 2 countries, China & Russia, 2 hard rocks that in my personal opinion Google wont be able to crash, Why?, Russia & China are under the communist shadow and they have very different cultures. As I mentioned, Baidu takes 60% of Chinese search and Yandex takes 44%, ten points head Google and besides is the second most used search engine in Europe. Take a quick tour in the next video to learn more about Baidu.com

What can we expect from Google fight against these 2 Internet monsters? Leave a comment.

Source: Wall Street Journal