2007 first half of the Internet report who was the hottest internet company

In the first half of 07, Google and Facebook became the most High-profile companies in the entire internet, according to foreign media published in the July 5 Beijing time. Google has been frantically acquiring and refining its product line during the six months, while Facebook has begun to pose a huge threat to Yahoo and other big internet companies such as MySpace.

In the past half of the 2007, TechWeb.com.cn with you to review what has happened in the last six months of the Internet's technical field, and to see the trend of Internet technology development over the past 2007 years and who is the most high-profile Internet company of the year.

So far, there are two internet companies we really think are the most dazzling, they are Google and Facebook. Google has been frantically acquiring and refining its product line during the six months, while Facebook has begun to pose a huge threat to Yahoo and other big internet companies such as MySpace.

forerunner of the google:2007 year

In October 2006, Google bought youtube,11 month and acquired the new Wiki company jotspot. Since then, Google has become a pioneer in the scramble to learn from other companies as well as rapid mergers and acquisitions. In April this year, Google spent 3.1 billion of dollars to buy internet advertising service provider DoubleClick, and its rivals began to buy online advertising companies, such as May, Microsoft 6 billion U.S. dollars to buy online advertising company aquantive. In addition, Google completed several significant acquisitions in the first half of the year, including RSS hosting FeedBurner, presentation software vendor Zenter, and the newly acquired telephone management company GrandCentral.

By acquiring a wide variety of companies and services, Google has been refining its products in the first half of 07. Gmail has now started to support direct calls to Google Docs, and Google has also released Google Apps Premier, voice search, offline application development tools Google Gears, Street View services. Maps and a wide range of services such as universal search and so on.

While it is still too early to say "Google has ruled the entire Internet", the fact remains clear that Google is becoming a great internet company step-by-step.

By comparison, Yahoo, the internet star Company of the 90, has now been wrapped in sticky peanut butter. It's not all bad news for Yahoo to buy Facebook's failure, the stock slump and the CEO's downfall. Yahoo will face even greater challenges in the 2007.

Facebook: The future star of the Internet

In addition to Google, the most notable of other internet companies is Facebook. "Social networking will become more and more open, and data portability will emerge," Read/writeweb, a prominent industry blogger, said in the 07 Internet forecast. "In September 2006, Facebook announced the opening of its membership, hoping that users would no longer be confined to American campuses."

This May, Facebook announced the launch of a Web site called "Facebook F8" and will open up a number of core features to Third-party software developers. The Facebook move poses a huge threat to both MySpace and Yahoo. In addition, Facebook will maintain the independence of the company, and now is not in a hurry to "cash", but to put the target on the Nasdaq listing.

Of course, Facebook also faces a lot of competitors, such as linkedin.com. The company appointed CFO in Tuesday, an important step towards the goal of becoming a public company. But they are not a big problem for Facebook. At present, many companies have their products and Facebook's open platform integration.