Is Google the most preferred Internet brand in India ? It seems like that as Google services are dominating in India by more percentage compared to its worldwide levels.

Google is the undisputed leader in Search Engine world but in India Google’s market share is more compared to other major countries.

Similarly in Social Networking Indians prefer Orkut, but internationally it is dominated by Facebook, Myspace, Twitter etc.

Now the latest trend is Google Chrome (google’s own browser) is gaining popularity among Indians.

As per the statistics by statcounter.com 11.32% of its users from India used Google chrome to browse the web in December 2009, compared to 5.3% worldwide.

Both in India and worldwide Internet Explorer is still the leader in Browser Space but it lost  17.8% market share in last 12 months.

Firefox is still growing in India and Internationally and registered a 27% year to year growth.

Source: StatCounterStats – Browser Market Share in India

Google Chrome reported massive growth last year – 338% growth worldwide and 189% in India.

Another major change happened in Dec 09 in browser space is Firefox 3.5 surpassed all major browser versions including long dominated IE versions and reached World’s Most Popular Browser position, a major achievement for Firefox and Mozilla.

In operating system section still Windows XP leads with 65% market share, but down 11 points in 1 year period.

In last 2 months Windows 7 doubled its market share and gaining momentum.

In Mobile Browser section Opera Browser is leading followed by iPhone Browser and Nokia Browser, obviously due to the popularity of Apple iPhone and smarphones from Nokia.

In the Mobie Operating System space SymbionOS and iPhone OS are far ahead compared to RIM, Sony Ericsson and other mobile operating systems.

For full details about Operating System, Browser, Mobile OS, Mobile Browser, Search engine, Mobile Search and Mobile/Desktop Comparison visit http://gs.statcounter.com/

World’s most favorite blogging software WordPress even got better with its new version (2.9) released yesterday. Undoubtedly WordPress is a leader in blogging software as it offers so many features compared to other popular blogging softwares and sites.

The latest version (2.9) of self-hosted WordPress (wordpress.org) is now available for download at wordpress.org. These are the new features included in this version.

1. Built-in Image Editor

Finally now WordPress comes with Image Editor. You can crop, rotate, flip and scale your images online without leaving the wordpress control panel with few clicks. This feature will be very useful for the people who regularly include a pictures from other sites. In normal case you have to download the picture, edit it and upload it. But now you can do all basic image editing inside WordPress itself.

To open the image editor click on the media link in WordPress Dashboard, click on edit link near to the image and then click on the Edit Image button.

In the Image Editor you can crop the image, rotate left or right, flip vertically and horizontally and scale image to a particular size. Also you can Undo and Redo your actions.

2. Easy Video Embed with oEmbed

In WordPress 2.9 you can embed a video by just pasting the one line video URL, rest things WordPress will take care.

For eg if you want to insert a video from Youtube then you have to just copy and paste the Youtube URL(youtube.com/watch?v=xxx) – no need to copy the entire embed code. With the help oEmbed API, WordPress will get full details about the video like height, weight, original url, author, provide etc.

3. Batch Plugin update

With this new feature you can update up to 10 plugins at once and with the new plugin compatibility check feature you can find out the compatibility of a plugin with latest wordpress releases.

5. Global Undo

Now with WordPress 2.9 you can Undo a delete and bring back a deleted post or comment from the trash so no need to worry about accidental delete.

These are some major features included with WordPress 2.9 in user point of view. Apart from these WordPress team included many internal technical features and bugs correction with this this latest release.

If you love Worpress then you will definitely like these features too. As per the WordPress blog features like Image Editor are just a beginning of a new wave so we can expect lot more from the undisputed leader in blogging software.

As per the latest comScore report the Social media giant Facebook reached a major milestone in November 2009 by surpassing 10 crore US visitors/month limit.

This is a major achievement for Facebook because it is the first time a Social Networking site crossing this limit. In November 2009 Facebook displaced AOL and reached the fourth position. Google, Yahoo and Microsoft sites are in the first 3 positions respectively.

Facebook almost doubled it’s US visitors in last one year and now facebook accounts for 5.5% of all time spent online in the US (last year it was 2.5%).

More details available comScore Site

Twitter yesterday released "Top Twitter Trends of 2009”.

Iran and Iran Election were dominated the News section in 2009. Other major hot topics discussed in news section were Swine Flu, Gaza and AIG.

In Technology Google Wave was the hottest topic followed by Snow Leopard, Tweetdeck and Windows 7.

In movies Harry Potter, New Moon, District 9 and Paranormal Activity were the top discussed keywords and Michael Jackson was the hot topic in the people’s section followed by Susan Boyle and Adam Lambert.

More details available at Top Twitter Trends

As per a latest report by comScore India’s Online News industry is growing at a very rapid rate attracting more and more audience every month.

As per the report online news site in India attracted 1.58 crore visitors (44% of total online population in India) in October 2009, a 37 per cent jump from same period last year.

Total unique visitors in Oct 2009 was 3.6 crore, a 16% jump from Oct 08.

As per the comScore report Yahoo News is the most popular news site in India followed by New York Times, Times of India and Oneindia.

41.6 lakh unique visitors visited Yahoo News, 38.5 lakh people visited New York Times and 26.26 lakh unique visitors for Times of India site.

Oneindia.in reported the highest growth (148%) on an year to year basic followed by Times of India (78%) and New York Times (67%).

Full list available at comScore.com