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Google: India ranks second in education-related searches With over half of the Indian internet population in the age bracket of 18-35, India has raced to the second position globally when it comes to absolute volume of search queries related to education. India was ranked eighth in 2008 and is now behind only to the US, according to a study by Google India on 'students on the web'.  The study was a combination of Google search query patterns and an offline research conducted by TNS Australia on behalf of Google India. The study revealed that over 60% Indian students, who have access to Internet, use it as their first source to research for information related to educational courses and institutes.  Education-related queries on Google in India are growing at over 46% year on year - highlighting the strong demand for information on institutes and courses that are available in the country. Out of all education related search queries on Googl...

Facebook last week announced its first set of numbers as a public company, and with it came the news that the number of users who access the site is inching closer to 1 billion. The company said it had 955 million active monthly users as of June 30, up 29 percent from a year earlier. Facebook also released some interesting statistics about "fake accounts". The company estimates that as many as 8.7 percent of those accounts, or a tad over 83 million, are fake. Facebook further breaks these accounts into what it calls "duplicate" accounts and "false" accounts. Duplicate accounts are the ones that users maintain in addition to their principal account. False accounts are further  categorized  into two - user-misclassified accounts and undesirable accounts. User-misclassified accounts are ones where users have created personal profiles for a business, organisation, or non-human entity such as a pet. These entities are allowed to exist on Facebo...