links for 2006-01-24

• Google Back on Top as the World’s Most Influential Brand; Skype Places Third
  Based on “Which brand had the most impact on our lives in 2005?”,
  Google > Apple > Skype > Starbucks > Ikea

  But based on “conomic brand value, the dark science of assigning a financial value to brands”, it’s
  Coca-Cola > Microsoft > IBM > GE > Intel

  (tags: biz brand)
• Smart Mobs: China’s Internet demographics
  china internet demographics in 2005
  (tags: Tech demographics)
• TechCrunch » The TechCrunch Products Index
  extracting product from blog contents
  (tags: Tech blog)
• CyberWyre » Data Mining using Google
  feature lists of search engine
  (tags: Tech search)