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Google Plus Profiles Begin to Show up in Search Results

Profiles of Google Plus users are being displayed in the search results. Google + is the new social network launched by the Internet giant Google. It consists of photo, short description,links to other social networking site mentioned by you in your plus profile. It will be intresting to see if Google makes public posts of users [...]

Innocent way to spam Twitter

We all loved Christopher Nolan’s movie Inception. It has been trending on twitter even before it released. Now think how to take advantage of people tweeting and searching about the movie Inception. Simple, use the word as a part of sentence and promote it. The Last Exorcism movie makers have used this trick to good [...]

Google to track mouse movements to deliver relevant results

Google has been granted a patent to a technology that will track mouse movements to deliver relevant results. The title is “System and method for modulating search relevancy using pointer activity monitoring”. Here is how the abstract for the patent describes it: A method and system of modulating search result relevancy use various types of [...]

After related searches, Google displaying related ads

It has been quite a while since Google have started displaying related searches for the keywords you have searched. I just noticed that they are showing related ads (Sponsored Links) for the keywords you searched. It is a interesting feature for Adwords advertisers who can target users searching Google using related keywords This might be [...]

Google’s loss is Yahoo, Ask.com’s gain

According to advertising network Chitika, when Googlers fail to find what they are searching for , they move on to yahoo, Ask.com to search for it. The interesting part is that Googlers  prefer Ask more than much fancied Microsoft’s Bing. Yahoo grabs nearly 50% of the share while ask.com 30%. Bing manages only 16%. However, [...]

Finally the time has come for you to learn basics of web designing and programming

Free blogging platforms like Blogger and WordPress have been a boon to many people who had little or no knowledge about web designing an programming. It was just add gadgets/widgets or search Google to find minor hacks or tweaks for things these platforms didn’t provide any direct help. However, this is going to change. The [...]

After China, Search Engines are bowing to the Indian Government and censoring content

After China, it is India’s turn to censor the internet. Bing and Yahoo have started censoring sexually explicit content on the internet. You cannot search for anything that is related to vulgarity. You can’t search for “sex discrimination” because it has the keyword “sex”in it. Yahoo only censors images while Bing censors even the web results. [...]

Future of Search is Real Time

The big boys are slogging it out to gain large pie of the internet search market. Google dominates it, with Yahoo and Microsoft trying to make a dent in it’s market share. Microsoft made quite some buzz with Bing. All these search engines search for web documents and try to give the WebPages on the [...]