Posted by sharath on July 14, 2010 ·
In a discussion on the Google Webmaster forum Googler John Mueller warns for the use of the noscript element. This element can be used in combination with Javascript in order to display information when the browser does not support scripting or it is disabled by the user.
John indicates that the use of the noscript tag suspect happens with search engines because the element in the past has been [...]
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Posted by sharath on June 21, 2010 ·
Everyone has a Google Account, but just in case, if you do not have a Google account, the company has just launched a new site for anyone who wants to try Google Docs can do so without having an account. The exact address would docs.google.com/demo.
From this new move Google aims to capture as many users as possible and compete more strongly with Microsoft Office.
On opening the demo site, we would [...]
Posted by sharath on June 13, 2010 ·
I’ve always had this question in my mind. Which search engine do people use if Google fails?. According to the latest study of Chitika , Google users do not find what you seek try again first on Yahoo and Ask.com and then Bing.
The following graph, we can see the percentages of search engines that Google users use when they find something wrong with the Google Search:
The study took 40,000 [...]
Posted by sharath on June 2, 2010 ·
The latest study by Chitika, the first search result on Google receives twice the clicks than the second result and three times the third.
According to data gathered in searches of Google, the first results received for 35% of clicks, the second gets 17% and third 12%. But above all that the biggest leap of visits to appear on the first page of results. The pages at # 10, the end of the first [...]
Posted by sharath on March 24, 2010 ·
According the reports from Statcounter.com, yesterday google.co.hk (the Google domain for Hong Kong) had an all time high number of page visits.
The two curves represent the growing competition between search engines – Baidu, Yahoo, Bing and Google. While search engines like yahoo, bing, ask etc stand on something above 0 to 0.3% of the traffic source, Google and Baidu stand above 45% of [...]
Posted by sharath on March 15, 2010 ·
Only if Eric Schmidt and Steve Jobs were to fight in the real world. This is going to be the scenario on how it would look.
Steve Jobs vs Eric Schmidt
Photo Credit:Daniel Adel
Posted by sharath on January 30, 2010 ·
We’ve all heard about these two free hosting services and they are extremely popular on the Internet. Any user can store photographs, text or songs, videos or share files instantly. They use a very simple system or sharing \ distributing. All we need to download a file from rapidshare or megaupload is a simple link but how do we find them in the database?.
These websites are not search engines [...]
Posted by sharath on December 27, 2009 ·
While designing the Google office the employees wished to maintain a small-company atmosphere and leave a Swedish fingerprint on the space, all while combining several Swedish offices into a centralized location for engineers and the marketing and sales divisions.
The office is filled with everything we know to be Google, though with a bit less of the very extravagant elements the Zurich space contained. [...]
Posted by sharath on December 17, 2009 ·
I’ve heard and used so many tools to convert text to speech, now Google has a new Translate-to-text tool using with you can translate any text to speech instantly and get an .mp3 file of the same.
With the new Google Translate text to Speech tool, it’s now easy to translate any text to speech.
When you translate anything from the Google TTS service, you automatically will be prompted to download [...]
Posted by sharath on December 8, 2009 ·
Bing integrated the twitter results into its search results first. And now according to Google, realtime search is now live (Whoa, they did it too)….
Google gets information from twitter, from more than a dozen new search technologies that enable us to monitor more than a billion documents and process hundreds of millions of real-time changes each day. Google also made it official that it has [...]