Google Plus - A Threat to Facebook

Googlehas launched what everyone is calling "Facebook's new competitor", to face the Internet's number one and most preferred social networking website, Facebook. People are saying that this may start a newwar, against all othersocial networkingsites includingFacebookwhich has more than 600 million users!

Google has tried its best in the past at social networking but ultimately failed to make a difference on the web, and so here comesGoogle Plus! It provides users with features that we experience on various other sites such asFacebook, Twitter, Flickr, Foursquare, etc. The latest features available on the website includestatus updating, photo sharing, video sharing and even video chatting! Even though Google Plus is currently in the so-calledinvitation-only-registrationmode, it has already become a sensation with a huge number of invites being sent. It seems to be Google's "strategy", to create hype by exploiting users and exploring the eagerness they have for its service.

There are onlyfour silos(home, photos, profile and circles) to click on. Though games such as Farmville are not available on the website. The website has a few features similar to that of Facebook, includingsharing, editing, deleting photos and videos. Users also have an option to mute' the annoying conversations on their stream. The application for iOS is available and is also functional for the Android platform, but is stillnot available for Symbianusers, which is a sad. The new "circles" concept is pretty interesting which Google has included, that allows users to create their own social spheres.

Google Plus is something really innovative and new from Google.It integrates all of Google's features into one social network, making the experience a whole lot better. Facebook recently announced the "Skype Video integration" into their social network, which shows that Facebook will do anything to stay at the top and remain the most preferred social network' on the Internet. Things haven't been going too well in the past few months atMountain Viewfor Google, and so, Google's "top-secret" project has finally been revealed, and this may bethe end of Facebook Dominance.

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Search Google Smartly

1.Force keywords

Some times, not all words mentioned in the Google search bar come up in the search results. This is especially true for searches with many keywords. It suffices to say that its Googles way of giving you the most relevant results. To force a certain keyword or phrase to be included in the search. Try to use +(plus) sign. For example, Typing in Dumb Little Man(without quotes) will bring some results without one or more of those words. If you need the word Esperto (which is a common word and hence Google may leave it out) type Dumb+Little+Man.

2.Either/or

Google normally searches for pages that contain all the words you type in the search box, but if you want pages that have one term or another (or both), use the OR operator or use the | symbol (pipe symbol) to save you a keystroke. [dumb | little | man]

3.Quotes

If you want to search for an exact phrase, use quotes. ["dumb little man"] will only find that exact phrase. [dumb "little man"] will find pages that contain the word dumb and the exact phrase little man.

4.Not

If you dont want a term or phrase, use the - symbol. [-dumb little man] will return pages that contain little and man but that dont contain dumb.

5.Similar terms (Synonym Search)

Use the ~ symbol to return similar terms. [~dumb little man -dumb] will get you pages that contain funny little man and stupid little man but not dumb little man.

6.Wildcard The * symbol is a wildcard. This is useful if youre trying to find the lyrics to a song, but cant remember the exact lyrics. [Cant * me love lyrics] will return the Beatles song youre looking for.

7.File types

Use filetype: Searchstring before you search query. For Example filetype: pdf will fetch you only PDFs. filetype: pdf Five Point someone will fetch you all PDFs related with Fivepoint Someone novel. You can use this for any file types including ppt,doc,xls or anything you want.

8.Advanced search

If you cant remember any of these operators, you can always use Googles advanced search. Google has an excellent advanced search facility to help refine your searching. Rather than replicate this here, a PDF document can be downloaded at [/searchguide.html]. Click on Advanced Search Tips in advanced Search Screen for more tips.

9.Cached pages (Find lost pages)

Simply click on the cache link (at the bottom of each search result), and that will retrieve the last saved version of the page that had failed to show some times. This is a powerful, extremely helpful tool when you come across old pages from Web sites that no longer exist or are no longer maintained. These are stored in Google Servers. If some websites takes longer time to load we can open the content through Cache option.

10.Excluding Unwanted Results

The - (minus) sign is used to exclude certain words from your search. If you want to search information about 3.0 SoapUI Version Details, youll probably get a lot of results about all the soapUI Software versions. Instead of 3.0 soapUI try 3.0. soapUI -2.5 -2.0 -1.7 -1.6J.

11.Calculator

One of the handiest uses of Google, type in a quick calculation in the search box and get an answer. Its faster than calling up your computers calculator in most cases. Use the +, -, *, / symbols and parentheses to do a simple equation.

12.Numrange

This little-known feature searches for a range of numbers. For example, ["best books 2002..2007] will return lists of best books for each of the years from 2002 to 2007 (note the two periods between the two numbers).

13.Unit converter

Use Google for a quick conversion, from yards to meters for example, or different currency: [12 meters in yards]

14.Definitions

Use the define: operator to get a quick definition. [define:dumb] will give you a whole host of definitions from different sources, with links.

15.Putting Document titles to use

allintitlesearches for pages that have all your search words in the title of the web page. So if you want sites that have microsoft and knowledge in the title type in allintitle: (space) microsoft knowledge.or even try allintitle: fun net..[Without quotes]

16.Searching by URLs

You can also search for terms that occur in the URLs of documents. For example, if you want to find the word mac in the sites that have apple in the URL, where mac may or may not be in the URL, use this inurl:applemacthe word apple will then be in the URL. Note that there should be no space between inurl and apple.

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Internet Products Are Changing How we Watch TV - Hulu Plus, Netflix And Google TV

Imagine paying $50 a month to get a few TV channels you want, amongst hundreds you don't, just to view a few programs that interest you; all at a set time you have no control over. This has become the norm for watching TV, but things are changing. There are various internet products which are challenging cable TV and how we view content. The methods may differ, but these internet products and services provide consumers with an alternative viewing experience.

Services like Google TV, Hulu (which just recent unveiled its Plus service), and Netflix on Demand allow consumers to choose from a wide selection of content options, to view online programs on every increasing larger TV screens, or go mobile with various mobile devices. They allow you to view content when it suits you and not have to rely on TV recordings. And with the case of Google TV you can take advantage of great interactive features and functions.

Hulu Plus, is a $10 per month plan which provides several options for on demand viewing. It has a larger selection of TV shows, mostly from its three corporate partners ABC, Fox and NBC. But it is no longer just recent TV shows and clips, you have whole series both past and present to choose from. This will not only be available on your computer. Gone are the days of trying to connect your computer to your Television. Hulu will have software running on Samsung TVs, a number of Blu-ray Players and soon gaming consoles such as PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. If you want Hulu to be mobile, it will appear via an app on iPhone and the iPad.

Netflix is another $10 per month streaming service which can be found on most new Blu-ray Players. It is just one of the many pay per view movie services that will allow you to stream HD new releases directly to your TV for a rental fee per showing. Others include Vudu, Blockbuster on Demand and Amazon Video on Demand. By streaming content directly to your TV with these services you are effectively removing your cable box from your home viewing experience. And then there is Google TV. It is different from other internet TV services, in that it incorporates the whole of the Internet. Based on an open platform, the Google's Android operating System; Google TV devices will allow consumers to search the internet to find video, music and other related content. You will not be confined to just cable programming. It has a large set of interactive features such as Picture-in-Picture. Allowing you to look up statistics while watching the World Series, chat to other viewers from all over the world, or even to shop online.

Cable companies and Cable TV will not be disappearing anytime soon. They to are trying to evolve and adapt to the latest trends. Adding more content on their Web Sites and trying to bring TV content to different devices. Only time will tell if this strategy will work. But more and more people are saying goodbye to cable and relying totally on online services. According to an April report by Convergence Consulting Group, 800,000 U.S. households got rid of their Cable TV service. Many predict this number will rise even more in the coming years. Seems consumers want to view their shows without any constraints; not having to rely on schedules or a cable box in their Entertainment Theater. They want their shows on their phones, pads, gaming consoles, Blu-ray Players, and on demand.

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Is Google A Neural Network?

How big is the Web? The last numbers I saw (Feb 2010) estimated 750 million websites worldwide, plus 200 million blogs. There are of course other domains which Google scans. Other figures suggest 25 billion indexed webpages (Netcraft March 2009), but that number will have grown a lot since then. In this context, we take 'Google' to be a combination of a search engine and an instantaneous results set across all web site and blog resources worldwide.

Here, I use the term neural network not in the strict Artificial Intelligence sense, but in a more general sense.

Consider a simple model of the human brain. It has a set of data inputs (visual, auditory, chemical - taste and smell, pressure - touch, thermal, inertial - the ear canals) and a memory structure. Data input is captured in short term memory. Brain processing adds context making it information, then sorts and filters it, and then moves it to long term memory. This move to long term memory is thought to happen during sleep and dreaming.

The short and long term memory takes the form of synapses (junctions between brain cells). More input on a given memory strengthens the relevant synapses - that is repeated exposure to a given input strengthens the particular memory. For example, the more we taste bananas, then the easier it is to 'recreate' the taste in our minds.

We know that as we age, the more salient memories (stronger synapses from earlier in our lives) are easier to retrieve, short term memory becomes less efficient and recent (but long term) memories are difficult to retrieve.

So, moving on, where was I? Oh yes, I remember now.

Our ability to build new synapses falls off with age in most people. Autonomic responses (e.g. breathing) use 'hard wired' memory in the hypothalamus which is a very primitive part of the brain structure, akin to 'read-only' memory in a computer.

So, consider Google to have a set of data inputs - primarily the bot/crawler data gathering, but also input about the 'popularity' of web pages as gathered through use of its search engine by users. The data from these bots about a given web page - for example keyword relevance of content, the number of external links to the page and so on, is converted into Google's proprietary and secret page rank scores and provides a 'salience' for the analogous or proxy Google synapse. The analogous Google synapse is simply (I assume as I am not privy to Google's design) a database row for the website/page with the aforementioned data items (including the page rank/scoring factors) in the columns, site map entries and site refresh rate and search history information. Plus, no doubt, lots more as they are avid data gatherers.

Of course the analogy with the human brain breaks down with time, as we would not expect the Google model to suffer from a capacity limitation or by a constraint imposed by 'technology' (as happens with the brain when we age and the synapse building processes become less efficient).

What makes this analogy interesting? Well, consider how we might wish to add to human brain capacity and extend its efficiency - we are getting into William Gibson territory now (he was the author who invented the term 'cyberspace'). Why plug additional memory chips into the brain, when all that is needed is a wireless chip connecting to Google? Google Translator - no problem, speak a new language instantly! Science fiction? I don't think it is that far away (less than 50 years I guess). The potential social consequences are quite frightening to consider.

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Make your next Graphic Design Job Your Last. How to retire wealthy in a few easy steps

We've all dreamed of spending our working days reclinining back in a deck chair eating cheese sandwiches on an overcast summers day. But then we remember the mortgage/kids/wifes $500 a day drug habit and our fantasies turn to dust. It doesn't have to be this way. Here at we show in 5 easy steps how you can quit that lousy Graphic Design job and spend the rest of your life living in easy street.

Step 1: Think yourself in a better place and low and behold it will happen

This is your first step towards financial freedom. Imagine if you will yourself sat upon a huge pile of money, flinging it in the air with gay abandon and why not? Congratulations you've just made the first step towards making this a reality. Forget the graphic designer career you had mapped out. Let's join the idle rich instead.

Step 2: Tell the boss what you think of him and burn those bridges!

Now its time to get some payback. Remember the time your design studio manager had you stay late and manually key in that 1oo page farming brochure text by hand and then laughed at you in your face? Right, we'll show him who's boss. A good way to be forcibly removed from the office and earn some extra kudos from your fellow graphic design employees is to take a dump and leave it festering away in a drawer in the bosses desk.Just wait for his reaction when he smells that sick stunt. You're history.

Step 3: When you hit rock bottom the only way is up, up and away

No job = No money right? Wrong you putz. How do you think the tramps and beggars fill there days outside sainsburys? That's right - drinking and robbing. It isn't absolutely necessary to pick up a drink and drug habit at this stage but it isn't going to harm your chances of success. Now would also be a good opportunity to get rid of the other half if you happen to have one. A spot of domestic violence after hitting the bottle is usually enough encouragement. Hey Presto, one more tiresome burdon off your back!

Step 4: Remember keep your vision and your dreams will come true

At every stage in this degenerate journey, never lose sight of that image we visuallised in step one of yourself sitting astride a huge pile of banknotes. They can take away your dignity but not your dreams. After several years of eeking out a living as a street bum its time to get this show on the road. Think hard about your previous day to day life, was there someone in your remote family or circle of friends who had a large stash of cash readily disposable? It's time to pay them a visit with cap in hand.

Step 5: Invest wisely and you can say hello to a life of wanton abandon

Now after securing your large sum of cash from your chosen aquaintence, its prudent not to blow it all in one go on 200ft gold statues of yourself or buying an amusement park complete with zoo. No, you don't want to be going back to the nine to five graphic design day job do you? There are a thousand ways to invest your cash so that it will sit pretty and continue giving you a steady stream or revenue for a long time. Property for example is 'as safe as houses' or maybe put it all in a high interest savings account. It's taken a long time to reach your goal and hopefully the pain, ill health and loneliness have been worth it.

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Submitting Your Blog to Search Engines

The most prominent web search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN, each entail different methods of accepting a blog. If you submit a blog according to the appropriate method to each respective search engine, you can just ping for your blog whenever you post it. Discussed below are the methods of blog submission to aforementioned top ranked search engines.

Google requires the creation of a sitemap when you submit a blog to this search engine. This eliminates the need to resubmit the same blog. All that is necessary then is that the site map remains updated. Additionally, if a sitemap plug in is installed, a site map will be automatically be updated for certain blogs like Word press. The plug in will also alert Google to the fact that the site has been altered.

It is necessary to note that when submitting blogs to Google, you submit your blog site maps to blog directories that feed Google the results for its blog search. Sites like Feed Shot are quite user friendly for web site map submissions to blog directories. All that would be needed to be done then is that you ping your blog to maintain it at these directories.

Yahoo differs from Google is blog submission primarily due to the fact that it accepts a site feed rather than a sitemap. The blog site feed can be made at the first block. It is also advantageous to submit blogs to a My Yahoo page, as this can expedite the addition of blogs, and get them indexed in Yahoo's blog search.

It should be noted that blog submission to both Google and Yahoo requires the creation of an account which is free of charge.

Finally, we come to MSN, the methodology of blog submission to which, although is direct, and does not require that you have an account. However, the blogs need to be submitted manually to MSN in order to ensure that your blogs are successfully submitted. However they are ways available with MSN that can result in your entire blog showing in its site results. As a result, a lot of potential traffic would be drawn to your work.

As mentioned at the beginning of this article, once you have submitted your blog to the three prominent search engines, i.e. Google, Yahoo, and MSN, you can simply ping each time to post a new blog. It may be worth noting though that there are several blog directories, some of which may or may not be pertinent to your blog. In order to be optimally noticed, you should submit your blog to all those blog directories that are appropriate for your subject.

If the above described factors are well known, you would not only be able to submit blogs, articles, or any other content, but also ensure that your submissions attract an optimal number of web surfers to them! Happy Blogging!

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Google Love Automated Blogging.how Automated Blogging Work?

What Is Automated Blogging?

Automated blogging is a feature which you can post how many blog content you wanted even not in front of computer. You just need to setup quantity of post that you need to send out each day and the automated blogging software operated base on your setup schedule.

Beneficial Of Automated Blogging

If you are professional blogger which manage several blog with the same time, then you may consider automated blogging system where can save you a lot of times. Besides that, you can also gain benefit by create an automated blogging to optimize your work. Below are benefits that an autoblogger can do for you.

1. Save a lot of work. Automated blog posting software can work these tasks for you. Imagine you not need to upload photos, video and without figure what you need to post in your blog content. If you have manage several blog in same times, you definitely can save a lot of work by doing the redundancy tasks over and over again.

2. Automated blog align with SEO (search engine optimization) concept. Automated blogging software designed to suit the SEO base concept which tag along with high search keywords to optimize blog page. With this, your blog will be easily spotted by major search engine crawler like google, yahoo and bing, will display in google first page in short period of time.

3. Time saving. By setup an automated blogging system, you can let the system work for you instead of spending whole day creating blogs and posting it. Now you can use your time in other task of internet marketing or have more time with your family and your love one.

4. More exposure on your online publicity. Auto blog system capable to generate content efficiently and fast. In this case, people will get better exposure on your work. With this, you can have higher page rank on your blog and broader scope when it comes to advertising and promotions.

5. Work as you like.Automated blogging system work as you wish to, you can setup the posting timing whether you want your blog site to be updated daily, weekly or which ever schedule you prefer, autoblogs are capable of keeping with this schedule.

How To Make Money With Automated Blog

As mentioned above, with the automated blog posting will effectively increase organic traffic flow into your blog and capable to generate x10 times more exposure & publicity on internet community but to make money from blogging you need to monetize it

1. Get Yourself A Google Adsense Account

Google adsense is a free program which allow targeted google ads display on your blog content pages and earn from valid clicks or impressions. If your blog has huge traffic flow, you can easily earn $10-$100 per day by using google adsense. If you use blogger.com, it had a monitize template where you can place adsense id and automatically hook up with adsense ads. You can refer Top 30 Highest Paying Google Adsense Keywords List to let you have better idea on which keyword that you should apply to get higher adsense earning.

2. Use Your Blog As Affiliate Marketing Platform

Another way to increase your blogging income by using promoting affiliate product in your blog. Affiliate marketing is a excellent ways to make massive income money with blogging by selling other people stuff online and you earn the commission from it. Some company even offer over 60% commission return per sales, which mean $100 per sales you got $60.Affiliate companies such as clickbank, LinkShare and CommissionJunction offering high commissions for promoting their products and services. Amazon Associate given 5-6% commission return rate per sales, you can start selling Amazon product in your blog and earn money from Amazon.com.

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