People are searching a lot these days. Most of the search engines are flooded with keyword searches. The Google search index has new sites added frequently and new queries.
Here are the top 25 keywords searched on Google.com Sep 7, 2009
1. alex and derek king
2. jacory harris
3. obama speech to kids
4. florida state football
5. christian ponder
6. bay bridge update
7. caroline wozniacki breasts
8. president obama school speech
9. fsu football
10. nikki catsouras car crash photos
11. miami hurricanes
12. wozniacki tennis
13. university of miami football
14. kelly stables
15. bob barker
16. stepanek
17. melanie oudin boyfriend
18. joe piscopo
19. us open bracket
20. nicole vaidisova
21. concert for george
22. radek stepanek
23. donny most
24. fantasy football week 1 projections
25. carrot top steroids
Celebrity search is among the top searches including president Barack Obama.
These Google Trends provides insights into broad search patterns.
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Top 10 Social Networking Websites & Forums
With UK’s leading social networking site Bebo.com, previously acquired by AOL(America On Line) in March 2008, entering India's online activity, lets checkout the US market share capitalization of Top Social Networking sites:
Note: The Hitwise data featured is based on US market share of visits as defined by the IAB, which is the percentage of online traffic to the domain or category, from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US internet users. Hitwise measures more than 1 million unique websites on a daily basis, including sub-domains of larger websites. Hitwise categorizes websites into industries on the basis of subject matter and content, as well as market orientation and competitive context. The market share of visits percentage does not include traffic for all sub-domains of certain websites that could be reported on separately.
Note: The Hitwise data featured is based on US market share of visits as defined by the IAB, which is the percentage of online traffic to the domain or category, from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US internet users. Hitwise measures more than 1 million unique websites on a daily basis, including sub-domains of larger websites. Hitwise categorizes websites into industries on the basis of subject matter and content, as well as market orientation and competitive context. The market share of visits percentage does not include traffic for all sub-domains of certain websites that could be reported on separately.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Top Mobile Search Keywords : 2008 data
- Yahoo! Top Mobile Searches 2008
- MySpace
- Craigslist
- Movies
- Weather
- Olympics
- The Dark Knight
- Kim Kardashian
- eBay
- AIG
- AOL Mobile Search Top Mobile Searches 2008
- MySpace
- AIM
- iPhone
- MocoSpace
- Craigslist
- Weather
- Free Ringtones
- MapQuest
- Match.com
- Google Mobile Top Mobile Searches 2008 – Google India
- orkut
- yahoo
- waptrick
- gmail
- games
- katrina kaif
- rediffmail
- yahoomail
- namitha
- The Yahoo! and AOL lists have the following four terms in common:
- craigslist
- myspace
- weather
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
SEOFunda - Free SEO Tools for everyone live!
The much awaited launch from Newfunda conglomerate is live now:
Here is the release document
---------
We are proud to inform you about our latest venture, the new entry to
NewFunda Conglomerate :
http://www.SEOFunda.com
Why the site is launched?
You are aware that NewFunda is a SEO ( Search Engine Optimization) and
Online Promotion Provider.
We were getting a lot of enquiries to provide basic SEO informationa
and help by webmasters ( website owners). This site will help all of
them and those who are keen to know some interesting facts about their
website like :
Domain Age
PageRank
Traffic Graphs
+ others
--------------------
Shoot your feedback about the site and your experience here!
Here is the release document
---------
We are proud to inform you about our latest venture, the new entry to
NewFunda Conglomerate :
http://www.SEOFunda.com
Why the site is launched?
You are aware that NewFunda is a SEO ( Search Engine Optimization) and
Online Promotion Provider.
We were getting a lot of enquiries to provide basic SEO informationa
and help by webmasters ( website owners). This site will help all of
them and those who are keen to know some interesting facts about their
website like :
Domain Age
PageRank
Traffic Graphs
+ others
--------------------
Shoot your feedback about the site and your experience here!
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Microsoft Sun Partnership for Search!
Microsoft has tied up with Sun Microsystems for search toolbar.
Here is the complete news from Reuters:
Here is the complete news from Reuters:
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Monday that it reached a Web search deal with Sun Microsystems Inc, the latest partnership struck by Microsoft aimed at chipping away at the dominance of Google Inc.
As part of this agreement, users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser who download Sun's Java technology platform will be given the option to also download the MSN Toolbar from where users can directly access the company's search engine.
Earlier this year, Microsoft also reached an agreement with Hewlett-Packard Co, the world's largest personal computer maker, to place a toolbar on new PCs in the United States and Canada starting in January.
"This deal will expose Live Search to millions more Internet users and drive increased volume for our search advertisers," said Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of the Online Audience Business at Microsoft, in a statement.
Striking distribution deals are one part of Microsoft's strategy to close the gap on market leader Google. Microsoft said competition for these types of deals is intense and that the company had to outbid several rivals for the Sun deal.
Sun said the Java platform sits on more than 800 million personal computers around the world, or on 91 percent of Internet-connected PCs worldwide. The Java Runtime Environment is downloaded tens of millions times every month, Sun said.
Google's U.S. Web search market share reached 63 percent in August versus a 19.6 percent for Yahoo Inc and 8.3 percent for Microsoft, according to comScore.
Source : Reuters
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Top 4 Traps by Fake SEO's and Search Marketers
Checkout the Fake SEO case studies, its very common to lose money when you dont know where to put your faith and trust in...
1. Guaranteed inclusion in Google
The most killer line you can observe in most of the so-called Great SEO's in any part of the world.
Some say we will make your site listed in Google's Search engine ( some go beyond and say we will do it for Yahoo! and MSN too.+ 100000000 other search engines)
Remember the term inclusion ( means your site is there in the search engine's index) and ranking ( get top positions for targetted keywords) are totally different and used to confuse the potential client.
The fact is if you have a site , Google will be crawling it as per DNS (Domain Name Server) Updates. Most of the webmasters or net surfers dont know the fact that Google is also an Authorized Domain Registrar, meaning that it has the power to search and crawl the WHOIS database as per wish.
There is a concept of "Sandbox" with search engine (can assure for Google), which may delay the indexing of the site for some time, a new site therefore does not show the instant it is registered.
If your site is still not indexed you can submit a Google Sitemap via Google Webmaster tools.
2. Top 10 Ranking in 24 Hours
Is it a magic trick? well read the complete story first before following these SEO gurus. They have some "special" terminology for that and also have some "conditions", which you will come to know only after you pay.
I have checked with some sites:
One says, the top ranking you will get is for the keyword " Pravin Shivarkar is the best SEO in India". When asked about 24 hours ... well they say, they will submit the site and then "influence" the search engines to rank me for the keyword ; well is it a keyword anyway ;)
One site goes beyond the logical ( Sorry....) imagination limit to say that, they are not talking about the organic ranking, they mean the top ranking is for the Sponsored results ( generally we get on the right hand bar in google) and they will rank your site ( here the really mean a paid advertisement)
3. Do you want guaranteed search engine ranking on Google, Yahoo , MSN?
Who will say no, unless and until he dont know why it is all about ...
The advertisement copy DO NOT Say which ranking, what rank to be exact.
We might have seen for years that if you link a particular site via n number of backlinks ( one way linking) then it is considered that the site is important by Trust vote, which some Black Hat SEO's do try to experiment or spam.
4. Guaranteed 100000000 visitors !!!
If you dont want to know who is coming from which site, or you want to show your client the sudden "Growth" that has incurred because of your "Magical" SEO techniques yesterday , this can be an ideal situation to be in with your money running out of your pocket...........
There are many "businessmen" who buy 1000+ domains and put some "engine" to show some data on each of those "websites". So do employ people (Data entry operators) to add ( copy and paste) content on these sites. Now most of them are directories with whatever subject in this world you can imagine of. So if you are selling for a washing soap and are getting visits from college library sites ( well can be good no doubt) are you expecting any sales after that?
Its all about asking exact questions in life and while dealing with Online Search Optimizers and Marketers!
1. Guaranteed inclusion in Google
The most killer line you can observe in most of the so-called Great SEO's in any part of the world.
Some say we will make your site listed in Google's Search engine ( some go beyond and say we will do it for Yahoo! and MSN too.+ 100000000 other search engines)
Remember the term inclusion ( means your site is there in the search engine's index) and ranking ( get top positions for targetted keywords) are totally different and used to confuse the potential client.
The fact is if you have a site , Google will be crawling it as per DNS (Domain Name Server) Updates. Most of the webmasters or net surfers dont know the fact that Google is also an Authorized Domain Registrar, meaning that it has the power to search and crawl the WHOIS database as per wish.
There is a concept of "Sandbox" with search engine (can assure for Google), which may delay the indexing of the site for some time, a new site therefore does not show the instant it is registered.
If your site is still not indexed you can submit a Google Sitemap via Google Webmaster tools.
2. Top 10 Ranking in 24 Hours
Is it a magic trick? well read the complete story first before following these SEO gurus. They have some "special" terminology for that and also have some "conditions", which you will come to know only after you pay.
I have checked with some sites:
One says, the top ranking you will get is for the keyword " Pravin Shivarkar is the best SEO in India". When asked about 24 hours ... well they say, they will submit the site and then "influence" the search engines to rank me for the keyword ; well is it a keyword anyway ;)
One site goes beyond the logical ( Sorry....) imagination limit to say that, they are not talking about the organic ranking, they mean the top ranking is for the Sponsored results ( generally we get on the right hand bar in google) and they will rank your site ( here the really mean a paid advertisement)
3. Do you want guaranteed search engine ranking on Google, Yahoo , MSN?
Who will say no, unless and until he dont know why it is all about ...
The advertisement copy DO NOT Say which ranking, what rank to be exact.
We might have seen for years that if you link a particular site via n number of backlinks ( one way linking) then it is considered that the site is important by Trust vote, which some Black Hat SEO's do try to experiment or spam.
4. Guaranteed 100000000 visitors !!!
If you dont want to know who is coming from which site, or you want to show your client the sudden "Growth" that has incurred because of your "Magical" SEO techniques yesterday , this can be an ideal situation to be in with your money running out of your pocket...........
There are many "businessmen" who buy 1000+ domains and put some "engine" to show some data on each of those "websites". So do employ people (Data entry operators) to add ( copy and paste) content on these sites. Now most of them are directories with whatever subject in this world you can imagine of. So if you are selling for a washing soap and are getting visits from college library sites ( well can be good no doubt) are you expecting any sales after that?
Its all about asking exact questions in life and while dealing with Online Search Optimizers and Marketers!
Monday, August 4, 2008
Comparing Online Marketing (SEM) with Organic Search Optimization (SEO) with Stats
Most of the startup online marketers and webmasters which are given additional responsibility to promote the designed website along the internet ( may or may not be a niche market), get confused with the balance to keep in SEO ( search engine Optimization) and SEM ( Search Engine Marketing) .
The one who takes a right decision, defers case to case basic, wins!!
Here is some data to help you in decision making about organic and paid website promotions.
The year on year data (2004 - 2008) with Google Trends (GT) suggests, SEO or organic search has never been so keen to compete with the online marketing, if we rely on the available results with us via the GT Interface for the searches on SEO and SEM
Regionwise India holds most of the searches with SEO and SEM, interestingly Japan ranks second and philippines the third. The searches and the Outsourcing SEO work, has its footprints in this countries, as most of the back-end IT / ITES work is done in India and Philippines with quality.
Language wise classification shows Japanese topping the list for Search Terms. Strange enough English comes to sixth place !
As per the latest data available on Comscore , the search engine shares are as follows which shows why people around the world are running after Google Adwords (for Advertisers) and Adsense ( for Web Publishers)
* Based on the five major search engines including partner searches and cross-channel searches. Searches for mapping, local directory, and user-generated video sites that are not on the core domain of the five search engines are not included in the core search numbers.
The one who takes a right decision, defers case to case basic, wins!!
Here is some data to help you in decision making about organic and paid website promotions.
The year on year data (2004 - 2008) with Google Trends (GT) suggests, SEO or organic search has never been so keen to compete with the online marketing, if we rely on the available results with us via the GT Interface for the searches on SEO and SEM
Regionwise India holds most of the searches with SEO and SEM, interestingly Japan ranks second and philippines the third. The searches and the Outsourcing SEO work, has its footprints in this countries, as most of the back-end IT / ITES work is done in India and Philippines with quality.
Language wise classification shows Japanese topping the list for Search Terms. Strange enough English comes to sixth place !
As per the latest data available on Comscore , the search engine shares are as follows which shows why people around the world are running after Google Adwords (for Advertisers) and Adsense ( for Web Publishers)
* Based on the five major search engines including partner searches and cross-channel searches. Searches for mapping, local directory, and user-generated video sites that are not on the core domain of the five search engines are not included in the core search numbers.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Search Events and Conferences : Update Aug - Dec 2008
Ever been to a Search Engine Conference?
Its a great place to meet people and get inspired. Specially if you are in US or Europe there are many such events you can be a proud member of .
Top guns from Search Engine Space ( Marketers, Optimizers, Webmaster, Developers and Researchers) show at reputed events along with business owners , SEO's and students/professionals who want to learn the way www is going and will be driven in the future.
Here are some event dates for you:
Search Engine Strategies Events
Its a great place to meet people and get inspired. Specially if you are in US or Europe there are many such events you can be a proud member of .
Top guns from Search Engine Space ( Marketers, Optimizers, Webmaster, Developers and Researchers) show at reputed events along with business owners , SEO's and students/professionals who want to learn the way www is going and will be driven in the future.
Here are some event dates for you:
Search Engine Strategies Events
- SES San Jose Aug 18-21, 2008
- SEM Training San Jose Aug 22, 2008
- SEM Training Dallas Sep 26, 2008
- SES Tokyo Forum Oct 28-29, 2008
- SES Chicago Dec 8-11, 2008
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Latest SEO News / Events
Its been a long back that I've posted something latest about current news and technologies about SEO and search marketing.
Some current SEO news happening around:
Checkout Summize.com , romours are there that our favorite Tweeter.com has bought it;) this is a real-time conversational search option and hopefully the fastest.
Summize : Conversational search engine
Top Searches at summize.com
India, Ted Koppel, Colombian, Dodgers, Hancock, McCain
Trending topics: TweetDeck, WALL E, Summize, Prius
Another news is related to Google - Viacom tussle, its regarding the private data and this time Viacom is a winner while Google takes a safer side by putting the privacy link :
Checkout the news here
Viacom Gains Access To Users, Google Adds Privacy Link
Last week Viacom won a major decision in its $1 Billion lawsuit with Google that forces the search engine giant to hand over private information about YouTube users. The ruling states that Google must transfer terabytes of data to Viacom that includes user names and IP addresses. Google argued unsuccessfully that the privacy information should not be turned over to Viacom.
The basis for the lawsuit filed by Viacom alleges that the most popular content being posted and viewed on YouTube is material that Viacom owns. The company argued successfully for the information to be turned over in order to track who is posting material and which users are watching what.
The ruling appears to have rattled Google, and the company recently made an addition to its notoriously sparse homepage: Privacy. Any user who uses Google's search engine has been sure to notice the lack of extraneous information on the page. Until this week, there was no mention of privacy. Now, at the bottom of the page, users can click on a link to take them to the Google Privacy Center.
Some current SEO news happening around:
Checkout Summize.com , romours are there that our favorite Tweeter.com has bought it;) this is a real-time conversational search option and hopefully the fastest.
Summize : Conversational search engine
Top Searches at summize.com
India, Ted Koppel, Colombian, Dodgers, Hancock, McCain
Trending topics: TweetDeck, WALL E, Summize, Prius
Another news is related to Google - Viacom tussle, its regarding the private data and this time Viacom is a winner while Google takes a safer side by putting the privacy link :
Checkout the news here
Viacom Gains Access To Users, Google Adds Privacy Link
Last week Viacom won a major decision in its $1 Billion lawsuit with Google that forces the search engine giant to hand over private information about YouTube users. The ruling states that Google must transfer terabytes of data to Viacom that includes user names and IP addresses. Google argued unsuccessfully that the privacy information should not be turned over to Viacom.
The basis for the lawsuit filed by Viacom alleges that the most popular content being posted and viewed on YouTube is material that Viacom owns. The company argued successfully for the information to be turned over in order to track who is posting material and which users are watching what.
The ruling appears to have rattled Google, and the company recently made an addition to its notoriously sparse homepage: Privacy. Any user who uses Google's search engine has been sure to notice the lack of extraneous information on the page. Until this week, there was no mention of privacy. Now, at the bottom of the page, users can click on a link to take them to the Google Privacy Center.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Flash SEO possible !!
It was long time back when people used to say "NO" when it comes to SEO of a flash based website. Well reasons may be different, but one of the major reason why top search engines dont (used to) prefer .swf files is that they were not able to crawl and read it.
Gradually it has been said to achieve partial success, but it was a guess work how much and how many Flash files are really been "read" by a search engine crawler.
Now things have improved, One gud news for the Search Analysts is here :-------------
Adobe announced Tuesday that Google and Yahoo are adding search capabilities that will enable users to look inside the content of files encoded in Adobe's Flash file format — SWF
The content inside SWF files has heretofore been ignored by the search engine giants, but Adobe has worked with both companies to make sure that their search engine technology can now look inside existing and future SWF content, including text, hyperlinks, audio and video content.
"End users will be getting more accurate search results because there's a lot of information in SWF files that will now be fully indexed, including more information in Rich Internet Applications (RIAs)," said Justin Everett-Church, senior product manager for Adobe Flash Player, Platform BU.
"And content producers are now able to put Flash files online and know that they're going to bring more users through organic search. The good thing is that they don't have to do anything to enable this capability — it works on any SWF file," Everett-Church told Macworld.
Google is already beginning to offer search results including data inside Flash files, and Yahoo will follow suit with an update to its Yahoo Search engine, according to Adobe.
Source : Macworld
Gradually it has been said to achieve partial success, but it was a guess work how much and how many Flash files are really been "read" by a search engine crawler.
Now things have improved, One gud news for the Search Analysts is here :-------------
Adobe announced Tuesday that Google and Yahoo are adding search capabilities that will enable users to look inside the content of files encoded in Adobe's Flash file format — SWF
The content inside SWF files has heretofore been ignored by the search engine giants, but Adobe has worked with both companies to make sure that their search engine technology can now look inside existing and future SWF content, including text, hyperlinks, audio and video content.
"End users will be getting more accurate search results because there's a lot of information in SWF files that will now be fully indexed, including more information in Rich Internet Applications (RIAs)," said Justin Everett-Church, senior product manager for Adobe Flash Player, Platform BU.
"And content producers are now able to put Flash files online and know that they're going to bring more users through organic search. The good thing is that they don't have to do anything to enable this capability — it works on any SWF file," Everett-Church told Macworld.
Google is already beginning to offer search results including data inside Flash files, and Yahoo will follow suit with an update to its Yahoo Search engine, according to Adobe.
Source : Macworld
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Google Trends : New User Controls enabled
Whats the way to learn about the trends and hot buzz?
How do you know where to get any idea about where people have interest and what are they searching for?
You can get a fair idea ( cannot say its fully accurate, but can get something) at Google Trends.
Todays Hot trends are showing everything about Orissa JEE when customized for India
New addition is now you can - Export data to CSV.
Here is one more news titled "Google lets users measure the power of words " about Google Trends.
Today's Hot Trends (India)
1. orissa jee results
2. www.jeeorissa.com
3. jeeorissa
4. bput
5. ojee
6. www.orissajee.com
7. www.bput.org
8. bput.org
9. orissajeeresult
10. bput orissa
Have a look:
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Number-crunchers can rejoice as Google Inc offers deeper access to the underlying figures for users' Web searches, giving some insight into trends based on the relative popularity of various words.
The Internet search leader is expanding its existing Google Trends service to allow users to see underlying numerical data on the popularity of any particular search in Google's vast database of search terms, relative to others.
Google Trends was begun two years ago as an entertaining but limited way to indicate what the world is thinking about over time, at least in terms of Web searches.
Now Google is giving users the ability to search across terms in its database, instantly chart how they compare to other search terms, then export the underlying numerical data into a common spreadsheet format to compare with other data.
Google Trends (http://trends.google.com/) lets users compare demand for various search terms and see how popularity differs across geographic regions, cities or languages.
Source: Reuters
How do you know where to get any idea about where people have interest and what are they searching for?
You can get a fair idea ( cannot say its fully accurate, but can get something) at Google Trends.
Todays Hot trends are showing everything about Orissa JEE when customized for India
New addition is now you can - Export data to CSV.
Here is one more news titled "Google lets users measure the power of words " about Google Trends.
Today's Hot Trends (India)
1. orissa jee results
2. www.jeeorissa.com
3. jeeorissa
4. bput
5. ojee
6. www.orissajee.com
7. www.bput.org
8. bput.org
9. orissajeeresult
10. bput orissa
Have a look:
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Number-crunchers can rejoice as Google Inc offers deeper access to the underlying figures for users' Web searches, giving some insight into trends based on the relative popularity of various words.
The Internet search leader is expanding its existing Google Trends service to allow users to see underlying numerical data on the popularity of any particular search in Google's vast database of search terms, relative to others.
Google Trends was begun two years ago as an entertaining but limited way to indicate what the world is thinking about over time, at least in terms of Web searches.
Now Google is giving users the ability to search across terms in its database, instantly chart how they compare to other search terms, then export the underlying numerical data into a common spreadsheet format to compare with other data.
Google Trends (http://trends.google.com/) lets users compare demand for various search terms and see how popularity differs across geographic regions, cities or languages.
Source: Reuters
Monday, May 12, 2008
Yahoo Sticks Glue to Pages
Yahoo has just launched its "Glue Page" Beta version.
Contains : (all about the search query)
1. Related pages
2. Search Results
3. News
4. Stock charts if available
5. Google Blog Search ( interesting)
6. Sponsored Results
7. India Jobs
The service is available in India only www.yahoo.in ahead of the world.Developed at Yahoo’s Bangalore R&D labs, comes out to be an edge over rival search engines ( Google, MSN and ASK).
This is how it works in pictures.
Contains : (all about the search query)
1. Related pages
2. Search Results
3. News
4. Stock charts if available
5. Google Blog Search ( interesting)
6. Sponsored Results
7. India Jobs
The service is available in India only www.yahoo.in ahead of the world.Developed at Yahoo’s Bangalore R&D labs, comes out to be an edge over rival search engines ( Google, MSN and ASK).
This is how it works in pictures.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Google Internet Share March 2008
Google Inc.
The remaining 46 search engines in Hitwise's search engine analysis tool accounted for about 2% of searches in the U.S.
Source : CNN Money
Friday, March 14, 2008
AOL storms into Social Marketing Space with Bebo buy
AOL sent to its competitors on Mar. 13 after it forked over $850 million for California online social network Bebo, the third-largest such site in the U.S. behind Facebook and MySpace.
The acquisition gives AOL's parent company, Time Warner (TWX), access to Bebo's predominantly teen audience, as well as providing a platform to compete against the other social networks in the battle for online advertising revenue.
Web 2.0 offerings such as social networks are growing faster than their better-established online counterparts.
Launched three years ago, Bebo now boast 40 million users worldwide. Its growth is buoyed by its popularity with pre-teens and young teenagers, who have flocked to the site as older Internet users have turned to MySpace and Facebook. According to Nielsen Online, unique visits to Bebo in January topped 7.1 million, a 60% increase from the same period last year.
Read the full story at BusinessWeek
The acquisition gives AOL's parent company, Time Warner (TWX), access to Bebo's predominantly teen audience, as well as providing a platform to compete against the other social networks in the battle for online advertising revenue.
Web 2.0 offerings such as social networks are growing faster than their better-established online counterparts.
Launched three years ago, Bebo now boast 40 million users worldwide. Its growth is buoyed by its popularity with pre-teens and young teenagers, who have flocked to the site as older Internet users have turned to MySpace and Facebook. According to Nielsen Online, unique visits to Bebo in January topped 7.1 million, a 60% increase from the same period last year.
Read the full story at BusinessWeek
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Blogging via SMS
Like Blogging ?
Find how some of the Top Indian Bloggers manage their blogs with latest updates around...
At 21, Ludhiana management student Harjinder Singh already has a mega project in hand, albeit in a micro medium. His 160-character blog posts, punched out on his Nokia handset, instantaneously reach 57,659 Sikhs across India - all at the cost of a single SMS.
"I aim to arouse the pride of young Sikhs through my writings," says Singh, who started blogging on his phone last May. "Many of my Sikh readers voted for Ludhiana's Ishmeet Singh in Star Plus's Voice of India - and contributed to his victory," he adds.
Singh has hired two people to get him cell numbers of 200,000 Sikhs, because he wants to reach "one in ten Sikhs soon". In Delhi, Lalchung Siem, a 33-year-old Food Corporation of India employee, whips out his phone several times a day to blog in Hmar, a tribal language spoken by a small group of people in India.
His posts are sent free to 6,106 readers in the North-East by SMSGupShup, a microblogging platform. "Recently, I got an SOS call after two boys fell in a river in Saidan village, Manipur.
I flashed the SMS on my blog, and within minutes, a hundred people reached the spot, and managed to rescue one of the boys," he says. Microblogging, i.
e., blogging on cellphones in SMSes is on its way to become an absolute sell-out among compulsive cellphone users and enthusiastic communicators.
Source : Yahoo News
Find how some of the Top Indian Bloggers manage their blogs with latest updates around...
At 21, Ludhiana management student Harjinder Singh already has a mega project in hand, albeit in a micro medium. His 160-character blog posts, punched out on his Nokia handset, instantaneously reach 57,659 Sikhs across India - all at the cost of a single SMS.
"I aim to arouse the pride of young Sikhs through my writings," says Singh, who started blogging on his phone last May. "Many of my Sikh readers voted for Ludhiana's Ishmeet Singh in Star Plus's Voice of India - and contributed to his victory," he adds.
Singh has hired two people to get him cell numbers of 200,000 Sikhs, because he wants to reach "one in ten Sikhs soon". In Delhi, Lalchung Siem, a 33-year-old Food Corporation of India employee, whips out his phone several times a day to blog in Hmar, a tribal language spoken by a small group of people in India.
His posts are sent free to 6,106 readers in the North-East by SMSGupShup, a microblogging platform. "Recently, I got an SOS call after two boys fell in a river in Saidan village, Manipur.
I flashed the SMS on my blog, and within minutes, a hundred people reached the spot, and managed to rescue one of the boys," he says. Microblogging, i.
e., blogging on cellphones in SMSes is on its way to become an absolute sell-out among compulsive cellphone users and enthusiastic communicators.
Source : Yahoo News
Friday, February 1, 2008
Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion for Yahoo
Breaking news from NYTIMES,
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft said Friday that it has made an offer to buy Yahoo for about $44.6 billion, or $31 a share, in a mix of cash and stock.
The offer represents a 62 percent premium over Yahoo's closing stock price of $19.18 on Thursday.
If consummated, the deal would redraw the competitive landscape of the Internet consumer services business, where both Microsoft and Yahoo have struggled to compete with Google.
Microsoft said the combination of the two companies would create efficiencies that would save approximately $1 billion annually. The software giant also said that it has an integration plan to include employees of both companies and intends to offer incentives to retain Yahoo employees.
What is the www going to be , say if Microsoft buys Yahoo! ( for example), what will Google do? any threat to the search giant?
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft said Friday that it has made an offer to buy Yahoo for about $44.6 billion, or $31 a share, in a mix of cash and stock.
The offer represents a 62 percent premium over Yahoo's closing stock price of $19.18 on Thursday.
If consummated, the deal would redraw the competitive landscape of the Internet consumer services business, where both Microsoft and Yahoo have struggled to compete with Google.
Microsoft said the combination of the two companies would create efficiencies that would save approximately $1 billion annually. The software giant also said that it has an integration plan to include employees of both companies and intends to offer incentives to retain Yahoo employees.
What is the www going to be , say if Microsoft buys Yahoo! ( for example), what will Google do? any threat to the search giant?
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Top Keyword Searches : India : World
Looking for Top keywords searched world wide and India?
Interesting , some news are reporting about Google has included India in its 2007 end-of-year Zeitgeist annual report.
Here is some information you can use:
Global - Top Search - Keywords : 2007
1. iphone
2. badoo
3. facebook
4. dailymotion
5. webkinz
6. youtube
7. ebuddy
8. second life
9. hi5
10. club penguin
US - Top Search - Keywords:2007
1. iphone
2. webkinz
3. tmz
4. transformers
5. youtube
6. club penguin
7. myspace
8. heroes
9. facebook
10. anna nicole smith
India - Top Search Queries: November 2007
1. bank of maharashtra
2. easymovies
3. income tax department
4. PAN CARD (income tax card)
5. lord hanuman (one of the Hindu gods)
6. maruti true value (car company)
7. sony cybershot
8. Harry Potter
9. goa hotels
10. hindu astrology
11. Indigo (A car brand)
12. tata mutual fund
13. financial express
14. logitech
15. miss india
Fastest Falling (global) Keywords
1. world cup*
2. mozart
3. fifa
4. rebelde*
5. kazaa
6. xanga
7. webdetente
8. sudoku
9. shakira
10. mp3
Source: Google Zeitgeist
SEO Tip :
Just consider relative keywords if your developing a new online presence. Search Volume can be a criteria.
Interesting , some news are reporting about Google has included India in its 2007 end-of-year Zeitgeist annual report.
Here is some information you can use:
Global - Top Search - Keywords : 2007
1. iphone
2. badoo
3. facebook
4. dailymotion
5. webkinz
6. youtube
7. ebuddy
8. second life
9. hi5
10. club penguin
US - Top Search - Keywords:2007
1. iphone
2. webkinz
3. tmz
4. transformers
5. youtube
6. club penguin
7. myspace
8. heroes
9. facebook
10. anna nicole smith
India - Top Search Queries: November 2007
1. bank of maharashtra
2. easymovies
3. income tax department
4. PAN CARD (income tax card)
5. lord hanuman (one of the Hindu gods)
6. maruti true value (car company)
7. sony cybershot
8. Harry Potter
9. goa hotels
10. hindu astrology
11. Indigo (A car brand)
12. tata mutual fund
13. financial express
14. logitech
15. miss india
Fastest Falling (global) Keywords
1. world cup*
2. mozart
3. fifa
4. rebelde*
5. kazaa
6. xanga
7. webdetente
8. sudoku
9. shakira
10. mp3
Source: Google Zeitgeist
SEO Tip :
Just consider relative keywords if your developing a new online presence. Search Volume can be a criteria.
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Orkut Hate Clubs flourishing online..
There are communities you can identify with persons (fan clubs), names, hobbies, professions and even cities and alphabets too. But have you ever been to visit a "Hate Club"
Google and other social networks do a lot of efforts to curb such menace which will be some-day affecting the use and number of visitors; effectively reducing the online spending and income for the service provider.
A news from Techtree has something to surf on....
If you happen to hate Big B's smug face, beaming across from every other channel, or those tireless 'K's' from Ekta Kapoor's 'soap factory', you now have space to vent your emotions.
Hate communities or hate clubs are becoming increasingly popular on social networking Web sites like Google-owned Orkut.
On Orkut, the Ekta Kapoor hate club leads the pack with a membership of nearly 76,468 and counting. Followed by Himesh Reshamiya (of the nasal twang) with 33,137 members; Shah Rukh Khan with 11,179; Greg Chappell with 7,659; yes, Mahatma Gandhi with 6,647; General Musharraf with 1,362; and the Big B with 1,410.
Ironically, while the Father of the Nation boasts a thousands-strong hate club, his killer, Nathuram Godse, does not even warrant a mention on Orkut or Facebook.
Psychiatrist Sameer Parikh explains that people possess a certain amount of hatred, dislikes, and complexities, and they get a chance to express these on such communities and groups. However, Parikh says, too much thought should not be dispensed on this entire phenomenon.
Yet, in recent times, concerns have been raised over certain communities for hurting social sentiments. So much so that the social networking sites themselves are opting to play safe on such issues.
A Google spokesperson voiced the view that they take abuse of Orkut very seriously, and are constantly developing new tools to review inappropriate content on the site.
Orkut users too can report content to reviewers by clicking on the 'report as bogus' button. Recently, a priority reporting tool has been introduced for reporting serious aberrations on the site.
A news article from MSN shows something like that, here the target is Dogs and those who hate them ( may be due to personal reasons or social) are observed using hate as a medium to discuss the feelings.
Drop them from building tops, run them over with your car - are just some of the ways to kill dogs that Orkut's canine-hating members suggest while socialising online
Animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India has now complained to the police.
Peta accused Orkut, the social networking site, of promoting cruelty to animals and has demanded action against it by cyber cells of the government.
Peta has written to the Mumbai police and complained that among topics discussed on Orkut community sites was "I hate dogs".
Here organizations like PETA come into picture to save the interest of the pets.
Google and other social networks do a lot of efforts to curb such menace which will be some-day affecting the use and number of visitors; effectively reducing the online spending and income for the service provider.
A news from Techtree has something to surf on....
If you happen to hate Big B's smug face, beaming across from every other channel, or those tireless 'K's' from Ekta Kapoor's 'soap factory', you now have space to vent your emotions.
Hate communities or hate clubs are becoming increasingly popular on social networking Web sites like Google-owned Orkut.
On Orkut, the Ekta Kapoor hate club leads the pack with a membership of nearly 76,468 and counting. Followed by Himesh Reshamiya (of the nasal twang) with 33,137 members; Shah Rukh Khan with 11,179; Greg Chappell with 7,659; yes, Mahatma Gandhi with 6,647; General Musharraf with 1,362; and the Big B with 1,410.
Ironically, while the Father of the Nation boasts a thousands-strong hate club, his killer, Nathuram Godse, does not even warrant a mention on Orkut or Facebook.
Psychiatrist Sameer Parikh explains that people possess a certain amount of hatred, dislikes, and complexities, and they get a chance to express these on such communities and groups. However, Parikh says, too much thought should not be dispensed on this entire phenomenon.
Yet, in recent times, concerns have been raised over certain communities for hurting social sentiments. So much so that the social networking sites themselves are opting to play safe on such issues.
A Google spokesperson voiced the view that they take abuse of Orkut very seriously, and are constantly developing new tools to review inappropriate content on the site.
Orkut users too can report content to reviewers by clicking on the 'report as bogus' button. Recently, a priority reporting tool has been introduced for reporting serious aberrations on the site.
A news article from MSN shows something like that, here the target is Dogs and those who hate them ( may be due to personal reasons or social) are observed using hate as a medium to discuss the feelings.
Drop them from building tops, run them over with your car - are just some of the ways to kill dogs that Orkut's canine-hating members suggest while socialising online
Animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India has now complained to the police.
Peta accused Orkut, the social networking site, of promoting cruelty to animals and has demanded action against it by cyber cells of the government.
Peta has written to the Mumbai police and complained that among topics discussed on Orkut community sites was "I hate dogs".
Here organizations like PETA come into picture to save the interest of the pets.
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Yahoo's news search tool unveiled!
Did you see what is new with Yahoo ?
Checkout the little drop down arrow below the search box.
A new addition showing the suggested additional keywords ( popular words or keyphrases) in the lines of an online suggestion tool.
Great thing to implement, good work.
There are some effects to that
1. Now organic listings go further down.
If you consider the dropped being for the keyword "seo india" atleast 3 results are being sacrificed in organic ranking.
2. More competition for the paid listing as its showing less number of ads @ the top.
3. If you can manage #1 ranking organically, you can enjoy multiplied visitors as compared to the past and the second one might go in the next fold of the page, which rarely is visited by 60% visitors (approx calc.)
New questions coming up for SEO's worldwide !!
Checkout the little drop down arrow below the search box.
A new addition showing the suggested additional keywords ( popular words or keyphrases) in the lines of an online suggestion tool.
Great thing to implement, good work.
There are some effects to that
1. Now organic listings go further down.
If you consider the dropped being for the keyword "seo india" atleast 3 results are being sacrificed in organic ranking.
2. More competition for the paid listing as its showing less number of ads @ the top.
3. If you can manage #1 ranking organically, you can enjoy multiplied visitors as compared to the past and the second one might go in the next fold of the page, which rarely is visited by 60% visitors (approx calc.)
New questions coming up for SEO's worldwide !!
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Microsoft new Office Live Workspace Free
Microsoft Joining the Band Wagon of Google Docs: Its online Too
Good news for Microsoft office file users: At last(?) Microsoft has decided to enter into the free online option with its MS Office on web suite.Announcing the entry of Office Live Workspace, a new Web-based feature of Microsoft Office into the arena, MS is now a challenge taker with the future on either side.
Using Office Live Workspace users may be able to store as many as 1000 documents online but DOES NOT ALLOW to create and/or edit the docs within a webpage.
The step taken by Microsoft is after careful evaluation and recognizing the threat posed by the fast expanding online environment specially in the light of Google Docs.
So Long Live Open Source !!
Good news for Microsoft office file users: At last(?) Microsoft has decided to enter into the free online option with its MS Office on web suite.Announcing the entry of Office Live Workspace, a new Web-based feature of Microsoft Office into the arena, MS is now a challenge taker with the future on either side.
Using Office Live Workspace users may be able to store as many as 1000 documents online but DOES NOT ALLOW to create and/or edit the docs within a webpage.
The step taken by Microsoft is after careful evaluation and recognizing the threat posed by the fast expanding online environment specially in the light of Google Docs.
So Long Live Open Source !!
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