Google’s Latest Algorithm Changes

Landing page quality matters more in image search

As you may know, Google has been putting out a monthly list of algorithm changes it has been making, as part of the company’s initiative to be “more transparent”. Google will never put out the entire secret sauce of its algorithm (without a court order, at least), so webmasters can at least be thankful that they’re being thrown a handful of bones in the form of a monthly list.
Have you seen effects from Google’s most recent algorithm changes? 

Webmasters were quick to point the finger at the old panda, but Google assures us that this is not the case. A spokesperson for the company told there have been no Panda updates in 2012 so far (though I’d expect one to launch before too long).

By the way, now that 2011 is over, do you think Panda has done a good job at cleaning up search results?

In the latest edition of the series, on the company’s Inside Search Blog, they highlight 21 changes made in the month of December. 

1) Image Search landing page quality signals

2) More relevant sitelinks

3) Soft 404 Detection

4) More accurate country-restricted searches

5) More rich snippets

6) Better infrastructure for autocomplete

7) Better spam detection in Image Search

8) Google Instant enhancements for Japanese.

9) More accurate byline dates

10) Live results for NFL and college football

11) Improved dataset for related queries

12) Related query improvements

13) Better lyrics results

14) Tweak to +1 button on results page

15) Better spell correction in Vietnamese

16) Upcoming events at venues

17) Improvements to image size signal

18) Improved Hebrew synonyms

19) Safer searching

20) Encrypted search available on new regional domains

21) Faster mobile browsing

The image search landing page quality signal change is quite interesting. We ran a great article on optimizing for image search by Michael Gray last year, and that’s full of tips to consider for this less talked about element of SEO, but the adjustments, as unspecific as they may be, reflect Google’s Panda-style focus on quality in search results. This, to me, is saying they’re applying same kind of thinking they do with regular web search to other parts of Google, more than ever before.

With regards to the “more rich snippets” item on the list, you may want to check out the series of videos Google recently put out on how to do rich snippets.

Top 10 Uses of Coconut

Top 10 uses of coconut?! 

1) Coconut milk for cooking, by adding it as the liquid ingredient in cooking dried gabi or taro leaves (a delicacy in Bicol region, Philippines, sometimes known us 'Bicol express' if fiery red labuyo peppers were added into it, so hot)


2) Coconut husk as floor polisher, is common in elementary grades across many villages across the world. Village people used to polished their floor or vessels with coconut husk . 


3) Coconut shells for fuel, is often used by villagers who didn't have electric or LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) as source of fuel. Even today, when we ran out of gas or LPG, people still use the coconut shells as fuel. 


4) Young coconut meat for snacks, the 'buko' or young coconut with succulent soft whitey and fleshy meat is often the favorite snacks in the city and villages. I'm not kidding, it's a healthy snack. If you have UTI (urinary track infection) you can drink the cool, fresh coconut water for an immediate relief.


5) Coconut milk for hair spa or conditioner, is usually used by the villagers, especially those girls who have long strands of hair. It leaves a shiny look and fresh smell to the hairs, after you squeeze some juice of lime or lemon. You hair will never look dry.


6) Coconut leaves for roofing materials, are still used by farmers who cannot afford expensive roofing materials.


7) Coconut timber for lumber, is more affordable than other lumber materials.


8) Coconut ribs for brooms,are still used in the country, especially the street sweepers in the city. Every household have two or three sets of coconut brooms for cleaning purposes.


9) Matured coconut meat for copra used is used for cooking food. Most of south Asian cities use this matured coconut for making curry items.


10) Matured coconut meat for copra used in producing cooking oil, is affordable and cholesterol-free. You can make a homemade coconut oil by just letting it boil in the wok or frying pan until the liquid part became transparent.


Bonus: coconut heart (the sweet soft part of coconut timber at top part with young leaves) as viand (as in 'ubod ng niyog' ) like young artichoke.

Ranking The Famous Deaths of 2011

While most of us come and leave this world with little fanfare, there are those among us whose passing, especially if untimely, captures hearts and headlines around the world. The death of a celebrity, or prominent public figure, just does something to people. A death can stir up fond memories, extreme hatred, or obsessive curiosity.


Every year we’re shocked by some of the deaths we read about, and 2011 was no different. This year we saw the deaths of Steve Jobs, Osama bin Laden, Kim Jong-il, Andy Rooney, Jack Kevorkian, Betty Ford, Heavy D, “Macho Man” Randy Savage, Amy Winehouse, Joe Frazier, among others.


If someone was to ask you to name the top 10 famous deaths of 2011… could you do it?It’s tougher than you might imagine.

Google homepage gets revamped

Google continues to revamp its products, and the latest in line to undergo a makeover is its homepage. Google has begun rolling out the new look of their search page. The upper horizontal bar is replaced by a Google logo in grey. Hover you cursor over it and click to find seven alternative services with an option to see eight more. Here again, we see Google is looking for a clutter-free design just like the neat look it chose to give its other products that underwent a facelift.

The rollout has been designed for an enhanced user experience, says a Google spokesperson. This would take users two steps to get to Images or News, but this is going to work in Google’s favour. Reportedly, Google is also being scrutinized for the way its own services are being displayed in search results. "A key question is whether Google is using its market power to steer users to its own web products or secondary services and discriminating against other websites with which it competes," Senators Herb Kohl and Mike Lee wrote.
The new design rollout is expected to reach only a limited number of users. Well, let’s see what else the Search giant has in store on the redesigning front.

The world as we know it!

Wish You All A Happy New Year 2012

Copy and Paste

A popular motivational speaker was entertaining his audience.


He Said :
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The best years of my life were spent in the arms of a woman who wasn't my wife!"
The audience was in silence and shock.
The speaker added : "And that woman was ... my Mother!"
There was laughter and applause from the audience.
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A week later, a top manager trained by that same motivational speaker tried to crack this very effective joke at home. He was a bit foggy after a drink.


He said loudly to his wife who was preparing dinner, "The greatest years of my life were spent in the arms of a woman who was not my wife!"


The wife went ; "ah!" with shock and rage.


Standing there for 20 seconds trying to recall the second half of the joke, the manager finally blurted out, "... and I can't remember who she was!"


By the time the manager regained his consciousness, he was on a hospital bed nursing burns from boiling water.


Moral of the story : Don't copy, if you can't paste !

Iphone 4s Launch in china

The Banpo Bridge

Banpo bridge in south korea..! Colorful..! isn't it.??
More than 300 Engineers works here...
Out of 59 Engineers are from India...
the basic concept is based on "Total Internal Reflection".. !!


The Moonlight Rainbow Fountain is the world’s longest bridge fountain that set a Guinness World Record with nearly 10,000 LED nozzles that run along both sides that is 1,140m long, shooting out 190 tons of water per minute. Installed in September 2009 on the Banpo Bridge, Seoul mayor Oh Se-hoon praised that the bridge will further beautify the city and showcase Seoul’s eco-friendliness, as the water is pumped directly from the river itself and continuously recycled. The project is the first of its kind in the world. The bridge has 38 water pumps and 9,380 nozzles on either side, which draw 190 tons of water per minute from the river 20 meters below the deck, and shoots as far as 43 meters horizontally.

Google Launching Nexus Tablet in the Next 6 Months

Google’s Eric Schmidt told an Italian newspaper that we will see a Nexus tablet in the next 6 months. Schmidt indicated to the paper “In the next six months we plan to market a tablet of the highest quality,” although he didn’t offer very many more details on what that would entail.


During the interview Schmidt also confirmed Google was working on a Siri competitor that would offer some of the same voice-controlled functionality as Siri does for the iPhone 4S.


Google worked with Motorola to release the first Honeycomb tablet, the Motorola Xoom. The Xoom didn’t do as well in sales as either had hoped, so it should be interesting to see what Google does differently with an Ice Cream Sandwich tablet.


Schmidt didn’t comment on who would be making the Nexus tablet, although its pending purchase of Motorola would give the company a definite advantage over the competition.


What would you like to see in a Nexus tablet? Who do you hope Google selects to make the device?

Street artist Eduardo Relero's 3D illusions on pavements

See the magic....

Is enGlish language beautiful or really complicated?

A good piece of language brushing indeed............

Professor Ernest Brennecke of Columbia is credited with inventing a sentence that can be made to have eight different meanings by placing ONE WORD in all possible positions in the sentence:
"I hit him in the eye yesterday."

Guess what the word is???

 The word is "ONLY".

 
The Message:

1.   ONLY I hit him in the eye yesterday. (No one else did.)
2.   I ONLY hit him in the eye yesterday. (Did not slap him.)
3.   I hit ONLY him in the eye yesterday. (I did not hit others.)
4.   I hit him ONLY in the eye yesterday. (I did not hit outside the eye.)
5.   I hit him in ONLY the eye yesterday. (Not other organs.)
6.   I hit him in the ONLY eye yesterday. (He doesn't have another eye..)
7.   I hit him in the eye ONLY yesterday. (Not today.)
8.   I hit him in the eye yesterday ONLY. (Did not wait for today.) 

This is the beauty and complexity of the English language.........

Joke of the day!

Boss hangs a notice in office
"I'm the boss, don't forget"

When he returned, someone had written under it...
"ur wife called up, she wants her notice back at home".

British monarch in India

K

ING GEORGE V AND QUEEN MARY appear as emperor and empress in their coronation robes at the balcony of the Red Fort on 13 December 1911, a day after the coronation ceremony, to receive the thousands of people gathered to greet them. Their appearance at the Delhi Durbar marked the first time a British monarch had come to India. The pompous

ceremony saw a gathering of princes and princesses from Indian kingdoms across the subcontinent flocking to Delhi to pay homage to their king. That same year, the king, while sitting on a golden throne, proclaimed the shifting of the capital of British India from Calcutta to Delhi. The ceremonial laying of the foundation stones of Delhi took place three days after the announcement, on 15 December 1911. Delhi celebrates its centenary year as capital this December.

Money & Fat

Illusion...

Mathematical Viewpoint

Mathematics

From a strictly mathematical viewpoint it goes like this:

What Makes 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%? We have all been to those meetings where someone wants you to give over 100%. How about achieving 103%? What makes up 100% in life?

Here's a little mathematical formula that might help you answer these questions:

If:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


is represented as:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.

Then:

H-A-R-D-W-O-R- K
8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%


and

K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E
11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%

But,

A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E
1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%

And,

B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T
2+21+12+12+19+8+9+20 = 103%

AND, look how far ass kissing will take you.

A-S-S-K-I-S-S-I-N-G
1+19+19+11+9+19+19+9+14+7 = 118%

So, one can conclude with mathematical certainty that, while Hard work and Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will get you there, it's the Bullshit and Ass kissing that will put you over the top

Don't you just Love it!!!

I CAN READ IT! CAN YOU ?

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. 

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe can.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. 


Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs, waaa.... 

Intelligent thinking

A jobless man applied for the position of "office boy" at an MNC Company.

The HR manager interviewed him then watched him cleaning the floor as a test.

"You are employed." He said." Give me your e-mail address and I'll send you the application to fill in, as well as date when you may start."

The man replied "But I don't have a computer, neither an email."

I'm sorry", said the HR manager, "If you don't have an email, that means you do not exist. And who doesn't exist, cannot have the job."

The man left with no hope at all. He didn't know what to do, with only $10 in his pocket. He then decided to go to the supermarket and buy a 10Kg tomato crate. He then sold the tomatoes in a door to door round. In less than two hours, he succeeded to double his capital.

He repeated the Operation three times, and returned home with $60.

The man realized that he can survive by this Way, and started to go everyday earlier, and return late Thus, his money doubled or tripled every day. Shortly, he bought a cart, then a truck, then he had his own fleet of delivery vehicles.

5 years later , the man is one of the biggest food retailers in the US .

He started to plan his family's future, and decided to have a life insurance.

He called an insurance broker, and chose a protection plan. When the conversation was concluded, the broker asked him his email. The man replied, "I don't have an email". The broker answered curiously, "You don't have an email, and yet have succeeded to build an empire. Can you imagine what you could have been if you had an email?!!"

The man thought for a while and replied, "Yes, I'd be an office boy at an MNC Company!"

Moral of the story:

M1 - Internet is not the solution to your life.

M2 - If you don't have Internet, and work hard, you can be a millionaire.

M3 - If you received this message by email, you are closer to being an office boy, than a millionaire. .........

Have a great day!!!

Pls Note: - Smiling after reading is not mandatory !!!!