Google Search Features

December 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Google isn’t just a place to research a project. There are many other search features that Google offers rather than the basic search box. Many of these specific search boxes you can add to your tool bar.

You can search the everyday essentials such as weather and sports. You can search the stock quotes, and you can see what time it is in any part of the world. Along with these everyday essentials comes music, where you can search for songs to listen to, and the precise times of sunsets and sunrises in many cities world wide.

Google offers many reference tools such as a calculator or a unit conversion program. You can also do special book searches and see information about recent earthquakes. Google also offers a person search where you can type in a person’s name and it will list people with that name.

You can look up local searches such as a store, restaurant, or another local business. Google also shows you show times and reviews for recent movies in your area.

There are several health related searches you can make. If you want to learn about a common disease or symptom, Google can tell you about that. You can also find information about medications and several phone numbers for various health related issues.

Google also shows searches in travel. You can search flights arriving and departing from the U.S. You can search currency conversions and see how much a dollar is worth in other countries. Google also has its own set of maps that you can search for locations or directions. Google Maps has a feature that shows up close pictures of certain locations. These pictures have proven to be useful.

Google offers many types of searches. You can add the Google search box to your tool bar. On the Google home page there is a list of specific searches if you want to narrow down your search.

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Using SEO and Adsense

September 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Making money online is a very popular method that many businesses and individuals have perfected. Whether they use products or services to make an income, they understand the need for traffic to their site in order to generate that income. Small businesses and online entrepreneurs have caught on to the lucrative system of online income generation. They use various methods that help them to carve out a specific niche and produce checks each month.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) helps to create income by using specific keywords that are relevant to the business’ site and basic business services. If a company distributes a product that has a high, competitive edge, they would do well to use complex keywords or keyphrases that will bring traffic to their site. Compensation for this traffic following first became very popular with the use of Google’s Adsenseprogram, and since it first started gathering a following, is still one of the major sources for advertising revenue for most online entrepreneurs and businesses.

With the Adsense program, webmasters are allowed to display relevant advertisements by Google under a contractual profit sharing agreement. This means that each time someone clicks on an ad that they see on a website’s page, the member receives compensation for it. There are many layers of the Adsense program with various stipulations, which is why members have a little flexibility in deciding the method of income they prefer. They can also choose the ads, sizes, types, styles and colors that will enhance their site and appeal to various segments of their traffic flow.

Adsense can be very lucrative for businesses because it doesn’t require much for it to operate efficiently and draw in profits. Businesses often try different styles and types of ads to see what works for their business. What makes Adsense so effective over a long period of time is the consistency of ad placement and how well the site draws in traffic. If it is used consistnely, profits can be very lucrative for a long period of time.

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Google: The Birth of a Giant

August 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Once upon a time, in a magical land known as Stanford, there were two men. Their names were Larry Page and Sergey Brin. These two Stanford geniuses took a look at the virtual world around them, and they decided that it just wasn’t good enough. Search engines relied entirely on keyword presence, showing sites that had manipulated their way into the results by creating bogus content or spamming their keywords. Page and Brin were sure there was another way.

They determined that they would find that other way, and create the (search engine) world that they envisioned. A world where sites were ranked based on how good they were and how much people liked them, not on their ability to contain a paragraph of spam keywords at the bottom. Encouraged by Terry Winograd to pursue the project, Brin and Page applied to the school for resources and school credit for the project. Luckily for Brin and Page, as well as for the rest of the world, their search engine research project was accepted by Stanford.

Their objective was to determine which sites were most popular on the web, and use this as the basis for their search results. They called their search algorithm BackRub, and it looked out across the web in an attempt to decide who the “cool kids” were. This was to be determined by looking at all the links on the internet. The theory was that if a site had more links to it, it meant that more people had gone out of their way to tell others about it. They then took it a step further, making it so that the links from sites that were more “popular” were valued more than links from less popular or newer sites.

While they decided on the name Google in 1997, registering the domain that year, they didn’t official incorporate until 1998, after they had indexed more than 60 million different web pages. Even when in the “beta” stage, technology magazines hailed their approach as the way of the future. Thus, Google, the giant of the technological world, was born.

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The Next Territory Google Plans to Conquer

August 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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It is a general fact of the search engine world that what Google wants, Google usually gets. Google has stepped into a great number of territories over the last few years. Their acquisition of YouTube made them an even more fierce giant in the virtual world. Gmail has overtaken many other email services in regards to both function and users. Google Documents, Google Calendar, and many more innovations have made Google the go to resource in a wide variety of areas. It has now been revealed, however, that Google is stepping into the Social Networking arena.

Google added the feature known as “Buzz,” automatically connected to Gmail accounts, which took on some of the general functionality of Twitter. However, Google is not satisfied with the attention and response that this has received, and intends to step up their efforts. While this project, tentatively titled “Google Me,” has been rumored for several years, it was only recently confirmed by project insiders.

The Google Me project is ambitious, even for Google. It will synchronize with the Google account of the user, integrating Blogger, Gmail, Calendar, Buzz, and other services. Beyond synchronizing existing features, Google Me will take on many of the advanced features of Facebook. It has been called a “top priority project” by the members of Google that revealed the information, who prefer to remain anonymous.

Facebook is certainly well established, and users have already established connections with one another, reputations and stockpiles in their browser based games, and far more. Whether or not Google will be able to effectively take ground against the current social networking champion has yet to be seen, but it is certainly true that Google is one of the few groups who has the potential to do battle with them. Users will likely be the ones who stand to gain as the two technological titans up the stakes in order to try to conquer the social networking world.

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