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YouTube and Picasa on your television

Due Credit: DailyBits
Google and Matsushita are working in collaboration to bring the popular services on the web to television. Soon you will be having access to videos from YouTube and images from Picasa accessible on you TV.
Convergence of media from the web with popular devices has been long predicted. But the importance here is for quality. The videos on YouTube are generally of poor quality and beaming them on high definition TVs does not really improve matters a lot.
But the fact is that poor videos are due to bandwidth issues and that is scaling up so in course of time these issues will sort out and lets not forget that the TV audience is another big pool of viewers to sell ads to.


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Simple SEO Tips

Due Credit: SearchEngine-Weblog
Optimization of online content to make it more indexable is in the best of every netizen who posts content online.
With this in mind, I have started making short posts on SEO tips and lessons that I come across on the Web.
One important starting point is to know how the search engine works. In the article i have mentioned the link to a presentation on Google's working.

Google workings



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Mahalo gets more social

Due Credit: SearchEngine-Weblog
Mahalo, the human powered search engine will be adding more features that will be boosting its social credentials.
Changes include a tips and suggestions toolbar with on-click access to make entries to several social bookmarking site.
Mahalo has been tailored from the ground up to provide human edited results on thousands of keywords. Debate surrounds around the concept of human intervention in the processing of search results since the scale of the web is massive.

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Microsoft acquires FAST Search and Trasfer

Due Credit: SearchEngine-Weblog
For an amount of $1.2 billion, the Redmond giant will be acquiring the enterprise search major FAST Search and Transfer. The move is a big shake-up in the enterprise search industry that has been the forte of niche players so far.
Expectations are on the line that IBM, Google or one of the big players will also be looking to make some acquisitions in this front.

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Targeting user activity online

Due Credit: SearchEngine-Weblog
In a recent post for the SearchEngine-Weblog, I got the chance to research on the various strategies that firms use to target use activity online.
The Web has been a haven for advertisers. And why not? For there is no other place where virtually every move of the buyer can be tracked.
Every page you view, every click you make, every item you spend time doting on... virtually everything on the web makes it to some server log and can contribute to invaluable statistics


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Google and the iPhone

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Google is seeking to make the waves on the mobility front with its attention to the iPhone and in what appears to be its ficus on getting it right on the hottest area of innovation on making the mobile web accessible.
iPhone is one device that makes browsing on the web a breeze and Google is giving it all its attention perhaps to get it all right by the time Android comes out in second half of this year.
Google's innovations tailored to the iPhone include the redesigned home page for browsing the web, the introduction of the iGoogle page and many more


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Porting data across the web

Due Credit: SearchEngine-Weblog
With a number of social networking and web applications sprucing up online, the issue of data portability is definitely a very relevant issue. The contention centers around how much ownership right does the user have to his/her data on a network.
Recently there was the spat between Facebook and Plaxo over the porting of contact information from one site to the other.
The establishment of the Data Portabilty Workgroup to sort out the issues around data portability on the Web is a welcome move for all online users


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Wikia search : Challenge to Google

Due Credit: DailyBits
Wikia search, the pet project of Jimmy Wales will take off this month but the question is whether the engine is late to the party?

Wikia search seeks to provide an open source alternative to the proprietary ranking system that drives google. Wikia is not expected to pose a serious challenge to Google in the short run but there are several reasons why it may not do the same in the long run as well


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Search Engine : Otavo

Due Credit: Search Engine Journal
Intention is a very fuzzy word. To say that a machine can guess the intention of the searcher is perhaps a prized product of Artificial Intelligence. Before you go about wondering if AI has indeed reached these ends, refrain.

In this case, the Otavo search engine makes a quest out of the search queries that a user searches on. Adding another socializing angle to search, the engine makes sharing and tracking of search results possible so that in course of time the results refined by a set of users makes for lot more relevance


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Social Networking in 2007

Due Credit: DailyBits
2007 was the year of social networking. With predictions that perhaps the heat will wane in 2008, there are some phenomenal web giants in the online domain. Social networking has taken off like the days when e-mail came of age.

Perhaps now we'll have social networks around every business site. There are definite moves in this direction if you consider the way several online domains are progressing


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Yahoo into mobile search in big way

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Yahoo has been quite active in the mobile search arena. Taking a different strategy from Google, Yahoo has been keen on expanding its partnerships with Telecom service providers.

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Bookmarking search reults via BookMach

Due Credit: SearchEngineJournal
For users constantly in the need for updated information around a given topic, BookMach is a must try.

The search engine functions as a normal type-ur-keywords-view-results and as a personalized internet search engine as well


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Visual search on Like.com

Due Credit: SearchEngineJournal
If searching for keywords is based on the fact that the keywords in a text are indexed then it only follows logically that searching for an image should also take into consideration the characteristics in the image.

Unfortunately the world of image search is not so simple. Most of the image search engines today rely on meta-data for image files i.e. on the information that the person uploading the image mentions in the image name, description, tags etc. It does make sense to have that approach since why would you ever want to fill in wrong information for something you want others to find? But it is a fact that when left to the discretion of the user, exact data or perfect classifications are never undertaken sincerely


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A brief walkthrough on Google's doodles

Due Credit: DailyBits
The logo that shines on the front of Google's home page is most viewed entity on the Web. And that shiny logo has a history of its own. Every now and then to commemorate a great event in history or very much in the present, Google adds changes to the logo that make it the topic of discussion the world over.

This article talk about the doodles and how they came to be on the home page of the search engine. Its great the the company showcases how it is alive to the times of the world. Perhaps a feature that many other companies would also do nice to implement


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