September 23, 2008
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September 18, 2008
Windows Live Search Tricks
There are however are some lesser-known features in Live Search that aren’t just useful, you won’t find them in any of the other popular search engines. Let’s take a look:
1. Watch Video Preview in Search Results
When you hover the mouse over any of the thumbnail images appearing in Live Video Search, it will automatically play a short preview of the video so you have a good idea about the clip without visiting the target website where that video is hosted.
As you may have noticed in the screencast above, this video preview feature is available for all clip indexed by Live Search whether they are on YouTube, MySpace, CNN or ABC News.
2. Find Web Pages That Link to Documents, MP3s, Videos, ZIPs ..
The contains: operator is Live Search lets you find web pages that link to other online documents and multimedia files like music and video. This is very different from Google’s filetype: search operator (also available in Live Search) which looks for content inside PDF and Office documents.
For example, if you are looking to download a Microsoft Word report from Gartner site that is about elearning, just type: "elearning site:gartner.com contains:doc"
Similarly, if you like to find all pages on Wikipedia that link to MP3 files, type "site:wikipedia.org contains:mp3"
Another example - to learn about software that you can download from the Google website, use "site:google.com contains:zip OR contains:exe"
3. Save Images & Pictures As Your Search the Web
Live Image Search includes something called a scratch pad that lets you save collection of images with a simple drag-n-drop. This comes very handy if you are searching for images using different keywords and need to shortlist only a few from that large collection.
4. Get Live Search Results as RSS Feeds
While there are external services that let you subscribe to search results via RSS feeds, neither Yahoo! nor Google provide RSS feeds of their search results.
You can however subscribe to search pages from Windows Live as RSS feed via this undocumented hack. Open Live Search, type your query and then on the results page, appened "&format=rss" to the URL. See example:
Search Page: http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=iphone
RSS Feed: http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=iphone&format=rss
This parameter converts the Live Search page into an RSS feed that you can add to your news reader.
5. Limit Your Search to Website that offer RSS Feeds
Another interesting search operator in Live Search is "hasfeed" - it lets you find only those web pages that link to RSS feeds. For instance, you could say "micheal phelps hasfeed:" to find web pages that are about "michael phelps" and also syndicate content as RSS feeds.You can group hasfeed: with other search operators so if want to know about all pages related to movies on ABC website that have feeds, just type "movies site:abc.com hasfeed:"
6. Specify Weight (Preference) in the Search Query
Say you are planning for an upcoming vacation and need some advice related to holiday destinations. Now rather than searching for "holiday destinations" that will return very broad results, you could add the prefer: operator and specify places that you’re really keen to visit though you don’t mind other suggestions.
September 16, 2008
MacBook Air - The World's Thinnest Notebook
You can also transfer files wirelessly from another computer or the new Time Capsule external HD/Wi-Fi station. The 1.6GHz with 80GB standard hard drive starts at $1,800. The 1.8GHz with 64GB solid-state hard drive starts at $3,100. Both models begin shipping in two weeks.
September 15, 2008
Affiliate Marketing Planning - Is It Possible To Earn Money Online
One of the most common models that many people have use is the affiliate marketing model. The major advantages that this model offer is that new entrepreneur do not need to have their own products to sell online and they will only need to make a small investment in order to have their business.
They will earn their money by selling other people's product. In return for selling other people's product, they will get a certain percentage of the sales as commissions. This is indeed a model where people will be able to start their business start if they follow a proven system and they take consistent action.
As like all business, the person will have to commit the time, effort and money into the business so that it will grow. One of the biggest mindset that you should have is that the internet is only a medium for you to start your business and getting customers. A internet business is no difference from the offline business.
There will always be risk in business. You should ask yourself is it possible to earn money through offline business if you want to know whether it is possible to earn money online. Both are real businesses. It is possible to earn money if you are willing to put in the time, effort and money.
September 13, 2008
Ex-Google staff Launch New Search Engine- Cuil
The new site promises better results by scouring a larger index of web pages than Google, but experts are cautious about its prospects
Cuil, which went live today, was built by Anna Patterson, a former Google employee who helped create the company's index - the enormous catalogue of web pages which its scours every time someone conducts a query.
Speaking before the launch of Cuil, which is pronounced 'cool', Ms Patterson said that one of the main reasons rival search engines such as Microsoft Windows Live and Yahoo! had struggled was because they weren't able to index as many pages as Google.
Cuil had solved that problem by compiling an index three times as large as Google's - searching for results across 120 billion web pages compared with Google's index of 40 billion pages, she said. Google does not reveal how large its index is, but in a statement today said that it welcomed competition, which "stimulates innovation and provides users with more choice."
Rather than displaying results in a list, like Google, Cuil shows them on a page which has a more magazine-like feel. Each result has a greater amount of text alongside it, and sometimes an image as well. "You can't be an alternative search engine and smaller," Mr Patterson was quoted as saying. "You have to be alternative and bigger."
Several large and deep-pocketed rival engines have sought to reel in Google - the runaway leader in search - but none has succeeded. Last month, Google performed 82 per cent of searches in the UK last month, according to Nielsen Online, compared with 5 per cent for Yahoo!, 4 per cent for Microsoft's Windows Live Search, and 3 per cent for Ask.com.
Internet experts gave a cautious welcome to the new service today, saying the promise of a larger index of web pages was appealing but that there would likely be some teething problems as the service found its feet. Ultimately Cuil's popularity would be determined by the relevance of results, they said.
“This is the most promising thing I’ve seen in a while,” Danny Sullivan, editor of the Search Engine Land blog was quoted as saying. "Whether they are going to threaten Microsoft, much less Google - that's another story."
Based on an hour's trial, Michael Arrington, author of the technology blog TechCrunch, said that Cuil was an "excellent search engine" but that it didn't appear to have "the depth of results that Google has." He added that the results on Cuil were also less relevant, but that the engine had a 'related query' box which enabled the user to refine their query very effectively.
"Cuil does a good job of guessing what we'll want next," he said.
Drew Broomhall, search editor of Times Online, said: "It's about time people starting experiencing different ways of seeing search results. Even Google presents them in a fairly limited way."
"The big factors will be how quickly they can get fresh content such as breaking news into the search results, and how they deal with spam, where websites try to trick search engines into thinking they are more relevant than they are." The site was periodically unavailable in the UK today.
Cuil, which is based in Menlo Park, near San Francisco, has raised $33 million from venture capital investors.
As well as Ms Patterson, its founding team includes her husband, Tom Costello, who developed search technology for the computing giant IBM, and two other former Google engineers - Russell Power, who worked on the same team as Ms Patterson, and Louis Monier, who was also the chief technology officer at Alta Vista, one of the most popular pre-Google search engines.
A number of start-ups have attempted to lure users away from Google with new ways of searching, including Teoma, whose technology was incorporated into Ask.com, and Powerset, which pioneered "natural language search" - the ability to respond to questions and other sentences - and which was acquired by Microsoft earlier this month.