"When Larry Met Sergey" - An interactive guide to Google

You will find details of a company like Google from anywhere on the web. A simple Google search bout Google (Duh..) would give you endless results from Wikipedia to the company pages of Google itself. The following interactive infographics titled "When Larry Met Sergey" created by Online PhD is an interesting representation of the history of Google.

 The guide starts off when Larry Page met Sergey Brin at Stanford in 1995, and showcases all the major milestones the company has established until the end of 2011. The guide unveils itself in a scroll that seems to be infinite.

 View it "Full Screen" to enjoy it better.

Created By Online PhD

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The Dark Side Of Google Domination [video]

The following video created by the people at University of Applied Sciences Ulm, Germany checks out the dark side of the Google's domination in online search and online services. They are raising the question - What will Google do with all the personal data that it collects from its users?

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Make your image Google search background

Google has added a new feature to let the users to set a background image of the Google Search Homepage. However this feature is only available to Google account holders. The users must be signed in to be able to change the default white background.

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An Easy Way To Show Adsense Ad Below Post Title In Blogger

When you enable the option 'Show ads between posts' in Blogger, the ads show after the post. But these ads often not seen by readers, especially if your post is long. The best place to keep your ads is under the post title, as it maximizes the exposure of your ads. More exposure means more clicks and greater revenue.There is a simple trick to make your ads appear under the post title rather than the default position (Under every post).

First log in to your Blogger Dashboard and go to Layout > Edit HTML. Now search for the following code in the box below.

<b:if cond="'data:post.includeAd'">
<data:adend/>
<data:adcode/>
<data:adstart/>
</b:if>

This is is code which show the ads when you enable 'Show ads between posts'. Cut this code and paste above this in your template.

<p><data:post.body/></p>

You may have to click on Expand Widget to see the code.

You can also tweak these codes more to show ads only on post pages and not when an user visits your home page, or browse categories. To do this you will have to change your code into this.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType=="item"'>
<b:if cond="'data:post.includeAd'">
<data:adend/>
<data:adcode/>
<data:adstart/>
</b:if>
</b:if>

If you use Blogger, then I suggest you try this.

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Bing Trying To Make Web Porn Free

Bing, the new search engine from Microsoft, is trying to make web almost porn free by not allowing users to search using sexually explicit terms. The search engine, as in the screen shot, only displays a warning message when you search using those terms, stating that the search may return sexually explicit content and will ask you to change the search term.

This is a very brave step from Microsoft eventhough it may effect the user rating of Bing. It would have been nice to show this message as a warning and add a link below it to show the search results or ask them to sign in to verify their age. This way Bing can spread an awareness among the users without much effect on their rankings. Otherwise, people looking for some hot action, as they say, will ignore this search engine.

Another negative aspect of this step from Bing is that medical students who are doing research on these subjects will find it difficult to agree to the justifications of Microsoft.

How this will effect the ambition of Microsoft to overtake the search giant Google, we will have to wait and watch to find out.

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Micheal Jackson Causes Twitter to Crash

Micheal Jackson, the pop singer, caused the famous microblogging site Twitter.com to crash. Fans, of the pop sensation who died on friday, poured into Twitter to pay tribute to their favourite singer. The server overload caused Twitter to crash ultimately denying access to millions of users.

The search giant Google also felt the heat as it struggled to keep up to the server requests from millions of users who searched about the legend singer. Google believed it to be part of the virus attack the happened in 2005 and for the first 25 minutes even gave a message stating that the search term may bring up maliculous sites. This was due to the fact that in june 2005, a virus spread through e-mails claiming that Michael Jackson had suicided because of the allegations raised against him.

Various news sites also reported record breaking hits on Michael Jackson's death. The news that Michael Jackson had been hospitalised was read by more than 800 Thousand people in Yahoo News. The record for most read article in Yahoo news is also claimed by Michael Jackson's death. Around 16.4 million people read the article leaving behind the record of 15.1 million claimed on the day when Barack Obama was elected as the President Of America. Around 1.75 billion articles about Micheal Jackson's death was read all along the internet.

Even after his death, Micheal Jackson proved that he really is the King Of Pop.

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Earn more from Adsense by removing low paying ads

Google uses web crawlers to index content from a site in the form of search results. These data are known as scrapings. This is a fair and legal use of others content for indexing. But some illegal sites, which are made for making money from adsense ads, uses these kinds of scraps from sites having highly searched keywords and plagiarizes as their own. Such sites are known as Made For Adsense (MFA) sites. They use scraped content to generate high-revenue clicks from unknown users who believe it to be legitimate site. MFA sites advertise in Adwords for as low as $0.01 - $0.05 per click and can seriously affect the reputation of your site. Think of a scenario when a visitor of your site clicks on an Adsense ad and is taken to a scraper site like Everyrule.com which claims great offers on a host of products. But every link that shows up on the site is an Adsense ad, which when clicked is an Adsense click for the webmaster of Everyrule.

This is where AdsBlackList (ABL) comes to the help. This is a website which provides a list of MFA sites which can be used to block them from showing up on your site as an Adsense ad. Besides Google Adsense, ABL also supports Yahoo Publisher Networks and Chitika eMinimalls.There are 3 types of account available to you (Member, Premier Member and Premier+ Member). The basic membership with ABL is completely free, and will enable you to gather a list of 50 of the highest ranked MFA/LCPC sites. Premier members have the option of generating the full 200 sites to copy to their filter list. Premier+ members can not only generate the full 200 sites, but they can also manage their Adsense accounts via the AdsBlackList site... allowing the automatic update of filter lists when new & related MFA sites are listed. During BETA testing, ALL users have access to 200 sites per list.To Add a domain to your account Registered member can also use a feature called Domain Checker which allows you to quickly query a domain against the ABL database. It will return one of the following options:

• Not in ABL - This domain has not been blacklisted. You can click "Report" in order to quickly process a blacklist application.
• Pending - The domain exists in the database but has not yet been confirmed as MFA or LCPC.
• Blacklisted - The domain is blacklisted via user votes. You can click "Info" to see information relating to the site status within ABL.
• Admin Blacklisted - The domain is blacklisted and confirmed by ABL Administrators.
• Admin Locked - The domain you entered is part of a whitelist controlled by ABL Administrators. The domain can NOT be blacklisted under any circumstances.

On the left hand side of the AdsBlackList homepage you can find the Top 30 MFA sites. Visit any one of the 30 sites and find out what AdsBlackList is all about.

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Blackle : The energy saving Google

Google has become a vital part of our daily tech life. The name has more meaning other than the worlds largest search engine. It is Google who taught us to use search engines for our every need. Let it be a complex maths homework or a simple dating tip, we just 'Google' it.
A testimonial to this is Google's homepage design, which aims only at one thing - 'Search'.But the search engine giant has also been criticized for this very design. That is, the white background of Google.com uses far more electricity than a black page.

In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of the energy savings that can be achieved and the cost in terms of readability of black web pages. Thus originated 'Blackle.com'
As you can see, this is a redesigned version of Google, a black background that is, by heap media and are powered by Google Custom Search. So everything you search at Blackle.com is like searching at Google.com but by using less electricity.Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black.

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