Enjoyed one good interactive session in Sapient Gurgaon, beneath are some queries asked by the attendies: Q1.  Visit are important or pageviews Q2. how analytics helps in negative campaign Q3. Something about Social Media Buzz [+]

Google Fast Flip is http://fastflip.googlelabs.com a new web application launched by the google where you can get the fast overview of headline pages of top newspapers. How does it work? We capture images of the articles on our partners' websites and then display them in an easy-to-read way. The stories are grouped by categories, such as Entertainment, Business, Opinion, Politics and Most Viewed. Readers can flip through stories quickly by simply pressing the left- and right-arrow keys until they find one that catches their interest. Clicking on the story takes them directly to the publisher's website. How are the Topics selected? Can I choose my own? The Topics are generated automatically by rising stories in the news. Users can also search for any subjects they want and basically create their own topics, almost like a custom magazine, on the fly. How are stories recommended in [+]

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world today released a study focusing on Google’s relative dominance in the two emerging Internet markets of India and Brazil. As background, Google Sites ranked as the most visited Internet property worldwide with 854 million unique visitors age 15 and older in July, an increase of 18-percent during the past year. Nearly 75 percent of all Internet users worldwide visited the Google Sites property, which accounted for 9.4 percent of all time spent online. Nearly one out of every ten minutes a person spends online around the world is spent on a Google site.

Google usage is more prevalent in certain global markets than others. Two particular markets stand apart from [+]

lThere are more addresses than there are people on Earth. The current global population stands at more than 6.7 billion. lThere are about 150 web addresses per person in the world. lIf you spent just one minute reading every website in existence, you’d be kept busy for 31,000 years. Without any sleep [+]

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Well truely speaking Digg was never in my strategy of search engine promtion. Whenever i try to use it i found y self in trouble, however i am a gr8 frnd of Digg and visit it on daily basis to see my as well as my client's competitors activity. One of the post by John , " We’ve made a few changes to the way Digg links to external sites that may impact some folks in the SEO community. These changes reduce the incentive to post spammy content (or link spam) to Digg, while still flowing ’search engine juice’ freely to quality content. We’ve added rel=”nofollow”to any external link that we’re not sure we can vouch for. This includes all external links from comments, user profiles and story pages below a certain threshold of popularity. This work was done in consultation with leading experts [+]

A disruption to Google's Gmail service frustrated users throughout the world on Tuesday and flummoxed engineers at the giant internet company. Google said the problems started early in the morning and were not resolved until approximately 2330 GMT. The problem prevented users from accessing Google email and stymied customers who use the popular software to sync their information with the Microsoft Outlook email programme. In Google's Gmail forum, users claiming to be in Italy, Germany, France and Taiwan, along with users from various states in the US, reported being unable to access Gmail. The snafu increased concerns about the safety and integrity of online data as more computer users migrate to using popular internet services offered by the likes of Google, Facebook and Microsoft. Google is the third-most popular online email service in the US after Yahoo and Microsoft's Hotmail. The service suffered outages in February [+]

Another good write up by patni, Google bomb: The combined effort of multiple webmasters to change the Google search results usually for harmful effect. The “miserable failure” – George Bush, and “greatest living American” – Steven Colbert Google bombs are famous examples. It is an attempt to influence the page ranking of webpage within the google search engine by linking to it from many other sources.It is actually a practice intended to influence the ranking of particular pages in result returned by the google search engine There are real-life consequences when someone aims to destroy someone else on the Internet. It's all too easy to destroy another person on the Web. In cyber-slamming cases, victims are often intimidated into silence because they feel powerless and helpless, and their first instinct is to shut themselves up so that things don't "get worse." But [+]

Com Score a leader in measuring the digital world today released a study of the global search market showing that more than 113 billion searches were conducted in July 2009, representing a 41-percent increase versus year ago. Google Sites attracted significantly more searches than any other engine with 76.7 billion searches conducted, or 67.5 percent market share. Yahoo! Sites ranked second worldwide with 8.9 billion searches (7.8 percent share), followed closely by Chinese search engine Baidu with 8 billion searches (7.0 percent share). Most of the top search properties worldwide experienced significant growth in search query volume versus last year, with Russian search engine Yandex growing at the fastest rate (94 percent) among the top ten.

As  my blog reader knows that I am  into Internet marketing Training as well as into SEO Consultancy. So being as a trainer what i have started i give topics to all of my learning jockies and place them on blog so that rest of the batch can share the things. So here is one topic on Google Sand Box. What is Google SandBox ? The word SandBox in a general language defines as  a probation period for testing purpose. Website owners and search engine optimization professionals began to notice the Google Sandbox effect, real or imagined. Not everyone agrees that the Google Sandbox exists as a separate filter from other alleged Google filters. The Google Sandbox is very similar to a new website being placed on probation, and kept lower than expected in searches, prior to being given full value for [+]