Yahoo Winning! Onesearch on mobile

December 24th, 2008

Yahoo has signed an exclusive deal with Mobile to offer yahoo search engine on mobile phones which as nearly millions of users. This increases yahoo mobile search engine users share around the world. This provides any relevant information on the fingertips of the users. The Yahoo onesearch is designed for the mobile users and gives grouped results to the users query. It offers financial information, news, Flickr™ photos, Web image, weather conditions, and mobile web sites.

The mobile phones have a good Web browsing experience that makes it easy for them to navigate and view the web through customized home page, a convenient shopping and download experience. This is Yahoo award winning onesearch mobile experience. It also displays wallpaper, ring tones, and various games that are within the search result.

For example when the mobile user searches for sports team Yahoo! displays schedules, scores, roster, news, team profiles, team website link, images of the player and much more. Similarly if the user looks for specific movie, Yahoo! displays the timings of the show at the theaters, information and news article, reviews on the cast of the movie.

The users now do not need to surf huge number of links to find specific information. It is now simpler and convenient. You can browse Yahoo! On your mobile at any time with mobile being at your hands reach. Yahoo! onesearch offers only relevant information on any topic such as flight details, Yahoo! answers, Wikipeida’s integrated info and much more. It constantly connects people who need access to Internet wherever they are.

It provides a spontaneous mobile experience that gives you the most significant information at your fingertip. It also provides advertisements and search results sponsored by the mobile. It is helping the advertiser reach the target consumers on a wider scale and is delivering a persuasive consumer service that is helping the marketers connect with the clients. More than 70 mobile operators have selected Yahoo! onesearch engine for their mobile phone consumers.

The Raise of Kosmix.Com- the Popular Search Engine

December 18th, 2008

Kosmix.com, the popular web search engine closed up the fund counting with an outcome of $20 million invested by TimeWarner, with the contribution form prevailing investors the Accel Partners, the light speed venture partners and the Dag ventures. The total investment counts around to $55 million funding with respect to Kosmix.com.

Two friends, Mr. Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman, launched the Kosmix.com in the year 2005. The Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaram were the co-founders of a shopping web based search site, the Junglee. The Junglee was purchased by the famous search site, the Amazon.com in the year 1998.

The Kosmix instigated as a vertical web-based search engine with initial introduction of health related search sites such as the RightHealth.com, as an evidence of notion for the Kosmix advance to the pace of Internet navigation. In mid 2008, the Kosmix stretched its concentration from the normal vertical to fully horizontal application according to the TechCrunch and Crunchbase sources.

With the comparison of Kosmix and Google, the Anand Rajaraman stated that the Google gives accurate result if you are aware of what exactly you are searching for. However, if you just possess a vague idea on any topic, it may be hard to offer the correct answer. He also claims that the Kosmix permit a person to search on a complete topic even with a vague knowledge and it comes out with the entire inter-related topic that you may be interested in.

The extraordinary features of Kosmix.com gained many investors and thereby, helped in rising up $20 million, which is quite a brilliant achievement. The Kosmix.com states that it is planning to use the extra new raise in funds to build up partnerships with some other web properties, add up prominent sales team and to expand the site. The co-founders of Kosmix put forward few examples to prove that the Kosmix is the most relevant search site. He used a simple algorithmic sentence that described the discrepancy between the Google and the Kosmix. The Statements goes Google equals to Search and find but Kosmix equals to explore and browse.

People in Mumbai Prefer Rented Housing as Per Makaan.Com

December 3rd, 2008

A study to mark the latest economic deceleration on the Indian realty sector conducted by the popular web based real estate portal, The Makaan.com shows that the demand for purchasing homes in Mumbai decreased to around 19 percentages over the period of last one month, which is from September to November 2008. On the other hand, there is tremendous increase in the percentage of demand for home rental seekers. This evidently gives an idea that the property searchers in Mumbai are increasingly postponing their home purchase plan and settling down for rentals in this short period of time.

The Makaan.com also analysed that from the period of September to November of the current year, the supply of homes or lands to be sold out increased by around 14 percentage and the supply of homes to rent incremented by around eight percentage. The chief popular areas in Mumbai for making a home purchase were East Kandivali, followed by the Popular Mira Road, then Kharghar, which is further followed by Ghodbunder Road. However, the main favoured area for renting a property were West Bandra followed by East Kandivali, followed by Andheri and East Goregaon.

The business head of the popular realty site Makaan.com, Mr. Aditya Verma states that there are 3 major leading factors, which are causing the condensation in the real estate sector.

The first factor includes the present deceleration in the international and national economic crisis. This economic crisis had badly decreased the confidence level of the people, which in turn urges them to postpone every heavy value, long term purchasing. The second factor is the famous insight built on people that the property rates come down to about 25%. The third factor is the high interest rate home loans.

All these factors are putting a negative pressure on the entire real estate as well as the Mumbai people in the present term of economic crisis. The rental real estate team will rule the entire market, until there is change in the economic well being and these factor stops their play on the real estate.

Music Box: Envisage Your Dream Music Beyond Your Thoughts

November 30th, 2008

The Music Box is the creative master thesis of MIT media laboratory student. The music-oriented things such as Genius and Coverflow do not offer sufficient materials on music libraries and seem to be ultimately shallow. The dreams and thoughts of people were far away from these music arrays. However, the introduction of Music Box, a tool that is more powerful, attractive as well as intuitive made easy the task of visualizing, sorting up and playing around the music of your choice.

The creative idea at the rear of Music box is what made it popular among the people around. It not only analyses the song given as the data, but also identifies the length, the tone, the beats and other inducible qualities of music. The Music box then systematizes the music based on the choice of axes including the pace of music.

For getting more details, you need to explore the demonstration video on Music Box. To make the Music Box organize your music pace, you need to select the tempo and song length option. To alter the beat of the song, you have to select the time signature stability option.

The Music box blends the graphic previews of music for more reliability. The interface of Music box is very attractive, fresh, purposeful and well presented. The selecting of music is very easy with a couple of clicks and you can even go for multiple songs with the help of box, circle and line that covers the entire area.

It includes all the usual controls of a media player and if a person needs to add up luxuries such as the external links and graphic equalizer, with a few steps he can make it out.

Are you able to visualize a scale-down version of Music box on your personal iPod or a complete version on the media centre? The scale of publishing data is still unknown but with an excellent Internet interface, it can come up as a thrilling application. There are many similar kinds of interface available throughout.

However, not even single equipment can beat the Music Box as it works apparently well and gives a brilliant look.

KaChing, Yet another Site to Take on Mutual Funds:

November 22nd, 2008

All social investing web sites wish that their traders put the exact figures so that smaller investors can benefit by following their numbers. Picking out few yet brilliant stock predictors and allowing others to pursue their portfolios after taking a share of fees is described as best business model.

The most renowned investing application present on Facebook, KaChing recently leaped in the direction that has been described above by becoming a legal, registered investment counselor with SEC. In later half of upcoming year, KaChing will let its trading members to connect their accounts (brokerage accounts) to portfolios of come of the influential managers on web site so that they can track their trades.

KaChing has picked some gems from some prominent companies in Silicon Valley, which include investors such as CEO of OpenTable Mr. Jeff Jordan, Partner of Benchmark Capital Mr. Andy Rachleff, and partner of Kleiner Mr. Doug Mackenzie, Marc Andreessen and former CEO of OPsware Mr. Ben Horowitz. However, exact number of investors is not known.

Other competing social web sites such as Covestor, PersonalRIA and Cake Financial also have the similar plan. Some say that these investing web sites wish to disrupt the present mutual fund business by increasing the gamut of prospective money managers. PersonalRIA has its team of brilliant invetsmnet advisors while Cake, KaChing as well as Covestor offer a dais for exceptionally talented individual investors who could attract others. Thus, in some or the other way, KaChing is an ultimate instance of untainted social investing web site.

Sites such as Covestor as well as Cake follow actual trades in actual portfolios but in KaChing you may create a quite hopeful portfolio. CEO, Mr Dan Carroll says that it is actually good way because some people are brilliant investor however they do not have enough money to trade and KaChing has spread the field for such individuals.

Nevertheless, some section also argues that people who invest real money will face less risk as compared to others. Therefore, you see it is more than that of play money. But, if you go through the 350,000 portfolios present on KaChing, you will see that around 20,000 have generated great returns in last 7 months, which is a great sign.

Internet Watch Dog and Wikipedia – Which one do you prefer?

November 9th, 2008

Internet Watch Dog Foundation (IWF) commenced in the year 1996 by the Internet Industry in UK. The purpose was to report potentially illegitimate online content. They function in partnership with law enforcement, government, online industry, education sector, international partners, charities, and the public in order to reduce the availability of such illegal content particularly those related to child sexual abuse hosted in any corner of the world, obscene and that which creates racial hatred hosted in UK. IWF is an autonomous body funded by EU and online industries such as mobile operators, manufacturers, Internet service providers, search providers, trade associations, content service providers, financial sector and various other organizations that support them for ethics of corporate social responsibilities.

Wikipedia is a multilingual free content online encyclopedia project. The articles in Wikipedia guide the users to the article they are looking for and offer additional information on that particular article. It is written in collaboration by the volunteers contributed from all around the globe, any interested person can edit these article. Since its inception in 2001 by the founder of Nupedia Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger who was employed by Wales to work on the project of Nupedia. Wikipedia is an offshoot of Nupedia and it has seen a rapid growth since and is now the world’s largest website for reference attracting nearly 684 million people in a year.

Internet Watch Foundation on 5th December 2008 blacklisted an URL of the English version of encyclopedia’s article of Virgin Killer. It consisted of an illegal content under the Protection of Children Act 1978. It was the cover page of an album Scorpions 1976 on which the original cover depicts a nude young girl. However Wikipedia’s policies mention that it never censors such content that some of the reader may consider offensive and remove unsuitable content that is obviously illegal or vandalism under the law of the United States, State of Florida wherein the websites servers are situated. This had on effect on Wikipedia as Internet users usually have an IP address. Through Cleanfeed technology IWF had routed the traffic to the Wikipedia through those that were affected by the ISP by few proxy servers. This filtering of the proxy’s made it impossible to differentiate users and prevent Wikipedia vandalism as it had a ban on the anonymous editors from six ISP that accounted 95% of British.

Hear This One –“Slideshare Sends Powerpoint To The Cloud With New Plugin”

November 1st, 2008

You might be aware of the news that is doing round in online world recently that SlideShare sends PowerPoint to the cloud with New Plugin. Now those who have not heard this then here is a vital piece of information. Everybody knows that Slideshare an online community using, which you share presentations.

You can upload as well as share PowerPoint, OpenOffice presentations and PDF with others. You may tag the presentations, download them or include them in your web sites. Moreover, you may also share the documents privately. You may upload the important documents using facebook application present in SlideShare. Thus, SlideShare is very helpful medium for businesspersons and, most people are even comparing it with YouTube.

Now, that you know about this community let us come to main point. Slidahare has recently introduced an innovative plugin for MS Office 2007. It gives the users the freedom of editing as well as publishing presentations straightway to their own slideShare accounts. You may download the plugin from its web site for free.

Additional Features:

Apart from publishing the PPT documents to web site, SlideShare plugin allows you to import the SlideShare files from cloud (files which you own and those which you share with others)and modify them on your local PPT client.

The newly launched plugin also incorporates search option using which you browse the required files from SLideShare groups as well as contacts. Moreover, with support feature for Twitter, FriendFeed, you can easily broadcast fresh presentation and that too without exiting from Office.

The plugin also provides you to take a glance as to where the cloud-supported document is going (to which customers). Although, most of the online services such as Google document are free, most users find Microsoft suite very comfortable and easy to use. In addition, people are not willing to learn new interface, hence Google Docs is still a distant.

With such exceptional features, no doubt most users will be looking forward to have SlideShare like features for all components of MS office after they make they take their steps in cloud for the first time using plugin.

Get Started with Amazon Affiliate

October 29th, 2008

If you own a website, you can generate some money or earn extra income from well-paid Affiliate programs. These programs work as an advertisement. As you install an affiliate program in your website and if people, who access the website, click on the advertisement, you will be paid for it. Amazon is the one of the popular websites for online shopping available in the world. A number of people shop in Amazon and place order for a range of items in different categories. It has made shopping more convenient. With a single mouse click, you get your favorite item at your doorstep within few days.

This popularity and convenience offered by Amazon can be used to earn extra money. You can generate a decent amount of money with Amazon Affiliate as an associate promoting the products and in return, you will be paid commission of each day the sale is generated. You need to signup and place their link on your email, webpage, newsletter and much more. Whenever someone through this links gets to Amazon web site, you will earn a specific percentage of the item the person has purchased. It is easy, as you do not have to manufacture or sell your product.

Amazon offers a wide range of products in various categories, which will help you make money no matter the kind of niche you are interested. A few easy steps and in few minutes, you can become an Amazon associate. All you need to do is scroll to the bottom of the Amazon site and click on the JOIN ASSOCIATES link. In the next step, you go for the GET STARTED tour and fill out the form with all the relevant information and join the program. As your application is approved you are ready to make money.

Next, you need to bring traffic to your website and promote the online Amazon products. For this, you can generate free websites and place banners, widgets and banners to different Amazon products. Another free and effective way to advertise is through Blogs. You can also write an article review on an Amazon product and direct the reader to purchase it. Thus, all you require to generate money is to drive traffic to your niche product promotion.

A Rising of Yamli’s Wonderful Arabic Web Search:

October 24th, 2008

The Arabic transliteration Internet search site, the Yamli permits the users to effortlessly gather the Arabic phrases with the help of the Latin keyboards. They are rising up with a new introduction of titivating version of the site with numerous enhancements and a method to search involuntarily the phonetically sound alike words with different spellings. The still fledgling area is another important feature that helps the Yamli to rise up.

There is no significant methods to translate Arabic to Latin text, a majority of the words possess multiple choices of possible spellings as visible on a number of news channels. Previously, the Yamli tried to pick the probable likely spelling automatically, but the searches were most of the time irrelevant.

It introduced variable other steps to make the task a possible one, but failed continuously. Several research works were going on until they came out with the success fact. The Yamli is acquiring world popularity with the Arabic web search version that includes speedy and trendy search options.

The co-originator of Yamili, the Habib Hadded declares that the excellent search sites such as Google may give results of popular queries with alternative spellings. However, the answers are usually resolute based on human linguists and often fail to come up with the answers for rare and generic words. The Haddad claims that in comparison with other search sites, the Yamli automatically finds out the synonyms of the word searched without the intervention of a mediator.

The utmost version of the web search site, the Yamli, introduces new image search options motorized through the Live Microsoft’s search API, the video hunt from you tube and search form wikipedia. Yamli also launched a wonderful package that presents two columns that can bring up matches of English and Arabic at a time.

All these features of Yamli helped in the tremendous rise on Arabic web search engines. There are many other competing search engines that bring almost similar features, but are not successful in gaining the raise unlike the Yamili, which made the success in a very short period.

The Bush Shoe-Dodging Video in You Tube Gained Several Million Viewers

October 12th, 2008

The video that shows an Iraqi man, Zaidi, throwing his own shoes at the American President George W. Bush in a press conference held in Baghdad on a Saturday evening was watched above 5.5 million times in the video search engine, The YouTube. Mr. Zaidi, as per the news has become a hero in Iraq but as per the Americans, he is certain to live on bad name for the shameful act in public.

The video displays a clear image of lack of enough security given to the President of America and depicts a complete shameful action. There were no securities around to stop the man from throwing the shoes. A journalist on the conference calmed down the shoe thrower. The conference also included unpleased commentary on the President’s part as of his bad days in the office.

The video gained recognition on the world of Internet, with the influence of YouTube. This particular video of shoe dodging on President Bush is watched over 5.5 million times in YouTube and other video search sites claim a countless number hunt and view of this video. These statements are made by the popular visible measures.

The visible measures states that, there were more than 640 clips were embedded with the videos and a countless views have been made in YouTube. The graphs and charts have been included in YouTube that shows the exact figure of views. Within a period of 12 hours, the video incremented from 2 million to around 5.5 million views and the video have taken the track to beat up the famous video of Obama triumph speed that reached its peak within 48 hours.

After a period of two and half days, the number of views directly went up to 10.7 million transverse to 900 video clippings with more than 83,000 comments. The video beats up the most popular video The Jizz in My Pants. The popularity of this video made high demands on the shoes that were thrown to the President of America according to the Arab reporters.