How to create a blog on Blogger.com

Why create a blog on Blogger.com, because it’s free, easy, and only takes a minute. You can share your thoughts, photos, and more with your friends and the world. Easy to post text, photos, and videos from the web or your mobile phone. Unlimited flexibility to personalize your blog with themes, gadgets, and more.

If you want to create a blog on Blogger.com, here's how to make it:

• Before you create a blog on Blogger.com, you must have a Google account or Gmail account first, so that you can create a blog on Blogger.com, because Blogger.com connected with a Google account. Make a Gmail account first, how can you be seen in the article about Creating an account on Gmail.

• If you have a Gmail account, please go to Blogger.com or Click the image below to create a blog.



• Next you will go to the Homepage Blogger.com. Click CREATE A BLOG to create a blog for free.



• Then will go to the page Create a Google Account. Fill in these columns.



Email address
Enter your email address (Gmail). You'll use this address to log in to Blogger and other Google services.

Retype email address
Type in your email address again to make sure there are no typos.

Enter a password
Enter your password, the same as your gmail password. Must be at least 8 characters long.

Retype password
Type in your password again to make sure there are no typos.

Display name
The name used to sign your blog posts.

Word Verification
Type the characters you see in the picture to the left.

Acceptance of Terms
Check mark, indicate that you have read and understand Blogger's Terms of Service.

If you've filled in all fields, then click CONTINUE.

• Then will go to the page Name your blog. Please fill in the name of your blog you want.



Blog title
Your blog's title will appear on your published blog, on your dashboard and in your profile.

Blog address (URL)
The URL you select will be used by visitors to access your blog. After fill in the URL you want, then click Check Availability to check if the URL you want to use is available.

After filling in all fields, then click CONTINUE.

• After selecting the name of the blog and also a blog url, then will go to the page Choose a template.


Select the template in any way you want. You can change it later.
When you are done selecting, then click CONTINUE.

• When you are done creating an account, select the name of your blog, blog URL and also the template, then finished already making blog.


Then click START BLOGGING to use the blog that you created.

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About The Social Networking

Maybe you've heard of Social Networking, but not quite sure what it means. Social networking is the grouping of individuals into specific groups, such as small rural communities or subdivisions environment. Although social networking is possible in person, especially in the workplace, universities, and high schools, it is most popular online. Because the Internet is filled with millions of people looking to meet others, to collect and share information and experiences on a number of topics, such as gardening, cooking, and develop friendships and professional alliances.

When we visited a social networking website online that commonly used. This site is known as social networking sites. The function of these social networking sites such as an online community of Internet users. Depending on the respective sites, many of these members share a common interest about hobbies, music, religion, or politics. Once we are given access to social networking sites, we can begin to socialize. This socialization may include reading the other member profile page and even we can contact them.

One more benefit includes diversity because the internet gives individuals from all over the world access to social networking sites. This means that we can develop online friendships with someone in another country even though we are different countries. We're not just going to make new friends, but we can learn a thing or two about a new culture or a new language and learning is always a good thing.

Social networking often involves grouping specific individuals or organizations together. Although there are several social networking sites that focus on particular interests, but some are not. The main focus of the site without often referred to as "traditional" sites of social networking and usually has open membership. This means that anyone can become a member, no matter what their hobbies, beliefs, or views. However, once we are in this online community, we can begin to create their own network of friends and eliminate members that do not have common interests or goals.

As we know, no one was safe on the internet, there are dangers associated with social networks, including data theft and viruses. The most prevalent danger though often involves online Predators or individuals who claim to be someone that they are not.

Once you are well informed and comfortable with your findings, you can start the search from hundreds of community networks to join. This can easily be done by performing a standard internet search. Your search will likely return some results, including MySpace, Friendster, Facebook, FriendFinder, Yahoo! 360, Orkut, Hi5. These sites are the most popular sites right now. By joining, we can meet and establish relationships with a variety of other Internet users from various countries.

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10 Security Tips for the Holidays

Cyber-safety shouldn’t take a break when heading home for the holidays. Between free time, new toys, and family travel, year-end festivities pose plenty of opportunity for online compromise. So stay safe this holiday season by avoiding these 10 pitfalls.

Malicious season’s greetings
December often brings an influx of email greetings from distant family and friends, inviting recipients to “click here” to view an e-card, video, or animation. Alas, not all such messages are sincere. While some are harmless hoax-mails, cyber-criminals have been known to disguise viruses and spyware as phony season’s greetings. So don’t let holiday spirit trump common sense; open all file attachments and URLs with care.

Phishing for friends
From Facebook to Twitter, many users will use holiday down time to catch up on social networking. Unfortunately, social networking sites have become a fast-growing vector for phishing -- especially targeted phishing attacks. Was that friend invitation really sent by your old colleague Joe? Think twice before clicking – and never ever give out personal data to new “friends” that you don’t really know.

Wayward laptops
Somewhere between hotel, cab, and airport, thousands of travelers will lose laptops, PDAs, and phones this holiday season. New York’s LaGuardia airport lost-and-found alone has accumulated over 70,000 unclaimed mobile devices. So don’t leave a boarding gate, vehicle, or security checkpoint without taking a mental inventory of your electronics to ensure that all are still in your possession. Better yet, register all laptops and smartphones with services that can locate and recover or kill lost or stolen devices, such as Apple's MobileMe, Microsoft's MyPhone, or Spearstone's DiskAgent.

Hazardous hotspots
Whenever you tap Wi-Fi at a coffee shop, train station, or ski lodge, beware of fake Internet hotspots. Surveys show that viral SSIDs like “FreePublicWifi” are advertised by 5 to 10 percent of Wi-Fi clients used in highly-traveled public places. Most are fellow travelers that naively tried to connect to similarly-named fake hotspots in the past. But a few might be criminals looking to snarf logins and passwords. So avoid enticingly-named Wi-Fi peers or networks that are too good to be true, and always protect hotspot traffic using VPN tunnels or SSL/TLS sessions.

Infested public PCs
Holiday travelers that leave their own laptop at home often use someone else’s computer to check email or print a boarding pass. Whether that computer is a public PC in the hotel lobby or cousin Jane’s PC in her den, you’re swimming in potentially infested waters. Wherever possible, avoid typing in ordinary passwords that are easily captured by hidden keystroke loggers. If you can, protect public PC Internet access by using secure remote desktop or clientless VPN solutions that mitigate common public PC threats, such as such as LogMeIn, GoToMyPC, Juniper Secure Access, SonicWALL Aventail, or F5 FirePass.

Unattended logons
Whether you’re taking a quick break or hitting the road, remember to log out of all authenticated browser and VPN sessions, clear the browser’s cache of saved pages and passwords, and exit all programs. When leaving your own laptop unattended, password-lock the screen – or, better yet, shutdown and lock it away in a hotel room safe. Exercising a little forethought and caution can help you avoid wasting precious holiday time dealing with the consequences of unauthorized laptop use or theft.

Neglected USB drives
Oft-times, the smallest possessions are the easiest to forget or drop. Holiday travelers who remember to safeguard laptops and smartphones can still leave USB thumb drives plugged into public PCs, under guest room beds, wedged into airline seats, or skittering about rental car trunks. The files saved on those lost drives could come back to bite you – unless you’ve protected that removable drive’s content with data encryption. The same goes for data on devices that double as USB storage, such as MP3 players and iPods.

Internet skinny-dipping
Hundreds of thousands of families will unwrap a brand new computer this holiday season. While most new computers are now delivered with trial antivirus software, recipients anxious to use these gifts don’t always take the time to activate virus and spyware protection or download current signatures and OS patches. Using the Internet without desktop security is never a good idea; get that computer up to snuff before the kids start visiting Websites, downloading games, and instant messaging their friends.

Not-so-safe smartphones
Small children aren’t the only users who go online from new unsecured devices. From DROIDs to iPhones, many adults and teens will receive consumer smartphones they’ve been pining for this holiday season. And most will immediately start configuring them with usernames and passwords for Gmail, Yahoo!, iTunes, Twitter, Facebook, and perhaps a corporate Exchange server. Unfortunately, a far smaller number will protect those phones with strong authentication—much less data encryption—creating an easy avenue for personal and business identity theft. Always enable built-in smartphone security measures and fill any gaps by downloading third-party security apps.

Dangerous downloads
Finally, use common sense when downloading games, file sharing tools, streaming clients, and other third-party apps this holiday season. Downloads are a fun way to get more from electronic gifts – especially free apps from marketplaces and app stores. Some sites (e.g., Apple, BlackBerry) scrutinize accepted apps. Some don’t, but deliver explicit warning about functions used by each app (e.g., Android). Understand what apps do before installing them and be wary of unsigned apps from unknown developers. If possible, use antivirus/spyware to detect any downloaded malware.

source: www.esecurityplanet.com

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YouTube get more social with Facebook

YouTube as the first video sharing site released the top videos of 2009 and now it's offering tighter integration with Facebook. Hot on the heels of its look back at the most popular videos of the year, YouTube today showed its continued dominance as a video-sharing service by announcing tighter integration with Facebook.

YouTube, a Google subsidiary, said in a blog post it's experimenting with a new "feed" feature connecting YouTube and Facebook. The feed pushes the YouTube videos your friends are embedding on their Facebook back to your YouTube homepage.

YouTube is currently testing out this new video syndication feature and provides details on how users can try for themselves in the blog post. Users need to stay connected on Facebook for the syndication to work.

And Facebook users are embedding a lot of videos on their personal pages. It is the biggest site among social networks. YouTube said a staggering 46.2 year's worth of YouTube videos are viewed on Facebook everyday. The numbers for other social networking sites Orkut, MySpace and Hi5 trail off are lower but still significant at 12.7, 5.6 and 1.2 year's worth watched per day, respectively.

Greatest hits of 2009

Surprise singing sensation Susan Boyle easily topped the list of the most watched YouTube videos for the year with her appearance on "Britain's Got Talent." The video garnered over 120 million views for the year.

The rest of the top five were:
David After Dentist in at number two with 37+ million views; JK Wedding Entrance Dance at third with 33+ million views; the New Moon Movie Trailer fourth with 31+ million views and Evian Roller Babies coming in fifth at 27+ million views.

In compiling the list, Google said that in some instances it aggregated views across multiple versions of the same video.

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TwitVid Finds Real-Time Twitter Video Feeds

While the big boys of search look to capitalize on the real-time search craze, smaller players continue to build out alternatives. The latest is TwitVid, which on Monday released a real-time search feature for finding the most current and popular videos on Twitter. TwitVid said its proprietary "real-time ranking algorithm" ranks videos based on relevancy to a search term as well as popularity and "buzz" on Twitter. The newest, most relevant videos are ranked highest. TwitVid, which offers a popular tool for adding video to Twitter, aggregates all TwitVid and YouTube video links being shared on Twitter.

Search rivals Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have all recently rolled out additions and integration of real-time content into their search results as part of an effort to offer more information from social networks like Twitter and Facebook. But TwitVid said it's not afraid of the much bigger competitors.

TwitVid also offers what it said is a unique video analytics tool that lets members track their tweeted videos online by the day, week, month or total number of times viewed.

"You can even see the totals hour-by-hour of how many views and from where Yahoo, Twitter, or elsewhere," said Lalani. The analytics shows the global location of clicks and who the top people linking others to their videos are.

Lalani said his company's analysis of two weeks of recent data from the Twitterstream showed TwitVid to be the most used video sharing site on Twitter with about a 50 percent share, followed by YouTube and yfrog.

TwitVid claims it allowed users to upload, view and share videos in both HD and SD (standard definition) sooner than any other app. It has attracted a number of celebrity users to its mobile video tweeting service, including Britney Spears, Demi Lovato and The Jonas Brothers, Dane Cook, Demi Moore and Coldplay. TwitVid also said the Los Angeles Lakers, the NBA and the PGA use its service.

source: www.internetnews.com

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PayPal WishList, Earn up to $100 via Facebook

This time, paypal using facebook application for promotion, this promotion has the potential $100 for every person who can promote to 100 other friends.

How easy, simply sign up for Paypal Wishlist program then automatically you will immediately get $1. But before that you need to consider some of the terms and conditions in order to qualify for this promotion. Here is a description of this promotion.

Terms & Conditions

Description of this Promotion
During the Promotion Period (as defined below), download the PayPal WishList application on Facebook (“PayPal WishList”), create your own PayPal WishList, and we will pay $1 USD into your PayPal account. In order for us to pay you the amount you earned pursuant to this Promotion, you will need to provide us with your PayPal email address via the PayPal WishList. To submit the PayPal email address you would like linked to your PayPal WishList, go to the home page of the PayPal WishList at www.paypalwishlist.com and click the link below to the 'submit your email address' in the upper left side of the page.

In addition, share the PayPal WishList with your friends via Facebook, and for each friend who downloads and creates his or her own PayPal WishList from your invitation, we will pay you an additional $1 USD (up to the maximum total sum of $100 USD per PayPal account).

Timelines
This Promotion begins at 00:00:01 Singapore Standard Time (“SST”) on November 16th, 2009 and ends at 23:59:59 SST on December 31st, 2009 ("Promotion Period").

Eligibility
In order to qualify for this Promotion, you must:

1. successfully complete registration for a new PayPal account within the Promotion Period or already have an existing PayPal account prior to the Promotion Period;
2. submit to PayPal via the PayPal WishList and within the Promotion Period, the email address to which your PayPal account is linked;
3. be at least of 18 years of age, and have a PayPal account with a valid registration address in relation thereto located in India, Thailand, Malaysia, Korea, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia or Singapore (“Eligible Countries”);
4. have a PayPal account in Good Standing, with current contact information throughout the Promotion Period. In order for an account to be deemed in Good Standing as that term is used herein, the account must not have a hold status and/or be suspended or past due as of December 31st, 2009; and
5. complete the downloading of the PayPal WishList, and use the same to create a PayPal WishList, within the Promotion Period.

You will be entitled to $1 USD for your own PayPal WishList, plus an additional $1 USD per friend who uses your invitation to create his or her own PayPal WishList, provided your friend has a PayPal account. Each person is only entitled to create one (1) PayPal WishList. For the avoidance of doubt, in the event your friend receives more than one invitation, only the person whose invitation is used to create the former’s PayPal WishList, will be entitled to the $1 USD.

If you reside outside of the Eligible Countries, you may be permitted to download the PayPal WishList; however, you will not be eligible to participate in this Promotion. Additionally, you will not be entitled to receive an additional US$1 or cash back for those PayPal WishLists created by a person(s) outside of the eligible countries, even if the sum stating ‘you’ve earned’ on your Facebook page may indicate otherwise. This means that at the end of the Promotional Period, you may be entitled to less earnings than stated on the ‘you’ve earned’ counter on your Facebook page.

Prizes
You may receive up to the maximum total sum of $100 USD, through this Promotion.

How Prizes will be Awarded
You will be notified by PayPal no later than February 28th, 2010, via email or any other method as PayPal may from time to time determine, of how much you have earned.

Prizes will be credited to your PayPal account as per your submission to PayPal via the PayPal WishList, no later than February 28th, 2010. If you do not provide us with this, we will not be able to deposit your earnings. To submit the PayPal email address you would like linked to your PayPal WishList, go to the home page of the PayPal WishList at www.paypalwishlist.com and click the link below to the 'submit your email address' in the upper left side of the page. Any cash prizes to be paid to your PayPal account, will be credited in the currency as set out herein and currency conversion fees (if applicable) or any other related fees, will be borne solely by you.

In the event of any unclaimed or unaccepted Prize(s), PayPal may in its sole discretion decide on the disposal of the said Prize(s). For cash prizes paid to your PayPal account, you would have to log into your PayPal account within 30 days of payment, to accept the prize. If you do not claim this within the 30 day period, the amount will be returned to PayPal.

How It Works


Before you sign up at Paypal WishList, then you need to have a PayPal account and Facebook account. If you already have an account that, follow these steps:

• Login to your Facebook.
• Then click here »» PayPal WishList
• Submit your PayPal email address.


NOTE:
You can only submit one PayPal email address. Once you submit your PayPal email address you will note be able to change or modify it.

If you already submit your paypal email, it means you have succeeded registration, and Your PayPal WishList has been registered.


• Next steps, "Create New WishList"


• Make your own WishList.
- Select a category wishlist.
- Click the image one by one for inclusion in the list (5 image).


• If you've made, then click "Save & Share This WishList".


Then, Paypal WishList application that was created will appear in the Profile and your Facebook Homepage.

• Next steps, send invitations to your friends for adding PayPal WishList application. Click "Invite Friends" to send an invitation.


On the first day, select a friend as much as 6 people (by clicking their photo), then send.

On the next day, you can send it to your 40 other friends. You'll earn $1 for every friend you refer who adds this application (earn up to $100).

Create and share your PayPal WishList, invite your friends and earn up to US$100

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This promotion is only valid for PayPal account owners in the country: India, Thailand, Malaysia, Korea, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia or Singapore.

According to Wishlist PayPal rules:
Promotion period valid from November 16th, 2009 and ends December 31st, 2009.
Payments not exceeding February 28th, 2010 into your PayPal account.


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How to get a referral link your PayPal WishList:

Search your PayPal WishList have you share in your profile.


Right-click on the link of "PayPal WishList" or "Create your WishList". Then select Properties, you will get your referral link.

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Bing Maps Spawn the 'Decade of the Interface?'

Microsoft got some well-deserved praise for the flashy new interface features it's bringing to its Bing search engine. At an event earlier this week, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) showed off a much more visual interface for Bing Maps that lets users pilot their way online to find point of interest and other useful content -- including relevant links to Twitter.

But research firm IDC thinks the improved UI is just the beginning of what it calls "The Decade of the User Interface". Specifically, IDC believes the kind of immersive experience offered by Bing Maps portends key changes to watch for on the Web and software in general as user interfaces evolve.

"The Web today views documents and queries as disconnected objects", said IDC search analyst Sue Feldman, in a commentary released today. "Bing Maps takes a leap forward, piecing together sequences of queries to understand common tasks, and finding relationships among data from disparate sources."

This understanding lets Bing Maps take a best guess at providing the most relevant information in results to the user. Feldman ticked off several examples, such as where is the nearest doctor is, what the hours are for the drug stores nearest you, where to get an absentee ballot, or even where to find a really good pizza.

Feldman notes that many keyword searches fail because people don't use the same terms that a document might.

"But if the path to commonly-requested information is known, why not return the information without requiring a query?" she asks. "The metaphor of the map means that any information tied to the real world can be displayed on it: traffic, local tweets, locations of businesses, events. Finding each of these would be a single query. Or, you could do as Bing Maps does, and serve it all up to let the user select what's of interest."

Bing is not the first Web service to leverage mashups. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), for one, started doing this years ago, letting users tie data sources to its Google Maps. Bing lets you search within the context of a location. Feldman gives the example of looking for a local concert and how you can query Bing Maps and get back a list of local concerts, related suggestions and see the location of the events on a map.

"Layering data on top of a map, which is what Bing Maps does, suggests things to look for I may never have considered. It presents possibilities," said Feldman.

And while the visual aspects of Bing Maps are more pleasing than the standard ten blue links of search results, Feldman is more impressed that it all serves a practical purpose. She gives this example:

"Type in the name of a town, and get first a map showing locations of major types of businesses. Click on 'more details' to get an overview of the history, the current weather, education, landmarks, etc. with links to more information on each."

Feldman also noted that Bing lets you drill down for details without losing the context of the map, by displaying different types of information with separate icons (coffee shops, dental care, doctors, restaurants, education, grocery stores, etc.) that invite exploration.

What Microsoft still needs to do and watch out for Google

Feldman noted that given the central role location plays in Bing Maps, Microsoft needs to speed up its plans to provide a mobile experience that enables GPS-enabled smart phone users to enjoy the same full range of features. "While mobile releases are on Microsoft's product roadmap, they should be front and center," and include Android and iPhone versions for the non-Microsoft world (the clear majority in this case)," she said.

At the event Microsoft did say it planned to release Bing features for both Android and the iPhone and one demo was done on the iPhone.

From a big picture industry perspective, Feldman said Bing Maps Streetside experience and the addition of community-generated photo "synths" will become an expected feature for geo-interfaces going forward.

"In summary, while many of the features in this system have been seen before, Bing Maps does the best job we have seen of connecting them all in a single, intuitive site that is both useful and a pleasure to explore," said Feldman.

Google will undoubtedly be questioned about Bing Maps on Monday when it's scheduled to show several search-related advances of its own publicly for the first time at a media event. The search giant tweaked the design of its home page earlier this week.

source: www.internetnews.com

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Microsoft and Yahoo Sign on the Dotted Line

Microsoft and Yahoo quietly announced Friday that they have finally signed off on their landmark search in exchange for ad revenues deal. The agreement between Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) has been almost two years in the making. Most recently, the two companies revealed in late October that there were still details to be worked out before they could sign the agreement.

"Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corporation today announced that the companies have finalized and executed the definitive Search and Advertising Services and Sales Agreement and License Agreement in accordance with the letter agreement announced in July," the companies said in a brief joint news release late Friday.

Microsoft and Yahoo first announced on July 29 the ten-year deal that will have the Redmond software giant provide its Bing search engine to Yahoo's sites in return for a share of the sites' advertising revenues.

The main thrust of the agreement is to create a single entity to compete against Google (NASDAQ: MSFT) in the global search engine market.

Web analytics firm comScore's (NASDAQ: SCOR) latest search engine statistics for U.S. searches in October -- the most recent month the firm has tracked -- show that Bing reached 9.9 percent share. That's still puny compared to Google's share in October of 65.4 percent.

However, a combination of Bing's and Yahoo's search numbers would yield a 27.9 percent combined share, a much stronger rival to Google than either one alone.

"Microsoft and Yahoo believe that this deal will create a sustainable and more compelling alternative in search that can provide consumers, advertisers and publishers real choice, better value, and more innovation," said a Microsoft statement e-mailed to InternetNews.com.

Next on the list of hurdles to leap, according to the two companies, is approval by U.S. regulators, as well as approval within the European Union (EU), which may or may not require the approval of the European Commission, due to differences in laws among EU nations.

"We welcome the broad support the deal has received from key players in the advertising industry and remain hopeful that the closing of the transaction can occur in early 2010," the joint statement said.

source: www.internetnews.com

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When Google lose from Yahoo!

In almost all the world, Google is a search engine most used. But in some areas of Japan, Google is still inferior to its predecessor, including Yahoo!. Although Google has opened an office in Tokyo since 2001, but still less than Yahoo! Japan, operated by one service provider, Softbank. Currently 56.5% of Internet searches done in Japan through Yahoo!, Far above Google is only 33.7%.

Earlier this year Google's version of the Japanese have a different appearance, not like in other world regions. Google in Japan does not appear simple but is more lively and full with a link to YouTube, Gmail and other Google services. They want the Japanese people, who liked the graphics, will be more interested. Google also advertised heavily. They even hired 2500 hot air balloon and allow the person being passed, the balloon rises.

For Google, the Japanese market is very important, so necessary to pursue the position of Yahoo!. Currently 90 million Japanese citizens connected Internet. Of that amount, one third also used the Internet via their mobile phone. Every day, an average of 10 million video clips downloaded from YouTube by the Japanese people via their mobile phone.

Yahoo! win, either because the company is the first Internet search engine top. In addition, Yahoo! Japan ,although 35 percent stake owned by Yahoo! United States, the Japanese saw it as a local company.

Google stuttering was apparent when the company introduced the service "Street View" Japanese version. With this service, users can view the photos of the road. But the Japanese protested that disturb the privacy of this service, let alone the streets of the country's very narrow. So they are forced to take a picture with a camera that re-position a foot lower than the original.

Google Earth was also criticized in Japan since ancient map set contains the places where Japanese castaway occupancy. In Japan, the issue is still controversial pariah until now and if the former dwelling of the pariah was revealed, could make the inhabitants affected.

But Google did not give up. For example, Google Map, unlike the U.S. version. In the United States, the map will point to the center of town. In Japan, the map will point to the train station or bus station, local residents refer to rely on public transportation.

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New look Google Translate

Google Translate now has a new look. Not just a new appearance, but also Google Translate adds several new features. Where there is no feature on Google Translate before. Here's a new look from Google Translate:

In the new Google Translate, when we type a word or sentence, will be translated and displayed immediately without having to click the "Translate" button.

In addition, there are other new features, which we also could hear the sound of the word / sentence that we type this. Way by clicking the "speaker icon" located next to the translation results.


We also can contribute a better suggestion, if the result of incorrect translation. By clicking on the "Contribute a better translation".


Then will come the column contribute a better translation. Fill in the feedback on that column, then click the "Submit" button.

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How search engines work

Web search engines work by storing information about many web pages, which taken directly from the html itself. These pages are retrieved by a web crawler (also known as a spider) automated web browser which follows every link on the site. Exceptions can be made by using robots.txt. The contents of each page is then analyzed to determine what should be indexed (for example, the words taken from the title, headings, or special fields called meta tags). Data about web pages are stored in an index database for use in later queries.

Some search engines such as Google, store all or part of the page source (called cache) as well as information on the web page itself. This cached page always holds the actual search text since it is the one that was actually indexed, so it can be very useful when the content of the current page has been updated and the search terms are no longer in it. This problem might be considered to be a mild form of linkrot, and Google's handling of it increases usability by satisfying user expectations that the search terms will be on the returned webpage. This satisfies the principle of least astonishment since the user normally expects the search terms to be on the returned pages. Increased search relevance makes these cached pages very useful, even beyond the fact that they may contain data that may no longer be available elsewhere.

When a user enters a query into a search engine (typically by using keywords), the engine examines its index and provides a listing of best-matching web pages according to its criteria, usually with a short summary containing the document's title and sometimes parts of the text. Most search engines support the use of the boolean operators AND, OR and NOT to further specify the search query. Some search engines provide an advanced feature called proximity search which allows users to define the distance between keywords.

There are other search engines: search engine real-time, such as Orase. Machines like this do not use indexes. Machinery necessary information is collected only if there is a new search. When compared with systems that use index-based machines such as Google, real-time system is superior in several respects: information is always up to date, (almost) no dead links, and fewer system resources required. (Google uses nearly 100,000 computers, Orase only one.) But there are also disadvantages: the search for longer completion.

The usefulness of a search engine depends on the relevance of the result set it gives back. While there may be millions of web pages that include a particular word or phrase, some pages may be more relevant, popular, or authoritative than others. Most search engines employ methods to rank the results to provide the "best" results first. How a search engine decides which pages are the best matches, and what order the results should be shown in, varies widely from one engine to another. The methods also change over time as Internet usage changes and new techniques evolve.

Most web search engines are commercial ventures supported by advertising revenue and therefore most controversial practice, which allows advertisers to pay for their pages ranked higher in search results. Those search engines which do not accept money for their search engine results make money by running search related ads alongside the regular search engine results. The search engines make money every time someone clicks on one of these ads.

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About search engine history - Part 2

In 1996, Netscape was looking to give a single search engine an exclusive deal to be their featured search engine. There was so much interest that instead a deal was struck with Netscape by 5 of the major search engines, where for $5Million per year each search engine would be in a rotation on the Netscape search engine page. These five engines were: Yahoo!, Magellan, Lycos, Infoseek and Excite.

Search engines were also known as some of the brightest stars in the Internet investing frenzy that occurred in the late 1990s. Several companies entered the market spectacularly, receiving record gains during their initial public offerings. Some have taken down their public search engine, and are marketing enterprise-only editions, such as Northern Light. Many search engine companies were caught up in the dot-com bubble, a speculation-driven market boom that peaked in 1999 and ended in 2001.

Around 2000, the Google search engine rose to prominence. The company achieved better results for many searches with an innovation called PageRank. This iterative algorithm ranks web pages based on the number and PageRank of other web sites and pages that link there, on the premise that good or desirable pages are linked to more than others. Google also maintained a minimalist interface to its search engine. In contrast, many of its competitors embedded a search engine in a web portal.

By 2000, Yahoo! was providing search services based on Inktomi's search engine. Yahoo! acquired Inktomi in 2002, and Overture (which owned AlltheWeb and AltaVista) in 2003. Yahoo! switched to Google's search engine until 2004, when it launched its own search engine based on the combined technologies of its acquisitions.

Microsoft first launched MSN Search in the fall of 1998 using search results from Inktomi. In early 1999 the site began to display listings from Looksmart blended with results from Inktomi except for a short time in 1999 when results from AltaVista were used instead. In 2004, Microsoft began a transition to its own search technology, powered by its own web crawler (called msnbot).

Microsoft's rebranded search engine, Bing, was launched on June 1, 2009. On July 29, 2009, Yahoo! and Microsoft finalized a deal in which Yahoo! Search would be powered by Microsoft Bing technology.

According to Hitbox, Google's worldwide popularity peaked at 82.7% in December, 2008. July 2009 rankings showed Google (78.4%) losing traffic to Baidu (8.87%), and Bing (3.17%). The market share of Yahoo! Search (7.16%) and AOL (0.6%) were also declining.

In the United States, Google held a 63.2% market share in May 2009, according to Nielsen NetRatings. In the People's Republic of China, Baidu held a 61.6% market share for web search in July 2009.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine

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About search engine history - Part 1

Before there were web search engines there was a complete list of all webservers. The list was edited by Tim Berners-Lee and hosted on the CERN webserver. One historical snapshot from 1992 remains. As more and more webservers went online the central list could not keep up. On the NCSA site new servers were announced under the title "What's New!" but no complete listing existed any more.

The very first tool used for searching on the (pre-web) Internet was Archie. The name stands for "archive" without the "v." It was created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal. The program downloaded the directory listings of all the files located on public anonymous FTP (File Transfer Protocol) sites, creating a searchable database of file names; however, Archie did not index the contents of these sites.

The rise of Gopher (created in 1991 by Mark McCahill at the University of Minnesota) led to two new search programs, Veronica and Jughead. Like Archie, they searched the file names and titles stored in Gopher index systems. Veronica (Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives) provided a keyword search of most Gopher menu titles in the entire Gopher listings. Jughead (Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation And Display) was a tool for obtaining menu information from specific Gopher servers. While the name of the search engine "Archie" was not a reference to the Archie comic book series, "Veronica" and "Jughead" are characters in the series, thus referencing their predecessor.

In June 1993, Matthew Gray, then at MIT, produced what was probably the first web robot, the Perl-based World Wide Web Wanderer, and used it to generate an index called 'Wandex'. The purpose of the Wanderer was to measure the size of the World Wide Web, which it did until late 1995. The web's first search engine Aliweb appeared in November 1993. Aliweb did not use a web robot, but instead depended on being notified by website administrators of the existence at each site of an index file in a particular format.

JumpStation (released in December 1993) used a web robot to find web pages and to build its index, and used a web form as the interface to its query program. It was thus the first WWW resource-discovery tool to combine the three essential features of a web search engine (crawling, indexing, and searching) as described below. Because of the limited resources available on the platform on which it ran, its indexing and hence searching were limited to the titles and headings found in the web pages the crawler encountered.

One of the first "full text" crawler-based search engines was WebCrawler, which came out in 1994. Unlike its predecessors, it let users search for any word in any webpage, which has become the standard for all major search engines since. It was also the first one to be widely known by the public. Also in 1994 Lycos (which started at Carnegie Mellon University) was launched, and became a major commercial endeavor.

Soon after, many search engines appeared and vied for popularity. These included Magellan, Excite, Infoseek, Inktomi, Northern Light, and AltaVista. Yahoo! was among the most popular ways for people to find web pages of interest, but its search function operated on its web directory, rather than full-text copies of web pages. Information seekers could also browse the directory instead of doing a keyword-based search.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine

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About Search Engine

Search Engine is a portal website that provides search information data needed internet visitors. To obtain the information required, the internet visitor went to the site and perform a search. Information may consist of web pages, images, information and other file types.

The search engine allows us to ask for media content with specific criteria (typically containing words or phrases that you specify) and obtain a list of files that meet these criteria. Search engines usually use the index (which was made before and updated on a regular basis) to find the file after the user enters search criteria or keywords.

Search Engine will try to be displaying the most relevant data with the desired visitors. Various possibilities of data to be displayed, and search engines have a lot of considerations set forth in the algorithm. This algorithm continues to grow due to technological developments in addition to many websites that try to make him appear on the website the first page of search results. To get in on the first page, we must create a website has good content but also has a website structure that favored serach engine. This is known as SEO (Search Engine Optimization).

In the context of the Internet, search engine usually refers to the WWW, and not the protocol or other areas. In addition, search engine data available in newsgroups, large databases, or open directories like DMOZ.org. Because data collection is done automatically, unlike search engine web directory of human work.

Most search engines run by private companies using proprietary algorithms and closed databases. The search engine is the most popular is Google (MSN Search and Yahoo! Left little behind). There have been several attempts to create search engines with open-source, for example is Htdig, Nutch, Egothor and OpenFTS.

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What is a Blog

Blog is short for "web log", is a web application form which resembles the writings (published as a post) on a public web page, usually managed by an individual with regular entries comments, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. These writings are often published in reverse order (the latest content first and then followed the older content), although not always so. This web site can usually be accessed by all Internet users according to topic and purpose of the user's blog.

Media blog was first popularized by Blogger.com, owned by PyraLab before PyraLab Google.com acquired by the end of 2002. Since then, many applications are open source dedicated to the development of these blog writers.

Blog has a very diverse functions, from a diary, media publicity in a political campaign, through media programs and corporations. Some blog maintained by a single author, while others by several authors. Many weblogs also have the facility of interaction with the audience, like using the guest book and comment columns that can allow its visitors to leave comments on the contents of the published writings. however, there is also the opposite or non-interactive.

A regular blog combines text, images, links to other blogs, web pages, and other media-related topics. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs primarily textual, although some focus on art (Art blog), photographs (photoblog), videos (video blogging), music (MP3 blog), and audio (podcasting).

In addition, blog also has the risk of cyber crime, because blogs are frequently used to write everyday activities that occur on the author, or reflect the views of the authors of the various topics that happen and to share information - blogs a source of information for hackers, identity thieves, spies, etc. Many of the files confidential and sensitive issues in writing in blogs. This lead to the dismissal of a person from his job, blocked access, fined, and even arrested.

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Creating an email account in Yahoo!

To create an email account using Yahoo! just like to create an email account in Gmail, which is very easy and also free. We can also access various services from Yahoo! others, such as support for the hugely popular chat, like Yahoo! Messenger, and many other services that we can enjoy from Yahoo!.

If you want to create an email account from Yahoo!, here's how to make it:

Type in mail.yahoo.com in the address bar, then press Enter, as shown below.


Once entered into the Login page, then select or click Menu Sign Up. Located at the bottom right corner. See the following image.


Next will come the Yahoo! Registration page to create an account Yahoo!. Please fill.


Fill out the registration form, filling the following examples:


• My Name
Fill with your First Name and your Last Name.

• Gender
Select your gender.

• Birthday
Fill in your birth date.

• I live in
Choose a Country where you live.

• Postal Code
Fill in the zip code where you live.


• Yahoo! ID and Email
The ID you select lets you sign in to all Yahoo! products and will be used for your free Yahoo! email address. If the ID you want is not available, try adding a word or number to make it unique.

There are several options for your ID name, you can use yahoo.com, ymail.com and rocketmail.com.

Examples:
your_id@yahoo.com
your_id @ymail.com
your_id @rocketmail.com

After that, click the Check button on the right, to check whether the ID that you choose is available. If the desired ID is not available, try to add the words or numbers to make it unique. Or you can select the ID suggested by Yahoo!.

• Password
Fill in the password which will be a password to log into your email account. Usage and lower case letters influential, at least 6 characters long and a maximum of 32 characters, no spaces. Make it more secure do not use your ID name. Or if you want to use your ID Yahoo!, can be combined with letters, numbers or characters (!?@#$%).

• Re-type Password
Type the password again been made earlier.


• Alternate Email
All communications from Yahoo! will be sent to this primary email address, including information that will help you recover your ID or password. If you have another email address please fill in, if you do not have another email address do not need to fill.

• Security Question
Choose a question for the future security if you forget your password, Yahoo! will provide questions and will ask for answers to these questions.

• Your Answer
Fill in your answers to last that will be used to answer the above question if you forget your password in the future. Make sure your answer you will remember but hard to tell someone else.


• Type the code shown
Type the code shown in the picture on the column. If you can not read the code could be replaced with other code by clicking Try a new code.


The last step, please check the Your Account information you've entered above (feel free to change anything you like), and review the Yahoo! Terms of Service. If you are finished, please check Do you agree? and click Create My Account. See picture below.


If not successful, check back where lies the fault. If it is successful it will be like in the picture below.


Congratulations!
Now you have an email account at Yahoo!. To get started, click the Continue button.

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Yahoo! Mail - Free web-based email

Yahoo! Mail is a provider of free electronic mail (webmail) service owned by Yahoo! which was inaugurated in 1997. Yahoo! Mail is the largest free email provider on the Internet, and has millions of users around the world. Other than Yahoo! Mail, some sites free email service providers other till now still be the main competitor is Windows Live Hotmail, Gmail and AOL Mail.

Currently, Yahoo! offers two versions of Yahoo! Mail, including versions of Ajax interface powered by Yahoo! Zimbra introduced in 2007, and Yahoo! Mail Classic is a simple face which was introduced in 1997-2006. Currently, the version of AJAX for Yahoo! Mail, is expected be complete and began to replace Yahoo! Mail the old version. In early 2008, Yahoo! began offering unlimited mail storage to even non-paying users, in response to competitive market segments in the world free-web mail.

Then on June 27, 2009, Yahoo! Messenger integrated with Yahoo! Mail Beta. This means that the Messenger and Mail together in one place, making it possible to connect directly with friends who are online, to enable smooth between email and chat, with no downloads or settings required. For this new feature is not available for Yahoo! Mail Classic.

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