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Excepting the last Image , the others are views Google’s New Headquarters under construction.
The design may not be appealing but Google says that it is Employee friendly and the maximum time an employee has to take his Colleagues is 2. 5 minutes.
The Offices are being built-in such a way the most interacting Groups are placed very close.
When it failed to appear broadly as we expected, we assumed Google might have pulled it because of yesterday’s news out of Russia.
That’s exactly the case. ABC News has a statement from Google saying:
“Out of respect for those injured in the extraordinary meteor shower in Russia earlier today, we have removed today’s doodle from the Google homepage,” a Google spokesperson told ABC News. “The doodle was created to mark Asteroid 2012 DA14 passing Earth.”
Doodles are the fun, surprising, and sometimes spontaneous changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists, pioneers, and scientists.
I received a message from my brother’s son yesterday.
“Please be careful: some hackers have found something new. They take
your profile picture and your name and create a new FB account. Then
they ask your friends to add them. Your friends think it is you, so
they accept. From that moment on they can say and post whatever they
want under your name. Please don’t accept a second friendship demand
from me, I have only one account. Copy this on your wall to keep
others informed”
I noted and bang came an email today from Facebook.
Image via CrunchBase
I scanned it.
Watch it.
Result.
Compared to in the past, when email was the key method for spreading viruses, our Virus Lab research shows that more than 80% of malware now spreads via the internet. More notably, only 1% comes from suspicious or ‘dodgy’ sites – the rest spreads via legitimate websites that have been hacked.
Yes, that was close, but relax…
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YouTube has been blocked by Pakistan over what it terms to be inappropriate content, that is Movie on The Prophet which it considers as blasphemy.
It ha s asked Google to remove content but of no avail.
So the position in Pakistan is that YouTube remains blocked with surfers not being able to browse non controversial contents.
The US Government, despite Pakistan’s pleas can do nothing for to ensure removal of the content by Google, Pakistan must sign the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) with the US before asking the America-based company Google (which owns the YouTube)to remove the objectionable content from the website.
Pakistan is unable to decide either way.
To complete this process Pakistan Government must have the will to sign.
The dilemma is if Pakistan signs, then Militant groups will react for having surrenders to US Company.
If it does not ,non fundamentalist Groups will be restive.
A bunch calling itself a Government, where a President is facing corruption charges,a Prime Minister who has been asked to vacate his seat by the Supreme Court, besieged by The ISI,Army, Fundamentalists,,Moderates,Pro US lobbies…what can it do!
Split Personalities can not function, let alone decide. .
Story:
IT experts say that after signing an agreement with Google and getting YouTube registered, the Pakistan government will be in a position to ask the US company to provide Pakistan-specific content on the website.
Since blocking the YouTube five months ago in the wake of protests across the country over a blasphemous movie, the government has done practically nothing to either get the objectionable content removed from the website or open access to its non-controversial pages for millions of internet users.
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Explaining the reason, the convener of the Internet Service Providers Association of Pakistan (ISPAK), Wahajus Siraj, said: “Unlike Pakistan,
countries like Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, Indonesia and Malaysia have entered into agreements with the US. Under the MLAT, these countries are in a position to request Google to follow local laws and remove the objectionable content from YouTube,” said Mr Siraj.
The IT expert said the agreement safeguarded interests of the service provider (Google in this case) by not holding it responsible for any blasphemous or anti-state content posted online by individuals/users.
According to Mr Siraj, absence of the treaty was why, despite repeated requests from Pakistan, Google has not taken out the anti-Islam movie. Access to YouTube was blocked on Sept 18 last year following protests in the country.
“Even India has signed the MLAT with the US and because of this New Delhi is able to get all objectionable contents blocked without denying access to YouTube,” Mr Siraj said. According to a senior official of the ministry of information technology there was a status quo on the matter. “The Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty if signed is the only way to restrict/block blasphemous material on internet, but there is no progress yet on the matter,” the official said, adding that without signing the agreement links and websites would have to be manually blocked which was not possible.
Recently Bing took on Google on its search results, displaying paid ads.
Bing Ad on Google
Bing launched a huge campaign against Google complete with full-page newspaper advertisements, commercials on television and a shiny new website, scroogled.com, to draw attention to the changes Google made. The home page of the site explains their beef with Google: “In the beginning, Google preached, ‘Don’t be evil’-but that changed on May 31, 2012. That’s when Google Shopping announced a new initiative. Simply put, all of their shopping results are now paid ads.
Google search results , according to Bing is ‘Scroogled”
See this.
In the beginning, Google preached, “Don’t be evil“—but that changed on May 31, 2012. That’s when Google Shopping announced a new initiative. Simply put, all of their shopping results are now paid ads.
In their under-the-radar announcement, Google admits they’ve now built “a purely commercial model” that delivers listings ranked by “bid price.” Google Shopping is nothing more than a list of targeted ads that unsuspecting customers assume are search results. They call these “Product Listing Ads” a “truly great search.”
We say that when you limit choices and rank them by payment, consumers get Scroogled. For an honest search result, try Bing.
“I’ve been one of the biggest critics about Google’s change, which has indeed been largely under-the-radar,” says Danny Sullivan, an SEO expert and the former editor of Search Engine Land. “Unfortunately, Bing is hardly in a position to be lecturing Google about poor disclosure and charging for listings, when it has the same issues.”
“No matter who’s doing it, search engines forcing businesses to pay for inclusion on their shopping sites without clearly indicating that to consumers is wrong,” says Ali Husayni, the CEO of Sinai Marketing.(master google.com)
Let us look at how search results are delivered.
Search Engines deliver by Crawling based on Key word and some more Algorithms.
The result are determined by the Content, ,Key words and good tagging.
It is also true that these alone do not make your site or writing to show up in the top results for a Search.
One can find inaccurate information, some times even irrelevant to the query as a result in top results.
May be this has something to do with set Algorithms.
This can not be avoided.
Either the results are due to content, tagging and key words-some times written artificially to draw traffic.
Here also theer is no check/
The other is the Search engines promote Paid content/ads.
This is business.
You can not avoid it.
One point is certain,.
If the result of a search gives you a bad content, one makes sure he does not visit the site again and he refines the search and goes to the other results.
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