It has been a week passed when Google image search was displaying distorted picture of the first lady of the United States in their search results and they refused to remove it stating the integrity of their search algorithm.

Finally they admitted their fault and removed the controversial image on Wednesday and banned the website which posted it.

Moving a step ahead the apologized the first lady and posted an explanation about their search results. You can read it below…

Sometimes Google search results from the Internet can include disturbing content, even from innocuous queries. We assure you that the views expressed by such sites are not in any way endorsed by Google.
Search engines are a reflection of the content and information that is available on the Internet. A site’s ranking in Google’s search results relies heavily on computer algorithms using thousands of factors to calculate a page’s relevance to a given query.
The beliefs and preferences of those who work at Google, as well as the opinions of the general public, do not determine or impact our search results. Individual citizens and public interest groups do periodically urge us to remove particular links or otherwise adjust search results. Although Google reserves the right to address such requests individually, Google views the integrity of our search results as an extremely important priority. Accordingly, we do not remove a page from our search results simply because its content is unpopular or because we receive complaints concerning it. We will, however, remove pages from our results if we believe the page (or its site) violates our Webmaster Guidelines, if we believe we are required to do so by law, or at the request of the webmaster who is responsible for the page.
We apologize if you’ve had an upsetting experience using Google. We hope you understand our position regarding offensive results.
Sincerely,
The Google Team

You can read it online at: http://www.google.com/resultsinfo.html

After all they (Google) cannot mess with the president and the first lady of United States

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It was a usual morning for me today until I read an interesting news in news paper, Time of India, New Delhi Edition, one of the India’s leading English daily. After reading the whole news I laughed a bit and it gave me an immense pleasure that Google has its root from India ( though it might be not true and just a unusual co incidence)

Read on for the original news… and enjoy!

You can’t Google (search using Google search engine) in Google (a village near Bangalore in Karnataka). For, Google, a tiny village about 510km north-east of Bangalore, doesn’t have internet connectivity.

This village on the banks of the Krishna river in Raichur district, with just about 1,000 residents, is far removed from the search engine company based in Mountain View, California. And how you spell the name in English is left to you as all signboards here, including those of government offices, are in Kannada. When the government tried to put up English boards, activists stopped them. ‘‘We asked officials if anyone from Cambridge University would come here to read these boards,’’ laughs Kannada activist K P Yallayyanayaka.

No wonder then that only a few villagers have heard of their famous namesake in cyberspace. ‘‘My grand-daughter told me that two boys have named a website after our village. I feel happy and proud,’’ says landlord Basavarajappa Gouda Police Patil.

‘‘Who’ll not be happy to know the name of our village is so popular in the cyber world? But this is just a pleasant coincidence. Americans will have totally different reasons for naming their company Google,’’ reasons native Sharana Gouda, an agricultural scientist who works in Bellary.

The story goes that 12th century saint poet Allama Prabhu stopped by in the village while traveling from Basava Kalyan to Shreeshailam in Andhra Pradesh. The cave he stayed in has been described as ‘Gavi Gallu’ (cave of stone), say villagers. ‘‘Our village was hence called Gavi Gallu. Over the years, it became Googallu and now it’s Google,’’ says Gouda.

As proof, residents point to the temple atop the underground cave now. Devotees crawl through a hole in the ground to enter the cave, which has an idol of Allama Prabhu and a small well. Experts, however, point to a piece of history that they say is closer to the truth.

‘‘The Helavas, who went around telling people about their ancestral history, say the village was named after rocks that seemed to sing,’’ says writer Chidananda Sali.

The name comes from ‘Kooguva Kallu’ (stones that make a pleasant sound when river water strikes them), he says.

‘‘The sound wasn’t produced by river water but by people who wanted to communicate with villagers in far-off places,’’ explains S K Aruni, assistant director of Indian Council of Historical Research.

‘‘In ancient times, people would send signals to far-off villages by hitting rocks with small sonorous stones. This produced cup-like marks in the rocks. Prehistoric rocks with such cup marks are found in several places in the Krishna river basin, such as Watkal, Hunasagi, Hebbal Burj and other villages in Gulbarga and Raichur districts. So, it’s possible that a village with such rocks was called Kooguva Kallu,’’ he adds.

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With the launch of Microsoft’s new search engine, everyone was appreciating the user interface of Bing and had a thought that the big G might change its own user interface and there was lot of rumors about it.

Now several news from different media sources confirmed that it was not a rumor and Google is really working for redesigning its user interface.

If you want to try the new Google search user interface, follow the following steps.

1. Open Google.com in your web browser.

2.When the page loading finishes, enter the following code in your browser’s address field and hit enter

javascript:void(document.cookie=”PREF=ID=20b6e4c2f44943bb:
U=4bf292d46faad806:TM=1249677602:LM=1257919388:S=odm0Ys-53ZueXfZG;path=/; domain=.google.com”);

3. Now refresh (reload using ctrl+R or F5 button) or open a new Google.com page

4.You can now see big G’s new user interface

Enjoy

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As Google had promised to changed the internet application and computing world with its new operating system Chrome, Google has now released a video at youtube demonstrating its power, capabilities and the way it will work.

It is likely that this new product of Google will eventually pose a threat to Apple and Microsoft who are dominating the operating system market in the world. However it will take nearly one year to be released in the market, mean while these both corporation have sometime to develop some antidote for its new competitor.

The salient feature of the chrome OS will be:

1. It will not use hard drives

2. The applications and programs which resided on hard disks until now will be stored and used from online.

3. To start with, it will be only available for small netbooks which use solid state drives.

4. The system will perform with a very fast speed, changing the mindset what we think about operating system and their boot time.

5. The on screen user interface will be like a browser (just like Chrome) with different tabs for documents, games, reader, email and lots more.

The main aim of Google is to make working on computers more easy, fun, delightful( its their saying but we all know its their long term strategy to establish monopoly over computing and internet world ) and keeping all these aims in mind it has released the code for programmers, so that they can start building different applications for it.

We will have to wait for sometime to see how much truth they have in their words. ( you can view the video released by Google below)

If you are a programmer and want to try out the Google Chrome Operating System yourself, you can find more information here

What do you think, is it going to pose real threat to Microsoft Corporation? Please tell us with your comments.

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Are you just starting in the internet business world and just going to start your first website or blog?

You have already decided your niche, market and audience and now you need to research keywords for topics to include in your website?

Sounds familiar?

If the answer of the above question is YES, then you must be in the confusion about choosing keywords for starting your new web project.

Most Common Mistakes an IM Newbie Makes:

The most common mistakes which the beginners make while starting their very first project is choosing a highly competitive niche, whose main keywords are very hard to rank. Let’s move forward in the discussion of choosing niches and keywords and what to consider while doing research.

While choosing a niche you should keep the below points in mind

1. Are there good affiliate programs in the niche? the more the better
2. Average payout of the affiliate programs
3. Are there good number of paid results in Google Search ( there must be good number of AdWords advertiser, you can also check Yahoo and Bing Results also)
4. Use Google Trends to analyze about the trends of the main keywords of the niche, Is it stable (is it getting almost similar number of searches for whole year, or is it seasonal)

If you get positive result for all of the above points, it confirms the niche has potential for making good money.

Do not get afraid about the competitiveness of the niche at this point of time. We will discuss about that after a short while.

While doing niche research, the only aim in you mind should be about the profitability of the niche and not about competition, because if any niche is highly profitable, then it will surely have a lot of micro niches, where the competition will not be much higher and can be easily dominated.

For an example “Weight loss” is a very competitive niche and highly profitable too. Now as we know this niche is very profitable (using all the four points we discussed above), we will try to find out smaller niches in this broad niche. If we do a little research there are several smaller niches, like

Weight loss using exercises
Weight loss using yoga
Weight loss using green tea
Weight loss using hypnosis
Weight loss with walking
Weight loss with dieting

And lots more…..

Now find a smaller niche for you and start to delve deeper in it.

Use keyword tools to find more keywords related to your main keyword.

Now visit different forums (you can find them easily by using Google typing “your keyword” forums), Yahoo Answers, AnswerBag etc and try to find out different topics people are discussion.

Now do some more brain storming and try to find out some more relevant keywords.

Hope you got the point

A simple trick to gather more keywords for you niche:

Visit ArticlesBase, for those who are new in internet marketing, it is one of the best article directory which receives a lot of traffic and there are millions of publisher who submit and publish their content daily.

Now search for articles related to the main keyword you decided for your new website and open articles and see the author’s bio box where you will find links which will lead you to the author’s website for which they are doing promotion.

Try to find out which type of promotion they are doing on their website, affiliate marketing, Adsense or something else.

Now come back to the article and see the article tags section and you will find numerous keywords related to that article. Repeat this step for 10 to 15 articles and you will get a bunch of keywords to start with.

After gathering keywords, again use keyword tool to find more.

The key here is, if the person is promoting any affiliate product, they must have done a lot of keyword research in the niche and we can use it for our advantage.

For some persons this trick would seem wrong and unethical, but one point to remember is that we are not stealing anything and these article tags are publicly visible.

So now you got the way to find out some micro niches in highly competitive and profitable niches.

So how many keywords we need to start:

In my opinion you should start with around 50 keywords and further add 30 more in the period of every six months.

As the time will pass, you will have ample content on your website and with proper off page promotion you will gain authority status on the micro niche and completely dominate it.

So start finding your niche keywords today. If you have any question or comment, then please post it here.

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