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Why Search Engines like Google or Yahoo is now so important in our lifes?Internet at the “speed of thought”?Find what you want,anytime,anywhere and anything?eg.sambal belacan or chincalok or my kampung Brisu..yes you can find them,wonderful?No wonder Google share price is so High?

Posted: March 9, 2012 in internet, TECHNOLOGY, the internet bzns
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Ever wonder using your dictionary to find the word/s that you dont know their meaning or definition?Yes,dictionary the hard copy type takes sometime to help you find the word/s!How to choose the best dictionary?Ramli’s Tip:look for the 4 letter word and if its there then that dictionary is quite a helpful and wholesome one!Buy it!

Nowadays we have the search engines like Google,Yahoo and so many others and all of them even like Wikipedia help us a lot to uderstand the meaning of some word/s and even a detailed description of the word.

Lets see what Wikipedia have to say about Search Engines.

List of search engines

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

This is a list of Wikipedia articles about search engines, including web search engines, selection-based search engines, metasearch engines, desktop search tools, and web portals and vertical market websites that have a search facility for online databases.

By content/topic

General

 

P2P search engines

Metasearch engines

See also: Metasearch engine

Geographically limited scope

Accountancy

Business

Enterprise

See also: Enterprise search

Food/Recipes

Mobile/Handheld

Job

Main article: Job search engine

Legal

Medical

News

 

People

Real estate / property

Television

Video Games

By information type

Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information

Forum

Blog

Multimedia

See also: Multimedia search

Source code

BitTorrent

These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.

Email

Maps

Price

Question and answer

Human answers

Automatic answers

See also: Question answering

Natural language

See also: Natural language search engine and Semantic search

By model

Open source search engines

Semantic browsing engines

Social search engines

See also: Social search, Relevance feedback, and Human search engine

Visual search engines

Search appliances

  • Google: Google Search Appliance

 

Good to Know the Co Acquisitions made by Google,Yahoo and Microsoft-so far..

Posted: July 31, 2010 in business, TECHNOLOGY, the internet bzns
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List of acquisitions by Google

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Google is a computer software and a web search engine company. Each acquisition is for the respective company in its entirety, unless otherwise specified. The acquisition date listed is the date of the agreement between Google and the subject of the acquisition. The value of each acquisition is listed in US dollars because Google is headquartered in the United States. If the value of an acquisition is not listed, then it is undisclosed. If the Google service that is derived from the acquired company is known, then it is also listed here.

As of July 2010, Google has acquired 74 companies, its largest being the purchase of DoubleClick, an online advertising company, for US$3.1 billion. Because of the size of the acquisition, United States antitrust regulators took nearly a year to investigate the deal and clear it for approval. The majority of the companies acquired by Google are based in the United States, and in turn, a large percentage of these companies are based in or around the San Francisco Bay Area.

 

  Acquisitions by Yahoo!

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Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, United States

Yahoo! is a computer software and web search engine company founded on March 1, 1995.[1] The company is a public corporation and its headquarters is located in Sunnyvale, California.[2] It was founded by Stanford University graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo in 1994.[3] According to web traffic analysis companies, Yahoo! has been one of the most visited websites on the Internet, with more than 130 million unique users per month in the United States alone.[4][5][6] As of October 2007, the global network of Yahoo! receives 3.4 billion page views per day on average, making it one of the most visited US websites.[5]

Yahoo!’s first acquisition was the purchase of Net Controls, a web search engine company, in September 1997 for US$1.4 million. As of April 2008, the company’s largest acquisition is the purchase of Broadcast.com, an Internet radio company, for $5.7 billion, making Broadcast.com co-founder Mark Cuban a billionaire. Most of the companies acquired by Yahoo! are based in the United States; 47 of the companies are from the United States, and 8 are based in a foreign country. As of October 2009, Yahoo! has acquired 58 companies.

 

 Acquisitions by Microsoft

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Microsoft’s headquarters are in Redmond, Washington.

Microsoft is an American multinational computer technology corporation based in Redmond, Washington. Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded the company in Albuquerque, New Mexico on April 4, 1975 after Gates went on leave from Harvard University.[1] Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), the company that created the Altair 8800 microcomputer, was based in Albuquerque. Gates visited MITS to show them his implementation of the BASIC programming language using their system.[2] Microsoft moved its headquarters to Bellevue, Washington on January 1, 1979, and then to Redmond on February 26, 1986, where it still remains.[3] The company’s initial public offering was held on March 14, 1986. The stock, which eventually closed at US$27.75 a share, peaked at $29.25 a share shortly after the market opened for trading. At the time, Gates owned 45%[4] of the company’s 24.7 million outstanding shares, and Allen owned roughly 25% of the shares. After the offering, Gates was worth $233.9 million and Microsoft had a market capitalization of $519.777 million.[5] Microsoft has acquired 128 companies, purchased stakes in 60 companies, and made 24 divestments. Of the companies that Microsoft has acquired, 99 were based in the United States. Microsoft has not released the financial details for most of these mergers and acquisitions.

Microsoft’s first acquisition was Forethought on June 29, 1987, which was founded in 1983 and developed a presentation program that would later be known as Microsoft PowerPoint.[6] On December 31, 1997, Microsoft acquired Hotmail for $500 million, its largest acquisition at the time, and integrated Hotmail into its MSN group of services.[7] Hotmail, a free webmail service founded in 1996 by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia,[8] had more than 8.5 million subscribers earlier that month.[9] Microsoft acquired Seattle-based Visio Corporation on January 7, 2000 for $1.375 billion. Visio, a software company, was founded in 1990 as Axon Corporation, and had its initial public offering in November 1995.[10] The company developed the diagramming application software, Visio, which was integrated into Microsoft’s product line as Microsoft Visio after its acquisition. On July 12, 2002, Microsoft purchased Navision for $1.33 billion. The company, which developed the technology for the Microsoft Dynamics NAV enterprise resource planning software, was integrated into Microsoft as a new division named Microsoft Business Solutions,[11] later renamed to Microsoft Dynamics.[12] Microsoft purchased aQuantive, an advertising company, on August 13, 2007 for $6.333 billion, Microsoft’s largest acquisition. Before the acquisition, aQuantive was ranked 14th in terms of revenue among advertising agencies worldwide. aQuantive had three subsidiaries at the time of the acquisition: Avenue A/Razorfish, one of the world’s largest digital agencies,[13] Atlas Solutions, and DRIVE Performance Solutions.[14] Microsoft acquired the Norwegian enterprise search company Fast Search & Transfer on April 25, 2008 for $1.191 billion to boost its search technology.[15]

Since Microsoft’s first acquisition in 1987, it has purchased an average of six companies a year. The company has purchased more than ten companies a year since 2005, and acquired 18 firms in 2006, the most in a single year, including Onfolio, Lionhead Studios, Massive Incorporated, ProClarity, Winternals Software, and Colloquis. Microsoft has made four acquisitions worth over one billion dollars: aQuantive, Fast Search & Transfer, Navision, and Visio Corporation. Microsoft has also purchased several stakes valued more than a billion dollars. It obtained an 11.5% stake in Comcast for $1 billion, a 22.98% stake in Telewest Communications for $2.263 billion, and a 3% stake in AT&T for $5 billion. Among Microsoft’s divestments, in which parts of the company are sold to another company, only Expedia, Inc. was sold for more than a billion dollars; USA Networks purchased the company on February 5, 2002 for $1.372 billion. On August 17, 2006, Microsoft acquired 7.92% of its own common stock for $20 billion.

   

 

 

 

 

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Its always good to learn from the World’s Best Cos’-like Google!Read this article about Google on Innovation..

Posted: July 31, 2010 in all about blogs, all the videos, business
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Sunday, August 12, 2007

Google on Innovation

Marissa Mayer is Vice President of Search Products and User Experience at Google. John Hunter from the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog dropped by Think Differently!! and left a comment alerting me to the fact that Mayer gave a talk on innovation at Google at her alma mater, Stanford University – and the talk has made it to YouTube.

As John notes, Mayer’s talk revolves around 9 key points:

  1. Ideas come from everywhere
  2. Share everything you can
  3. You’re Brilliant. We’re Hiring
  4. A license to pursue dreams (Google’s 20% time policy)
  5. Innovation not instant perfection (get something out there, get feedback, and iterate quickly and often)
  6. Data is apolitical (use data based decision making)
  7. Creativity loves Constraints
  8. Users not money
  9. Don’t kill projects, morph them

Mayer’s discussion was fascinating. For example, “you’re brilliant, we’re hiring” was selected after Google put this on an internal bulletin board – and noted that this slogan got 5x the click-throughs of other alternatives posted.

The license to pursue dreams was particularly interesting. Google’s policy to allow people 20% of their time to pursue their own independent projects is well known. Mayer, however, pointed out that this time is not always or typically taken on Fridays (or other nominated day) on a regular basis – often people work on their core work for months and then spend bursts such as weeks on their independent projects. And this independent work – because it harnesses employee passion and drive – leads to 2.5x greater productivity. Mayer studied all products released in the second half of 2005, and determined that 50% of all product releases were generated as the output of the 20% independent project time. For businesses considering mirroring Google’s policy within their own organisations, that’s a powerful statistic right there.

After noting that Google prefer never to launch a product or service at the end of the week (they only do so between Monday and Wednesday), Mayer recounts a story where the team had produced a product release (Google news) – but it was ready on Thursday and therefore would not be released till next week. The team of 6 was deadlocked regarding whether to use the time to build a new feature to filter the news by date, or to filter the news by location. The team could not agree, so Mayer made the decision to hold off and release the product without either feature. After release, the comments and requests came in – around 300 requests for filtering by date, and around 3 requests for filtering by location. Goggle released an ‘imperfect’ product – but iterated rapidly based on customer feedback – a great model of user-centred innovation.

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To Build World Class People We Need World Class Education & World Class Leadership-Learning begins from Primary,Secondary,Tertiary and also at Corporations&Government Agencies..read and see what’s happening around the world!

Posted: July 31, 2010 in all about dps training and consultancy business, All about Personal Excellence, all about QCDSME+I, business, corporate university, govt of malaysia, inovation and creativity, Leadership, Uncategorized, world class performance
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Ramli and his Global Experts are actively involved in providing Corporate Education to Top Management,Managers,Executives and Employees.We teach subjects like World Class Performance,Action Revolution (Revolusi Aksi),Establishments of your Corp U (in house U),QCDSME Factors for Business Excellence and Excellent Teambased Projects etc…

As of 2010,the Global Ranked Companies have embarked on establishing their own Corp Us (some called them Academy or Leadership Centre etc.)The reason for moving to this direction of having their own Corp U is to unleash their talents through strategic initiatives of making learning important,knowing what is important to learn and improve the business rather than learning for learning sake,provide continual education to employees at all levels so that they can move up their competency levels and academic achievements plus preparing for more knowledge workers to meet to the constant change and challenges of the business and marketplace both domestically and globally.Corp U is also to instill employee loyalty and satisfaction that their company as being a caring corporate citizen in wanting to improve them through better knowledge and performance which will also enable to provide better employment opportunities like higher income and better perks.Just see the Video on Google In US-how wonderful working life in that company and why everyday 3,000 people apply to work there when actually the available vacancies are so minimal!Google was also voted as the Best Co to Work For in USA.

How many Corporate Universities are now existing in Malaysia?Are they still behaving like Training Departments and operate as a Cost Centre and do not actually become a strategic component of the company?

Corporate Universities are established to change the way HR Dept operates!Corp U will now make HR so strategic to the business and become the leader in business performance just like Sales&Marketing or Production Departments.Managing,acquiring and developing Talents in any organisation is now KEY to Business Performance and Excellence.Human Capital development now need serious attention and only with the best education and learning opportunities for all through either the traditional and modern ways are always needed and must improved continually the same with their business performance and growth.

Contact Ramli at Mobilephone:+6-019-2537165 or email: ramlipromoter@yahoo.com

Lets see what are the “happenings” around the world talking about or taking actions on this subject of World Class Education and Learning (plus having great fun working on the job)

Learn from the Best Companies in the World if U also want to be a World Class Company-Study>Implement>Measure>Discipline

Posted: June 8, 2010 in All about Personal Excellence, business, world class performance
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This is Google Corporate Philosophy:

Our Philosophy at Google:

Ten things we know to be true

“The perfect search engine,” says co-founder Larry Page, “would understand exactly what you mean and give back exactly what you want.” When Google began, you would have been pleasantly surprised to enter a search query and immediately find the right answer. Google became successful precisely because we were better and faster at finding the right answer than other search engines at the time.

But technology has come a long way since then, and the face of the web has changed. Recognizing that search is a problem that will never be solved, we continue to push the limits of existing technology to provide a fast, accurate and easy-to-use service that anyone seeking information can access, whether they’re at a desk in Boston or on a phone in Bangkok. We’ve also taken the lessons we’ve learned from search to tackle even more challenges.

As we keep looking towards the future, these core principles guide our actions.

1. Focus on the user and all else will follow.

Since the beginning, we’ve focused on providing the best user experience possible. Whether we’re designing a new Internet browser or a new tweak to the look of the homepage, we take great care to ensure that they will ultimately serve you, rather than our own internal goal or bottom line. Our homepage interface is clear and simple, and pages load instantly. Placement in search results is never sold to anyone, and advertising is not only clearly marked as such, it offers relevant content and is not distracting. And when we build new tools and applications, we believe they should work so well you don’t have to consider how they might have been designed differently.

2. It’s best to do one thing really, really well.

We do search. With one of the world’s largest research groups focused exclusively on solving search problems, we know what we do well, and how we could do it better. Through continued iteration on difficult problems, we’ve been able to solve complex issues and provide continuous improvements to a service that already makes finding information a fast and seamless experience for millions of people. Our dedication to improving search helps us apply what we’ve learned to new products, like Gmail and Google Maps. Our hope is to bring the power of search to previously unexplored areas, and to help people access and use even more of the ever-expanding information in their lives.

3. Fast is better than slow.

We know your time is valuable, so when you’re seeking an answer on the web you want it right away – and we aim to please. We may be the only people in the world who can say our goal is to have people leave our homepage as quickly as possible. By shaving excess bits and bytes from our pages and increasing the efficiency of our serving environment, we’ve broken our own speed records many times over, so that the average response time on a search result is a fraction of a second. We keep speed in mind with each new product we release, whether it’s a mobile application or Google Chrome, a browser designed to be fast enough for the modern web. And we continue to work on making it all go even faster.

4. Democracy on the web works.

Google search works because it relies on the millions of individuals posting links on websites to help determine which other sites offer content of value. We assess the importance of every web page using more than 200 signals and a variety of techniques, including our patented PageRank™ algorithm, which analyzes which sites have been “voted” to be the best sources of information by other pages across the web. As the web gets bigger, this approach actually improves, as each new site is another point of information and another vote to be counted. In the same vein, we are active in open source software development, where innovation takes place through the collective effort of many programmers.

5. You don’t need to be at your desk to need an answer.

The world is increasingly mobile: people want access to information wherever they are, whenever they need it. We’re pioneering new technologies and offering new solutions for mobile services that help people all over the globe to do any number of tasks on their phone, from checking email and calendar events to watching videos, not to mention the several different ways to access Google search on a phone. In addition, we’re hoping to fuel greater innovation for mobile users everywhere with Android, a free, open source mobile platform. Android brings the openness that shaped the Internet to the mobile world. Not only does Android benefit consumers, who have more choice and innovative new mobile experiences, but it opens up revenue opportunities for carriers, manufacturers and developers.

6. You can make money without doing evil.

Google is a business. The revenue we generate is derived from offering search technology to companies and from the sale of advertising displayed on our site and on other sites across the web. Hundreds of thousands of advertisers worldwide use AdWords to promote their products; hundreds of thousands of publishers take advantage of our AdSense program to deliver ads relevant to their site content. To ensure that we’re ultimately serving all our users (whether they are advertisers or not), we have a set of guiding principles for our advertising programs and practices:

  • We don’t allow ads to be displayed on our results pages unless they are relevant where they are shown. And we firmly believe that ads can provide useful information if, and only if, they are relevant to what you wish to find – so it’s possible that certain searches won’t lead to any ads at all.
  • We believe that advertising can be effective without being flashy. We don’t accept pop-up advertising, which interferes with your ability to see the content you’ve requested. We’ve found that text ads that are relevant to the person reading them draw much higher clickthrough rates than ads appearing randomly. Any advertiser, whether small or large, can take advantage of this highly targeted medium.
  • Advertising on Google is always clearly identified as a “Sponsored Link,” so it does not compromise the integrity of our search results. We never manipulate rankings to put our partners higher in our search results and no one can buy better PageRank. Our users trust our objectivity and no short-term gain could ever justify breaching that trust.

7. There’s always more information out there.

Once we’d indexed more of the HTML pages on the Internet than any other search service, our engineers turned their attention to information that was not as readily accessible. Sometimes it was just a matter of integrating new databases into search, such as adding a phone number and address lookup and a business directory. Other efforts required a bit more creativity, like adding the ability to search news archives, patents, academic journals, billions of images and millions of books. And our researchers continue looking into ways to bring all the world’s information to people seeking answers.

8. The need for information crosses all borders.

Our company was founded in California, but our mission is to facilitate access to information for the entire world, and in every language. To that end, we have offices in dozens of countries, maintain more than 150 Internet domains, and serve more than half of our results to people living outside the United States. We offer Google’s search interface in more than 110 languages, offer people the ability to restrict results to content written in their own language, and aim to provide the rest of our applications and products in as many languages as possible. Using our translation tools, people can discover content written on the other side of the world in languages they don’t speak. With these tools and the help of volunteer translators, we have been able to greatly improve both the variety and quality of services we can offer in even the most far-flung corners of the globe.

9. You can be serious without a suit.

Our founders built Google around the idea that work should be challenging, and the challenge should be fun. We believe that great, creative things are more likely to happen with the right company culture – and that doesn’t just mean lava lamps and rubber balls. There is an emphasis on team achievements and pride in individual accomplishments that contribute to our overall success. We put great stock in our employees – energetic, passionate people from diverse backgrounds with creative approaches to work, play and life. Our atmosphere may be casual, but as new ideas emerge in a café line, at a team meeting or at the gym, they are traded, tested and put into practice with dizzying speed – and they may be the launch pad for a new project destined for worldwide use.

10. Great just isn’t good enough.

We see being great at something as a starting point, not an endpoint. We set ourselves goals we know we can’t reach yet, because we know that by stretching to meet them we can get further than we expected. Through innovation and iteration, we aim to take things that work well and improve upon them in unexpected ways. For example, when one of our engineers saw that search worked well for properly spelled words, he wondered about how it handled typos. That led him to create an intuitive and more helpful spell checker.

Even if you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for, finding an answer on the web is our problem, not yours. We try to anticipate needs not yet articulated by our global audience, and meet them with products and services that set new standards. When we launched Gmail, it had more storage space than any email service available. In retrospect offering that seems obvious – but that’s because now we have new standards for email storage. Those are the kinds of changes we seek to make, and we’re always looking for new places where we can make a difference. Ultimately, our constant dissatisfaction with the way things are becomes the driving force behind everything we do.

Update: We first wrote these “10 things” several years ago. From time to time we revisit this list to see if it still holds true. We hope it does – and you can hold us to that. (September 2009)

pramleeelvis.wordpress.com is now Ranked No.64,764 on Alexa’s Top Malaysian Websites

Posted: February 8, 2010 in all about blogs, All about Malaysia, Uncategorized
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This is the latest Malaysian Rankings on Alexa:

ALEXA’s Rankings

Top Sites in Malaysia

as of today(8thFeb,2010)

The top 100 sites in Malaysia. The sites in the top sites lists are ordered by their 1 month alexa traffic rank.

The 1 month rank is calculated using a combination of average daily visitors and pageviews over the past month. The site with the highest combination of visitors and pageviews is ranked #1.

  1. Facebook
    facebook.com

    A social utility that connects people, to keep up with friends, upload photos, share links and videos.

  2. Google
    google.com.my

    google.com.my

  3. Yahoo!
    yahoo.com

    Personalized content and search options. Chatrooms, free e-mail, clubs, and pager.

  4. Google
    google.com

    Enables users to search the Web, Usenet, and images. Features include PageRank, caching and translation of results, and an option to find similar pages. The company’s focus is developing search technology.

  5. YouTube – Broadcast yourself
    youtube.com

    YouTube is a way to get your videos to the people who matter to you. Upload, tag and share your videos worldwide!

  6. Blogger.com
    blogger.com

    Free, automated weblog publishing tool that sends updates to a site via FTP.

  7. Windows Live
    live.com

    Search engine from Microsoft.

  8. Wikipedia
    wikipedia.org

    An online collaborative encyclopedia.

  9. Microsoft Network (MSN)
    msn.com

    Dialup access and content provider.

  11. Myspace
    myspace.com

    Social Networking Site.

  12. Mudah.my
    mudah.my

    mudah.my

  13. The Star Online
    thestar.com.my

    Breaking news and views from Malaysia’s top English language news source

  14. WordPress.com
    wordpress.com

    Free blogs managed by the developers of the WordPress software. Includes custom design templates, integrated statistics, automatic spam protection and other features.

  15. Tagged
    tagged.com

    Tagged.com is one of the top social networking sites in the world.

  16. Malaysiakini.com
    malaysiakini.com

    Malaysiakini.com, a subscription-based website, offers news and views that matter in Malaysia. Updated daily, the site has won several awards for its quality reporting. In English, Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil.

  17. Friendster
    friendster.com

    Friendster is a leading global social network emphasizing genuine friendships and the discovery of new people through friends. Search for old friends and classmates, stay in better touch with friends, share photos and videos, and so much more.

  18. Lowyat.NET
    lowyat.net

    Malaysia s Tech Enthusiast Resource Community. Tech News, Reviews and hyper active discussion forums focusing on the Malaysian IT scene.

  19. Cari Malaysia
    cari.com.my

    One of the most popular local Malaysian community website started in 1996. The three languages forum, English, Malay, and Chinese are the largest and most popular in Malaysian community. Also provides directory listing of over 30,000 Malaysia related web sites and company details.

  20. RapidShare
    rapidshare.com

    Users can upload up to 100 meg files for sharing. Provides downloads of 100 megs per hour on the free service. Premium service also available.

Rank No: 64,764

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