Orkut offers an automatic transliteration option in the scrapbook that converts Roman characters to the Devanāgarī characters used in Hindi. This lets you type Hindi words phonetically in English script and still have them appear in their correct alphabet.
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Hello SEO feels that Google is updating and tweaking its Ranking System. They have noticed that many sites have rocketed into the top 10 while some are also going downhill.
They feel that the update/tweak have revolved around three main areas - domain age, backlinks and PageRank.
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Google have introduced a new look to Webmaster Central.
A year have passed since Google introduced the Webmaster Central in August 2006 which made it easier for webmasters to submit their sites, sitemaps and many other website related stuffs. Google hopes that the new interface will make it easier for webmasters to make full use of the tools.
Luckily for Indian Adsense Publishers, help is at an easy reach as we already have our dedicated Indian Google Adsense Team. The Google Adsense team is based off Hyderabad, and they are here to improve the Adsense experience for Indian publishers.
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Matt Cutts wrote an article saying that “Google considers Paid Links as spams.” His article has already stirred up a controversy. Nonetheless, he claims that this is an experiment to collect more data at this point, but looking at the comments, it has already angered many people.
Matt explains how to report Paid Spam Links.Go to Google’s Webmaster Console and use the authenticated spam report form, then include the word “paidlinks” in the text area of the spam report. As far as the details, it can be pretty short. Something like “Example.com is selling links; here’s a page on example.com that demonstrates that” or “www.shadyseo.com is buying links. You can see the paid links on www.example.com/path/page.html” is all you need to mention.
Moment Magazine have a good story on “How the Moscow-Born entrepreneur cofounded and changed the way the world searches.” Sergey, 33, shares the space with his Google cofounder, fellow Stanford Ph.D. dropout and billionaire pal, 34-year-old Larry Page, an arrangement that began eight years ago in the company’s first humble headquarters in a Menlo Park, California, garage. Since then, Google has grown from just another Silicon Valley startup into the world’s largest media corporation; in fact, based on its recent stock price of $513 per share, Google, which has made searching the Web easy and even fun, is larger than Disney, General Motors and McDonald’s combined. It achieved these lofty heights by revolutionizing how people surf the Internet: Before Sergey and Larry analyzed the links between web pages to deliver search results speedily based on relevance, looking up information on the Web was a shot in the dark.
Read the article in full at Moment Magazine.
The interview of Guy Kawasaki by Cameron Olthuis is an interesting read. This should be a good read for any enterprising business enthusiast.
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You can learn an awful lot through rejections. 99% of the time, they are not going to get funded. But there’s that 1%. Of course, you do realize that even with an intro, you’re “wasting your time” 95% of the time? This is just how the game is played. But, in that 1% of the time, there is a Yahoo, Google, Apple, and Cisco.
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