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News Updates

News Updates:

Google adds Google 411 Service to Canada:

Canadians can dial 1-800-GOOG-411 to connect to a computer that’s armed with voice recognition software software. The automated voice will ask for city and province. A voice menu will assist users by finding the information they’re looking for. Users can ask for directions to a business or location, phone numbers, or receive a voice spoken text message about the business or restaurant that they’re researching.Search Engine Watch

Yandex to Open Labs Office in Bay Area

Russia’s most popular search engine has officially announced plans to open a labs office in Silicon Valley. This news began to leak last week with the departure of Yahoo SVP and General Manager of Search, Vishal Makhijani. Makhijani will be President of Yandex Labs in the Bay Area, and will report directly to the CEO of Yandex. - Search Engine Watch

Russians are biting Google now? Lets see how it goes. Russian based anti-virus company Kaspersky won a big chunk of corporate accounts from Norton. Though Norton plain sucks, Google does not, so it will be tough.

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The Reality?

In this blog post we would like to keep the topic of internet on the background. This is one of the posts, which all blogs have, where we ignore its purpose and dive into a different realm.

The Reality?

The question that I ask and probably many others do:  “Is there a point to life? Do I have a purpose?”

There are many answers.

Religion says we are created by God and have to follow a set of rules and customs to rejoin with the infinite.

We had over 30,000 religions to date.

Science says we are bodies and nothing more than sacs of meet.  We die and that’s the end of it.

“You can be whoever you want to be.” Believe it.

Yet sometimes, we see a different story. How many people are what they want to be? Doing what they want? Living the way they want? How many of them do you know?

The vast majority wake up to depressing jobs, talk to their spouses, who they hate, and get to work, passing till the night, watching numb shows on night TV. Next day is another dull day. Nothing changes.

Whats going on?

The Thoughts.

Through research you will find that great many leaders will and have signed up for this statement.

— Our Present Thoughts Shape our Future Reality —

  • “We are shaped by our thoughts, we become what we think” – Buddha
  • “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of Life’s coming attractions” – Albert Einstein
  • “We become what we think about, all day long” – Rhalph Waldo Emerson
  • “The Empires of the future are the empires of the mind” – Winston Chirchil
  • “Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.” Henry Ford

Can those profound people, be telling us their secret… out in the open?

  • “We are shaped by our thoughts, we become what we think” – Buddha
  • “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of Life’s coming attractions” – Albert Einstein
  • “We become what we think about, all day long” – Rhalph Waldo Emerson
  • “The Empires of the future are the empires of the mind” – Winston Chirchil
  • “Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.” Henry Ford

Could… thoughts be manifested into reality, by a law? Could the shifting of thought pattern change ones life?

This is what movie “The Secret” talks about.

Watch a clip here.

So could it be that easy…? Your dominant thoughts, shape you… and your present?

This seemed absurd, but very attractive … Our thoughts, shape our current experiences and our future?

What we think now and today, eventually manifests itself in the future?

This brings us to another question? Could the difference between people living in the wealth of dollars today be simply –…..

….thoughts?

That is the claim, of the author of the book “Think and Grow Rich” Napoleon Hill.

Before writing the book, he spent 20 years analyzing and researching the most successful people in the world, including:

Men who made fortunes.

Franklin Winfield Woolworth, the American billionaire, stated:

“By applying many of the 17  fundamentals of the Law of Success philosophy we have built a great chain of successful stores. I presume it would be no exaggeration of fact if I said that the Woolworth Building might properly be called a monument to the soundness of these principles.”

And the whole book comes down to … thoughts. It highlights a practical way of changing ones thoughts and putting thoughts into action.

So could, over 500 wealthiest men in the world be wrong about accumulation of riches?  Unlikely. The thought that comes to many: “thoughts could be unlikely responsible for the riches… “ yet it’s right there, from the horse’s mouth.

We often look at people’s achievements, overlooking the stuggles they had to go through.

  • Napoleon Hill, author of “Think and Grow Rich” was born in poverty and had a son with no ears. He is now regarded as a man responsible for success of many people.
  • Li Ka-Shing tenth richest man in the world  – When he was just 12 years old, Li and his family fled to Hong Kong when Japan invaded China. When he was 15, Li’s father died and he was forced to drop out of high school to support his family. (source)
  •   Thomas Edison failed 10,000 times before he invented the light bulb.

Those are perfect excuses not to go on and give up.

The thought of knowing better kept those men going, until they achieved their goal. There was nothing but a thought and desire for a goal.

Goal, is nothing but a thought, until it is achieved in the psychical form. Before it is achieved, it is merely the imagination in ones mind that only exists in ones mind.

Think of your goals. They are nothing but thoughts that exist in your imagination. Mental images, not yet manifested.

So could the answer be … thoughts make you?

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George Carin Died

George Calrin, a stand up comedian died in Santa Monica, Calif., on Sunday.

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New Google Trends Feature

New Google Trends Feature

Matt introduced new Google Trends feature called Google Trends for websites.

You can see visitor traffic volume, and compare up to 5 websites against each other. Google doesn’t show any data for smaller websites(certain number of visitors).

You can also see traffic by

  • Regions
  • Visited
  • Searched for

There are other, similar services to Google Trends for Websites – Compete.com and Alexa.com All 3 disagree on the traffic levels.

Compete.com says that traffic for: seoroundtable.com, searchengineland.com, and search enginewatch.com is around 100 – 500 k, from May 2007 to May 2008. All 3 have a spikes from almost 0 to 500K!

Alexa.com ranks sites from ~5000 to 100,000 visitors in spring – summer 2008.

So who do you trust? Alexa gets its data from Alexa toolbar. Compete.com relies on ISPs and Google…

  • Click through rate from searches
  • Google Analytics
  • Google Reader
  • more Google services.

It has access to goldmine of information on any website, especially if it has Analytics installed. For now, Google only shows data for sites that exceed certain traffic volume and Analytics or not, Google knows a lot about you :D .

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