Is one of those faces you seem before but can’t remember where.  Well she is the host for the West Coast Adventures show runs inKCTS9, KSPS, KWSU and KTNW. WEST COAST ADVENTURES is an exciting television series about fun, travel and adventure in beautiful British Columbia. Each half an hour show features not only the well known tourist sites, but also focuses on hidden gems and adventures in this region.  I met up with Susie few days ago and she is a polite, fun, professional and sincere person that has a magic touching people everywhere.  When I first met Susie I thought she is a soft spoken lady but after watching the show; she prove me wrong.  There are things I will not try period.  I can say she is brave and has the ball….sorry Susie.  For anyone hasn’t seem the show please check it out; it is not that long but fun and educated.  Enjoy, I did!

http://www.westcoastadventurestv.com/about.htm

Microsoft has been in early discussions with the News Corporation, the media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch, about a pact to pay the News Corporation to remove links to its news content from Google’s search engine and display them exclusively on Bing, from Microsoft, according to a person briefed on the matter who spoke anonymously because of the confidential negotiations.

If such an arrangement came to pass, it would be a watershed moment in the history of the Internet, and set off a fierce debate over the future of content online.

The Web’s explosive growth has been driven, in part, by the open playing field it represents for consumers and businesses. These discussions could encourage major technology and media companies to start picking sides — essentially applying the cable TV model to the Web.

A deal on a large scale would create a new set of barriers for users to navigate and would represent an enormous risk for the News Corporation or any news site. More than 65 percent of all search inquiries in the United States are made on Google, and removing links from there would lead to a big drop in traffic. Bing handles 9.9 percent of domestic searches, according to comScore.

Steven A. Ballmer, the chief executive of Microsoft, said in a recent interview that Google handled about six times as many search queries as Microsoft, and that Google’s search ads generated more revenue per click. But Microsoft executives have been clear about their intentions to pursue bold measures to disrupt Google’s dominant position in the search market.

A broad deal with media companies would be Microsoft’s most drastic measure to date — one in which it would be running a high-stakes experiment against Google, which also has deep pockets.

The development, first reported by The Financial Times, comes as many content providers, including newspapers and other news media companies, are re-evaluating their Web strategy. The expected riches from online advertising have not materialized, and many outlets are considering charging for access to their online content, as some sites, including The Wall Street Journal, owned by the News Corporation, already do.

Negotiating fees from search engines is a significant new wrinkle in online strategy, at least raising the hope that such a deal may finally establish a precedent that sets a value for online news beyond advertising revenue or subscriptions.

Mr. Murdoch has been especially vocal of late about trying to get paid for his company’s news content online. The News Corporation owns many newspapers, including The New York Post, The Times of London and The Sun in Britain.

In a recent interview with Sky News Australia, Mr. Murdoch said that Google and other online entities “steal our stories.” As for the argument that blocking Google would effectively diminish the online audience for his newspapers, he said, “We’d rather have fewer people coming to our Web sites, but paying.”

A spokeswoman for Microsoft said the company declined to comment on “rumors and speculation.” A News Corporation spokeswoman declined comment.

Thus far, Microsoft has tried to drum up interest in its search service Bing, introduced in May, by presenting users with a more colorful interface and, where it can, more detailed results. In addition, the company signed a deal this year to take over the technology infrastructure behind Yahoo’s search service in exchange for a partnership tied to search ads.

“The most important thing is to have a point of view, try to be unique, try to add value and try to make money,” Mr. Ballmer said.

Danny Sullivan, the editor of Search Engine Land, a Web site that tracks the search industry, argued that Microsoft would need to bring a number of publications into its fold to represent a real threat to Google. Without such deals in place, he viewed the rumblings about a possible link between Microsoft and the News Corporation as little more than a negotiating ploy.

“My reaction is that this is probably more of Murdoch trying to put pressure on Google for a deal than anything else,” Mr. Sullivan said.

Microsoft has also shown a willingness to tap its vast cash reserves and pay people who are willing to use its search service in favor of Google’s. The company, for example, offers discounts on certain products that are located through a Bing search and has similar discount arrangements in place with online stores like eBay.

Bing’s start was the latest in a number of attempts by Microsoft to revitalize its search business. While Bing has helped Microsoft raise its market share, the gains have yet to translate into a meaningful increase in search revenue, said Brendan Barnicle, a software analyst with Pacific Crest Securities.

It remains difficult to tell how much money Microsoft could make by pulling more people toward Bing through content deals with publishers. Still, Mr. Barnicle said he was encouraged to hear that Microsoft remained on the offensive in the search market.

“I am very glad to see Microsoft being aggressive against Google in every way possible,” he said.

Microsoft could actually secure a public relations victory by coming to the rescue of battered media companies, Mr. Barnicle said. “The ability to have some sort of objective news media is pretty important,” he said. “Maybe Microsoft is in a position to fund that.”

In a statement, Google said that its Google News and Web search sites funneled about 100,000 clicks a minute to news organizations.

“Each of those visits offers a business opportunity for the publishers to show ads, win loyal readers and sell subscriptions,” the statement said. “News publishers can charge for their content while at the same time ensuring that it’s discovered through Google — these two are not mutually exclusive.”

Google does pay publishers for content, but in limited ways. For example, it has a deal with The Associated Press to carry the full text of its articles.

It is technologically simple for a publisher to keep a search engine from linking to a site’s pages. The publisher must simply post a special file on the site with instructions that can be read by the “crawlers” sent out by companies like Microsoft and Google to handle indexing. For example, it might tell Bing to index only certain pages or tell Google to stay away.

To a large degree, however, Microsoft’s action could be seen as hostile to the traditions of Internet culture. Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist, argued that the Internet had tended to favor entities willing to share information rather than those trying to build barriers.

“The spirit of the Internet is about people working with each other, and that is part of the Google ethic. I think this move would strengthen Google.”

News Corp. Weighs an Exclusive Alliance With Bing – NYTimes.com.

SEO package deals could save your business from being flushed away – almost literally. Rather than using SEO package deals, does your online marketing go a little like this: save up enough money to pay for an article service to create a whole batch of custom SEO articles, submitting them all across the web, then do nothing for weeks while you save up for the next assault? Rinse and repeat. If so, then your article marketing strategy is what I tend to refer to as ‘lavatorial’.

In other words, every once in a while you flush, but in between you’re really just sitting there doing nothing much more than reading the odd magazine and tidying the loo rolls.

Don’t worry – you’re far from being alone, and at first glance most businesses can’t see just how damaging that tactic is. Flushing Google once in a while, even with good quality custom SEO articles is not the way to promote your website effectively, for several good reasons.

The first good reason is that Google pays relatively little attention to sporadic floods of content, giving each article much less credibility than it would if published in a way that was much more distinct from the others being submitted at the same time.

The second good reason is that by flooding the web with masses of high quality custom SEO articles, you may well catch the attention of the search engines the first time, as they may suspect that you will maintain the publication rate. As soon as your flush is over, and your site returns to silence, the search engines will lower the credibility given to your articles, rendering them much less effective. This may also make future submissions be considered to be of less interest to them as well.

Think of SEO package deals as being a little like trying to get the attention of a politician. They are very busy people, (doing what I can’t say for sure but they always seem busy.) What’s the best way of achieving this? Writing a single letter and then dropping the matter? Going up to them at a rally, shouting and ranting and raving for twenty minutes before dropping the matter? Or persistently badgering them, regularly contacting them, building up a network of supporters who also continually pester them, keeping the momentum and the awareness going until eventually the matter is taken seriously and action is taken?

Clearly the latter has long proven to be the most effective method, and it is in just the same way that SEO package deals can help your custom SEO articles to be put to good use. Rather than wasting your SEO articles in an occasional flush, using an article service to continually pester the directories and the search engines by dropping a regular stream of content is a far more effective way of ensuring that each and every article works much harder for your cause.

Here’s another example: Imagine a hundred people suddenly arrived on your doorstep to ask you to please draw the curtains when you’re getting dressed in the morning. How many of those would you remember? How much creditability would you give to each individual’s genuine desire for you to cover up a little? Not much perhaps.

But imagine if every fifteen minutes there was a knock at your door, with a single individual standing there – just one of the hundred. Eventually over time those hundred people would all come to you with their pleas, but individually you’d probably take each one of them more seriously, and after a while you would start to take the whole campaign more seriously.

It’s this regular, constant badgering of the search engines which is what high quality SEO package deals are all about, and by finding a professional article service which can create custom SEO articles and submit them over time you are more likely to see your business grow, and gain much more of the search engines’ attention.

Social media is going to take budget dollars away from search engine marketing. Already is in many major brands. Simple economics are driving this transition.

If a major ecommerce player is spending 50% of their budget on search engine marketing, website optimization, and link optimization programs, but is losing the war to bloggers in organic search. Why would the ecommerce player continue to spend massive amounts of money on advertising when they can focus on blogger outreach (ethical, not paid) for far less money. Better yet, fix their customer experience and get customers to evangelize on their behalf.  this slide says it all….

Additionally, as we analyze the various social media monitoring and metrics tools, the challenge is pretty evident. Search engines work off of structured data. I can run an advanced search and build filters for my search results. The challenge with social search is that the taxonomy isn’t defined. How you talk about a problem can be completely different than I talk about it. Potential buyers may not even recognize that the problem they are discussing on social media is even in the market. How do you build an automated tracking of taxonomy around unstructured data?

Effective lead generation program within social marketing require human knowledge of your solutions and also the ability to follow discussion threads to identify contextual relavence. Over time, you should be able to fine tune the algorithms for your social monitoring programs to become 80% accurate, but the most successful programs are leveraging human knowledge to make social marketing engagement programs to become discoverable, impactful, and actionable.

Otherwise, you get the the large number of costly “unqualified” leads that flood into websites similar to the search engine marketing programs. These programs either make it up in volume or work the “long tail” of key words to reach better qualified buyers. Social marketing can get you to the “long tail” faster as most buyers start with questions in the long tail when they do not know what they are looking for and leverage the expertise of others to become more specific as they learn what they don’t know.

Nice to see that they mention other browsers also:

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SEO (Search Engine Optimization) in today’s online environment can be very confusing and also difficult so it is very necessary to understand the aim and purpose of search engines. Search engines are actually trying to provide their users with the most relevant search results for any particular query after all the reputation of the search engine depends on the accuracy and relevancy of the provided results.

The purpose of Search Engine Optimization is to increase web visitor counts by ranking high in the organic search results using the most appropriate keywords which describe the content of your website. These keywords will benefit a particular website and one should use them in such a way that it gets a higher page ranking when those keywords are searched. The search engine technology is constantly changing and hence it is very important to keep up to date with it.

Free Traffic-Getting SEO Plugin… that’s what Jeff Johnson calls it. It’s his newest free SEO software that you can use to grab more free traffic from the search engines. Version 2.0 was just released and it is easier to use, and more powerful than ever. All you have to do it plug it into your blog and his software does all the rest.

Check it out:
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Don’t worry: If you already have a WP blog you can simply plug it in and let it work its Traffic-Getting magic. And if you don’t have a blog… Jeff shows you how to install a free one in as little as 2 minutes using a secret “push a button” technology that even the newest of newbies could use. The great thing about Jeff’s brand-new Free Traffic-Getting SEO Plugin Version 2.0 is that it is… It couldn’t be easier to use and it’s… 100% free and Installs in minutes and also you get free training inside.

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Enjoy!

This story about a new Bible software called “GLO” was sent to me by one of my ex-co-workers from 13 years ago!

Check out these videos:

Cool. One thing I would add to this software is resources for allowing people to explain the Bible to their neighbors. Probably the most useful thing would be to evaluate major passages to see when they were written, how closely the passage is based on eyewitness testimony, whether it appears in other New Testament sources, whether it passes criteria like embarrassment and dissimilarity, and whether it is confirmed by archaeology or even non-Biblical sources.

Additionally, commenter Matthew has some concerns:

Translations? Only NIV, which is OK but far from exemplary. For $90 this needs every translation known to man, in most languages. And full text of all historic bibles as well.
Scholarship? An article found through google critiques Glo for not having a panel of scholars advise on the extra-biblical resources offered.

I don’t think this thing is meant as a scholarly resource – they are aiming for a different market.

Debates about the Bible

If you think that talking about the Bible with non-Christians is fun, you might want to take a look at these debates:

• Richard Bauckham defends the reliability of the gospels against James Crossley
• Richard Bauckham defends the divinity of Jesus against James Crossley
• Crossley debated against William Lane Craig before on the resurrection
• Crossley against Michael Bird on the origins of Christianity, (part 1, part 2)

If you like seeing fringe historical skeptics of Christianity go down in flames, check out this post for some historical debates with evangelicals and radical skeptics.

Indeed there are many strategies in bringing to trafiic website. However, our most frequently used polpuler and can be categorized into three groups, namely:

1. Search engine

One source of the most sought-after is traffic from search engines. Research shows more than 90 percent of Internet users use search engines in finding information or products. Each of their average use search engines more than 30 queries per day. So, if it appears on the first page of search engines for relevant keywords, your website must have often visited. The number of search engines is in the hundreds around the world, but the largest and most widely used are Google, Yahoo and MSN. Traffic from search engines can come from two parts, the organic (free) result and the result paid. see in Figure 1.

Google was the one who determines what the website appear in the order that is based with many factors, especially the many visitors traffic.

Strategies to get traffic from organic result is often called Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

2. Other High Traffic Website

Strategy group is similar to what often happens in conventional business. If you find it difficult to bring visitors to your stores, then you will bring your merchandise into a crowded place, such as the maser, malls and other crowded center. As far as the needs of visitors adarelevansinya in place, then your item will sell.

Now in the Internet business, including high traffic websites include YouTube, EzineArticles, Friendster, facebook, Ebay and much more.

3. Direct Traffic

This is where the strategy group directly visitr come to your website without going through other websites. Some strategei included in this kategor are:

- Marketing email

- Free e-book with a link to our website

- Include a web address on business cards

- Build affiliate programs

- Offline media, such as brochures, magazine ads and the like.

Do you find that searching for video files to download is time consuming? A lot of the video search engines out there are great, but they usually work just like a photo search engine – you see lots of results with one frame from each video. It’s difficult to evaluate the quality of a video based on a single frame, and that frame might not even be representative of the content of the video at all.

At Clipcanvas, this was one of the main issues we wanted to address when we developed our stock video search engine. It’s quite advanced, and opens for a lot of options when you need footage for your production. Click here to visit and read more about our video files search engine. Please check it out if you like !

Mungkin semua orang tahu, Google si raja search engine dunia. Selain mesin pencarinya itu, ada banyak produk lainnya. Sebut saja Gmail, Talks, Docs, Reader, Earth, Map, Picasa, banyak lagi yang lainnya, termasuk Google Chrome OS yang bakal diluncurkan tahun depan.

Tapi coba lihat yang ini:

Wakwakwakwak…

Apa Google sekarang sudah semakin jauh melakukan ekspansi bisnis sampai-sampai sekarang juga mengeluarkan produk keperluan rumah tangga berupa tisu toilet? Wkkk…

Yang pasti tisu itu bukan produknya Google search engine, tapi sebuah merek tisu buatan Vietnam sana. Kalau mau tahu arti tulisan di bawah merk “Google” itu:

Thật dai, mềm mại, mịn màng

Độ hút cao, luôn vì bạn !

Katanya sih artinya:

Sangat kuat, sangat lembut, sangat halus

Berdaya serap tinggi, selalu buat anda!

Pertarungan Soal Merk

Kelihatannya merk ini nggak akan bertahan lama, karena Google (search engine) bakalan melakukan klaim soal merk itu, dan kalo menang, tisu itu bakal ganti merk. Tapi kalo Google search engine yang kalah di pengadilan soal trade mark “Google” itu (seperti kasus McCurry di Malaysia yang menang melawan MacDonald’s), wah… gimana ya…?

Bakal banyak yang diganti tuh alamat internet!

Luôn vì bạn !

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There’s no denying Google has the internet’s favorite search engine. There’s also no denying the US newspaper industry is confronting hard times because of the availability of the news on the Internet. Rupert Murdoch knows that very well; he’s the chairman of News Corp, and owns well-known newspapers such as Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal. He had mentioned recently Google is “stealing” content from its newspaper network. This “steal” interferes with his plans to charge for newspaper content, and the best way to counter this is with the help of one of Google’s search engine rivals, Microsoft.

Bing’s parent company, on News Corp’s behalf, has contacted other publishers in order to follow suit: to delist or remove their content from Google. However, doing that could provide a big disadvantage to them. How will users find out about the newspapers’ articles on the net’s favorite search engine if they don’t get to appear at all? It seems to be a desperate move for Bing (and Murdock) to get more daily users.

Google has stated news organizations have the choice to withdraw their content from the search engine ².

Source: FT.com – Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a243c8b2-d79b-11de-b578-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1], News Corp, Microsoft hold talks on Google: report ² [http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g_GMHUpizYQpr9L7m70wEfVzRxMw].

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No se puede negar que Google tiene el motor de búsqueda  favorito del Internet. Tampoco se se puede negar que la industria de la prensa estadounidense se enfrenta tiempos difíciles debido a la disponibilidad de las noticias en la Internet. Rupert Murdoch lo sabe muy bien; él es el  presidente de News Corp., y es propietario de periódicos bien conocidos tales como Dow Jones y el Wall Street Journal. El había mencionado recientemente que Google está “robando” el contenido de su red de periódicos. Este “robo” interfiere con sus planes de cobrar por el contenido del periódico, y la mejor manera de contrarrestar esto es con la ayuda de uno de los rivales del motor de búsqueda de Google, Microsoft.

La empresa matriz de Bing, de parte de News Corp., se ha puesto en contacto con otras editoriales con el fin de seguir su ejemplo: para que excluyan o eliminen su contenido de Google. Sin embargo, el hacer eso pudiese ofrecer una gran desventaja para ellos. ¿Cómo van a enterarse los usuarios de los artículos de los periódicos en el motor de búsqueda favorito de la red si no llegan a aparecer para nada? Parece ser un intento desesperado de Bing (y de Murdock) para obtener más usuarios a diário.

Google ha declarado que las organizaciones de noticias tienen la opción de retirar su contenido del motor de búsqueda ².

Fuente: FT.com – Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a243c8b2-d79b-11de-b578-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1], News Corp, Microsoft hold talks on Google: report ² [http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g_GMHUpizYQpr9L7m70wEfVzRxMw].

Microsoft ha mantenido platicas con el gigante de medios News Corp de Rupert Murdoch sobre un posible plan para que el gigante del software pague a la compañía de medios para que ésta remueva los sitios web de noticias de Google, según un reporte difundido el día de hoy.

El plan presenta una batalla entre los motores de búsqueda para acceder a los sitios Web y pone presión a Google para que empiece a pagar por el contenido.

El movimiento podría abrir el camino para que Microsoft obligue a Google a pagar por indexar noticias o para que el gigante del software pague por incluir los resultados de las noticias en su propio motor de búsquedas, Bing.

“Todo este asunto es sólo para dañar los márgenes de Google”, dijo una fuente anónima.

Sin embargo el gran beneficiado de la confrontación podrían ser la industria de noticias la cual le falta construir un modelo de negocios online confiable para que reemplace al actual modelo de negocios el cual se encuentra en decadencia.

El señor Murdoch a encabezado un debate intenso en el que alega que Google está “robando” de su vasto imperio de periódicos y amenaza con bloquear el contenido al motor de búsquedas.

This article originally from chinesegirl

Tang Jia Li (汤加丽) is a chinese dancer and model, and now is being number 1 chinese girl top search in Chinese Search engine. Tang Jia Li may be got this famous after sell her first art dance and photographs of herself.

As of 2005, her name (in Chinese characters) is one of the top searches in Chinese search engines. Tang Jia Li defeats China new rising star Crystal Liu Yi Fei, and another top body art top models in China, “Zhang Xiao Yu”.

According to magazine Asian Wave she has a calm “Mona Lisa” smile and a tranquil expression. Her agile body and delicate limbs befit her poise as a performer. After her art photo collection was published in China, it sparked so much negative scrutiny from the media and the internet that she almost committed suicide.

Name ：汤加丽
English Name：Tang Jia Li
Birth Place ：Hefei, Anhui, China
Birthdate : 13 July 1976
Height : 165 cm

Photos of Tang Jia Li, a sexy art dancer from China :

For those who don’t know what Bing is, this is the new Microsoft web search engine, designed mostly to compete against Google.

It’s the evolution of Live Search. Yes, the evolution of this completely failed search engine.

If there wasn’t a rival, or a good alternative capable to compete against the google domain on this sector, there is now.

Watch and learn more about Bing:

Now… Bing & decide!

Who’d a thunk it?!?

The release:

Search engines are source of learning

Search engine use is not just part of our daily routines; it is also becoming part of our learning process, according to Penn State researchers.

The researchers sought to discover the cognitive processes underlying searching. They examined the search habits of 72 participants while conducting a total of 426 searching tasks. They found that search engines are primarily used for fact checking users’ own internal knowledge, meaning that they are part of the learning process rather than simply a source for information. They also found that people’s learning styles can affect how they use search engines.

“Our results suggest the view of Web searchers having simple information needs may be incorrect,” said Jim Jansen, associate professor of information sciences and technology. “Instead, we discovered that users applied simple searching expressions to support their higher-level information needs.”

Jansen said the results of this study provide useful information about how search engine use has evolved over the past decade and clues about how to design better search engines to address users’ learning needs in the future. He and Brian Smith, associate professor information sciences and technology and Danielle Booth, former Penn State student, published their findings in the November issue of Information Processing and Management.

“If we can incorporate cognitive, affective and situational aspects of a person, there is the potential to really move search performance forward,” Jansen said. “At its core, we are getting to the motivational elements of search.”

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National Science Foundation and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research funded this research.

I came across this article for the best web site for Vancouver in 2008; now I just wonder how they rate this?  By poll or by marketing?   I wonder if I were to do some crazy ideas that broadcast in YouTube and newspaper; will my popular choices be there?  What is this the world coming to?  I guess Jesus needs to be wearing some cool fashion and be around a lot of hot women with very few clothing;  broadcast in YouTube once awhile to be remind us who he is!   What you have to say about that?  Maybe not a bad idea to have a sign say I eat at Joe!

http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/techsense/archive/2008/12/12/best-of-604-winners.aspx

Now a day it is not good you are but how well you can market yourself in this advertising world.   Today I was doing some research on marketing and there are so much to learn other than school on marketing 101 in BCIT; now you have to know how technology will work for you.

http://freelancefolder.com/15-top-site-elements/

What is SEO stands for ? “Search Engine Optimisation” it is the content where the search engine looks for and beleieve it or not when you build the web you want to have the wording to find its’ way to the search engine.  Man there is the BLACK MAGIC!

http://seo2.0.onreact.com/101-ways-to-make-your-blog-more-popular-and-successful