Soccer World Cup Fever On Google Doodle

The world is getting ready for the greatest sporting event on the planet, and it’s hard to keep away, even if you’re not a football fan. The Google homepage, for example, is running three different doodles dedicated to the event, granted, only one globally. The search giant has also debuted a football-themed Search Story and introduced new Google Chrome themes for each participating country. 
The Google global homepage features a plain-old doodle to mark the start of the competition, perhaps a welcomed relief after all the background image brouhaha. It’s as ‘traditional’ as doodles come and links to a search for “FIFA World Cup.” 

Google is also running a couple of doodles from the “I Love Football” Doodle 4 Google competition. The winner was showcased in France and another entry was displayed in South Africa. 
The search results page for “world cup” or similar queries includes the World Cup box featuring upcoming matches and group standings. It’s a simple tool, but it’s very convenient and a fast way to get info. At the bottom of the page, you’ll notice the “Gooooooooooal” Easter egg. 

Google is also running a new, quite interesting Search Story ad dedicated to the World Cup. It highlights some of Google’s best features, but does so in relation to the competition. The emphasis is on the global nature of the event and on the Google search engine itself. The ad features several footbal-related searches in different languages. It also highlights Google mobile search, on the Nexus One, obviously. 
Finally, Google is featuring a new category in the Chrome extensions gallery titled World Cup. Much like the Firefox Personas introduced yesterday, Chrome users will be able to show support for their teams by installing one of the 32 themes. Google is also showcasing the FIFA.com extension, which allows users to keep up with the latest news and match results for their team or even all of them. 


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Google Caffiene Open Up

Google announced  that it has completed its new web indexing system called Caffeine. The company claims it provides 50% fresher results for web searches than the previous index and is the largest collection of web content it's offered. 


"Whether it's a news story, a blog or a forum post, you can now find links to relevant content much sooner after it is published than was possible ever before," says Google software engineer Carrie Grimes.


"Content on the web is blossoming. It's growing not just in size and numbers but with the advent of video, images, news and real-time updates, the average webpage is richer and more complex. In addition, people's expectations for search are higher than they used to be," adds Grimes. "Searchers want to find the latest relevant content and publishers expect to be found the instant they publish."



With Caffeine, Google says it analyzes the web in small portions and updates its search index on a continuous basis (all around the world). New pages and updates to existing pages are added straight to the index, meaning freshness will be increased.


Caffeine takes up 100 million GB of storage in one database, and adds new info at a rate of hundreds of thousands of gigs per day. 


Caffeine was announced nearly a year ago, when Google's Matt Cutts told us about it at SES San Jose. Now SMX Advanced is going on, and I'd expect to hear more from Matt about it out there (he hinted at it when we talked to him at Google I/O last month).

How to Search Google Caffeine





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First, understand what Google Caffeine is. Google Caffeine is Google's newer, faster, and upgraded search engine. It recently got released to the public and is reading for testing.
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To access the new Google Caffeine search engine, open up your internet browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, opera, etc).
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Next, go to the Google Caffeine website (linked in resources below).
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Now enter your search query and try searching Google Caffeine. 


Try a variety of different searches and search types.
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Compare the search speed (displayed in how many seconds) to the old google search engine, currently at google.com. Compare search results between both google search engines to check for accuracy of your results. Finally, look to see if Google Caffeine is now indexing more results.

What You Can Do(World Environment Day)

What you can do

Every single one of us can help to tackle climate change and prepare for the impacts.

We all have an impact on the environment through our use of resources and burning fossil fuels for everyday activities such as driving cars and heating our homes. If we all try to make the most environmentally sustainable choices in our lives then we can make a real difference.

Reduce your carbon footprint

Consider the environmental impacts of:

• The energy used in your home
• The way you travel
• The food you eat

Do everything you can to reduce your carbon footprint and not only will you be making less of an impact on the environment, but you’ll probably find that you’ll also save money and lead a more healthy lifestyle.

Save water in your home

Increasing water efficiency in your home reduces the amount of energy used for water treatment and can save you money and fight climate change at the same time.

• What you can do to save water

Other things you can do

Here’s a list of other simple things you can do that will help reduce your carbon footprint by 10 per cent:

• insulate your home
• turn down your central heating by one degree
• use energy efficient lighting and appliances
• try not to fly. Choosing to forgo even one flight a year can significantly reduce your overall carbon footprint.
• car share
• ride your bike for short journeys
• eat local, seasonal, fresh, unprocessed food
• reduce the amount of waste you produce and re-use or recycle as much as you can
• whenever you buy something, go for the most eco-friendly option

Prepare for the impacts of climate change

Even if we stop all greenhouse gas emissions tomorrow we will experience climate change for another 30-40 years. In the UK we need to be prepared for more frequent floods, droughts and heatwaves.

Protect your home from floods

The Environment Agency is the leading organisation for flooding in the UK. We can help you to prepare for a flood and if you sign up to our free flood warning service, when a flood is likely to happen we’ll let you know about it.

• How will climate change affect flood risk?
• Am I at risk of flooding?
• How can I be prepared?
• Our free flood warning service

Insulate your home

Home insulation in your walls and your loft not only reduced the amount of energy you need to heat your house, it will help to keep your home cool if there is a heat wave.

Improve your water efficiency
Using water efficiently in your home saves water being taken out of the environment and so reduces the risk of drought. If you're able to harvest rainwater and recycle grey water this will make your home and garden more resilient during water shortages.

More ideas

Linked below is a story by G.R. Mantard about how he saw the climate change film ‘The Age of Stupid’, and was inspired to calculate his carbon footprint and learn how to reduce it.

• 'I saw a movie, and the world collapsed'

There are many websites that hold a wealth of information to help you to reduce your personal impact on climate change. You may find the websites below helpful:

• DirectGov – Greener living
• Defra – Every Action Counts
• Energy Saving Trust
• 10:10 campaign
• English Heritage – Climate change and your home

English Heritage's Climate Change and Your Home website helps people who own or manage houses to understand more about the potential impacts of climate change and ways to save energy.

• Climate Change and Your Home

  
  
  
  
  
  
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SEO In The Future

One business which is doing really well at the moment is search engine optimisation (SEO). Many website owners will pay quite a bit of money to have their website page get to the top of the search engine page results. There are many companies who will promise to get a website to the top of the Google rankings and will charge quite a bit of money for this service even though there really is no way that they can actually guarantee this. In fact some of the more dishonest companies will actually use techniques to get your site ranking highly but which will only end up getting your site banned from the search engines in the future. With all the hype surrounding SEO it will be interesting to see what happens in the future.

It looks as though people will continue to pay for SEO services as long as they want their websites to do well in the search engines. And even though you could learn everything you need to about SEO in a matter of hours, there are still many businesses that would rather pay for an expert to do this for them. This is reasonable enough though because the tools of SEO are constantly evolving and if you can't keep up with what is going on it pays to give money to somebody else who can do this for you.

The shape of the internet in five or ten years is impossible to predict. Maybe in the future search engines will be more advanced then we can possible imagine. It might even be possible that they could judge how valuable a website is purely by the content in it. In the meantime though, it seems certain that search engine optimisation will be around for a few more years anyway.

All website owners understand the advantages of getting SEO Company. There are many things a good SEO company can do for your site, including Free Content. Expert help is always a boon when it comes to SEO. For super web hosting

Big Battle between Left & Trinamool in Municipal Vote 2010

Latest Result of Municipal Vote 2010

Result Out

Left Front - 18

Trinamool Congress- 34
Congress -10

BJP - 3

Others - 0

Hung- 23

Kolkata Municipality

Left Front - 33

Trinamool Congress - 95

Congress - 10

BJP - 3

Others - 0

Bidhannagar

Left Front - 09

Trinamool Congress -16

Congress - 0

BJP - 0

Others - 0

Counting is underway for 81 municipal bodies in West Bengal.

Trinamool Congress is leading in Kolkata.

Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said that she is 'confident' of her party's victory in the civic polls.

The polls, seen as a semi-final before the 2011 Assembly elections, were held in 81 civic bodies and in the 141-ward Kolkata Municipal Corporation involving an electorate of 85 lakh.

The way the people's will was stamped on the 2009 Lok Sabha poll scoreline was a lesson for the ruling Left Front.

Even Trinamool did not expect such a big leap in spite of the Left downslide in the 2008 panchayat polls.