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Google: Fast Flip

Today reading online news is the only way to be updated but what is the main problem with the news websites. They take lot of time to load all the multimedia content. All of us like magazines to read latest news. Google is now again jumping in the news market with its new product “fast flip”. It’s the next generation news site that will change the way you browse news on the internet.

Using “fast flip” you can flip bundles of recent news and articles it’s the tool that combines the best elements of print and online articles. As the name suggests, flipping through content is very fast, so you can quickly look through a lot of pages until you find something interesting.

Google-Fast-Flip
Read the Google’s post about this new experiment here.
Take a tour of Fast flip.
Sure, the online news reading experience could be improved, but Fast Flip is more of a tangential approach than it is a step in a revolutionary direction.

India stepping in Search with ” Bhuwan “

India launched a service named Bhuwan.  It is a Geo portal by ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization). Bhuvan is an ambitious project of ISRO to take thematic information in multiple spatial resolutions to people through a web portal through easy access to information on basic natural resources in the geospatial domain. It looks similar to Google Earth facility.  Bhuvan brings a whole lot of uniqueness in understanding our own natural resources whilst presenting beautiful images and thematic vectors generated from varieties of geospatial information.

Bhuwan

Bhuwan – showcasing Indian Imaging Capabilities in Multi-sensor, Multi-platform and Multi-temporal domain. It does not display data in real time. You can add your own data in Bhuwan. You just have to register yourself with Bhuwan and you can enjoy this great tool.

visit the website : http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/

Be Aware of Malware

Today Web Developers are being targeted by a nasty infection called malware. When somone visits a infected page, the page installs a infection on their machine that silently copies the passwords stored in ftp clients like coreftp, CuteFTP,  filezilla and possibly other File Transfer Protocol client software. After copying that information this virus sends it to a remote host, and then this host is authorized to access the site the credentials of which has been stolen.

After the infection some sites are crashed and some continue to operate but again they continue this process of information collecting. The way this infection is spreading is somewhat interesting.

“Twitter is one of the junction where you can get infected with tiny urls”

How This Malware affect SEO

If a infected website is running on the web, it’s search traffic will plummet. As the search engines are aware of this attack and are fighting with it from several years.  For example Google may label “This site may harm your computer” if your site is infected.

Within one and a half year Google have investigated billions of URLs and found more than three million unique URLs on over 180,000 web sites automatically installing Malware.

Check out this graph for the sites that are labeled as harmful over the time

iframe-resultsGoogle reported that malware infected pages had increased to more than 1% of all search results. Check out this report of Google for further information about it.

Google has observed that the majority of malware was hosted on web servers located in China.

Web is becoming more dangerous and suspicious.

Do your part honestly to make the web safer.

Google Patent : Worlds simplest Homepage

After a long fight of five years Google attorneys have finally convinced federal bureaucrats to bestow a patent on the company’s iconic home page. Google’s iconically simplistic home page interface is now a patent. Read the rest of this entry »

Google News suggestions

Now you can take advantage of google suggestions on Google news. Google started suggestion service on google news search. It is same as the Google default search suggestions and work exactly same as the default feature. Here is what it looks like: Read the rest of this entry »

Google Wave and SEO

Today the name “Google Wave” is all around. Google wave is Google’s new Communication and Collaboration platform. Wave is currently available for only developer preview and Google will launch it for the public later this year.

So what the Google wave is, have a look at this video and imaging what is possible in a browser: Read the rest of this entry »