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The Adobe® AIR™ runtime lets developers use proven web technologies to build rich Internet applications that deploy to the desktop and run across operating systems.

Adobe AIR does have extensive business benefits. Adobe AIR offers an exciting new way to engage customers with innovative, branded desktop applications, without requiring changes to existing technology, people, or processes.

By using Adobe AIR as part of your RIA strategy, you can boost productivity, extend your market reach, enhance customer satisfaction, improve customer retention, lower costs, and increase profits.
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Governor Eliot Spitzer who gained national reputation protesting Wall Street wrong doings has been caught on a federal wiretap arrangement to meet a high-priced prostitute in a Washington hotel. This has led to a new light into the huge online internet prostitution industry.

The Internet helps find an escort or a call girl easily using any search engine. Search engines have now huge number of AdSense advertisers for these keywords and the Pay Per Click is also pretty high on these keywords.
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Looks like American Express Guide did not understand or was not aware of SEO. In one of its small business guides, OPEN it had mentioned not to waste money on SEO and search engines penalize optimizers. These PDF statements by OPEN clearly demonstrates how illiterate or unaware the authors of the book had been.

OPEN a part of American Express Business Gold Rewards Card program, it releases books and meet-ups in several cities. The book is also called “A practical guide for business growth”. The following is an extract from the book.

Search engines, like Yahoo! and Google, are usually the first place people will look for you. Make it easier for them to find you. Yahoo! and Google offer tools to let them know the site map structure of your Web site.

Also, using clean U.R.L.’s like yourdomain.com/store/widgets instead of yourdomain.com/store.php?id=42&categoryID= widgets will increase your chances of getting indexed in a search engine.

Finally, don’t waste money on so-called Search Engine Optimization (S.E.O.) specialists. Search engines are very quick to penalize sites that try to trick their filtering techniques, and once your site has been put on Google’s blacklist, it will take forever to get off.

This statement has a contradiction to another document hosted by the same OPEn Meetups page which promotes the idea of search engine optimization.

Today’s Internet market needs SEO to survive especially small business companies. Websites which have not done basic optimization are considered bad sites to refer by search engines. This note by American Express Guide can just be ridiculed as a book written by inexperienced editors.

Google has expanded the Conversion Optimizer Bid Management feature. This expansion would mean the bids would be automatically adjusted making AdWords simpler.

The advertisers using this new AdWords feature would be able to automatically manage their cost-per-click (CPC) bids according to a maximum cost-per-acquisition (CPA) goal. Based on this, the AdWords application does adjustments keeping the cost of each conversion below the specified maximum CPA bid.

Google first released its beta version in September 2007 and has been constantly upgrading and enhancing Conversion Optimizer. From January, advertisers who had previously enabled AdWords Conversion Tracking and had at least 200 conversions in the past 30 days would be eligible to use Conversion Optimizer.

Google claims that advertisers who use this campaign would gain more precision, increase ROI, save bidding process time, receive higher conversion rate and greater control over their advertising budget.

Manashosting, an India based Web Hosting Company who provides cheap hosting and domain registrations have had some awful reviews & feedbacks. As the client base increased, Manashosting reduced its customer importance. Two to three week delay in response to a mail or literally no response is what you get when you write to Manashosting. Read More »

Here are some of the Google Logos that have been displayed in Google search pages. They are interesting and creative. Google changes its logos depending on the occassion. Google comes up with various logos mainly during the holiday season and during the halloween season.

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Well, you have been using Google Search so far! How about a Google Saree?

Sounds ridiculous? It seems true. A recent catwalk showed a model wearing a saree with the Google search result page imprinted on her. Yes, it did look attractive. Look at it for yourself.

The bottom of the saree had the search results and the top the search box and logo imprinted.

We just have to wait and see whats more on Google. It just shows how much Google has influenced the life of a common person.
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It all started as a prank by a 15 year old Tom Van detta. He tried to post an article which stated that he has been recruited by Google to work from home and that they would be paying a low salary.

Van detta, found out from a blog that there is a possibility of fooling Google’s news system by publishing fake news releases. He decided to try this out and submitted a fake release which claimed that this 15-year old New Jersey student has been recruited as one of Google’s youngest employees.

Tom used one of the free news services to post this news release. The news release claimed that Google Spokesman Sonya Johnson informs that the search engine giant Google Inc has recruited a 15 year old student after discovering his blog and his expertise in working with AJAX and Javascript. It also mentioned that he would be paid a low salary. However, the salary would  be placed in a bank for his future education by none other than the CEO, Larry Page.

Merely few hours after this press release, he found out that this news has become the top news in Digg making it an incredible international technology story of the day. Google started displaying the reference in its own Google News.

Google engineers have to work on a filter which would check the creditability of any news that is being displayed in its search engine results to avoid such misleading news stories.

Indian Evangelist Bro. DGS Dinakaran, well known in India and among Christian community all over the world, died at a private hospital today following a brief illness. Read More »