Google beats Microsoft and Coke in brand stakes.
Google has knocked Microsoft off the top spot and been named the most powerful global brand of 2007 in a recently published ranking.
Here is an interesting article on cnet about the most powerful brand names in the world. Google tops the race of brand names leaving behind the giants like Microsoft and Coca Cola. Here’s the top ten list of brand names with their worth:
- Google–$66.4 billion
- General Electric–$61.9 billion
- Microsoft–$55 billion
- Coca-Cola–$44.1 billion
- China Mobile–$41.2 billion
- Marlboro–$39.2 billion
- Wal-Mart–$36.9 billion
- Citigroup–$33.7 billion
- IBM–$33.6 billion
- Toyota Motor–$33.4 billion
O! dear… Yea. Did you ever think seriously about creating a privacy policy page for your website? Well guys do it now. Why! Because Google Says So. Google has announced new terms and conditions for publishers. In which they clearly recommend to have a prominent and transparent privacy policy page at your website letting users of website know about the cookies and Ads policies and other related information. You can also read these policies discussed here.
Privacy policy of website has also a great deal of impact on corporate image of any business as every professional business has its policies and rules which It discloses for customers and users. But we are not talking about importance of privacy policy page at your website here.
We will see that how can we create an effective terms and conditions or privacy policy statement without giving much time or any hard effort. Not everybody is technical in writing I would say. So let professionals and web tools do the job. Fill up specific fields and suggest these what exactly do you want, let them know your website or business and they will create an appealing, very professional privacy policy statement for you to meet your needs.
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Technorati Authority is the number of blogs linking to a website in the last six months. The higher the number, the more Technorati Authority the blog has.
Technorati measures the number of blogs, rather than the number of links. So, if a blog links to your blog many times, it still only count as +1 toward your authority. Of course, new links mean the +1 will last another 180 days.
Technorati Rank is calculated based on how far you are from the top. The blog with the hightest Technorati Authority is the #1 ranked blog. The smaller your Technorati Rank, the closer you are to the top.
Since at the lower end of the scale many blogs will have the same Technorati Authority, they will share the same Technorati Rank.
The Technorati Top 100 shows the most popular 100 blogs based on Technorati Authority. The #1 ranked blog is the blog with the most other distinct blogs linking to it in the last 6 months. If your blog’s rank is, say 305,316, this indicates that there are 305,315 blog ranks separating your blog from the #1 position.
The best way to increase your Technorati Authority is to write things that are interesting to other bloggers so they’ll link to you. Linking to source material when your blog is also a great way to engage in conversation and help others find what you find interesting.
Finally, if you want to let your readers see your Technorati Authority on your blog, install the Technorati Authority widget.
There was a time when I just knew free Geocities web hosting service in my mind. Then I happened to know Yahoo Small Business and Brinkster. After that I came to realize that Hosting providers like Cpanel also exists.
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I would like to share this resource with my readers. Choosing a host can be a nightmare sometimes. Really!!! You get to know usually much latter about all the services and real strategy of hosting plan, you own.
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You may have noticed that http://www.techmynd.com and http://techmynd.com would bring same results. So why use www at all?
Use of the www subdomain is not required mostly and time consuming to communicate. The internet, media, and society are all better off without it.
http://no-www.org have a whole logic to prove that.
Why is www deprecated? For that if we look at www (world wide web) meaning, It will come up with this statement:
“The complete set of documents residing on all Internet servers that use the HTTP protocol, accessible to users via a simple point-and-click system.”
or
“The complete set of electronic documents stored on computers that are connected over the Internet and are made available by the protocol known as HTTP. The World Wide Web makes up a large part of the Internet.”
All popular Web browsers assume the HTTP protocol. In doing so, the software prepends the ‘http://’ onto the requested URL and automatically connect to the HTTP server on port 80. Why then do many servers require their websites to communicate through the www subdomain? Mail servers do not require you to send emails to recipient[at]mail.domain.com.
So world is better off without it. Geeks or Tech people do not usually put www while typing any URL. WWW has been considered a representation of URL that proves it to be an internet website address. Nothing more.
http://no-www.org recommends webmasters to redirect their all traffic coming to ‘http://www.domain.com’ to ‘http://domain.com’. They offer a Class System to distinguish your website behaviour to analyze it at this standard.
Are you ready to set a redirect from your hosting control panel from ‘http://www.domain.com’ to ‘http://domain.com’ and forget about using www?
