Acquisition of BumpTop by Google

Google has acquired BumpTop - a startup that designs software that creates a 3D interface for your desktop

More than three years ago, we set out to completely change the way people use their desktops. We're very grateful for all your support over that time — not just financially but also through all the encouraging messages from people who found BumpTop inspiring, useful, and just downright fun.

Today, we have a big announcement to make: we're excited to announce that we've been acquired by Google! This means that BumpTop (for both Windows and Mac) will no longer be available for sale. Additionally, no updates to the products are planned.

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TEOMA Search Engine is back

TEOMA Search Engine

Rise from the Ashes. Started operation in 2001, then went off for some period of time and then again refurbished them and now back again in 2010. Probably, they are fascinated by the numbers 0012.

I did a basic search for keywords and could only understand that then need to go a long way to grasp any traffic.

Here are some of my observations:

1. Top - 5 sponsored advertisement.
2. Footer – 5 Sponsored Advertisement
3. The sponsored ads are too large and above the fold.
4. The SERP looks better compared to Yahoo and Bing.
5. Top four results comprises of two domains having an inner page as a part of the SERP.

Let me know your thoughts.

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Google SERP LayOut Change and its effect

Google SERP LayOut Change and its effect

SERP layout changed last week around the first week of May, 2010. What may be the possible consequences?

1. Loss in Google Traffic.
2. New format.
3. Loss in rankings for some long tail key phrases.
4. Ranking shake up.


As Google accounts for most of the traffic, a minor change in traffic signals may cause worries for webmasters across the world.

What are your thoughts?

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Common words new age meanin

The new age meaning of few of the well chosen words. I am sure you are aware of some of the words used below.

DOCTOR:
A person who kills your ills by pills,and kills you by his bills!

Politician:
One who shakes your hand before elections and your Confidence Later

BOSS:
Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early

FATHER:
A banker provided by nature

MISER:
A person who lives poor so that he can die RICH!

OPTIMIST:
A person who while falling from EIFFEL TOWER says in midway "SEE I AM NOT INJURED YET!"

DIPLOMAT:
A person who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip

EXPERIENCE:
The name men give to their Mistakes

YAWN:
The only time when some married men ever get to open their mouth

OFFICE:
A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life

SMILE:
A curve that can set a lot of things straight!

CLASSIC:
A book which people praise, but never read

TEARS:
The hydraulic force by which masculine will power is defeated by feminine water-power!

CONFERENCE ROOM:
A place where everybody talks, nobody listens and everybody disagrees later on

ECSTASY:
A feeling when you feel you are going to feel a feeling you have never felt before

COMPROMISE:
The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece

CONFERENCE:
The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present

MARRIAGE:
It's an agreement wherein a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her master

CIGARETTE:
A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other!

In my next post I will try to answer some of the common 2010 questions asked to me by either commenting or by mailing me. Hope it will be fun.

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Microsoft and Facebook to oust Google Docs

Microsoft Office and Facebook partner the new friends

Well, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg just shared a feature that could give Microsoft a big advantage over competitors. Microsoft and Facebook launched a site called Docs.com this morning, which is all about sharing your documents using Facebook in the cloud. He didn’t offer too many details, but said the document site will work closely with the social network. If you want to share a document on Facebook, you can do so using the connections you’ve already built on the social network.

Here are some quotes from the Microsoft post introducing the site (which is formatted, rather annoyingly, as an online Office doc, making it much harder to copy-and-paste):

Built on Microsoft Office 2010, the Docs app enables Facebook users for the first time to create and share Microsoft Office documents directly with their Facebook friends, using the Office tools they already know. …

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Local Busniess Center becomes Google Places

The Local Business Center is becoming Google Places. The reason - Millions of people use Google every day to find places in the real world, and we want to better connect Place Pages — the way that businesses are being found today — with the tool that enables business owners to manage their presence on Google.

Google is also adding some new features:-

• Show your service coverage or hide your address.
• Tag Ads added to Austin, Atlanta and Washington, D.C. and to follow in Chicago, San Diego, Seattle, Boulder and San Francisco
• Free business photo shoots service to enhace the profile.
• Customised QR codes from the Places dashboard.
• Running another batch of Favorite places.

To keep track of how your business listing is performing on Google, we offer a personalized dashboard within Google Places that includes data about how many times people have found your business on Google, what keywords they used to find it and even what areas people traveled from to visit your business. With the dashboard, you can see how your use of any of these new features affects interest in your business and make more informed decisions about how to be found on Google and interact with your customers.

As a SEO Consultant working for more than 6 years, I believe that this has more oppurtunities in the future.

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Its website and not web site

When the AP Stylebook announced via Twitter that it was changing the style for "Web site" to "website," some users let out shouts of praise

The reactions aren't surprising, given how many people have asked the AP to change the style from two words to one word, arguing that "Web site" is an antiquated way of writing it.

"We decided to make the change because 'website' is increasingly common," said Sally Jacobsen, deputy managing editor for projects at the AP and one of three Stylebook editors. "We also had invited readers and users of the Stylebook to offer us some suggestions for a new social media guide that we're including in the 2010 Stylebook, and we got a very good response and a large number of people who favored 'website' as one word."

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