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The giant Yahoo announced the biggest design makeover they have ever engaged on. To keep the users even more interested in yahoo, they now offer the visitors the ability to interact with their homepage at a level where they can use their Yahoo! Front page to access their Gmail account, or even to update their facebooks.
Linked thru widgets to more than 60 other external sites, the users now don’t need to leave yahoo.com to visit and interact with a lot other sites.

The design is openly based on Google’s iGoogle and the ways in which it can be personalized include the ability to save your favourites in your front page and have access to your Gmail account, facebook or check other external cool widgets. You can even edit your own front page layout and add your own website to the front page.

One of the advantages of this more futuristic design is that it is easier to navigate, while providing a lot more options. They have also cut wisely on the amount of advertising displayed in the front page. By taking out the “Marketplace” section, they got rid of several paying ads.

Starting Tuesday, USA users should start being able to enjoy all the changes, when they hit yahoo.com. The next countries that’ll able to see the changes first are the UK, next France and India, during the next week.
Check out this page for a preview on the new design and utilities.

Thousands of users have already beta tested this new version of Yahoo and the predicted time to launch the redesign in Spain and Mexico is somewhere next month but the yahoo.com mobile users will be able to see all the updates starting next week.

Tapan Bhat, Yahoo’s senior vice president of integrated consumer experiences, said that by early next year, this update should be available worldwide.

If you are looking for a reputable New York airport limousine service to whisk you to your destination in style, then Coast to Coast limousine should be at the top of your list. Traveling to and from the airport in limousines has risen in popularity in recent years; so whether you plan in advance or decide at the last moment to hire a limousine when you visit the city, you should take a few things into consideration to ensure that you select the best and most reputable New York airport limousine service.

One of the things that should be at the top of your list when you are considering hiring a limousine is making sure that the company has certified commercial drivers. You can be sure that Coast to Coast limousine only employs the best and safest drivers and that all of our drivers are certified. You will never need to worry about your safety with us.

Selecting a reputable New York airport limousine service will also guarantee that you are picked and arrive at your destination on time. Professionalism should be near the top of the list when choosing a limousine service. Dealing with a disreputable company can make your entire experience a nightmare. So, if the limousine service you are considering cannot make and honor their guarantees, be sure to steer clear of them. Coast to Coast Limousine service guarantees that you will get you where you need to be on time every time.

When making your reservation with a New York airport service limousine service, make sure that you are clear about the vehicle you are reserving. After all, it can be very disheartening to expect a limousine but to receive a mini-van instead. Coast to Coast Limousine offers you a wide range of stylish vehicles to choose from – including luxury sedans, luxury SUVs, stretch SUVs, classic luxury limos, buses, and vans. Simply let us know your needs when you make your reservation and we will take care of the rest.

When you are hiring a New York airport limousine for important business functions, it is important to present a polished and sophisticated façade for the benefit of your clients. You would not want your driver to arrive dressed in jeans and a t-shirt and ruin your reputation. Coast to Coast limousine makes sure that we understand the details of your plans and presents the professional image that you need to impress your clientele.

If you are looking for a reputable, professional New York airport limousine service that will meet your needs every time, then Coast to Coast Limousine should definitely be at the top of your list. Whether you need to hire a limousine for business or for just a comfortable ride to your hotel, you can be sure that your experience will be more than you expect with us every time.

March 6 2008 – In4MD.com, a networking website for medical doctors in the United States, is working hard to create a ‘tour’ that allows potential members to explore all of the handy features offered by the service. The website tour uses real screenshots of various aspects of the service and website in order to better describe the ease of use and great list of features that come with being a member.  

By viewing the In4MD.com tour, potential members will learn through descriptions and screenshots that they can: 

• Communicate with colleagues using secure e-mail with HIPAA compliant security features.
• Create personal webpage profiles and view the webpage profiles of colleagues and other medical practitioners in the area.
• Find classmates from medical school using In4MD forums and profiles.
• Find medical equipment, employment opportunities, recreational items, office space and more using the In4MD classified ads system.

By developing the In4MD.com website, Dr. Alan Raymond is making it possible for doctors to communicate more easily over the Internet with other doctors and medical professionals, as well as allowing medical experts to be consulted more easily, and more time to be saved in the entire process. Doctors no longer have to wait for e-mails to return or for pages to be answered, as they can post questions directly to the IN4MD website and then can check their messages at any time they please 

In4MD is a service that is being made available to all licensed medical doctors in the continental US. In4MD is a service only for medical doctors, and other professionals are not permitted to register for the community. The community makes it possible to communicate professionally without using personal e-mail to do it, and also makes it possible to communicate on a wide scale by sending messages to multiple colleagues and business acquaintances at once.  

By providing a central hub from which doctors can communicate with one another, it has become even easier than ever for doctors to communicate with colleagues, to exchange medical equipment, to hunt for new work and even to hire new employees.

In4MD’s tour page is constantly growing to show a variety of useful and invaluable features that will be offered by this medical doctor-driven community. 

In4MD.com offers a quickly growing network for doctor to doctor communication, equipped with a variety of helpful tools including profile pages for doctors, message alerts, and even a section specifically relating to employment. To find out more information about In4MD, visit the website at www.In4MD.com.

Google Inc faces a federal patent infringement lawsuit by Northeastern University over technology used in its core Web search system, according to legal papers filed last week.The complaint was filed on November 6 in Marshall, in the Eastern District of Texas — the U.S. court with a history of decisions that are highly favorable to plaintiffs in patent cases — but the case only came to light over the weekend.

The plaintiffs are Boston-based Northeastern University and Jarg Corp, a start-up founded by a Northeastern University professor that is the exclusive licensee of search technology patented in 1997, a year before Google was incorporated. Full article.

Not so long ago businesses wasted thousands on the phone or costly plane trips. Internet nowadays gives a great opportunity for them to save time and money in order to organize a webinar or a web conference. Many web design specialists have understood that to use just one web conferencing product is essential for collaboration and meetings. Imagine a Chicago web design company having offices in India and Russia and customers in Australia. Or a Toronto SEO company that needs to agree the proposed SEO changes with the customer in Los Angeles and employees in Belarus. How do you put all this together? Web meeting software seems to be the only solution!

What is so specific about a web-conferencing software that makes it stand apart from other software products that allow creating online meetings?
One of the very specific features of a modern web-based web-conferencing software is video conferencing capabilities that allow participants to see each other, the built-in audio (VoIP), the presentation of Power Point documents and screen and documents sharing opportunitites. Many companies have already declared that a web-based web-conferencing software has allowed them to communicate and carry out every day’s work in a more secure manner.

Online-meetings are essential if your company needs to be well-informed about all the changes and if there is a necessity to organize a meeting where all the employees are to be present you can’t but use a special remote desktop control software even when all the participants are on vacation or abroad. There are no borders for such a revolutionary software – you just install it and your cooperation will definitely increase.

As you know, the queries used to find your website in search results can change over time. Your website content changes, as do the needs of all the busy searchers out there. Whether the queries associated with your site change subtly or dramatically, it’s pretty useful to see how they transform over time.

Recognizing this, Top Search Queries in Webmaster Tools now presents historical data and other enhancements. Let’s take a closer look:

Up to 6 months of historical data:
Previously we only showed query stats for the last 7 days. Now you can jump between 9 query stats snapshots ranging from now to 6 months ago. Note that the time interval for each of these snapshots is different. For the 7 day, 2 week, and 3 week snapshots, we report the top queries for the previous week. For the 1 to 6 month snapshots, we report statistics for the previous month. And still others of you who log in may notice that you don’t have query stats data going back to 6 months ago. We hope to improve that experience in the future.

Top query percentages:
You might have noticed a new column in the top query listings. Previously we just ranked your query results and clicks. While useful, this didn’t really tell you to what extent one query was ranked higher than another. Now we show what percentage each query result or click represents out of the top 20 queries. This should help you see how well the result or click volume is distributed in the top 20. Full article.

Today at the eMetrics Summit in Washington, D.C. Brett Crosby announced several Google Analytics features that will be rolled out over the coming weeks. Here’s a rundown.

First, you’ll be able to use Google Analytics to track site search activity. Simply edit any of your Google Analytics profiles to enable “Site Search” and you can find out what people search for on your site and where these searches lead. Located in the Content section of your Google Analytics reporting interface, Site Search reports show you the keywords and search refinement keywords people use, the pages from which people begin and end their searches. You can also see how search on your site affects site usage, conversion rates, and e-commerce activity. (BTW, if you don’t have a search box on your site, you might want to try the free and newly launched Google Custom Search Engine.)

We’ll begin a limited beta test of the new Google Analytics Event Tracking capability. These new reports are designed to help you understand how people use and interact with Ajax, Flash and multimedia on your site without artificially increasing your pageview metrics. In order to provide a way for you to define and track a wide variety of applications and interactions, there will be a new tracking module called ga.js. Using ga.js on your site instead of urchin.js means you can continue to take advantage of the latest advanced tracking enhancements (such as Event Tracking) as we release them. Although we suggest everyone upgrade to the new JavaScript, if you aren’t interested in Event Tracking and you’re already getting all the information you need from Google Analytics, you don’t need to change your tags. Full article.

Even the nation’s elite universities do not provide the technical training needed for the kind of powerful and highly complex computing Google is famous for, say computer scientists. So Google and I.B.M. are announcing today a major research initiative to address that shortcoming.

The two companies are investing to build large data centers that students can tap into over the Internet to program and research remotely, which is called “cloud computing.”

Both companies have a deep business interest in this new model in which computing chores increasingly move off individual desktops and out of corporate computer centers to be handled as services over the Internet.

Google, the Internet search giant, is the leader in this technology. But companies like Yahoo, Amazon, eBay and Microsoft have built Internet consumer services like search, social networking, Web e-mail and online commerce that use cloud computing. In the corporate market, I.B.M. and others have built Internet services to predict market trends, tailor pricing and optimize procurement and manufacturing. Full article.

The verdict against Jammie Thomas of Brainerd, Minn., brought an end to the first jury trial in the music industry’s protracted effort to rein in piracy with lawsuits against individual computer users. Since 2003, record labels have brought legal action against about 30,000 people, accusing them of trafficking in copyrighted songs.

Many of the people sued in such cases settle out of court for, on average, about $4,000, according to the industry’s trade association. Ms. Thomas chose to face trial instead, saying that she did not share files on the Kazaa network as the labels contended. She and her lawyer declined to comment after leaving the courthouse.

The jury verdict, which called for $9,250 in damages for each of the 24 songs involved in the trial, came after brief deliberations.

Earlier, the judge in the case, Michael J. Davis of Federal District Court, ruled in the industry’s favor on a hotly contested technical question, saying that for jurors to find her liable, the record labels did not have to prove that songs on Ms. Thomas’s computer had actually been transmitted to others online. Rather, the act of making them available could be viewed as infringement, the judge ruled.  Full article.

• On-page factors and off-page factors
• A single factor is more important than all other factors
• Don’t think that you already know t

Regarding on-page factors, the content of your web pages is important, the position of your keywords in your web page elements is important, the keyword density matters and much more.

When it comes to off-page factors, the number of the links that point to your website is very important. It’s also important that the the links to your website contain your keywords and that the links are from related websites.

All of these factors are important. However, there is another factor that is even more important than the other ones. That single factor will determine whether your search engine optimization activities will be successful or not. Full article.