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Wonderful, whimsical Google is always coming up with ways to creatively use their search engine platform. They have done it again with their idea of A-Google-a-Day.

A-Google-A-Day is run by Deja Google platform. This platform lets a person search the Internet as it was before the present A-Google-A-Day puzzle appears. Mysterious I know, but its Google so just pretend it is a time machine going into the past. Besides its Google’s solution for keeping fast reading and lightening quick fingered bloggers from sharing the answer to that day’s puzzle before most of us have had our morning coffee. It keeps it fun like dot-dot-dot.org.

Daniel Russell who created the site states real time updates are excluded. He goes on to explain the purpose of the site is to get Google users to expand the types of text and questions they put in the search box. The Google search engine is capable of handling playful questioning and searching for information in intriguing ways. The term “social layer” comes to mind if Google is moving in the direction of creating fun little things to get people to make full use of the features, and at the same time establish an environment of social interaction.

Recently Eugene Lee at Enterprise 2.0 stated social layering is the process of socializing across applications or more accurately a layer that crosses multiple services. Interoperatbility is the key concept with protocols working together to let people engage socially across tools. The services instead of being separate hubs become part of a rich tapestry in which a user can pick a strand and follow their whims.

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Search Engines: Information, features, and providers

Web search engines are designed to search for specific information on FTP servers and the web. Search result hits may consist of images, information, webpages, and other types of files.

The top 5 preferred search engines in order include:

  • Google
  • Yahoo!
  • Bing (aka MSN Live)
  • Ask (aka AskJeeves)
  • AOL Search

A search engine operates, in the following order:

  • Web crawling

Web crawling is a type of program that browses the web in a systematic mechanized manner or in a methodical approach.

  • Indexing

Indexing involves collecting, analyzing, and storing data to facilitate the retrieval of information in a fast and accurate manner.

  • Searching

Searching involves unstructured and indistinguishable querying of data to satisfy information requirements.  Web search categories include informational, navigational, connectivity, and transactional queries.

The features of a search engine include:

  • Default

Default occurs when multiple words or terms are entered into a search engine without using Boolean operators, symbols, or phrase marks.

  • Boolean

Boolean refers to how various words or terms are combined in a search (i.e. and, or, but)

  • Proximity

Proximity defines the specific distance within a record various terms or words should be from each other.

  • Truncation

Truncation is the aptitude of a search engine to query just a portion of a word.

  • Stemming

Stemming is the aptitude of a search engine to query word variants including past tense, present tense, plurals, singular forms, etc.

  • Fields

Fields refer to the capability of a research engine to locate word variants such as plurals, singular forms, past tense, and present tense in titles, descriptions, and other parts of webpages.

  • Limits

Limits are the ability to constrain search results by adding specific restriction to the search which includes data and language limitations.

  • Stop Words

Stop words are repeatedly occurring words or symbols that are not searchable including the word “the”, numbers, and HTML strings.

  • Sorting

Sorting is the search engines ability to organize query results by relevance, date, alpha order, root URL, or host name.

When using a search engine, users want one that delivers easy to read interface, helpful search options, and relevant search results.

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How Internet Has Changed Our Life Over A Decade

Internet has been the most influencing factor in our lives for many decades. The last decade being the most popular one. The advent of internet has made our life very easy. You can surely make the things better with the use of internet. You can avail the rich benefits of internet to see better life.
The technology has slowly changed the way we live our life. With internet you can do whatever that makes your life a better living. Internet can be used to find information over search engine, sending email, instant messaging, video & audio chatting and many more. You can surely hope to get connected with your loved ones with the use of latest technologies around the world.
Internet has been responsible in making our lives so easy and comfortable that we can even book movie tickets, flight tickets, bus tickets etc at the tip of the finger tips all at the comfort of our home. So you can do everything by sitting at home. Isn’t that amazing?
A couple of decades ago this may be considered as impossible. However the technology has changed it all. Isn’t that amazing? Just feel it. For many decades now we have been amazed at the rich benefits of the internet. We’re now able to do online shopping with the help of internet and don’t have to go over to the shops to buy anything. It has brought the whole store to our door steps.
The best thing that we can hope is to stick to it as far as possible. The internet is expected to take our life to better heights. Isn’t that amazing? Feel the difference with the latest technology in your life. The life could be so different. Internet banking has also been a latest addition to the rich list of benefits of internet.

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