2010 Readers Choice Awards, Vote your favorites

Are you using online tools, software’s, web design, search engines and more? It’s time to vote for your favorite by categories. About.com Readers Choice Awards is going on and your participation is valued one. Voting takes place from February 1-24 and the winners will be announced on March 1.

Cast your vote in the below categories:

• Browsers
• Desktop Publishing
• Email
• Family Computing
• Google
• IM
• JavaScript
• Macs
• PC Hardware and Reviews
• Smartphones
• Web Design / HTML
• Web Search

Google focus more on Social search results

Earlier Google introduced Social Search in labs help to find more relevant content (blogs, tweet updates, etc) from your social connections and online contacts. Social search results are specific to you and can be viewed after signing into Google Accounts. Today Social search is available to everyone in Google Beta.

You can filter search results to view only content from your social networks by clicking “show options”. After entering search query [Seattle] Google Social Search includes your friend’s blog, tweets related to the search under "Results from people in your social circle for Seattle". This feature is available in Google Images search.

Also, the two new links for "My social circle" and "My social content" displays content source and how you are connected with the author.

Images with descriptions and labels helped bot to crawl and display in the search results. Some images were not shown in the result due to less information. Now users can include labels to the images and enhance the collection.

Google disclose 2009 searchers Report

Back to 2009, Internet usage is keep progressing for the years and search giants are providing frequent updates/features to retain the users. Today, Google revealed Internet users statistical information.

• 7/10 Google search queries comes from United States

• 1/10 Google users from United States use 10 search queries

• More than 1/3 of new search queries used by searchers, Excluding duplicates

• More than 1/5 of new search queries used by searchers, Including duplicates

• Google Users take Average of 9 seconds to enter a search query

• Google responds search query in Less than ¼ second

• 1 in 13 search result pages show Google map listings

• Country with the greatest increase in Google web search traffic in 2009 vs. 2008: Indonesia*

Statistical Data on Internet Users

Most of the user statistics is related to United States. 2010 would be a tough war between Internet search giants to increase and facilitate the user level experience.

2010 Begin with Drop in Page Indexing

Parties Over! Started 2010 with great hopes and turning points. Google updates PageRank at the end of 2009 and dropped page index in the beginning of 2010. Some of webmasters/site owners achieved progress in PageRank along with Backlinks but fall in page indexing.

Many SEO Experts who tested the Caffeine performance shared that Google Caffeine will index and prefer fresh contents. But this update starts fresh indexing count from level zero and increases rapidly in short time. And not much affects in search engine ranking for the existing targeted keywords.

Hope its time to sit and watch for the Google Caffeine Updates.

Kick Start 2010 with Google PR Update

Spending final moments of 2009 and stepping into 2010 with lots of expectations. Google gives a surprise gift for webmasters and site owners by updating PageRank in late 2009. Generally PageRank is updated once in 3 months but this update is unexpected by everyone.

In 2008, Google officially announced PageRank update at the year end. Similarly it occurred this year end too and expecting in 2010. Congrats to site owners/webmasters for attaining boost in PageRank. Others don’t panic as it won’t affect search engine ranking for the targeted keywords. Google Caffeine will be released in early 2010 and it will bring lots of surprise to you.

Have a wonderful New Year!

New Beginning of AOL

2009 end breaks Time Warner tie-up and makes AOL an independent company celebrating 24 years of leading Web Service. The new AOL reformation drives most of the users attention. Brand new images in logos with stunning themes add good-looking to the Home Page layout. Still home page sticks with Google Enhanced search results.

“Our new identity is uniquely dynamic. Our business is focused on creating world-class experiences for consumers and AOL is centered on creative and talented people - employees, partners, and advertisers. We have a clear strategy that we are passionate about and we plan on standing behind the AOL brand as we take the company into the next decade,” said Tim Armstrong, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AOL.

The AOL website performance is consistently growing for the past few months. In 2010, AOL desperately focuses in developing quality content to the users, products and better services for partners.

Google New Tool for Shortening URL

Visitors often face difficulties while sharing lengthy URL. Twitter automatically shortens the long URL due to character limit and sharing is made simple. Google launched Google URL shortener service available only in new Google Toolbar and FeedBurner version.

• Stability: Google's scalable, multi-datacenter infrastructure provides great uptime and a reliable service to our users.
• Security: Shortened URLs are automatically checked to detect sites that may be malicious and warn users when the short URL resolves to such sites.
• Speed: Product ensure this service is quick and continued to improve the speed of Google Url Shortener.