When you need a contact phone number for a company, it can take a while to get to the right page. Bing will give you the number directly on the search results page. No need to visit the website.
If you want to preview a web page without having to go to the website, Bing shows you the information, just scroll through the desired search result and a preview area will appear. The text will give a brief description of the web page and indicate what other links appear on the page.
GOOGLE ADVANCED NEWS RESEARCH
Google offers an advanced news search that allows visitors to browse titles by date, location, exact phrase, or publication. People can use it to retrieve articles from more than 4,500 news outlets that publish on the Web.
Check Google’s official guidelines for quality listings. They offer a re-entry request option that will give your business the ability to appeal if a list is also deleted.
In some other Google-related news that might be of interest to online businesses and businesses with websites, a new sitemap generator has been created.
Google plans to include website loading time in one of the algorithm ranking factors in 2010. This is not an easy task, but it might be a good idea to check your loading speed.
WEB PAGE TRANSLATION
This feature is especially useful if your search has non-English results. Google offers the ability to automatically translate a page in English for you. Google currently supports Italian, French, Spanish, German and Portuguese.
For the best information for your site or to see if your competitors are using Google AdWords, try the Google AdWords Keyword Tool.
False and misleading advertising What is true? The FTC attempted to address this issue by establishing the following standards:
The intention to deceive is not what matters. What matters is the public perception. The decisive criterion for determining whether an advertisement is misleading will be based on the effect on an average or unsophisticated person. Your advertising may also be misleading because of omissions or misleading implications. The bottom line, just the facts.
SCREEN SAVERS
If you are looking for something different, remember that Windows is an excellent choice. Do not unload any free files from anywhere, this could have bugs and almost impossible to delete.
For Windows screen savers, right-click an empty area of the desktop. Click on “properties”, “screensavers”. Click on the arrow to the right of “screensavers” just below the monitor. Choose the one you want.
Light side
A teacher began to know the children in her class by asking them how their father made a living. The first child she asked said, “My name is John and my dad is a truck driver.” The next child she asked said, “My name is Bill and my dad is a striptease dancer.” The teacher quickly changed the subject.
Later, the teacher approached Bill privately and asked him if it was true that his father was a striptease dancer and he was dancing naked. Bill blushed and said, “No, he’s really director of information at Microsoft, but I’m embarrassed to tell anyone.”
COMPUTER WARNING, INTERNET MARKETING INFORMATION
The McAfee security company has prepared its predictions for cyber threats in 2010. It predicts a troubling year for Adobe software, which according to McAfee will be heavily targeted in 2010. Nearly every PC and Mac in the world seems own a copy of the software tool needed to read portable document format files.
The prediction is not particularly surprising. Adobe itself acknowledged in early 2009 that it had seen attacks against its applications increase steadily in recent years.