Real-time Searches

In the past, I have always been hearing about my friends griping about how slow Google takes to register their blogs, new accounts and statuses. But those problems are just about to go into extinction because Google has just collaborated with Twitter in an attempt to provide real-time searches that is so fast that you will be shocked.

You just have to refresh it once and the latest updates will be out on Google's Search Engine, it only takes a mere 1 second.


"I would say that real time search is the natural evolution of universal search," Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search products and user experience.


Indeed, consistency is definitely greater than moments of greatness in today's day and age. We have to consistently improvise and follow up with the needs of the consumers in order to stay at the top of the game. Since Google's search engine territory are currently encroached by Bing and Yahoo! Search Engine, Google will have to bring it all that it has to the table to smash their competitors and cast them into Neverland.

The company said it has introduced 33 different search innovations in the past 67 days. Utmost impressive consistency to highlight here.


Google announced a variety of other search innovations during the event, including a Japanese-language voice search product that allows Japanese speakers to say a query into a cell phone. The product was previously available in English and Mandarin Chinese.

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Top 3 Stocks for 2010

Mastercard


For a consumer-dependent company like MasterCard, 2009 was a year of surprisingly solid results.



That's what happened when consumers weren't spending. Now there are signs that wallets may be ready to open again.

 
With the company's success, it's little surprise that shares have run up from $119 (when investors panicked, in the belief that consumers would never spend again) to $230.
 
Amedisys
 
The stocks of even the best health-care companies suffered during a tumultuous year of reform debates and tea parties.

Amedisys was no exception. Its shares slid by 9% this year even as its profits grew 63% in the first three quarters of 2009. This despite the fact that its business -- providing nurses for patients in their own homes and running hospices -- is part of a sector projected to nearly double to $51 billion by 2016.


With an aging population ever more in need of its services, Amedisys seems poised to thrive, and its shares should recover, no matter what happens in Congress.


SalesForce

The popularity of "software as a service" is white-hot these days, and no provider is more identified with the business of renting software via the Internet (rather than selling and installing it on a company's servers) than Salesforce.com.

"Not only is that cost-benefit [equation] great in a weak economy," he says, "but as more companies use Salesforce and other software-as-service providers, this will become the standard model for companies with business software needs."


Salesforce.com has lured in giant clients, including American Express, Avon, and Motorola. And the once-tiny outfit signed up 4,700 new customers during the last quarter, raising its total to 67,900.




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2.5% fewer Air Passengers

Recently, the Air Transport of America has just released data saying that there will be 2.5% fewer passengers travelling during the 21-day holiday period, from 17 Dec to 6 Jan.

However, the bad news to the travellers is that the plane will still be crowded and packed nonetheless.

This is mainly because of the fact of the fluctuating oil prices along with the current devious financial crisis that refuses to settle down for good. There seems to be much ramifications unforseen springing up time and again. Given the fact that Dubai is joining the game, it seems that we can't let our mind rest in peace until the mid of 2010.

On the other hand, it might be actually a blessing in disguise, okay maybe not so much of a blessing but it isn't too bad either because they might cut their losses by quite a bit.

Reason being, you get to pack everyone into a flight and you have a higher tendency to get most of the flights filled this way. In turn, you might just save on the immense amount of money to fly whereby you have many flights with so little people inside it. To compress all the people into one flight might actually be more financially advisable.


Of course, you can argue that if there are more flights, there will be more passengers and the cost of the air tickets will bound to overwrite the insignificant fuel costs then. But then again, let's be more optimistic and look at the brighter side of the picture.


Perhaps, from this lesson, the airlines can plan and devise a better strategy to try to fill up future planes more effectively rather than having to sell dirt-cheap air tickets at the last minte.


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Apple ads

Apple has spent $501 million on advertisement, that is a ridiculous half a billion there, but wait a minute, it's not a lot as compared to Microsoft's $1.4 billion.


And in actual fact, Apple's spending on advertisement has dropped to 1.37% of its revenue over the years. In absolute amount, Apple has increased its spending but when compared to its rapidly rising revenue, it is actually dropping tremendously.

Personally, I am extremely cynical about the advertising industry and the functionality of advertisements. For one, they are a mere exaggeration of the usefulness or effectiveness of the product and that only a mere 50% of it is true as stated.


It just gives me more reasons to be skeptical about the product given the fact that almost every companies are being so ostentacious when it comes to advertising. They go all out, relentlessly when it comes to graphics, animations and sound quality of the advertisement but they have forgotten about the importance of the product per se.

Many of them have forgotten that the product should be the focus, not the fanatical stories with intricate art and bombastic animations. They are retailers, not singers or gamers.


Hence, I believe that it is important for them to emphasis on the esoteric strengths the product possesses along with absolute assurance based on reliable feedbacks. A great product accompanied by poignant feedback is the key to winning over the customers. There is simply no need to bang hard on the brand name when it is already ubiquitous in the city. All in all, I believe that Apple should shift their focus to the new products now. Build an advertisement focused on the product along with reliable credentials and that is it. What a simple formulae.

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Great Presentation Tips

The key points of a great presentation are:


* Knowing what you want to say.

* Believing what you say.

* Being compelling in how you say it. (Speak with force and a tinge of exaggeration)

* Providing valuable information.
* Presenting non-emailable information.

* Being completely prepared and rehearsed.

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