Which Google Green Search Engine is more green?

Link to us: http://sn.im/google-green-analysis

Greeting everyone. Today I would like to explain about ours poll for this week. The Poll question are - Which Google Green Search Engine is more green?
Below picture are the result that show the vote are vote by users.
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Blackle ( 12 votes of out 16 votes)
Eco-Find( 1 vote of out 16 votes)
Earthle ( 3 vote of out 16 votes)

The poll show urs the result is Blackle get 12 votes out of 16 total votes. For Eco-Find is 1 vote out of total 16 votes, while Earthle are 3 votes out of total 16 votes.
Why users choose Blackle at this poll. Let me have a briefly explain about Blackle search engine. Blackle is save many energy is because Blackle over 2billion watt per hour. How Blackle save so many energy in an hour. The reason why Blackle can save many energy is because the screen is predominantly black. Black color or dark color display will use less energy, while white color background will requires more power to display. Other then that, the size also will require power while the size is large, when the size is small will minimize the power usage. So every time users using Blackle to search will saving energy.
The second more users vote is Earthle. Earthle it would save an estimated 750 Megawatt-hours in a year. When the users using Earthle, the results are powered by Goolge.com so the search result provided by Earthle are the same for using Goolge.com
Eco-Find is the less vote is because Eco-find it use the compact fluorescent lamps to save the power. And it also more efficient than incandescent bulbs. Eco-find it use less power is because Eco-find turn off the light while no use too many at the webpage.

Reference:
Earthle.com, [online] 2007
http://www.earthle.com/about/
Heap Media, [online], 2010
http://www.blackle.com/about/
Eco-Find.com, [online], 2007
http://www.eco-find.com/

What Google company should do to improve themself

Link to us: http://sn.im/recommendation-for-google

Due to the constant improvement of Google technology, useful feature and blazing fast searching speed, Google is now known as the most powerful and popular company which provides many useful application such as Google search engine, Gmail, Google maps, Blogger, Google pages and many more. However no matter how strong a company is, there's will always be a small imperfection /weakness. Hence, I myself would like to give some recommendation on how to enhance Google.

1) Stop blogger spamming

- Insert a "Mark as spam feature". With this kind of feature, we can make the information gathered less intrusive and the measure of current anti-spam more effective. Other than that, the implementation of "word verification" feature to prevent blog spam is a serious issues to a visually impair users which i think most bloggers is not aware of it's implication.
- Blogger can also set a limit to everything so that a person cannot spam their comment and create numerous junk account which will just clog and take-up the space of the server. The following will help prevent spammers from going on their daily spamming.

Limit on number of account a person can create in one day

Limit on number of blogs a person can create in one day

Limit on number of blogs a person can create per account

Limit on number of blog posts in one day

Limit on number of comments in one day

- Prevent tampering of template

Alot of spammers and bloggers nowadays tend to temper the template by stripping the <$BlogMetaData$> tag from the template and replace it with their own meta-tags which will trick the search engine to index and crawl their blog.

2) Google to turn green

- Nowadays more and more people including environmentalist is will-aware of our earth's global warming situation. So it's turn for Google to play their role in saving the environment and make our earth a greener place. Google can first start by changing their homepage background colour to black colour. White colour background use around 74 watts to display white a black background only use about 59 walts. Take a look at Google which get around 200 millions user daily. If 1 person uses the query for about 10 second, that means Google run 550,000 hours everyday. Assuming user uses black colour background, he/she will save around 15watts (74 -59). That is equal to 8.3 Mega-watts per hour. Imagine it is run in CRT monitor, it will save for around $75,000 per hour!!

Is there any more suggestion on how to improve Google? kindly leave a comment!

References:

Google.com, [online], 2010

http://groups.google.com/group/google_webmaster_help-requests\

Limitation Of Google

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The limitation of Gmail is now it can stored up to more than 7 GB for free storage the messages , attachments, and the e-mail. It is capable of storing up to 7 GB file, and others information that are needed . But there is and disadvantage when the storage limit reach 7 GB and it will stop receiving e-mails from the sender. When the storing capabilities of files, messages, attachments or the e-mail are reach the limit, we need to clear it manually. Upon deletion of the files, messages, attachments or the e-mail, it will be remove permanently which cannot be restore back easily. Hence, we need to buy additional storage to store fail more than 7 GB in order to have more space. On the side of Google search engine, every search has a limit of query. An example is the limit word for the users use on the main search engine is 32 words. Google search engine will display an error message when the word count for each queries exceed the limit of 32 words.Annother limit of Google is it will give a slower search result when the keyword enter is long and unnrelevant search result is given.

Limitation of Google Doc
The limit of the Document characters are 512,000 which are about hundred pages plus and minus and also depends on the things like font size. The document file size cannot more that 1MB.
For the spreadsheets, we can only have 400,000 cell and maximum of 256 columns per sheet. The file size also cannot exceed the limit of 1MB and the cell and columns must be under the limit.

Reference
Google.com, [online], 2010

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6558

Google.com, [online], 2010

http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=37603

Google News vs. Yahoo! News vs. Bing News

Link to us: http://sn.im/search-engine-news-provider

The poll topic for today is - "Which search engine do you use to read daily news ?" In this post, we will be analyzing Google News as compared with other popular search engine News provider such as Yahoo! News, and . Below is an image illustrating the result of the poll we have collected since last week.
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Our poll question: Which search engine do you use to read daily news ? Below is the result collected from 42 Total Votes. A) Google News - 50% ( 21 Votes) B) Yahoo! News - 17% (7 Votes) C) Bing News - 10% (4 Votes) D) Other- 24% (10 Votes) From this poll result, we can see that most peoples use Google News to read their daily news. The reason is because Google search engine is currently the most popular search engine. Google News is more user friendly compared to other search engine news provider. It's mainly because, Google News readers are able to personalized their Google News homepage layout. However, Yahoo! News has better looking or more attractive compared to Google News when Bing News has bad user interference. There are 10 votes voted for other, and probably one of it is MSNBC. MSNBC is the one the best news provider. There is an issue about the Bing News. Bing News should exist because of the presence of MSNBC. MSNBC has more absolutely much more better compared to Bing News. Futhermore, they are in the same company, Microsoft. As one of the MSNBC readers, I prefer MSNBC than Google News. MSNBC is more user friendly and more attractive compared to Google News.

Advertising policy

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After a few month of our blog on-going, we received quite a numerous number of visitor reading or viewing our blog recently. So we came up with an idea to advertise some advertisement on our free space of our blog. Both benefit advertiser and bloggers who visit our blogs. We can create different types of advertisement to attract different viewers. Our banner include different types of motionless picture advertisement, flash advertisement and peel banner. Pricing for each of the advertisement depends on the type of advertisement, size, position on the blog , monthly flat fee model and CPM (cost-per-thousand impressions) model.

The pricing of our ad's is as below:

1) monthly flat fee

- Motionless picture ad's ( size cannot be larger than 250 x 300)

$25 - (30 days) : [size 125 x 125] - image larger than 125 x 125 will generate and extra $100

$45 - (60 days) : [size 125 x 125] - image larger than 125 x 125 will generate and extra $150

$70 - (90 days) : [size 125 x 125] - image larger than 125 x 125 will generate and extra $200

Price > 90 days can be negotiable

- Flash advertisement ( size cannot be larger than 200 x 350)

$200 - (30 days) : [size 125 x 125] - image larger than 125 x 125 will generate and extra $150

$350 - (60 days) : [size 125 x 125] - image larger than 125 x 125 will generate and extra $200

$500 - (90 days) : [size 125 x 125] - image larger than 125 x 125 will generate and extra $250

Price > 90 days can be negotiable

- Peel banners ( size cannot be larger than 200 x 250)

$80 - (30 days) : [size 125 x 125] - image larger than 125 x 125 will generate and extra $50

$150- (60 days) : [size 125 x 125] - image larger than 125 x 125 will generate and extra $100

$250 - (90 days) : [size 125 x 125] - image larger than 125 x 125 will generate and extra $150

Price > 90 days can be negotiable

2) CPM (cost-per-thousand impressions)

$1.60 ~ 1000 impressions

$2.00 ~ 1500 impressions

$2.85 ~ 2000 impression

4) Position of banners

Top left- $150

Top right -$100

Center - no extra charge

Bottom - $50

4) Total pricing for advertisement = CPM + monthly flat fee + position of banners

5) Price for advertisement can be negotiable, for further information please contact us at:

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Vertical advertisement

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Reference:

dekstop.google.com, [online], 2010

http://desktop.google.com/features.html

Which search engine will user choose when Google search engine server is down?

Link to us : http://sn.im/analysisweek8

Today the topic of our poll is on - (Which search engine will user choose when Google search engine server is down?) Today we will analyze this poll and find out which search engine will user choose other then Google search engine. Today we have received total of 17 votes from our poll collected from last week. Below is an image of the total vote collected.
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Our poll question is - "which search engine will user choose when Google search engine server is down?"

1. Dogpile (3 votes out of 18 votes)
2. Yahoo (8 votes out of 18 votes)
3. Bing (3 votes out of 18 votes)
4. Ask.com (4 votes out of 18 votes)

This poll result shows that many users vote for Yahoo. The reason is because Yahoo is also a popular search engine for users. Yahoo search engine is a large, unique search engine database that is similar to Google search engine. Other than that, Yahoo also support full Boolean operation which consists of AND, OR, and NOT operator. This Boolean is made to help users to find a specific search result from the key-word entered. This search engine also provides non-case sensitive searching. Either lower or upper or mixed case will gives the same result.

The second most votes voted by users goes to Ask.com. Ask.com have the function called Binoculars that can save time by quickly previewing a search result before clicking it. Ask.com Toolbar is free Internet browser toolbar . The toolbar is optional to the users and always requires end user consent (in the form of an "Opt-Out" check box). Ask.com also provide users to erase search queries. This erase the needs of users to completely delete search queries and associated cookie information from Ask.com. This including IP addresses, user IDs, session IDs and the text of queries made.

The total vote for Dogpile and Bing are same which are 3 out of the total - 17 votes. Dogpile used metasearch for searching. Dogpile search engine have the most recent search feature that displays at the right hand side of the webpage. This is to let users to navigate back to the recent searches. Other than that Dogpile search engine also provide the advanced search which refine the search. Advanced search give the option to narrow the search by exact word phrases, language filters, date, domain filters, or adult filters. This also have the option to set the search preferences with the ability to customize the Dogpile default search setting.

Bing on the other hand have an interactive interface features which includes a daily changing of the background image. Some of the background image contains information about the element shown in the image. Bing also provide a navigation panel. The navigation include and, on results pages, related searches and prior searches. For media, Bing provide the video thumbnail Preview where hovering over a video thumbnail, the video will start playing automatically

reference

Grey R.Notess, Notess.com , [online], 1999

http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/features/yahoo/review.html
Jaikumar Vijayan, Computerworld, [online], December 12 2007

http://www.pcworld.com/article/140491/askcom_allows_users_to_erase_search_queries.html

Metamend Software & Design Ltd, [online], 2010
http://www.metamend.com/dogpile-search-engine.html