It’s estimated that trade through our nation’s ports will triple over the next 20 years. And with an eye to that prediction the Federal Government is launching its National Ports Strategy later today aimed at boosting productivity and eliminating the bottlenecks that held back the last commodities boom.

The Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese will unveil the plan in Perth.

I do remember  quite earlier seeing this feature in yahoo search instant but then this was introduced in google search also quite earlier even though  Google made a announcement just recently. Google instant will be of use to normal people like us who do search on popular search engines  , but possibly more useful  for commercial purposes and paid search.

What next after instant google .. google Now !!

Its like instant now  , just like twitter and facebook

So what has google instant to ofer you , well its pop s up search options as you tye  helping you to become a more lazy searcher and spoon fed if that is hat you like . some people will call it convenience  and rightly  so for some

Here are some snapshots of google instant while i am doing a search  for google china , google australia and google UK

Lets  watch some google instant in action

Google australia

Google china

Google instant

Google UK

As per google.com

Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as you type. We are pushing the limits of our technology and infrastructure to help you get better search results, faster. Our key technical insight was that people type slowly, but read quickly, typically taking 300 milliseconds between keystrokes, but only 30 milliseconds (a tenth of the time!) to glance at another part of the page. This means that you can scan a results page while you type.

more here : http://www.google.com/instant/#utm_campaign=launch&utm_medium=van&utm_source=instant

Ref:

http://www.googleaustralia.com.au/

http://www.mygoogle-baidu.com/

http://www.search-google.co.uk/

http://www.google.com/instant/

The google instant search You tube video

Seperate Versionfeatures for Google adwords keywords Australian tool

Yesterday i  just discovered that the aussie’s are not getting as much as seo  worth as the Americans are . I was quite intrigued when i found out that the  australian version of the  Google keywords  tool is a little bit different  from the American version.

I got snapshots of both of them here

American version google adwords keywords tool

Want more keyword ideas? Try the Search-Based Keyword Tool, a new tool that will generate ideas that are matched to your website.

Australian version  google adwords keywords tool

This is quite weird that the Australian google adwords keyword tool version does not get these extra columns and opportunity to do a bit of extra SEO  like the American google keyword url provide . It does seem a bit unfair. If you look at  left side first column( how would you like to generate keyword ideas) you can see the Australian version has the second option missing

( Website content
(e.g. www.example.co.uk/product?id=74893)

This can be used to see the keywords for a competitor based on what google keywords sees on their pages and this can be quite useful. In the meanwhile those who want to make use of this feature can access the American  Google ad words keyword url from here http://snurl.com/tbjyd

As of 2009-10-22, all AdWords API v13 services except AccountService, ReportService, and TrafficEstimatorService are deprecated. Please use AdWords API v2009 instead

Article by naked seo ( http://nakedseo.blogspot.com/2010/01/us-version-vs-australian-version-of.html)

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Dan Brown’s novels The Lost Symbol,

Brown had said that writing the new novel was "a strange and wonderful journey".

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The storyline has still been kept under wraps for Dan browns new novel “The lost symbol”, but it is believed to focus on freemasonry, with the lost symbol of the title a reference to a ciphered pictogram in an ancient book called The Key of Solomon

The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons are filled with conspiracy. But how much of it is based on fact?

The Lost Symbol, the new book by Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons author Dan Brown, takes us once again into a world of shadowy cabals, hidden messages and secret conspiracies. 

They are works of fiction, but Brown tells us they are based on fact: "All organisations in this novel exist,” says a foreword to The Last Symbol, "including the Freemasons, the Invisible College, the Office of Security, the SMSC, and the Institute of Noetic Sciences”. Similarly, at the beginning of The Da Vinci Code, we learn that The Priory of Sion is a real secret society founded in 1099.

Dan Brown’s new novel ‘The Last Symbol’ will be launching a series of puzzles, codes, and teasers on social networking sites like Facebook, as a part of their promotional campaign.

The publishers have also revealed six million copies of the book will be printed on its first run, reports the BBC.

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What Are the Good Bit Torrent Search Engines?

I came across an awful “top torrent site” list yesterday so I decided to make my own. So Here it is, TorrentFreak’s one and only top torrent sites + firefox search plugins,

"What Are the Five Best Torrent Search Engines?"

Answer: As of August 4, 2009, the 5 best bit torrent search engine sites are listed below. This list is compiled from reader votes, and voted on each week by a small panel of torrent download users. This list is assembled from hundreds of reader email suggestions.

1. Torrentz

Alexa Rank: 1492

2. Mininova

Alexa Rank: 290

3. ThePirateBay

Alexa Rank: 427

4. Demonoid (private)

Alexa Rank: 470

5. Isohunt

Alexa Rank: 720

6. Meganova

Alexa Rank: 8970

7. BiteNova

Alexa Rank: 11558

8. BitTorrent

Alexa Rank: 1468

9. Torrentbox

Alexa Rank: 4360

10. TorrentReactor

Alexa Rank: 9103

There is a breadth of criteria used to evaluate these torrent sites: size of database, database currency, ease of use and searching, speed of access, general integrity of files, information provided about the files, information provided on the torrent P2P community, price of membership, readers’ comments, and readers’ ability to provide feedback on each other.

Bittorrent continues to be the most popular method for file sharing on the internet. However since suprnova torrents was bought down by the RIAA, a very popular aggregator of torrents for p2p file sharing came down. Right now, you can download torrents using clients such asKazaa, emule and Bit Tornado. However, these do not have a vast search base which is where abittorrent search engine comes in.

Isohunt.com
(In a shocking turn of the tables this September, the Isohunt webmaster is counter-suing the Canadian music industry. He is claiming that previous copyright violation suits against him were unfounded, and that he is entitled to have his legal expenses recovered. Read the entire story at www.isohunt.com)

How exactly does BitTorrent Sharing work?
Answer: Torrent sharing is about "swarming and tracking", where users download many small bits from many different sources at once. Because this format compensates for bottleneck points, it is actually faster than downloading a large file from a single source.

• “Swarming” is about splitting large files into hundreds of smaller “bits”, and then sharing those bits across a “swarm” of dozens of linked users.
• “Tracking” is when specific servers help swarm users find each other.
• Swarm members use special Torrent client software to upload, download, and reconstruct the many file bits into complete usable files.
• Special .torrent text files act as pointers during this whole process, helping users find other users to swarm with, and enforcing quality control on all shared files.

Demonoid

Demonoid is the benchmark private torrent site. All other private P2P communities compare themselves to Demonoid, and even with the massive competition, Demonoid still remains a top site in the eyes of downloaders everywhere. If you successfully get a registered membership at Demonoid, do not abuse it. Thousands of people are happy to take your spot if you do not share files and maintain your requisite ratio.

http://www.demonoid.com/

The Pirate Bay

News Flash, April 18, 2009: the Stockholm district court has sentenced the four Pirate Bay founders to a year in prison, and over $USD 3.5 million in fines. This is as punishment for violating their country’s copyright laws. More on this shocking court ruling here…

http://thepiratebay.org/

What exactly is "Bittorrent" sharing?
Answer: Bittorrent networking is the most popular form of P2P (peer-to-peer) file sharing. Since 2006, Bittorrent sharing has been the means of choice for users to trade software, music, movies, and digital books online. Bittorrents are very unpopular with the MPAA, the RIAA, and other copyright authorities, but are much beloved by millions of college and university students around the planet.

Bittorrents (a term synonymous with "torrents") work by downloading small bits of files from many different web sources at the same time. Torrent downloading is extremely easy to use, and outside of a few torrent search providers, torrents themselves are free of user fees.
Torrent networking debuted in 2001. A Python-language programmer, Bram Cohen, created the technology with the intent to share it with everyone. And indeed, its popularity has taken off since 2005. The torrent community is now growing exponentially in 2007. Because torrents screen out dummy and corrupt files, are largely free of adware/spyware, and achieve amazing download speeds, torrent popularity is growing fast. By straight gigabytes of bandwidth used, bittorrent networking is the most popular activity on the Internet today.
How are torrents special? How is the torrent community different from Kazaa or Limewire?
Answer: Like the other file-sharing networks (Kazaa, Limewire, Gnutella, eDonkey, and Shareaza) BitTorrent’s primary purpose is to distribute large media files to private users.

It is a good idea to use a few different search facilities. In addition to the State Library’s subject directories.

General Search Engines

Search engines allow you to search for keywords in Internet sites. You can enter words relating to a topic – tell the search engine to search – and a list of (hopefully) related sites will be displayed. These are searchable databases of Internet files or pages collected by a computer program or piece of software – no humans are involved in selection and evaluation.

The software used to collect sites (known as crawlers, spiders, robots, worms and so on) vary in operation, as do the search methods employed by particular search engines. These variations produce a variety of search results.

An interesting thing about search engines is that they may index the full text of the sites they find. This means you can search for particular strings of words (such as a line of poetry) and the engine will find it wherever it appears in the document. The search is conducted on the search engines database (the sites collected together by the software) – not ‘live’ on the web.

Google is a good example of a search engine. It indexes an enormous number of sites and the way the search is constructed seems to produce relevant results much of the time. It also offers great flexibility in searching, using the ‘Advanced Search’. Most search engines, will allow you to choose a simple’ or ‘advanced’ search.

The Google Advanced Search page

In many cases the advanced search may be useful, allowing you to specify your results in a variety of ways – the Google advanced search, for example allows you to:

· Specify that all keywords appear somewhere in the document

· Specify an exact sequence of words

· Specify that any keywords appear

· Exclude words

· Specify where in the document your keywords appear

· Specify language

· Specify parts of the URL – and so on.

With all search engines and subject directories it pays to read the HELP screens (you will usually find a ‘HELP’ or ‘TIPS’ link somewhere on the search screen). There are many search engines – try a few and see which one you find most useful. It is worth noting that no search engine covers the entire Internet and that no two search engines cover all of the same sites. In fact there is often surprisingly little duplication, so it pays to use more than one. Some popular Search Engines are:

· Google www.google.com

· AltaVista www.altavista.com

· Northernlight www.northernlight.com

· HotBot www.hotbot.com

· Excite www.excite.com

· Anzwers www.anzwers.com.au

In general, a Subject Directory is good to use if you are looking for recommended sites on a particular topic, while search engines can be used when you want a specific site or phrase, or your topic is relatively narrow or somewhat obscure.

MetaSearch Engines

These search the search engines, so you effectively search the results of multiple search engines simultaneously. They report the number of hits from each of the sites and display the titles and search engine source of each item. The matching documents are listed in order of relevance. Some metasearch engines:

· Metacrawler (www.metacrawler.com) is a popular example

· Dogpile (www.dogpile.com)

· Ixquick (www.ixquick.com)

· Metaeureka (www.metaeureka.com)

The Deep/Invisible web

Refers to information stored in databases accessible on the web, but not necessarily found using search engines and subject directories. The ‘deep’ or ‘invisible’ refers to the fact that search engines do not necessarily locate information and words inside a database, therefore that information is invisible.

To find out more about the Invisible web, have a look at the following site. Searchability – (www.searchability.com) this is a list of guides (with descriptions) to thousands of search engines covering a huge number of subjects. You will also find this kind of resource in some subject directories – the State Library’s Netlinks for example.

WHAT IS ON THE INTERNET – EVALUATION

Think of something – any subject or topic – and the chances are that there are some websites on the topic. However, it is important to remember that the Internet and WWW is a relatively anarchic environment – nobody is in charge, there are no guarantees that what you find will be of any value whatsoever. It is a self-publishing medium – anybody can produce a site and put it on the Internet, nobody necessarily screens or evaluates the content, so it is a good idea to equip yourself with the means to evaluate the sites that you find in your searches.

There are many excellent sites concerned with the topic of evaluation. Many of them say basically the same thing in greater or lesser detail. Here is a synopsis of the work of academics concerned with the topic of evaluation (you will be able to access their sites from a link at the end of this handout). These are some of the main issues you should concern yourself with when evaluating a site.

· Accuracy – check against what you know, or against other resources

· Authority – are the people responsible for the content specialists on the topic

· Objectivity – is it pushing a particular point of view

· Currency – is it up to date

· Coverage – is it focused or general, comprehensive or selective

· Scope – what subject areas and time frames, how in-depth

· Organisation and design – is it easy to look at and use

· Purpose – why was the site constructed, for whom

· Quality – is it well written