Information Search

There are many Search engines such as yahoo, google and bing so on. The recent news is that these search engines are in competition each other and so on. How can we determine that a search engine is giving best search results?

google is better then others

I know that neurons contain Information and that the information can be ‘thought of’ when the neuron is excited via stimuli.
I also know that the neurons are stored in sub groups so that when they are excited, the strong pathways makes the thought process even quicker.

But how is that information stored in the neurons?

I’m no expert but perhaps it’s a complex version of an on/off switch that is present in computers. Perhaps each memory neuron gives off a distinctive pulse and these strung together with all the other neurons which make up that memory make, what we interpret as, ‘our’ memory.

Memory can deteriorate over time if not ‘remembered’ often. Perhaps a memory is like an equilibrium reaction involving the neurons that make up a memory and electricity. For a memory to be maintained the person has to remember the memory often thus making a fresh equilibrium reaction that will be a strong memory. So when the reaction has stabilized the memory is lost or dead perhaps? Or can only be accessed by a ‘jump-start’ type situation like hypnotherapy?

Nothing is more frustrating than spending hours on the Internet searching the free directories for a cell phone number, but there is a good reason why you can’t find what you are searching for. Most cell numbers are not in these directories because it costs money to get to the databases that have this information; therefore they simply don’t list them. When you search a directory that is meant for cell phone number search, you will have better luck.

There are several reasons why someone might find that they need to find out information about a cell phone number fast. Maybe you didn’t have your cell phone on you and you missed a call. Possibly you were waiting for an important call and are worried that the number belongs to the person you were expecting to call you. In this case a quick cell phone number search will let you know within minutes if the call was important or not.

Another situation where you may find a cell phone number search useful is if you have been searching for someone for a long time, but with no luck. Many people today use cell phones instead of the traditional landline, but you would never find information about them in a traditional directory. This is why a service that specializes in cell phone number search would be your best bet for finding out if they have a cell number.

An additional use for the cell phone number search is those instances where someone jots down their number on a piece of paper, and gives it to you so that you can call, but you lose it. Now you have to try and find out what that person’s cell phone number is before you can call. This is easy when you use a cell phone number Search.

You don’t have to wait around and hope that they call you, or admit that you lost the number, all you have to do is a cell phone number search. and all the information you need will be right at your fingertips, including their name, phone number, and even their address and cell phone service provider.

Never again will you have to spend hours on the Internet searching for Information on a cell phone number without getting results. No matter what you need the information for; you can find it with a cell phone number search directory. Many of the phone directories available online are nearly useless when it comes to finding a cell phone number. You have to look on a cell phone directory.

A cell phone number search is easy, and only takes a few moments.

Ruth
http://www.articlesbase.com/cell-phones-articles/a-fast-cell-phone-number-search-697631.html

This article is a follow-up to my last entry about search engine optimization (or SEO), which you can find here on Articlesbase. While the first article provided a broad overview of what SEO is and how it can help you market your business, this one is meant to provide a more detailed outline of how the process works and some of the tasks you should perform in order to optimize a site. My intended audience for this article is web design firms and marketing companies who are looking to break into the world of SEO, but need a primer to help them get started.

 

Getting Started

 

There is one key piece of information to keep in mind throughout the entire optimization process, and it can be said like this: Search engines have one goal, and that is to return the most relevant results for any given search query. SEO is essentially the process of ensuring that those search engines understand that your site or your client’s site is, in fact, a good, relevant result for certain queries. For example, if you or your client owns a coffee shop in Philadelphia, then their website is absolutely a relevant result for the query “Philadelphia coffee shops”. However, the search engine algorithms can’t determine the relevance of a given page on their own if the site isn’t properly optimized. Let’s take a look at the key steps that are involved in optimizing a site, thus allowing the search engines to realize, “oh! This is a very relevant result for the query I was given”.

 

Choosing Your Primary Keywords and Phrases

 

Choosing the primary keywords and phrases which you will be optimizing for is one of the most important pieces of SEO. You need to find what I call a “middleground” keyword – something that’s not so broad that it’s useless to optimize for, but not so specific that no one is searching for it.

 

Consider a client who asks you to optimize for the phrase “real estate”. With very few exceptions, this is a perfect example of a keyword that is simply too broad to be worthwhile. Anyone searching for “real estate” will immediately realize that they need to refine their search beyond such a broad term. For example – are they looking to buy real estate, sell it, invest in it, or find a real estate agent? And are they looking for commercial properties or residential properties? To buy or to rent?

 

It should be immediately clear that optimizing for such a broad term is almost always a wasted effort. Not only because the optimization process itself will be excessively difficult, but because, more than likely, the traffic generated will not result in any sales ( “conversions”).

 

Now, let’s assume your client is ABC Real Estate in Bala Cynwd, PA, and they are residential real estate agents specializing in the Philadelphia market. They might ask you to optimize for “ABC Real Estate Bala Cynwd”. This is an example of a keyword that’s incredibly simple to optimize for (I probably wouldn’t even call it “optimization” since there is only one ABC Real Estate in Bala Cynwd, pretty much guaranteeing you the #1 result), but this keyword is almost useless for driving new traffic to the site. People searching for the company name already know about the company and probably know what the company does. You want to drive traffic from people who are searching for a product or service the company offers, even when the potential customer doesn’t know about the company yet.

 

“Homes for sale in Philadelphia” is a keyword to think about in this instance. We know from this query that the person performing the search is looking for homes for sale in Philadelphia. Our client is prepared to provide not only home search capability, but real estate agents who are willing to help the searcher in their quest for a new home. This is the kind of traffic you want to drive to the site. You should choose 2-3 similar keyword phrases to serve as the primary search goals. It’s important to note that your site will not be locked into appearing for only those phrases, if you perform the optimization correctly. Now, let’s take a look at how you actually go about doing that.

 

Site Structure

 

The first thing to look at when tasked with optimizing a site is the structure of the site itself – the HTML code, the URL/link structure, and the title and meta tags. If the site doesn’t exist yet, but you will need it to be optimized once it’s built, this section still very much applies, so read on.

 

Navigation

 

One of the most common problems I see with poorly-optimized sites is a navigation system that is effectively invisible to search engines. Oftentimes, the main navigation was created with javascript or flash, and no alternative sitemap or links are provided. While search engines such as Google are getting much better at identifying links embedded in javascript and flash, it is still a much better idea to provide a plain HTML/CSS based navigation system. You can do this without sacrificing any of the javascript or flash functionality or changing the user experience at all, so there is no reason not to do it. If your navigation is javascript based, make sure you are using a “pure CSS” menuing system, meaning that you can code your navigation as if it were a normal

or based menu, but the script will transform these tags into javascript-powered dropdown menus. Some of the menuing systems we use at Context are: Superfish, OpenCube, and SmartMenu. If your navigation is flash based, you can use a dynamic flash publishing script (see swfobject) that will transparently replace the HTML-based navigation with your flash element. In both of these cases, the search engines will see the original HTML and CSS based navigation elements, which are much easier to traverse and index than their javascript or flash-based counterparts.

 

A Note about flash based sites

If your site is done completely in flash, you may want to re-think your design, instead using flash for a header, footer, and/or borders, but leaving the main content as HTML and CSS. Otherwise, I recommend essentially building two full versions of the site – one in HTML and one in Flash.  As I mentioned above, Search engines are becoming much more effective at indexing flash pages, but you are still doing yourself a disservice in terms of SEO if your site is 100% flash based. Also, completely flash driven sites can often degrade user experience, but that’s a topic for another article.

URL Structure

Now let’s talk about URLs. Search engines like very clean URLs, the kind you see at the top of this (or any Wordpress-based) blog. Even if your site is driven by dynamic content, you will want to rewrite your URLs to look like static pages. For example, rather than having /product-view.php?fromcat=5&id=32, you will want a url that looks more like /products/32/this-is-the-product-name.html. Not only is the actual URL part of what search engines look at when determine what a page might be about (which is why we include the product name), they also have a much easier time indexing static URLs as opposed to complicated dynamic URLs with a string of variables at the end.  There are many ways to accomplish the rewriting, and it’s usually not very difficult. The easiest way is to use Apache’s mod_rewrite module, which lets you transparently redirect one URL to another, while the visitor only sees the original. If you are using ASP.net on IIS, there is an excellent rewrite module for IIS6, and IIS7 has built-in rewriting capabilities. Finally, development frameworks such as Fuse for PHP or Ruby on Rails have extensive “routing” functionality which allows very fine grained control over the URL structure.

Title and Meta Tags

The and description tags are very important in SEO. These tags are your first chance to explain to a search engine what your site is all about, and you should follow some guidelines when generating these tags:

1. The title and meta description tags should include your primary keywords and phrases, but only once. Don’t repeat “Philadelphia coffee shop” five times in the title tag, because the search engines will penalize the site for keyword stuffing.
2. While there are no strict rules on length,  the title tag should be no longer 60-80 characters, the meta tag around 200 maximum.
3. The title and meta tags need to be different for every page. Even if the title or meta description tags for some pages don’t actually include your primary search phrases (and they don’t have to), they should be clear and relevant to every individual page.

Content

It is a common SEO adage that “content is king”, and although the SEO process has gotten a bit more complex over the years, it is still largely true.

Your site should contain as much useful, unique content as possible. Simply plastering bits of text all over the site won’t do you much good, but the best thing you can do to optimize a site is to provide high quality content that people actually want to see or read. Developing such content can be tricky, but here are some basic guidelines:

1. Every page should have at least two paragraphs of relevant content. There are some exceptions here because some pages simply don’t require any text, but you should try to work in as much high quality, relevant (remember: HIGH QUALITY and RELEVANT) textual content as possible.
2. Don’t rely exclusively on bulleted lists. Bulleted lists are fine and won’t hurt your positioning, but they should be augmented by rich prose, since larger bodies of text will net you the most gains in terms of SEO.
3. Include your targeted search keywords and phrases in the content, but don’t “stuff” keywords by repeating them more times than is reasonable. There is a balancing act to be performed here, but as a general rule, I try not to include the same keyword or phrase more than once per two paragraphs. There are plenty of exceptions, however, so it’s something that you have to develop a knack for after some trial and error.
4. Your home page is the holy grail of content for your site. Every single website only gets one home page, so the content there is weighed very heavily by search engines. Make sure your home page content is of a decent length (at least 2 paragraphs), contains your primary keywords and phrases (gracefully – don’t keyword stuff), and is well written and relevant.
5. Include as much content on as many different pages as you can. Remember, though: high quality and relevant. Don’t create pages for the sake of having more pages – think about Information that will be relevant to your potential customers and provide it through your website. For example, if you are optimizing for a coffee shop in Philadelphia, a page dedicated to how to identify & choose the best coffee beans might be a great resource. Oftentimes, you will be surprised and unable to predict some of the keywords and phrases that drive people to your site, but these relevant “landing pages” ensure that you can pick up good traffic that you weren’t necessarily expecting.

Inbound Link Building

Another essential piece of the SEO puzzle is getting other sites to link back to yours. There are several ways to do this, but also some pitfalls to avoid.

1. Directory submission – this is the process of simply adding your site to online directories that list and link to external sites. There are a few important things to remember when submitting your site to directories, however:
   
   • There are a lot of good free directories that do not require a reciprocal link. Don’t get caught up paying for every submission (though there are some directories that are worth paying for).
   • Make sure that the directory itself is in good standing with Google. You will want to check its Page Rank (Google’s 1/10 score of the importance of a site). The easiest way to check page rank is to install the Google Toolbar
     
   • Make sure the directory links directly to your site and doesn’t first go to a tracking page. If the link is not direct, it is essentially useless.
   • Try to find directories that allow you to specify the anchor text – the text that people will be clicking on to get to your site. Make the anchor text one of your primary keyword phrases, e.g. the words “Philadelphia coffee shop” should link to philacoffeeshopsite.com.

2. Press release distribution – Your client should have press releases that outline the current happenings at their company. These should be posted as text (instead of or in addition to PDF) format both on the website, but also on aggregate press release sites that allow you to submit your own press release. You should also include links back to your site directly in the press release
3. Social Networking & web 2.0 – There are many sites available that allow you to post your own business profiles on the web. Hotfrog and Merchantcircle are good examples of such sites, and I recommend adding a listing there for any site you are optimizing. Additionally, if you have interesting, relevant content to share with the public, consider posting it to aggregate sites such as Digg

Conclusion

Hopefully this article provided insight into the SEO process, and can act as a “getting started” primer for companies who are looking to expand their services offerings. I do not recommend that business owners attempt to optimize their own site, because you will not get the results you expect, and your time is better spent running the business. Hire a competent SEO company instead, and work with them to position your site for ideal keywords and phrases.

Jim Keller
http://www.articlesbase.com/online-promotion-articles/how-to-search-engine-optimize-seo-a-website-736210.html

Are you looking for important divorce records on yourself or someone else? Perhaps you want to verify that your future spouse is really divorced from a previous marriage or maybe you are trying to check up on the identity of someone. Whatever the reasons you want to find divorce records, you can do so instantly online.

Divorce records are public information making them easily obtainable through public databases online. You can search from the ease and comfort of your own home by using your home computer. It’s quick, it’s efficient and it’s accurate. Any member of the public with access to the Internet can search for divorce records of someone else.

Free databases make it possible to do these searches without spending even a dime so don’t let money hold you back. If you want to check up on someone, validate an identity or past from someone you know or even get your own divorce records without going through a lot of red tape, you can do so instantly online.

Technology such as the Internet has now made many things easier for ordinary people like you and me. Web searches make it faster than ever to find important information you’re looking for but you may not have known that you can use it to search for public records such as marriage, divorce and death records.

In the past, searches of this type may have taken days to complete. You probably would have had to go into the office where the records are kept and you may have needed to provide information about why you wanted the records.

Today, it’s much simpler and you don’t have to reveal yourself or why you want the records so you have complete confidentiality when you search for these divorce records online. Searches that could have taken days or even weeks before can now be done in a matter of minutes. You could have your results almost immediately with an online search.

The statistics speak for themselves when you look at the many people and organizations that are turning to online divorce record searches. There are millions of records found in the databases and you can begin your search immediately. If you need to search for multiple records, this is also easier than ever before. You can perform multiple searches from the same records search database.

Good divorce record databases have taken the steps to make the query simple and effective. It should be easy enough that even someone without a lot of computer knowledge and experience can figure it out. You don’t want to spend all day trying to sort out how to navigate their website or input your search details.

Typically, Searches can be performed using name, city, zip code or state. This allows you more customization and the ability to filter out the results. If you have the proper Information, you could narrow your search by quite a bit. There are many different reasons for searching for divorce records. The most important thing is to learn how and when to get the records you want.

Rose Quadee
http://www.articlesbase.com/divorce-articles/search-divorce-records-instantly-online-707303.html

I hadn’t seen Dave in almost 20 years. He was my dentist when we moved to Boca Raton in the early 1980s. He continued to take care of K and the kids after we moved to Delray Beach 10 years later, but I opted for dental care closer to home.

Dave contacted me when he discovered that I was the man behind the “Michael Masterson” pen name. He’d been receiving ETR for a while and liking it. One day, he went to the website and saw my photo. “I know that guy!” he thought. So he got my e-mail address from K. “How about lunch?” he wrote. “I’ve got a bunch of things I need to ask you.”

Several weeks later, we were eating chopped chicken salads at City Oyster on Atlantic Avenue. Dave seemed nervous. It was as if he was intimidated by the Michael Masterson persona. I did my best to assure him I was the same person who used to wince in pain when he cleaned my teeth. We talked a bit about family news, but it was clear he had something else on his mind.

On his mind was a decision he was trying to make: Should he spend $100,000 on the highest level of an Internet marketing program he had been looking at?

“I’ve been studying their stuff,” he told me. “It’s really good. But I’m not sure it makes sense for me to invest that kind of money.”

“A hundred grand is a lot of money,” I said. I felt like Sam Spade talking to Gutman about the price of the Maltese Falcon.

“But you get an awful lot for your money,” Dave explained. “They do all the technical stuff for you, which I’m not very good at. All I’d have to do is come up with the ideas.”

“Well,” I said, practicing my best Sam Spade drawl, “what ideas do you have?”

In fact, Dave didn’t have a single one. “All I know is that I am in the wrong business,” he said. “I took this self-test online – and I found out I’m in the worst business in the world for me.”

At nearly 50 years of age, Dave had just concluded that his entire career had been a waste. “I wanted to be a dentist since I was eight years old,” he told me. “If I had known then what a bad business it was for me, I would have done something else.”

“Like what?” I asked.

“Like what you do,” he said. He was smiling, but he looked serious.

“Look,” I told him. “My business is a great business - but I don’t think you should conclude that your life has been wasted simply because you took some pop quiz that was probably designed to sell you something.”

“But it was right,” he insisted. “It proved something I had always known but was afraid to admit.”

The waitress filled our drinks. We ate in silence for a while.

“So what I’m thinking is that, since I’m not into the technical stuff, this Internet marketing program would be very good for me.”

“How much time have you invested in learning about Internet marketing?” I asked.

“About three years,” he answered.

And how many information products on the subject have you bought in that three-year period?” I asked.

Dave laughed. “I can’t even count that high,” he said.

“How much money have you spent?”

“Tens of thousands. Probably more.”

“And yet, you haven’t actually started an Internet marketing business,” I said.

He nodded, then rattled off the names of every Internet marketing program he’d bought – all the ones that I knew and dozens of others I had never heard of.

“That’s a lot of buying,” I told him.

“Tell me about it,” he said.

Dave explained that when he reads an advertising promotion pitching a new Internet marketing product, he is “totally taken in by it,” even though he realizes he is just reading “a sales pitch.”

“But even though I know that I’m being seduced by a professional wordsmith, I can’t stop myself from buying.”

“I hear you,” I said. “You are an information junkie.”

“You think?”

“I do.”

“What about you?” he said. “I read that you read a lot of informational books – about one every week.”

“I do,” I said, “but I’m not an information junkie. I’m an information user.”

“So what’s the difference?”

I explained that the difference is huge. An information junkie is addicted to the process of buying information. Although he may delude himself into thinking otherwise, he has no intention of ever using the information he buys. An information user is very practical about his purchases. He buys information for specific, pragmatic purposes. He uses the information he buys to achieve specific goals – to start or grow a business, to learn a new language, to improve his negotiating skills.

An information junkie is happiest at the moment he is buying the information. His enthusiasm soon wanes, however. Within hours or days of receiving it, the information junkie is on to other things. The new product goes up on the shelf with the old products. He’s excited about the next new one.

An information user makes progress. See him reading a book about nutrition, and there’s a very good chance (if he likes the book) that his eating habits will change in the immediate future. The information junkie, in contrast, may have 26 books about nutrition in his living room. He may have even read them all – while he was lying on the couch eating potato chips.

An information user is someone who consumes information to profit from it. If he invests $100 in learning about some subject, he expects to see a substantial return on that investment – perhaps a thousand dollars’ worth of value, material or spiritual. An information junkie consumes information like drugs or candy bars. It gives him an immediate rush and then nothing afterward. That’s why he needs to buy more.

The information user has long-term expectations when it comes to knowledge. He believes the knowledge he acquires now will compound over time as he learns more and is in a better position to leverage what he has learned for greater benefit. The information junkie is in it for the here-and-now. He doesn’t believe in saving. He’s always on to the next hot thing.

What about you? Are you an information junkie? Take this test and see…

1. In the past year, I’ve purchased more than 12 books that I haven’t read. (If your answer is Yes, give yourself 2 points.)

2. In the past year, I’ve purchased:

• Only information products that I have used. (Yes = 1 point)
• Between 1 and 3 $100 information products that I haven’t used. (Yes = 2 points)
• Between 3 and 5 $100 information products that I haven’t used. (Yes = 3 points)
• More than 5 $100 Information products that I haven’t used. (Yes = 5 points)

3. In the past year, I’ve purchased at least one $1,000 information product that I didn’t use. (Yes = 5 points)

4. I am most excited about the information that I buy:

• When I am ordering it. (Yes = 3 points)
• When I receive it. (Yes = 2 points)
• When I begin using it. (Yes = 1 point)

5. When I read a book, I feel compelled to read it from cover to cover. (Yes = 2 points)

6. I generally take notes when I read something. (Yes = 1 point, No = 2 points)

Well… how did you score?

If you scored 8 or above, you are indeed an information junkie. You might think the good people at ETR would like that (since they are in the business of selling information). But they don’t. The people at ETR know that their business will grow most strongly if they develop a customer base of information users rather than junkies. That’s because information users benefit from the knowledge they buy. This means they are more discriminating (which favors ETR’s products, since they are some of the best in the business), they buy more products in the long run, and they request fewer refunds.

If you are an information junkie, don’t despair. You can convert yourself into an information user simply by following two rules:

1. When you buy an information product, set specific deadlines for reading it and implementing what you learn. For instance, set a goal that you will take one of its recommended actions within 24 hours of receiving the product. Then resolve to take at least one more recommended action each week thereafter.

2. Don’t buy another product until you have made some progress with the one you previously purchased.

That’s all there is to it. Obey these two rules and you’ll not only break your addiction, you will radically improve your life.

[Ed. Note: At ETR, we've got dozens of top-notch products that can help you build your wealth, create a business, and lead a fuller, more satisfying life. But unless you put the information in them into action, they won't do you any good. So, please, take a look at what we have to offer... but buy only when you are ready to put our recommendations to work.]

Michael Masterson

Michael Masterson has developed a loyal following through his writings in Early to Rise , an e-newsletter published by Agora, Inc. that mentors more than 250,000 success-oriented individuals to help them achieve their financial goals.

EarlyToRise
http://www.articlesbase.com/addictions-articles/information-junkies-537105.html

I have 2 small kids so I wanted to see where the destinations we can go. What are websites I can Search to see what destinations I can go using nonstop flight from Oklahoma? Web sites I’ve used require destination. I want to leave it open. Any tricks? Thanks a lot.

Check out Wikipedia for the airport you want to fly out of, they list the airlines and destinations they fly to on most of the aiports they have a website for, here’s the one for Will Rogers Airport in Ok. City:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Rogers_World_Airport

I have been working on a book, and need information regarding grants to help get it published. Most of the information I find in Search engines leads me to scams and pop-ups. Most of the writing contests are for poetry. Although I am having such a hard time finding this Information I’m sure there is some one out there who has published something, or is trying to now that can send me in a better direction than I’m going.

It is hard to find grants to start a business, write a book or for other personal purposes. Unlike the myths that some perpetuate, federal government and even private foundations hardly give grant money for a for-profit business. And yes, grants mean PAPERWORK – lots and lots of it, that is why a cottage industry of grant writers was born.

Nonetheless, you can go to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) http://www.cfda.gov and Grants.gov http://www.grants.gov – these are two sites created by the federal government to provide transparency and information on grants. Browse through the listings and see if you can find any grant that would support a for-profit venture.

Even if you buy books on "how to get grants" or list that supposedly has information on grants — all of them are mere rehash of what CFDA has, albeit packaged differently. But still the info is the same – hardly any grants for starting a for profit business.

Most of the federal grants are given to specific target groups with specific requirements (e.g. minority business owners involved in transportation related contracts emanating from DOT – Grant#20.905 Disadvantaged Business Enterprises Short Term Lending Program

Grants are also often given to non profit groups or organizations involved in training or other similar activities (grant 59.043 Women’s Business Ownership Assistance that are given to those who will create women’s business center that will train women entrepreneurs

Your best bet is for private grants. There may be private foundations willing to support authors. For private grants, you may want to check the Foundation Center’s Foundation Grants for Individuals Online. It’s a subscription based website ($9.95 per month) but their opening blurb only says that the database is ideal for "students, artists, academic researchers, libraries and financial aid offices."

How can I set the yahoo mail search to include mails from previous years?
Even I specify the mail Search to include mails from previous years and in all folders, only the mails in the current year is being included in the search result.
Please advise!

Thanks.

I think this may already be a glitch in your account, in which the true mail messages are not synchronized with the search results coming up. For that you need to contact Yahoo! Customer Care: if you have a Mail Plus subscription, call them at their Tech Support line, but if you don’t fill out a feedback form with all the details of your concern here: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/classic/help_f.html;_ylt=An0jg7UFuGW7T8Bi8_pUyRE8wCV4?from_url=http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/classic/.

We have received your tax return and it is being reviewed. You will receive a notice from us requesting additional information from you. When you receive the notice, please provide the requested information within 30 days. You may not receive all or a part of your refund until we receive and review the Information we requested from you. If you need more information after you receive our notice, call the number on the notice.
OK – I dont think I did anything wrong – but what if I did not knowing? I efiled for the first time this year by myself.

Perhaps you claimed an unusual amount of charitable deductions. This year you need written proof (receipts), not just a list you make up.