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About a year and a few days ago when Yahoo and Microsoft announced a fusion in terms of search engines having the purpose of pulling down Google.

From an update on the blog of Yahoo!, it was broadcasted that starting this week in the United States and Canada, Yahoo! search engine will begin its transition and will begin showing off search results from Bing.

This contract will let Yahoo! revive its search engine by incorporating with it the more popular by Bing. This will also allow the search engine Redmond Giant to fuse with Yahoo! and raise its market share to 30% though about 65% still far controlled by Google. Nevertheless, this can only be made possible not until Bing has been implemented worldwide, which could probably last until 2012.

Only the search results will come from the index of Bing, while the interface, presentation and configuration, will absolutely stay unchanged and with the addition of the phrase "Powered by Bing" at the end of each search result. Apart from that, users can still enjoy Yahoo! tools like  search assistant, site filters, and many others.

In this clash of the search engines, we will see in time if this big fusion will hit a big impact to Google, an enormous contender we all know will never raise its while flag. In fact, Google continues to improve and revamp its search engine and just a few weeks ago Google Images interface was redecorated into something that Bing has been using for quite some time now.

Yahoo! Japan has acquired Cirius, a well-known enterprise under mobile advertising and is the company behind the ad network for mobile AdLocal.

The advertising company which kicked off in the United States last year, lets advertisers to target their ads based on the physical locality of the mobile phone users with the use of GPS, map coordinates and cellular identifications. In Japan, the company which is now six years old, says its ad policy has taken spots among various categories of local business advertisers.

Yahoo! has a 35% stake in its subsidiary in Japan. Financial terms of the contract were not unveiled but it was announced that its satellite office in California, along with their staff will be transferred to the main operations center in Japan since one of its goals is to increase its reputation in Japan with the help of AdLocal's credibility to approximately one billion mobile consumers in the country.

Japan has long started this trend of using marketing strategies using location based tools which without a doubt contributes a big impact in the Japanese market trend. The United States is also dedicating research and studies to adapt this kind of trend so as to introduce a new media in the advertising world.

In May 2009, the cyberspace was thrilled when Google had launched Google Wave as a tool to revolutionize the way people communicate.

The elation, though, lasted only for 14 months as Google announced that it will discontinue the service. One of the main reasons as assessed by analysts on why the service ended too soon is because it is too complicated. The fundamental design of the service is to allow association among different users via instant messages, documents, drawings, task lists, calendar and many more. But the service is not easy to appreciate and has proved to be confusing to several users who are comfortable to the plainness of other social networks.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that one of their policies is to try things out and they rejoice with their failures. However, some economic analysts do not believe in a similar way.

A few weeks ago when Google announced to the public its second-quarter revenue this year, advised that the company was too expanded and as a result it is losing ground in the search market.

And there are more potential justifications for the termination of Google Wave. The company is launching its computer operating system "Google Chrome OS" based on the same principle: "Our computer activities are conducted mainly within the browser and no longer on the desktop."

Simultaneously on the Internet, there are many buzz that the company might be working on a social network like Facebook called "Google Me."

This plan, according to speculations, could slot in elements of Wave and Google Buzz, the social platform mail service Gmail.

Social networking has yet to enjoy more glorious years in the World Wide Web as it has only been existing for about 7 years and was first formed by mistake after which it has turned into a lifestyle that is so popular in all sectors of media and in the lives of people around the world. In fact, a recent study by Nielsen shows that people are now spending more time on their Twitter, Facebook and other social media accounts as compared to before.

Before starting a social network, one has to understand the idea deeper, know the theory behind what they mean and understand the game rules.

Social networks were created first and foremost in the aim of exchanging messages, pictures and videos between groups of families and friends. Then eventually, it stretched out far further than the boundaries created as it is now used in all types of media, business and to gain new connections around the world via the Internet.

It is important to be aware and updated regarding the rules of social networking because it may entail serious consequences for the life a business, entity or an individual.

Advantages of Social Networking

With a simple website set up, it is very easy and convenient not only with getting in touch with the lives and relationships with families, friends and colleagues but also a great advantage for business enterprises to communicate with their target consumers. The social network serves as an excellent means of creating, increasing circles of friends, business connections and new friends with the existing groups of friends.

In competing in the marketplace, raise in sales and consumer loyalty are the chief objectives of any enterprise. For that reason, advertising sectors, whether internal or external, have always worked to get in touch, influence and remind consumers about their products, services, and/or brands. Nevertheless, over a period time, the typical brochures and advertisements have been replaced by tools which are now considered by most companies because they are cheaper and by the same token, effective.

Usually, experts have used many methods to make a product stand out from rivals in order to boost profits. As a result, the advertising campaigns organize a whole set of approaches ranging from the organization of events, to the direct sale of products and services at reasonable prices. However, other than conventional methods, there are now new tools that companies are using to reach customers. One of the most popular these days is the so-called digital marketing, online marketing o e- marketing.

Moreover, Web 2.0 tools are characterized in the social networks where users converse, reflect and criticize. This is where companies must be at hand to generate an active exchange of information. As an added tool, companies can make use of web analytics programs like Google Analytics, which presents an assessment of the visits, traffic sources, search terms or the conversations that happen around the brand. This makes it possible for companies to be familiar with the profile of their customers, their preferences, the productivity of the campaign, to determine most efficient marketing plan, and at the same time, allows experts to build up more effective features and better classify their advertising strategies.

Web 2.0 has established its online presence and it is undoubtedly well-known - from social networks and even to the most reputable companies. Websites looking to boost their online reputation now use Web 2.0 to promote their websites to all walks of life, make stronger consumer interaction and product recognition.

What is Web 2.0?

Web 2.0 is an Internet craze that uses interactive, user-based applications (such as wikis, blogs, web applications, and labels) to promote resourcefulness, trading of information among users and the mutual efforts between users. Fundamentally, any Internet based activity or an application that relies on consumers to aid the development of the business.

Web 2.0 is refurbishing the previous structure, the conventional way, permitting users to fuse with the content of the website thus creating a newtork active customers.It is also a great opportunity for websites to construct their online presence and above all, build a good reputation among customers. This is the solution to a successful business and website.

Sites like eBay and Facebook are by now using Web 2.0. Ebay uses a comprehensive feedback report, while Facebook uses several web applications. Millions of other sites are already using this new Web trend. Web 2.0 makes use of applications to websites to connect to their customers.

Intriguingly, the most common recommendation in creating a successful blog is to write quality content, but how many of us really know what quality content means? Essentially, quality content is all that a visitor will find helpful, attention-grabbing or even amusing. Quality content is something that people would want to spend time reading.

Here are some specific tips you can follow to achieve a quality article:

1. Always keep in mind that the content must be appropriate to the subject matter of your website. Never lose your audience focus.
2. Explain to your readers something they do not know.
3. Create original content.
4. Supply answers to questions people have by providing practical information such as tips or guides on how to do something or do reviews of products related to your website.

The quality content puts in worth to the site as well as it gives your visitors a reason to come back. It also gives further value to our products, teach consumers on how to take full benefit of them, give them appropriate care and give information about their features and functionalities.

The content helps you build an online character and makes the site a source of information about a specific issue in question. Reflect on your own understanding. Definitely, most of us have a series of blogs which probably we have subscribed to. We visit the site often because we feel that what they published is valuable for us. That's what we mean by quality content. It is the ideal tool to achieve better search engine optimization, while delivering quality visitors.

No doubt that the social networks take a considerable amount of percentage in reference to the overall time people spend in front of a computer. Whether in the office, at university or at home, people always find time log on to their social networks like Twitter and check some photos and update status on Facebook or by watching videos on YouTube. It has been confirmed that nearly 80% of Internet users use social networks on a regular basis to be in touch with family and friends and shared in real time other information, comments or opinions.

The market research firm Nielsen explained this study further. According to Nielsen, 22% of the time spent on the Internet in a month falls under the social networks category which is equivalent to 110 billion minutes online. The company also claims that this is the first time that three quarters of users around the world use the social networks to communicate with friends or to read blogs.

The most popular and most visited social networks are led by Facebook and YouTube. And with Facebook network's nearly 500 million registered users means spending an average of six hours, while YouTube recently recorded an average of 13 billion videos being viewed in a month.

Almost every search portal has an option, aside from text contents to search for photos and images. This search option may attract a significant amount of traffic to our websites if we know how to make the images on our websites SEO-friendly. Statistics show that image searches from search engines take up the 20% of the total searches all over the web.

The search engine spiders also popularly known as crawlers are the ones responsible for indexing our websites, however, crawlers have now way to determine the importance or relevance of an image with just the photo alone. That's how the "ALT" attributes on the HTML code of your website comes into importance. This tag serves to explain and describes to the spiders the significance of the photos to the website, therefore giving greater emphasis to our content.

Here are a few tips from toprankblog on how to effectively optimize images:

1. Choose the appropriate images.
2. Incorporate the keyword in the file name of the photo.
3. Make sure the description placed as the "ALT" text is unique and descriptive.
4. Use the right anchor text.
5. Match the images with the content.
6. Do not stuff too many keywords on the "ALT" attribute as it might put you into trouble with search engines.

Though the effect of image optimization is not extremely important as compared to other strategies but as we keep on saying, every single technique helps in getting a good amount of visitors whether through image searches, standard searches and the social media.

There is yet again another overwhelming and record breaking data with regard to the number of tweets Twitter sends out monthly. The first major figure was presented in December 2009, with a billion of tweets per month, reaching that figure for the first time. And last May, a new record was confirmed: 2 whopping billion tweets a month.

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The consistent growing rate of tweets being sent out each month is an impressive thing people in the online world should all be aware of as it carries a lot of good news especially to people under the business sector who use social media as one of their marketing strategies. More tweets, means more chances for businesses to be talked about and retweeted by users. For the ordinary people who use Twitter for their personal stuff, could mean more spam, but on the lighter side, it only proves that the convenience of communication is becoming even closer and closer to our reach.

Anyway, Twitter has always been very hardworking when it comes to ensuring the quality tweets populating all over popular social networking platform. So, rest assured that in the following days to come, a bigger and better Twitter awaits us.