Now I am sure you got the idea of what is SSL and encryption. So, if you concern about security then Google have now added SSL encryption to their search engine https://www.google.com.

Using https://www.google.com, a very secure connection is created between Google and your browser. This secure connection between you and Google make sure the protection of your search terms and search results pages from being intercepted by a third party on your network. A modified logo as given above helps you to indicate that your are searching via a secure connection.

Its a beta version. So, it only covers the core web search product, I mean you wont be able to see the links of image search, books search, and news search etc, as they do not support SSL at this time. Also, as the SSL connection requires additional time to create the connection between your browser and Google, you will experience searching a bit slower than regular Google Search but, the search results will be the same.

It will not be that slow as searching over SSL dosent reduce the data sent time to Google, it only hides the data from third parties. So, if you care about security more, then you should start using Google with SSL. Personally, I like Google and their products like I am anxiously waiting for their Google Chrome OS.

Here’s how searching over SSL is different from regular Google (In their own words) :

• SSL encrypts the communication channel between Google and a searcher’s computer. When search traffic is encrypted, it can’t be read by third parties trying to access the connection between a searcher’s computer and Google’s servers. Note that the SSL protocol does have some limitations — more details are below.
• As another layer of privacy, SSL search turns off a browser’s referrers. Web browsers typically turn off referrers when going from HTTPS to HTTP mode to provide extra privacy. By clicking on a search result that takes you to an HTTP site, you could disable any customizations that the website provides based on the referrer information.
• At this time, search over SSL is supported only on Google web search. We will continue to work to support other products like Images and Maps. All features that are not supported have been removed from the left panel and the row of links at the top. You’ll continue to see integrated results like images and maps, and clicking those results will take you out of encrypted search mode.
• Your Google experience using SSL search might be slightly slower than you’re used to because your computer needs to first establish a secure connection with Google.

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HP is one company that has realized the unreliability of location-related search results on search engines. What they have produced as a result is their own geotagging (sort of) service, called Gloe.

Gloe is a simple to use website that lets users decide whether or not a site is relevant to one’s location. The site shows us a map of the world. We then proceed to enter our location. Let us assume we are in Creil, France. (If you are using Gloe on Firefox, your location will automatically be detected with your permission.)

We are shown a map of our region and a circle of radius which we can specify. This radius can be as large as 30 miles.

On the right pane, we can view websites recommended or added by users to the Gloe project. We can also view the votes associated with these results.

The results can be filtered by selecting what type of site we are looking for. This can done via the menu next to our location box. This simple procedure allows us to find all user-shared online content relevant to our website.

If you are simply visiting Gloe to check it out, a list under our map shows the latest activity on the site.

A top contributions list is also available.

Gloe, in conclusion, is an interesting experiment by HP. Its success depends purely on how popular it gets and how many users add content and tag it location-wise. To make things easier for users, HP has created a bookmarklet for Gloe which can be used anytime we see a website relevant to geographical location we know.

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If you take a look at the traffic sources of the top blogs in any niche you’ll notice that a large chunk of their visitors come via search engines. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has become one of the most effective promotion tools in the blogger’s arsenal. But when you blog regularly, reply to comments, and work hard to grow a community around your blog you may not have enough time to invest in SEO, and professional SEOs charge an arm and a leg. So how do you optimize your blog without stealing the time from blogging or forking out for SEO services?

That’s where SEO software like SEO PowerSuite comes to the rescue. SEO PowerSuite is a premium package of SEO tools that help you optimize your blog and win top rankings on major search engines while spending as little as 30 minutes a day on SEO.

SEO PowerSuite is made up of 4 powerful SEO tools that take care of every aspect of effective website promotion:

Rank Tracker – a search engine rankings checker and keyword research tool.

SEO SpyGlass – backlink checker and competition analysis tool.

WebSite Auditor – content optimization tool.

LinkAssistant – link building and link management script.

Let’s take a closer look at each script in the pack and see how it can help you push your blog to the top of search engine listings.

Rank Tracker

Rank Tracker is a fast and accurate rank checker that lets you monitor where your blog ranks for your chosen keywords in all the major search engines: Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Ask, AltaVista, etc. The software supports over 600 local and regional search engines so you can track your blog’s rankings all around the world.

Using Rank Tracker is quite simple and straightforward. Start the program, enter the URL of the site you want to track and choose the search engines where you want to track the performance of your desired keywords. Next, enter the keywords and Rank Tracker will show you a detailed report on the positions and ranks.

Rank Tracker shows you all the critical information on your rankings:

• Your blog’s position in the search results for each keyword;
• The URL of the page found in the search results;
• How many positions up or down you are since the last check;
• And how you rankings evolve over time.

The tool draws a ranking graph of your blog’s rank changes to visualize your progress and generates customizable ranking reports with all the data on your keywords and rankings. You can schedule ranking checks (and other tasks) to be run on autopilot and Rank Tracker will monitor your blogs positions automatically.

Keyword research

Besides checking your rankings Rank Tracker also helps you discover new profitable keywords to target. There are 16 different keyword research methods in Rank Tracker that you can use to locate popular search strings in your niche.

You simply enter a number of seed keywords and Rank Tracker will find related terms. The tool will calculate the Keyword Efficiency Index (KEI) that shows you how popular and competitive each term is.

You can instantly check how many people search for each keyword monthly and how many sites compete for a place in the search results. This way you can find the best keyword opportunities.

WebSite Auditor

WebSite Auditor helps you optimize your content for the search engines to ensure that your posts rank high for the right keywords. The process couldn’t be easier. You simply enter the URL of your webpage and the keyword(s) you want it to rank for. WebSite Auditor will then analyze your content and lay out a step-by-step optimization blueprint. The tool goes through each page element and tells you how well it’s optimized and what you can do to improve it.

WebSite Auditor will help you determine the optimal keyword density for your posts, optimize each page element and even compare your content against the best ranked websites for your keywords. The tool generates a special competition analysis report where it analyzes the content on the 10 top ranked pages for your keywords and helps you take advantage of the best working onpage optimization techniques.

How many times should you use your keywords in the title and in the post? How long should your title be? Where should you put your most important keywords? WebSite Auditor will help you answer these questions and make sure all your posts are 100% search engine friendly.

SEO SpyGlass

Getting links to your blog is the most important and perhaps the hardest part of the SEO job. You can’t rank well for competitive terms without quality incoming links pointing at your site. SEO SpyGlass will help you locate the most powerful link sources in your niche and take advantage of them.

SEO SpyGlass is an advanced backlink checker that lets you analyze incoming links to any website or web page. With it you can check who’s linking to your blog and more importantly – where other blogs and websites get their links. You simply enter the URL of a competing website and get to know all about their incoming links:

• What websites link to the page;
• The URL and title of the linking page;
• Whether the link is still on the page;
• If the link is dofollow or nofollow
• The exact anchor text;
• The Google PageRank of the linking domain and webpage;
• The SEO value passed by every link;
• Which links are coming from blogs, forums, directories and home pages;
• And tons of other critical SEO factors.

With this data link building becomes a much easier task. When you know where to get links you don’t need to spend hours of your valuable time hunting down link sources.

LinkAssistant

LinkAssistant is a link building software that will help you establish and maintain quality links from relevant websites and blogs. Link building is a tedious process that eats up a lot of time yet can’t be avoided because if you want to rank well you need to grow your link popularity.

LinkAssistant lets you automate most time-consuming link building tasks helping you:

• Find quality link partners and dig for contact info;
• Analyze partner sites from the SEO perspective (PageRank, domain age, link popularity, etc.)
• Generate customized link directory that matches your websites design;
• Quickly get in touch with prospective link partners in personalized emails and manage all your link related mail;
• Build reciprocal, 1-way, 3-way and 4- way links,
• Check that all your partners are linking dofollow way with the right anchor texts
• Monitor your link popularity over time, and much more

Conclusion

Looking at SEO PowerSuite, I must say that it’s a must use toolkit for anyone who is serious about optimizing his website for search engines. You get all the information at your fingertips and need not hire any SEO specialist to do the job. Download the Free Edition of SEO PowerSuite and check it yourself.

Pricing:

The Free version of SEO PowerSuite has some minor limitations – you cannot schedule tasks, import or export data or save the reports. There are two paid editions available – Professional and Enterprise and they cost around $249 and $599 respectively. For further details, please check Features & Editions page.

If you do not want to buy the entire package, you can try each individual script at $99.75 for the Professional edition and $249.75 for the Enterprise edition.

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Suppose there was an encyclopedia with the latest sources accompanying its article on a subject. Not only will that be a great help to the encyclopedia’s user, but it would make the article more reliable as well.

Realizing the usefulness of such a search engine / encyclopedia and how beneficial it can be to internet users, Mashpedia was created.

Mashpedia is a free to use online encyclopedia that updates and gathers the results of our query in real time. The advantage of this is that we get new / different results each time we execute a search, even if our keywords are the same.

In addition to news and trending topics, the site has a simple search bar located at its homepage.

Entering our keyword in the search bar and starting our search quickly shows us gathered results from a variety of sources including social media sites and video hosting sites, in addition to standard search engine results.

In the above image, I executed a search for ‘electrons’ and came up with the Mashpedia article on it. The pane on the right details the properties of an electron whereas the pane on the left show us YouTube and social media sources for the keyword ‘electrons’; these sources are updated in real time and will be different the next time we search for ‘electrons.’

As we scroll down the page, we find other related sources from numerous other social networking sites and informative websites.

News results regarding our query are also shown.

The absolute end of the page lets us leave a comment on the article.

Mashpedia presents the results of our query by gathering them in real time from many sources. This unique concept of an online encyclopedia will surely benefit many internet users.

Click here to visit Mashpedia.

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How To Browse Any Website Via Google Cached Pages

Google automatically takes a “snapshot” of each page it crawls and archives it. This “cached” version allows a webpage to be retrieved for your end users if the original page is ever unavailable (due to temporary failure of the page’s web server). The cached page appears to users exactly as it looked when Google last crawled it, and Google display a message at the top of the page to indicate that it’s a cached version of the website. You can access the cached version by choosing the “Cached” link on the search results page.

If you want to prevent all search engines from showing a “Cached” link for your site, place this tag in the <HEAD> section of your page:

<meta name=”robots” content=”noarchive”>

To allow other search engines to show a “Cached” link, preventing only Google from displaying one, use the following tag:

<meta name=”googlebot” content=”noarchive”>

How To See The Weather For U.S. And Other Worldwide Cities

Are you a frequent traveler or planning to travel somewhere. Probably, you want to know before you go that how is the weather there? Google brought the easiest way for you to see the weather details. You can now see the weather for many U.S. and worldwide cities. You will just need to type “weather” followed by the city and state, U.S. zip code, or city and country.

Weather {City Name}

How To Use The Google Calculator From Simple To Complex Calculations

Google is not as simple as most of us think. You can convert google to calculator anytime to solve simple maths questions to advanced calculations. Google’s calculator was designed to solve problems without a lot of math syntax, so you may occasionally find calculator results when you didn’t even realize you were searching for the answer to a math equation. To use Google’s built-in calculator function, simply enter the calculation you’d like done into the search box.

Simple Maths

Advanced Maths

Below you can find few math syntax Google can recognize.

• + for addition
• - for subtraction
• * for multiplication
• / for division
• ^ for exponential (x to the power of y)
• % for modulo (to find the remainder after division)
• choose X choose Y fines the number of possible subset groups of Y out of the set of X.
• th root of creates the nth root of a number
• % of finds percentages X % of Y finds X percent of Y.
• sqrt finds the square root of the number that follows
• ln logarithm base e
• log logarithm base 10
• lg logarithm base 2
• ! factorial – This must follow the number you wish to factor.

Possibly you can not find any complete instruction or how-to-use about Google calculator. But that is your limits to find those functions that I did not mention or don’t know. Feel free to share with us as well.

How To Get Related Information About Any Website

This is specially for SEO experts, web designers etc if they want to find out information about any website quickly. This will show you the description of the website,  get to see the cached page, similar pages, link to pages, pages from the website, web pages that contain the searched url.

info:{url} This does not accepts space between info, colon(:) and url.

How To Convert Different Currency With Google 

Most of the time, we need to convert our local currency to other international currency just to know that how much would it be for us. Here’s a simple yet great solution that Google can give you. If you want to see that what is the cost of new Dell Laptop in your local currency, you will just need to type 500 USD in AED. You can ask to convert more or less than one unit as well, even the smallest difference for most currencies. Google Currency Converter is a part of Google Calculator.

{current currency with or withour number} in {desired currency}

How To Get Updated With Airline Flight Status

Either you are at home or in your office and you will need to rush to airport because you will have a flight. Don’t worry, if you need to get the flight status Google is still there for you. To see flight status for arriving and departing, type in the name of the airline and the flight number into the search box. You can also see delays at a specific airport by typing in the name of the city or three-letter airport code followed by the word “airport”.

{airlinename flightnumber}

How To Track UPS, Fedex or USPS Package Shipping Directly From Google

Google really provided services in a diversified way. How? Because you can track packages by typing the tracking number for your UPS, Fedex or USPS package directly into the search box. Google will return results that include quick links to easily track the status of your shipment.

If you’ve entered a valid UPS or FedEx tracking number, Google’s first result will lead you directly to tracking info for your package.

How To Use Google For Unit Conversion

You can use also Google to convert between many different units of measurement of height, weight, and mass among others. Just enter your desired conversion into the search box and Google will do the rest. Google Unit Converter is a part of Google Calculator.

You can ask Google to recognizes most common measurements, including weight, distance, time, mass, energy, and monetary currency.

{current unit} in {desired unit}

How To Use Google For Dictionary Definitions

To see a definition for a word or phrase, simply type the word “define” then a space, then the word(s) you want defined. To see a list of different definitions from various online sources, you can type “define:” followed by a word or phrase. Note that the results will define the entire phrase.

define {word}

How To Know The Time In Any Other City Or Country With Google

Where Google given us lots of easiest way to process our work, we can also check the current time of any city or country. To see the time in many cities around the world, type in “time” and the name of the city.

time {cityname}

How To See The Map For Any City Or Country With Google

Are you traveler or new to any city or even no one of them? If you are looking to see the map of the city or country you are currently living or some other location. Google has a easiest solution for you. Type in the name or U.S. zip code of a location and the word “map” and Google will return a map of that location. Clicking on the map will take you to a larger version on Google Maps.

{location} map

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It allows you to easily track what people are saying about you, your company, a new product, or any topic across the web’s social media landscape in real-time. Search results are aggregated from numerous popular social media sources, including Google blog search, Twitter, Delicious, FriendFeed, Flickr, Digg, YouTube etc. and remixed as a single stream of information. The data is fresh, which means you can track conversations as they are happening in real-time.

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It enable users around the world to share their knowledge and interests with one another and provide an alternative to traditional search.  Users are encouraged to create custom content pages for any possible search term in the world and submit links that will help people find relevant results and answers to their search requests.  Links to social bookmarks, social profiles, blogs, new stories, authoriative articles, videos, images, and web pages are also welcomed here.

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tr.im

tr.im is an URL shortening service to prepare long URLs for use with status updates in social networks like Twitter or Identi.ca.

Resize Image

This free service will help you to re-size your images with basic and advanced options.

ava7 patterns

If you are in the search of backgrounds or patterns so don’t forget to visit ava7 patterns. It has 500+ patterns and backgrounds that you can download absolutely free.

txtb.in

This cool little app provides you a simple and easy way to save and share short text notes online with your friends or relative.

Pixlr

Pixlr is a free online image editor, jump in and start edit, adjust, filter.

FreshGenerator

FreshGenerator is a webdesign tool which can create interesting graphic elements used in many web 2.0 sites.

Wordoff

Wordoff is simple and useful web tool that lets you remove unnecessary tags and styles from HTML code.

PicMarkr

With PicMarkr you can add text or image watermark to any image or photo.

Stylish To-Do List Management

Do It Do It Done provide a simple tool for creating and managing your to-do list and all with a bit of fun and flare.

Melt Mail

This is a temporary email forwarding to your real email address. With this service your would have your temporary email for your selected time period.

thumbizy

Thumbizy is a powerful & free instant website thumbnail generator that can help you to take snapshot of any website.

Online Monitor Test

Test your LCD monitor, CRT monitor or flat screen TV with this online tool. Examples of test screens are 1:1 pixelmapping, color banding, text sharpness etc

DrPic.com

DrPic will give you an option to Crop, Resize, Add Text, Special Effects, and Host your pictures online for free.

Free Logo Generator

Free Logo Generator will help you to make web 2.0 logos for free. This is a quick and easy online logo maker.

Joongel

Joongel is a simple web application for searching and navigating through the most popular sources on the Internet in different categories.

Convert PDF Document to Word

This website allows you to convert the pdf file to the word file.

CreateHDR

This site emulates HDR effect so you can play with it with no Photoshop or other software. You can enhance some pictures really well and produce stunning results.

Statbrain

Statbrain uses different resources on the web combined with mathematical and statistical methods to estimate how many visits a website has.

HideLinks

This is a really little tool that allows you to shorten before bookmarking them while at the same time, password-protecting them so that only you can access them.

PiccDrop

PiccDrop allows users to upload almost any type of image for free and call it on any website or email your friends.

FlipTitle

Flip Title is an online tool that helps to write text upside down. Anything you write will become flipped upside down, very easy to use.

Website Grader is a free seo tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how the website can be improved from a marketing perspective. You can see sample report here.

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Deligio search, discover and share your favorite software / freeware / shareware with tags and social bookmarking

Deligio is your search engine for software, shareware and freeware. This is a great platform where
you can discover, add and share your favorite software on the web.

Searchme Visual Search

Searchme lets you see what you are searching for. As you start typing, categories appear that relate to your query. Choose a category, and you will see pictures of web pages displays a whole page preview for each result and the visitor can scroll left to right or right to left the pages in a 3D animated user interface. You can review these pages quickly to find just the information you are looking for, before you click through.

Yoozila

Yoozila is a powerful new search engine. It’s primary purpose is to provide you with relevant results and present them in a fresh web 2.0 beautiful manner. You’ll find the Parental Control feature, which you can use to filter adult content, region, file type, license and language filters, to make sure you find exactly what you’re looking for, and you’re even able to search through the search results to really get what you’re looking for.

Ebook Search – Pdf Search Engine

PDF Search Engine is a book search engine search on sites, forums, message boards for pdf files. You can find and download a tons of e-books.

Addictomatic: Inhale the Web

Addictomatic searches the best live sites on the web for the latest news, blog posts, videos and images. It’s the perfect tool to keep up with the hottest topics, perform ego searches and feed your addiction for what’s up, what’s now or what other people are feeding on.

FindSounds

FindSounds.com is a free site for finding sound effects and musical instrument samples on the Web. It is a Web search engine, like Google and AltaVista, but with a focus on sounds. It provides powerful features, yet is simple and easy to use, and suitable for all ages. Note to parents: audio files containing obscenities are filtered out so this site is safe for children.

Tag Galaxy

Tag Galaxy has 3D planet interface which is much more beautifu.l This search engine is dedicated to search Flickr image in some interesting way.

Topicle Search Community

With Topicle, you can create a new vertical search engine with a few clicks. In Topicle’s world, a vertical search engine is a topic search engine, like Digital Camera Reviews, Parenting or Diabetes. Each Topicle search engine only searches handpicked URLs, instead of the whole Web.

Consumer Electronics Reviews, Product Manuals, Guides and Deals: Retrevo

At retrevo, you can find a product much more like consumer electronics reviews, product manuals, guides and deals.

Mahalo.com: Human-powered Search

Mahalo is a human-powered search engine that creates organized, comprehensive, and spam free search results for the most popular search terms.

Sputtr Multi-Search Engine

Sputtr.com is a Multi Search Engine that makes searching the Web quick and easy, because it has all the best searches on a single page. Give it a try!

Scour – Search Socially

Search socially and get the most from your favorite search engine!

News and information on Wikio

Wikio is an information portal with a news search engine that searches press sites and blogs. With Wikio you can very easily create pages to follow the breaking news that interests you. Our info is continuously updated!