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In a recent post on How Google enables to search-within-search there hadbeen some key points mentioned on how this works.

The brand named sites like ebay.com and amazon.com and nike.com and a plethora of similar sites are worried that the users will be dragged away through the ad sales to their competitors. As Google offers a secondary search within the results, it offers an option for the users to refine their searches entirely, not using the Google search, but that particular site’s search engine and displaying the ads of their competitors.

Here is an excerpt from a Technical Consultant : “Analysts generally praise the feature as helping users save steps, but for Web publishers and retailers, there are trade-offs… ‘Google is showing a level of aggressiveness with this that’s just not needed,’ said [one Internet consultant]… Take, for instance, a [test where] users of Google searched The Washington Post and were given a secondary search box. Those who typed ‘jobs’ into that second box saw related results for The Post’s employment pages, but the results were bordered by ads for competing employment sites like CareerBuilder or Monster.com. So even though users began the process by stating their intention to reach The Post, Google’s ads steered at least some of them to competitors. Similar situations arose when users relied on Google to search nytimes.com.”

Interesting, huh. Share with me how you would be possibly be benefitted with this slick feature.

Who wouldn’t love an Easter Egg? Hmmm… There are a few, but leaving them aside, here are some easter eggs which reminds you that software developers are not nerds with no fun and family life. We love Humor, a lot, of course.

10. Easter Egg in Mozilla Firefox: Never thought about it? Yes, there is an easter egg in our favourite internet browser. Just type about:mozilla in the address bar and press Enter. Voila, The Bible of Mozilla opens and lets you know how the Genesis of the Browser started.

9. Internet Explorer 6 or 7: Type javascript:window.name="TheWCEE";location.href="res://shdoclc.dll/wcee.htm" into the address bar to have a look at the developers of the IE.

8. Google Earth 4.2 Flight Simulator:  Dont have it? Get it here. Launch it and Hit Ctrl+Alt+A and Mac Users, hit Cmd+Opt+A. You get to see a complete set of a flight simulator which lets you choose the airport, flight type which lets you to fly inside Google Earth. Have a look at it for sure.

For more: LifeHacker

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Where are YOU on the World Wide Web?

A funny notation with a glimpse of how complex the web is.

For more: Wiki

An amazing new version of Firefox 3 Beta 4, is the twelth developer milestone focused on testing the core functionality provided by awesome features and changes to the platform scheduled by Firefox 3. You would love the way it launches itself, installs with the most user loved specifics, checks for new versions of the plugins installed and suggests the URLs from the cached URLs.

I am using it after downloading it for free from Mozilla. Yet, in beta phase, but works amazingly smooth without any glitches. Be there to look at it. Download is, as usual, Free.