Google plus - diamond of Google homepage

I believe nobody is surprised that the new social network Google+ has started as a successful project and is quickly gaining likes across the board. A lot of people started prophesying the death of Facebook and they might be right. However, let us not rush to these hasty conclusions, but try to see why this function on Google homepage has made the big G really the greatest page on the net. 

A lot of people are influenced by crowd mentality and ready to exalt the new baby at once. To tell the truth Google has not created some kind of new revolution. It is another social network. However, it is much cleaner and more qualitative in its’ realization.  

On the one hand it is a clean network, because not so many users are using it yet. If you have a lot of friends in Facebook, I bet it has become too difficult to follow all the news and updates on your wall. Too many messages and in most cases you see absolute chaos. It can happen to Google plus at some point too. However, for the time being it is much cleaner than Facebook and most probably Circles will help the network to stay clean for a long time.

Special features of Google plus

Circles

It is not difficult to see that Circles of friends are the core of this whole project.  You can create circles of friends, colleagues, family, business partners and etc. Before sending your composed message you can choose which group you want to send the message to. You may choose to send it only to friends or colleagues or only your family. 

Hangouts

This is another and quite useful feature of the network. Up to ten users can participate in a Google plus hangout, which is basically a video chat page that can be used for business, fun, pleasure or casual talk between friends. It has fully integrated YouTube video channel and you can share with your friends various things that you find on internet. 

Local sites

Google has been more and more working on bringing you results from your local geographical area. So, if you live in India, they would search for you a website from India for that particular keyword you type in Google homepage search box. The same thing they have done in Google +. Now you can easily find companies and businesses that are near you. This may include maps, addresses, phone numbers and working hours. 

Follow interesting people

There are a lot of businesses as well as creative people who have moved to Google plus and you follow their thoughts, updates and read what they have recently been doing. 

Looking at the current trend you can see that Google has been connecting so many various features that one should not be surprised to see Google owned operating system. One is for sure, if Facebook does not take serious measures to make more user friendly it may really die in the long run. Let us wish both Google and Facebook good luck and let the better one rule.

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Reasons to make Google my homepage

Google earth online

Google Earth Online

Google Earth is definitely the best possibility to view our planet Earth from various angles and aspects online. This program will enable you to find various landmarks across the globe. You can enjoy looking at the famous places such as Statue of liberty or huge cities such as London or Paris. You can download the program, or you even can load it on your website and have Google Earth Online.

Being able to see any place in the world within a few minutes, or even seconds one can not only use the program for fun, but also for business. An average user can download the program and use it for free. If you need even more possibilities you will have to pay for Google Earth Pro. Businesses will also have to pay for the program. However, it may positively improve your business results a lot. You can use it in a wide range of sectors both commercial and non commercial.

For example, one can use it for commercial real estate business to evaluate sites, competitor locations and existing sites. You can also take your prospective clients to online tours of any property. Images of the objects can be cut and pasted to PowerPoint too. It can be used in various media presentations to illustrate their presentations by showing exact locations and places their reports deal with.

Google Earth can find you the exact address and see it on the map online after you type the address in the search bar of the program. A lot of users use this function for driving directions around city or even country.

Having a free version of the program you will be able to find and see:

-          Exact locations: streets, buildings, parks, shops, airports, hospitals and etc.

-          Plan your next trip

-          Have the best possible driving directions online

-          See the famous places of the world: Eiffel tower, the Great Wall of China, the Statue of Liberty and etc.

So, you can use a free version of Google Earth or buy Google Earth Pro if you are interested in more possibilities for your business.

Another good thing is that you can have Google Earth Online. That’s right, if you are interested in that you can download the plug-in for the program and use the embed KML gadget to have the program on your website or blog for free.

For more information on how to do it go to: http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorial_kmlembed.html

See also:

Google Homepage

Original google earth: http://www.google.com/earth/index.html

P.S. Hope the post was useful. 

Reasons to Make Google My Homepage

Google is by far the best search engine available today and Google Chrome is the fastest browser for you. I hope it is not a big surprise that around seventy percent of people are using the engine for their daily use searching for relevant information on internet. The phrase ‘google it’ is a proof in itself that merely shows that internet consumers prefer this search engine over others. For a long time Google homepage has been known as the fastest, most reliable and effective system that finds whatever you need to the extent that some other engines are using Google provided results in their searches too. Their creators do not stop here, they constantly perfect search algorithms, introduce new functions, divide web pages into categories and etc. 

At the moment the company is worth more than one hundred and fifty million dollars. Although it started as a search engine, it has a lot of other services, most of which are free of charge. Google homepage is a brand name now that means quality, good and fast service, as well as pleasant experiences using Google products. 

Gmail is probably the best attraction of the page

Let us look at some of them that you may found on its’ homepage. Google mail is probably the biggest achievement of the company. Google first started distributing personal emails that could have a lot of space and one did not have delete old messages so often. Space limit, spam filter and the conception of gmail was much better than other companies, such as Yahoo or MSN were offering. When all companies were decreasing the size of their email boxes, gmail was slowly but surely increasing it going from 1 gb to more than 7.5 gb that you can enjoy for free.

At the moment, Google offers a complex of services integrated into one account: electronic mail, internet bureau program package, storage of photos, RSS reader and many more. 

YouTube can drive traffic to your website

One of the best companies purchases is the most popular video sharing site “YouTube”. This is another top product that I like a lot as you can use it for developing your creativity, linking to your business sites and even making money with Google Adsense program. However, YouTube is not as profitable as one may assume. As of 2009 it has incurred around half a billion dollar losses. The most recent ‘rumours’ say that company has finally become profitable and is becoming more and more attractive for those who are seeking work online. If you are a talented actor or an artist, or perhaps an online marketer YouTube can become a goldmine for you. Patience and consistency are necessary to achieve results though. 

How does Google make money?

I believe you already know the answer. Google provides effective and efficient advertisement that is often called ‘clever advertisement’ that does not provide random advertisements but advertisement products are chosen according to users’ searches, browsing history and other similar information. It is good that one can take part in Google Adsense advertising program and get a tiny part of the profits that the company makes through its’ ads. 

Some failed projects

Not everything that Google does is successful. One of the projects: “Google Wave” simply was not appreciated by professional and common users. Two social networking sites: Orkut and Google Buzz have also largely failed. Well, Orkut has not become popular in US, but is largely used in India and some other countries. Google Buzz was intended to outperform Facebook, but as you may see it absolutely failed. It is still actively used by a lot of users, but not as much as its’ creators had expected. 

A few problems that Google has had

Some problems were also caused by “Google Street View” service that allows one to see real photos of real streets. This as some other services raise a question of privacy. The debate on the topic has been going on for a long time and Google as the biggest player in the market of internet searches and other similar services often gets scolded for interfering with people privacy. 

Some internet creators believe you should not share your private information on internet!!!

There are a lot of other features that you can find on Google Homepage which will make your internet browsing activities more pleasurable and enjoyable. It would take a lot of articles to describe the best services that you can find on the best, but the best thing about it is that you get most relevant results in your searches and the speed is not slowed down by a lot of adds and other visual information that is plentiful in Google’s rivals Yahoo and Bing homepages. 

As of now Google homepage has 19 links and they do not bother your eyes, nor interfere with your browsing activities. I hope to talk more on specific Google products such as Google maps or Google plus in my future post. Hope this one was useful.

See also: Google Earth Online

               Original google homepage: https://www.google.com/
And here is a backlink showing you how to make google your homepage: make google my homepage

Bin Laden dead now what

The news from US president Barack Obama about killing of Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind of 9/11 attacks became a real celebration for most Americans. The president declared it as the fulfillment of justice. I quite agree with that. The 9/11 event caused a lot of pain not only for United States, but for the whole world. It is right when people who organize these awful crimes get what they sow. 

However, one thing worries me. The wars in Afghanistan, Iraq (that followed 9/11 attack) and now Libya has created a lot of enemies for United States and the Western world. I am afraid that by fighting these wars we created a lot more “Bin Ladens” that would want to organize attacks similar to 9/11. I hope it does not happen, but if we take into account words that Gaddafi said, that he will take the war to our cities and towns, then this victory (death of Bin Laden) is only a short term one.  Who knows who will rise instead of him. 

But yes, I am happy that justice comes. I would want more of other means for solving conflicts than are being used now. Maybe we would have fewer enemies now. 

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Is winning a lottery a blessing or a…
Google Earth Online
Make Google My Homepage 

Is winning a lottery a blessing or…

Do you think winning a lottery is a blessing or … a curse? Ok, let’s give it one more possibility, it can be neither. It can be neutral. But most often it is not. I remember reading my first article about lottery winners in my country (Lithuania). There were stories of ten people who won pretty big amounts. I was shocked to find out that for nine people out of the ten the winning became a curse. One lady managed to cope with a windfall, the rest stories were pitiful: some lost it all very fast, some got divorced, some started drinking and using drugs, a few got killed and maybe something else. I cannot remember all the details now.  

At the time I thought that the phenomena was local, but was surprised later than the same was true about people who won lotteries in England and United States and in other (civilized countries). Eventually I found out that people are just people and they are people everywhere. And human weakness to get a lot of money fast is inherent for us all. And that is the problem with the concept of making money fast. A lot of money fast most often breaks people because they are not prepared for it. 

When a person is trying to do business and accumulates wealth over a period of time, he/she learns how to deal with capital. So, when he/she finally starts making millions or even more, these huge amounts of money does not break the person. He is ready to accept it and not start doing some crazy stuff. It requires patience, stamina, desire, persistence to do business, make money slowly, and start again after a failure until you reach what you want in terms of financial prosperity. 

A lot of people do not feel they want to pay the price or they do not believe that they ever going to see success. However, they still want to be rich. Therefore, they choose lottery playing. It is legal, does not cost much and if you win much you can go after your dreams the next day. My wife’s sister lives in New York and she told me how her colleagues at work tell her that if they win the lottery this weekend, they will not show up at work next week. 

So many of us do what we don’t like and never really pursue what we desire. I really think it is the price of going after our dreams that scares us most. And most of us are too lazy and get stuck in our comfort zones. We don’t get what we want, but we still can bear what we have. In order not to lose what we have we decide not to risk anything, except maybe buying a lottery ticket for a few bucks or whatever it costs. I believe we need to sit down, think what we want, make a plan how to achieve it and go for it. It might take a long time to achieve, but what we will get will be ours and it won’t break us. So, is lottery winning a blessing or a …?

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Social responsibility of BP

Social responsibility

I believe that all companies whatever business they do should carry some social responsibility. They should be responsible for the effect that they have on society and the environment. It has been around a year since the disaster in the Gulf Mexico. The oil leaking has caused and is still causing tremendous problems to the residents of the territory, environment and maybe to some extent entire world. Economy, tourism, business and many other things have experienced tremendous damage as a consequence. What should be behavior of BP, the sole culprit in the situation?

To tell the truth I do not believe that they would be financially able to compensate for all the loss that they have done through the accident. They have spent billions of dollars to repair the situation, but it is definitely not enough. I mean, how much is necessary in order for everything to come back to where the territory has been before the tragedy. I believe they should be doing reparations as long as the situation comes back to normal. To tell the truth I also do not think they should be allowed to drill in the territory. 

It’s part of their social responsibility. I know that they are doing business, but if their business is causing more damage to the environment and people, their business, whoever they are is not worth the price. However, after things calmed down a bit they dare to think that they will have a chance to continue drilling in the territory again. If they do not assume social responsibility it should be social responsibility of politicians’ to stop them. I mean, whatever excuses they or other guys may have, if they cannot provide guarantees that their endeavors will not present any dangers to the environment it is not worth allowing them to do business. 

Social responsibility is a deficit nowadays. Money, profit, lobbying, lying has become much bigger values. I hope this can change some day, but the present trend is appalling. I hope we will not self destruct ourselves by allowing these ‘big guys’ (in various sectors) to do what they intend. 

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Do you want to be part of royal family

Would you want to be part of royal family

So, would you? There are so many talks about the wedding and it looks as if the entire internet is full of it. The idea of somebody becoming a member of the British royal family sounds great, but what does that take to be one. I was reading about the things that Kate Middleton will no longer be able to do after becoming Prince William’s wife. The list is pretty big. For her it would be a completely different life than she used to have.

Well, I think these are too light words. When anybody gets married his/her life changes. This becomes even stronger when you get children. Now, becoming a princess of Wales is a completely different story. You will have to forget who you are and accept an entirely different identity. This starts from how you are going to be referred to and ends with when you have to finish your dinner. No democracy for Kate anymore. If you are hungry, hurry up, for when the Queen finishes eating, everybody finishes. 

No more voting, no possibility to work (for most people this one would be pretty cool) don’t know for how long though)). Everything she says from this time on can have nothing which could cause some controversy. Get ready to be discussed by media from all possible aspects. In my opinion, no personality left. What do you get in exchange? Respect, absolute provision, iconic state, public attention and … becoming the Queen one day. 

I hope you can see how Rose (Kate Winslet in the movie ‘Titanic’) felt being part of the higher society and what happiness really meant for her. You can also sympathize with Anna Scott (Julia Roberts in the movie ‘Notting Hill’) for not being able just to be a simple girl and to be loved and not be pursued by the media. It looked to me that princess Diana was pretty tired of her responsibilities and was thirsty for personal happiness too. 

Well, it is none of my business anyway. I hope the couple will be able to create a world of their own and find happiness there. It will not be easy for Kate I think as she is from a completely different world. However, it is her choice. God bless them. So, would you be willing to be part of the royal family?

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