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Pinterest China (aka Fa Xian) by Alibaba.com

2012-07-30T08:33:00.004-07:00

Fa Xian is an addition to B2C website etao.com powered by Taobao - a B2C website from Chinese B2B Marketplace Alibaba.com. What made Fa Xian got the attention of news all over the world is its striking resemblance to Pinterest. As per one news from Reuters, the website is already attracting upto 60,000 unique visitors every day.

Pinterest is more like social bookmarking website and does not allow any sort of affiliate codes. On the other hand Alibaba on its ecommerce website has merged the concept of Pinterest by selling products while engaging visitors. All pinned products can be purchased.

Alibaba has taken this idea as an opportunity to capture more sales from Chinese market of young internet users who easily get admired to fun oriented.

Alibaba.com Reports Net Profit1 of RMB339.2 million in Q1 2012

2012-07-24T08:45:00.003-07:00

Alibaba.com Reports Net Profit¹ of RMB339.2 million in Q1 2012

Continuous platform enhancements increase overall quality of the website

HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alibaba.com Limited (HKSE: 1688) (1688.HK), the world’s leading small business e-commerce company, today announced unaudited financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2012. In the first quarter, Alibaba.com stepped up its efforts to upgrade the trustworthiness of suppliers and enhance the user experience. Although Alibaba.com reported a profit of RMB339.2 million (USD53.8 million), its financial growth slowed compared with previous years as a result of business model upgrades and the strategic shift in focus to the quality of the marketplace and buyer experience.
Excludes profit attributable to non-controlling interests.

Q1 2012 Financial and Operational Highlights

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS (UNAUDITED)	Q1 2011 RMB million	Q1 2012 RMB million	YoY Change	Q4 2011 RMB million	QoQ Change

Revenue	1,531.7	1,589.1	+3.7%	1,659.0	-4.2%
Earnings before interest, taxes and amortization (“EBITA”)	509.8	374.8	-26.5%	529.0	-29.1%
Profit attributable to equity owners	452.5	339.2	-25.0%	385.9	-12.1%
Share-based compensation expense	85.2	65.5	-23.1%	67.1	-2.4%

Deferred revenue and customer advances	4,210.2	4,285.3	+1.8%	4,423.1	-3.1%
Recurring free cash flow	158.6	19.2	-87.9%	957.7	-98.0%

EBITA margin (before share-based compensation) (%)	38.8%	27.7%	-11.1% pts	35.9%	-8.2%pts

Earnings per share, basic (HK$) (Notes 1 & 3)	10.6 cents	8.4 cents	-20.8%	9.4 cents	-10.6%
Earnings per share, diluted (HK$) (Notes 1 & 3)	10.5 cents	8.4 cents	-20.0%	9.4 cents	-10.6%

OPERATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

March 31,

2011

March 31,

2012

YoY

Change

December 31,

2011

QoQ

Change

Q1 2012

Net change

Registered users

65,034,254

79,786,659

+22.7%

76,332,163

+4.5%

3,454,496

International marketplace

19,723,404

27,341,926

+38.6%

25,517,089

+7.2%

1,824,837

China marketplace

45,310,850

52,444,733

+15.7%

50,815,074

+3.2%

1,629,659

Storefronts

8,847,072

10,314,802

+16.6%

10,023,832

+2.9%

290,970

International marketplace

1,777,292

2,354,756

+32.5%

2,235,416

+5.3%

119,340

China marketplace

7,069,780

7,960,046

+12.6%

7,788,416

+2.2%

171,630

Paying members (Note 2)

832,469

753,955

-9.4%

765,363

-1.5%

-11,408

China Gold Supplier

116,454

87,544

-24.8%

99,005

-11.6%

-11,461

Global Gold Supplier

9,549

7,641

-20.0%

7,558

+1.1%

China TrustPass

706,466

658,770

-6.8%

658,800

+0.0%

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Pakistan Will Tour To India In December 2012

2012-07-24T08:28:00.000-07:00

Pakistan will tour India in December, giving their players (pictured here after the 2011 World Cup semi-final) a chance to renew friendships and rivalries. It will be great tour for friendly relations between both the countries. The Pakistan board has said that it has not sought a share of the revenue from the series in India later this year. Earlier this week, the two countries had agreed to a short limited-overs series in December, ending a five-year gap in bilateral relations.

Chinese New Year Celebration

2012-01-22T04:48:00.000-08:00

Tonight, in a deafening blitz of pyrotechnics, more than a billion Chinese will ring in the new lunar year – the 4,710th of the Chinese calendar, if you're counting. But the festivities will run over the next 15 days until the first full moon, with ample opportunities for visitors to get in on the action at New Year (also known as Spring Festival) events across the mainland and Hong Kong.

Alibaba 3rd most visited Ecommerce Marketplace

2012-01-21T12:14:00.000-08:00

Alibaba 3rd most visited Ecommerce Marketplace on Internet

Great achievement for Alibaba.com. In recent study by comScore about online global retail and auctions sites discovered that reached the largest global audience. Alibaba.com with over 156 million visitors in June 2011 was ranked third. Almost 20.4 % of the worldwide Internet population visited alibaba.com.

Gian Fulgoni, comScore co-founder and chairman said "While retail e-commerce has already grown to become a $150+ billion annual industry in the U.S., it still presents enormous upside opportunity across much of the globe,"

"Technology has changed the way consumers behave, and increasingly they are opting for the convenience and pricing advantages offered by the online channel. Several global retail brands have already capitalized on this global consumer trend, and many other retailers are sure to pursue their share of the pie."

Select Retail and Auction Sites Ranked by Unique Visitors (000) June 2011 Total Worldwide Audience, Visitors Age 15+ – Home/Work Locations Source: comScore Media Metrix
	Total Unique Visitors (000)	% Reach
Total Internet : Total Audience	1,383,098	100.0%
Amazon Sites	282,233	20.4%
eBay	223,520	16.2%
Alibaba.com Corporation	156,780	11.3%
Apple.com Worldwide Sites	134,296	9.7%
Rakuten Inc	57,785	4.2%
Wal-Mart	44,650	3.2%
Hewlett Packard	38,491	2.8%
MercadoLibre	33,481	2.4%
Otto Gruppe	31,779	2.3%
Groupe PPR	31,686	2.3%

*Excludes visitation from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.

Regional Audience Composition Analysis of Select Retail and Auction Sites June 2011 Total Worldwide Audience, Visitors Age 15+ – Home/Work Locations Source: comScore Media Metrix
	Percent Composition of Unique Visitors
	North America	Europe	Asia Pacific	Middle East – Africa	Latin America
Total Internet	14.9%	26.7%	41.1%	8.7%	8.6%
Amazon Sites	35.4%	31.8%	24.1%	4.5%	4.2%
eBay	34.6%	46.9%	11.7%	4.0%	2.8%
Alibaba.com Corporation	4.5%	5.3%	85.7%	2.5%	1.9%
Apple.com Worldwide Sites	32.0%	29.6%	24.9%	8.0%	5.6%
Rakuten Inc	5.3%	19.8%	72.7%	1.5%	0.7%
Wal-Mart	83.4%	8.9%	0.7%	0.5%	6.4%
Hewlett Packard	45.1%	26.4%	14.3%	6.7%	7.5%
MercadoLibre	1.7%	4.5%	0.4%	0.2%	93.3%
Otto Gruppe	4.3%	92.3%	1.0%	2.1%	0.2%
Groupe PPR	16.1%	74.4%	2.2%	4.7%	2.6%

*Excludes visitation from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.

What Is Search Engine Marketing?

2011-12-17T14:49:00.000-08:00

We can get some useful knowledge from this video regarding What is "Search Engine Marketing", and how to do "SEM"?

Tradekey Strongest Weapon

2011-10-14T14:36:00.000-07:00

Service Delivery is most strongest weapon of Tradekey. They have very energetic, talented, and experienced peoples. Who providing valuable services to their valuable customers. That's why Tradekey retained their 50% members. Which is very good retention ratio. Even Alibaba is unable to achieve 50% retention ratio. I think that's why they are fast growing company in B2B industry.

Alibaba 3rd most visited Ecommerce Marketplace on Internet

2011-09-25T05:50:00.001-07:00

In recent study by comScore about online global retail and auctions sites discovered that reached the largest global audience. Alibaba.com with over 156 million visitors in June 2011 was ranked third. Almost 20.4 % of the worldwide Internet population visited alibaba.com.

Gian Fulgoni, comScore co-founder and chairman said "While retail e-commerce has already grown to become a $150+ billion annual industry in the U.S., it still presents enormous upside opportunity across much of the globe,"
"Technology has changed the way consumers behave, and increasingly they are opting for the convenience and pricing advantages offered by the online channel. Several global retail brands have already capitalized on this global consumer trend, and many other retailers are sure to pursue their share of the pie."

Pay Per Click Training With Us

2011-09-25T05:40:00.000-07:00

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Which One Is Better?

2011-09-14T12:17:00.000-07:00

- Is why Alibaba still better than Tradekey?
- Is there any difference in sales pitching style between these two measure B2B plateforms?
- Can Alibaba understand Chinese peoples mentality batter than Tradekey?
- Why most of Chinese peoples preferred to go to the agent in China for Tradekey premium membership?
- Can anyone want to give answer the above questions?

Yahoo Sued Over Alibaba Payment Restructuring

2011-09-14T12:00:00.000-07:00

News from Yahoo! Inc. regarding Alipay restructuring and getting misled by Alibaba Group caused Yahoo! Inc. to get sued by its shareholders.

The investors, in a complaint filed in federal court in San Francisco, claim that Yahoo! was failed to tell them by May 10, 2011 that its $1 billion investment in Alibaba was “severely impaired” by the transfer of the payment business, Alipay, to a closely held company controlled by Alibaba Chairman Jack Ma.

Yahoo management was informed no later than March 31 about the restructuring, which reduced the value of the company's investment in Alibaba by billions of dollars, according to the complaint.

According to the suit: Chinese regulations that precipitated the restructuring were anticipated in 2009, requiring “Yahoo or Alibaba to divest themselves of Alipay but Yahoo had failed to develop a strategy to recover the value it had in Alibaba,"

Alibaba in response had said in July 29, 2011 that its two biggest shareholders, Yahoo and Softbank Corp. (9984), Japan's third-biggest mobile carrier, agreed to a compensation deal that may result in Alibaba receiving as much as $6 billion from Alipay. The agreement ended a four-month dispute between Alibaba, China's biggest e-commerce company, and foreign shareholders over the spinoff of Alipay.

Yahoo said previously that the sale of the online payment business to Jack Ma's company last year lacked the approval of the board and was only disclosed to investors in March 2011.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the Twin City Pipe Trades Service Association based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Dana Lengkeek, a Yahoo spokeswoman, had no immediate comment on August 8, 2011.

The case is Twin City Pipe Trades Pension v. Yahoo! Inc., 11-03870, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (San Francisco).

zulfiqar mirza unsensible statement. 13th july 2011 By Syed

2011-07-14T08:47:00.000-07:00

zulfiqar mirza unsensible statement. 13th july 2011 By Syed

Pakistan Peoples Party Senior Minister Zulfiqar Mirza.

Very irresponsible statement by zulfiqar mirza.

Mozilla Firefox 5

2011-07-13T07:37:00.000-07:00

Mozilla Firefox 5 released and it is available for download after three month of Firefox 4, Firefox 5 is faster than Firefox 4, New release have fixed some bugs, and some new features.Also more exciting. Users can feel more comfortable.

Here is a list of some new features .

Support for CSS animations
Better visibility for the Do-Not-Track header preference
Improved canvas and JavaScript support
Better standards support for canvas, HTML5, XHR, MathML and SMIL
Better tuned HTTP idle connection logic

You can download it via following link:
Download Firefox 5

Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows

2011-07-13T07:27:00.000-07:00

Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows

Harry potter final part (version 2) will be release on July 15th 2011, So let's count down start my friends...

Here you can watch the trailer of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows (Final Version).

Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Trailer

Alibaba Group Launch Mobile Operating System (OS) In Q3

2011-07-13T07:16:00.000-07:00

China’s top e-commerce group Alibaba Group is preparing to launch a mobile operating system in the third quarter, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

Is Alibaba unbeatable for their competitors?

The mobile operating system, to be developed by Alibaba’s cloud computing unit, will also provide mobile applications, the paper said quoting an unnamed source close to the matter.

An Alibaba Group spokesman declined to comment.

Chinese Internet firms have expanded their mobile presence by developing operating systems, games and applications to tap the high growth of the segment.

China’s top search engine Baidu is also developing its own mobile operating system based on Google’s Android platform, local media reported recently.

How to get high Google Pagerank

2011-07-10T15:05:00.000-07:00

If anybody want to get high Google Pagerank, Then they should follow the following tricks.
Everyone knows that if your website has a high Google Pagerank, you have all chances to reach good search engine positions, to get serious partners, or simply get more money selling text links.
But how to get a high Pagerank? (Let's clarify: saying ‘high Pagerank', we mean at least PR6)
Of course there are many different ways. You may start exchanging links with PR1-2 websites, then with PR2-3, then with PR3-4 etc… and after a year of this madness you'll probably get a result. But till that time, your mailbox will burst from tons of “link exchange proposals” and your website will look more like a free-for-all directory. Or you may start writing articles adding your website URL in the bottom, but not everyone can do this, and it'll also require many months of efforts.
But here's the better way!
There are many websites with strong search engine positions and high Pagerank, where you can buy text links for a certain fee. Depending on the strength of a website and the value of its links, it may cost from $10 to $3000 (and more) for a ROS (run-of-site) text link. Everything will depend on your budget and goals. If your goal is PR6 - it may cost for example $200 per month to reach it. Yes, it's not cheap, but it's only the first step…
So, you go ahead and buy the link(s); and after the next Pagerank update (generally once a month), you get your fair PR6 (let's suppose that it takes 1 month and $200).
During the second month you need to hurry up, and to organize several link exchange campaigns with other PR6 (or even PR7) websites. Remember: you're not a newbie any more - you're “PR6 website”.
3-5 campaigns should be enough. This month will also cost you $200… BUT… after the end of the month, when you have several working link exchange campaigns, you simply stop buying text links and wait for the next update.
If you made everything correctly, you will not loose your Pagerank (maybe even increase it).
So here's the simple way to reach PR6 for quite reasonable price. Or course $400 may be a big amount for a young webmaster or a newbie. But it'll save you from many months of exhausting work, from headaches; and it'll save your time. Finally, you'll also be able to sell your own text links in order to return your investments.
Good luck.

Sharmila Farooqi With Mubasshir Luqman

2011-07-10T14:57:00.000-07:00

Nine zero phones disconnected by the Govt.

2011-07-10T14:42:00.000-07:00

Is there any plan to attack on nine zero by Zulfiqar Mirza?
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Anees Qaimkhani has said that they are sons of Sindh soil and warned the government not to marginalize MQM otherwise the former do not complain tomorrow, Geo News reported.
Addressing a hurriedly called press conference at MQM headquarter Nine Zero (90), Anees Advocate said MQM in a press conference on Sunday rejected commissionerate system and after that landline telephones were disconnected.
MQM leader alleged that Mirza held meeting with Afaq Ahmed and planned to attack Nine zero with the help of terrorists of People’s Aman Committee.
He said this is not 92 or 95, it is 2011. He warned all PPP leaders and President Asif Ali Zardari for dire consequences if Nine zero attacked.
Anees said one PPP leader denies Mirza’s meeting with Afaq while other accept it.
He said now media and judiciary is independent today. He demanded of the CJP to take suo moto notice of disconnection of telephone lines of Nine zero as well. Conspiracy is being hatched against Sindh and Pakistan, he added.
Anees Qaimkhani asked for acceptance of resignation of MQM minister and said that PPP government should handle MQM democratically.

Is Tradekey & Alibaba Have Limited Buyers

2011-07-10T14:27:00.000-07:00

Real buyers are the real problem of world's largest B2B portals, like Alibaba, Tradekey
There have lots of buyers are inactive. They are not using these portals for buy any product. It is the problem for sellers too, How to find real buyers.

36 suspects Arrested by China Polic Over Alibaba Fraud Case

2011-07-10T13:57:00.000-07:00

China Police taken an brilliant action against the scammers.
36 suspects have been arrested in China for allegedly operating scams that netted US$6.6 million from customers of B2B websites like Alibaba.com, Tradekey.com, etc...

The arrested suspects operated by pretending to be legitimate suppliers on Alibaba.com. The arrests were made in the Putian, Chinese in April 2011, but were only disclosed on Wednesday at a news conference held by Alibaba and Hangzhou's public security bureau.

Buyers either did not get the products ordered while payments had been made to sellers or either they recieved totaly different or lower quality product. In past few years since online B2B marketplaces developed rapidly it had become a norm for buyers to get scammed.

As per the statement issued from Alibaba Hanzhou, the suspects used Alibaba.com and others websites to scam customers. Names of other websites has not been issued by Chinese police yet.

Alibaba took action against 36 suspects who were allegedly seen involved in fraud cases that had threatened to damage the reputation of Alibaba.com. In February, company took a bold step and revealed 2,326 suppliers on the alibaba.com website who had been engaged in scams against overseas buyers from 2009 to 2010. The fraud was so extensive that 100 sales people, along with several supervisors and sales managers were found responsible for allowing the crimes to evade detection.

Alibaba.com, and its parent company Alibaba Group, have sought to reassure customers of the site's safety. Alibaba.com's CEO and COO both resigned in response to the fraud cases, while employees involved with the fraud were terminated. Alibaba has also paid $1.94 million to compensate buyers who were victims on the fraud.

The 36 suspects, however, were only responsible for part of the fraudulent transactions committed on Alibaba.com, said Chan. The company has been assisting Chinese police to track down other suspects involved with e-commerce scams.

Following the disclosure of the fraud cases, Alibaba.com has taken new measures to prevent scams from taking place. Since February, the number of fraud complaints received monthly by Alibaba.com has declined 70 percent, according to the company.

Fantastic Efforts From Air China

2011-07-10T13:52:00.000-07:00

Fantastic move from Air China, I really appreciate them for this effort. Since increased oil prices and completion of high speed railway projects among major cities in China, airlines are actively seeking ways to reduce ticket prices. In the same effort Air China has undergone agreement with Alibaba Group's Alipay to sell tickets directly to customers from their online website.

Google's New Algorithms

2011-06-19T03:53:00.000-07:00

Here i want to talk about Google's New Algorithm. its really effect on SEO.

Let's Start...

Google's New Algorithms Technology Latest 2010 / 2011 Overview

Google's co-founder Larry Page focused on developing the "perfect search engine," an algorithm that would understand what you mean when you are typing a search term and the search engine will give you the exact results that you were looking for.
In our last count, we can happily reveal that there were more than 120 different factors that effect the natural rankings by Google's latest algorithm. The latest algorithm was updated to penalise websites that use forums with negative feedback to boost their rankings.
Google's New Algorithm 2010 / 2011 Revealed
Many SEO Gurus have attempted to give a rough outline of what the Google algorithm might look like. Based on research and suggestions this might be how the formula basically could look like;
Google's Score = (Kw Usage Score * 0.3) + (Domain * 0.25) + (PR Score * 0.25) + (Inbound Link Score * 0.25) + (User Data * 0.1) + (Content Quality Score * 0.1) + (Manual Boosts) - (Automated & Manual Penalties)

If you are asking yourself how does the latest 2011 algorithm work or what does SEO mean, you will find on this website all the secrets you want revealed for absolutely free. Learn how the algorithm best works and the most common factors that effect your website ranking with this breakthrough revealed information.

Search Engine Optimisation Key Word Usage Factors

Keyword in title tags
Rich Header tags
Documents rich with relevant text information
Keyword in alt tag
Keywords in internal links pointing to the page
Keywords in the domain and/or URL
The order key words appear

Domain Strength / Speed

Domain Strength
Domain Speed
Local/specific domain name
Quality Hosting

Registration history

When the Domain was registered
Strength of the links pointing to the domain
The topical neighborhood of domain based on the in bound and out bound links
Historical use and links pattern to domain
Inbound links and referrals from social media
Inbound Link Score

Age & Quality of links

Quality of the domains sending links (non paid)
Links from Authority Websites
Quality of pages sending links and relevance
Anchor text of links
Link quantity/weight metric (Page Rank or a variation)
Subject matter of linking pages/sites
User Data

Historical CTR to page in SERPs

Time users spend on a page
Search requests for URL/domain
Historical visits/use of URL/domain by users

Content Quality Score

Duplicate content filter
Order of key words in content
Content update frequency
Highlighted and visibility of keywords
Usability and W3C rules

Negative Penalties (for SEO purposes)
If you are using the social media for the sole purpose of boosting your rankings, Google might penalise your website. Google will not penalise your website if you are using these channels for normal activities.

Forums
Facebook
Twitter
Directory Themes
Article Submissions
Blogs
Too much 1 to 1 Link Exchange
Paid Links
FFA's (Free for all back links)

Google over the years have persistently pursued innovation, constantly updated its algorithm or algorythm (if that is the way you spell it) and refused to accept the limitations of existing models.As a result, Google's latest development was the breakthrough PageRank™ technology that changed the way searches are conducted today. And if there is one SEO company that knows how the algorithm works and how would it would boost your rankings on Google organic search that would be White Hat Works.
What's new about Google's latest algorithm in 2010 / 2011?
There is much talk in the SEO world about what Google is going to focus on in 2010. Matt Cutts, head of Google’s Webspam team has mentioned and hinted in various forums, Youtube and on his Blog that SEO professionals' latest focus should be in 2010. Part of the Caffeine project, apparently in 2010 the speed of your website and web pages loading will now play a major factor in the algorithm.
To achieve faster speed your website needs to be hosted on a super fast host and reducing the overall size of your web pages. Obviously this means moving to a better Internet Service Provider and serving faster websites by increasing the download speed.
This will mean less content on a page, utilising CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and images have to load faster. A webpage downloading speed of 3 seconds or less is pretty good, but 1 second or lower might have to be achieved in cases. You can now measure the speed with a program in the Google's Webmaster Tools.
Does this mean Google in a way is pushing developers to write and create better websites that load faster and content writers to write quality content instead of quantity content? and the digital marketing guys, will they have to be at the same time creative but their art work must be short, sweat and fast loading? Does using flash animations go out the window? Hosting Video clips on your own website? would that be wise? or better to be hosted on You Tube instead?
All these are questions and probably the answers you are looking for is, yes it is!
What could happen is Google favouring certain websites and in the other hand penalise other ones. Websites owners that keep stuffing their pages with content, customer reviews, endless blogs and articles, videos, links and endless images will be penalised.
The good news is websites that are clean, focused, compatible and fast will benefit.
Many SEO professionals are saying that this is not fair for the SME's (small to medium sized business) that cannot afford to be hosted on super fast hosts and do not have large teams that can restructure their websites to go faster. The question is how fast can the cooperate companies react to the ever growing demands of the Internet? Probably not and it will take them months before they even decide what to do. In the other hand SME's probably will be in a better position to react a lot faster due to quick decision making compensating for all the other factors.
The SEO e-marketers also mention about countries that have slow internet access, like in Scotland and other rural areas where you cannot get broadband? Are they going to get penalised? Probably not, as its the Google Bots measuring the speed and not at what speed the website is loaded in these areas on an end users computer. Actually Google in a way by "forcing" developers to increase their websites overall speed would mean these areas with no broadband will benefit in the long run. Mobile phone users with their web enabled devices like the iPhone and Nexus by Google will be able to load more and more websites, specially the ones that are more lean and load faster.
White Hat Works Conclusion for 2010 and 2011:

Host your website on a super fast Internet Service Provider
Use CSS as much as possible and comply with website usability
Write quality content, not quantity content
Convert your a Flash website to a HTML website
Export your Flash animations where possible - more SEO Tips
Keep images and their size to a minimum without loosing the quality
Test your website in various browsers and mobile phone devices
Make your website Google Friendly
Get free guidance from a reputable SEO E-marketing Company

Faster websites means Google can keep up with the growth of the Internet without the need to keep buying and installing new servers. Many have asked, how many servers does Google have? This is a well kept secret, but if you do your maths and calculations the number of servers could be around 700,000 and growing. These servers are spread over 100 data-centres around the globe and makes Google the largest IT producer of (Co2) carbon emissions on Earth.
Google is in the business of providing a top notch service and encouraging growth, but at the same time be profitable by keeping their costs and carbon emissions down.
Hence the need for this new factor that will be included in the updated Google 2010 Algorythm. Maybe the main reason Google is focusing on speed is because what they really are trying to do is to reduce their carbon foot print and we (SEO guys and website owners) all need to help them achieve this.
One effected company said:
We are an ecommerce site that has been running for almost 5 months and have seen steadily growing traffic. We have made no major changes to our website recently but are continually adding content and products to the site. Our site has been severely affected (almost 50% down on traffic) since last Tuesday (07/12/10) which coincides with the latest 2011 algorithm change which was the response to the New York Times article regarding Black Hat SEO techniques.
I have struggled to find much information about it and it doesn't seem to be widely talked about at the moment. As far as I can tell it will specifically target site reviews and penalise people with negative feedback. Because we are a relatively young site we don't have any feedback (negative or otherwise). Is it visible that this could have such a dramatic effect on a site that has essentially done nothing wrong and has anyone had the same problem?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated because we are being hit particularly hard in the lead up to Christmas which should be our busiest weeks.

Satable Afghanishtan not worth abandoning strategic interests

2011-06-19T03:43:00.000-07:00

Army chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani has told a visiting European delegation that "Pakistan wants a stable Afghanistan but not at the cost of Pakistan," suggesting that Islamabad wants to remain relevant in any peace initiative and is unlikely to accept a solution that would undermine its strategic interests.
This revelation was made by German Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development Dirk Niebel, who is currently visiting Pakistan alongside his European Union counterpart.
"We have to find a solution (to this problem) and Pakistan's cooperation with German and the EUcan be come the basis for the stability of the region," said Neibel.
Neibel did not clarify what sort of endgame German or the EU had in mind for Afhanistan, where several European nations, inculding German, have thousands of ttoops stationed.

New Dehli blames Islamabad

2011-06-19T03:30:00.000-07:00

New Dehli blames Islamabad for jeopardizing safety of Indian navy ship.

In a classic tit-for-tat movies that has come to define their volatile relationship, New Delhi on Saturday lodged protest with Islamabad over Pakistan naval relevant regulations on navigational safety by its "risky" manoeuvers, and jeopardizing the safety of Indian naval ship (INS) Godavari and its crew the times of India reported on Saturday.
On Friday, the Pakistan Foreign office had lodged an identical complaint with the Indian government over the "dangerous manoeuvre" of INS Godavari as it escorted Egyptian merchant vessel (MV) suez, recently released by Somali pirated, to port Salalah in Oman.

MetaCrawler

2011-06-18T12:54:00.001-07:00

Following are some of the MetaCrawler List