10 Surprising Facts About Google

10. Google estimates that an ad on its homepage would cost $10 million.The space is not for sale.

9. The name Google is actually a misspelling of word googol a mathematical term meaning a 1 followed by 100 zeroes.

8. Google 'doodles' started in 1998 with a stick man placed behind the logo. It let users know the founders had gone to the burning man festival.

7. Google does not use lawnmowers to cut its grass. In 2009 they rented 200 goats to chow down on the grass at their HQ.

6. The Google homepage is available in over 80 languages. In case of alien invasion one of them is Star Trek's Klingon.

5. Google has its own dinosaur called Stan. The T-Rex skeleton lives at their California HQ.

4. Yahoo turned down the chance to buy Google for $1 million in 1997. Today it is worth $200 billion, Yahoo just $20 billion.

3. Google first tweet was 'I'm 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111
00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010. It means 'I'm feeling lucky in binary.

2. The 'I'm feeling lucky button costs Google over $100 million a year in lost ad revenue.

1. Google has more than 1 million servers - 2 % of the world's total. It receives over 1 billion search request every day.

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Have a busy shedule. Know how to set up an Online Timer here...

                            Online Timer

They say you are more productive if you can set up a time-bound goal. How would you like it if you not only manage your time better, but also manage to measure your efficiency precisely? With tablets and smartphones around, having a counting down timer can be taken for granted. But, what happens if you do not have one around, or your particular version of the smartphone or tablet does not have a countdown timer? Here is a simple solution for you, if you have an internet connection :

1) Figure out the time you need to count down from. If it is 77 minutes, for instance, then it can be either written as 1 hour, 17 minutes or 77 minutes, as you prefer.

2) Now, open up your browser and head to http://alrt.io/time-to-countdown-from. For instance, if your time was 77 minutes. you can type in http://alrt.io/1hour17minutes or http://alrt.io/77minutes. 

Caution: it might have browser problems.

3)  It will now bring up a screen and start the countdown, and when the time is finished, the timer will start flashing on the screen. However, the application does not have a sound alert, and it does not work in all browsers. But, as long as you are on Google Chrome or Safari browser, it works fine. Some mobile browsers also support the app.

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Top AdSense Earners of the World

Adsense is a google advertising programme for publishers and site owners of various websites.This programme makes the website owner to earn couple of hundreds of dollars by providing their advertisement in their website.It is free to join,once it is accepted, publishers can start their earning only when the visitors clicks the ads provided and they can earn few cents to couple of dollars depends on keyword which is competitive.

Here I listed top adsense earners of the world in 2012,





Mashable.com:

Mashable is one of the leading source for news ,technology ,information and resources to the connected people. It is the largest website with 20 millon unique vistors per month, 6 million social media followers all over the world.It is was launced in 2005 by pete cashmore.

Head quarter: san fransisco ,New york

Website: http://mashable.com/

Visitors: 20 million more visitors per month

Adsense earnings: $ 600,000 per month

Launched : 2005





Digital point:

Digital point website is one of the most popular discussion forum of web related including tools, optimization etc. The founder of this website (shawn .D.hogun) is CEO of digital point solutions.He started the website when he was 19 yrs old and develop this website to successful stage.

Website: forum.digitalpoint.com

Alexa rank : 286

Visitor: 20 million visitors per month

Adsense earning: $500,000

Launched : 1995





Plentyoffish:

It is the free online dating and match making service and having 3 million dating users per day.It is founded by markus frin, it is most popular in canada,australia ,USA etc.

Website: http://www.pof.com/

Alexa rank: 274

Visitors : 3 million visitors

Adsense earning : $300,000

Launched : 2003





Digg.com:

It is a website or a platform to discover and share contents from anywhere on the web and it is most popular for news, videos, pictures etc.It was started in november 2004 by kevin rose and it is one of the largest website with more than one million visitors per day.

Website: http://digg.com/

Alexa rank: 185

Adsense earning : $250,000 per month.

Founder: Kevin rose

Launched: 2004

Visitors : more than 1 million visitors per day





Techcrunch.com:

It  specilies for information about start ups,mobiles, gadgets and technical aspects. This website is founded by michael arrington in 2005. It is getting decent visitors population all over the world. Now this website belongs to yahoo.

Founder: Michael Arrington

Website: http://techcrunch.com/

Alexa rank : 6

Adsense earning : $ 240,000

Launched : 2005

Visitors : more than 1 million visitors per day

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'Time is always right to do what is right.' Know facts about time here....

10. Days get 1.4 milliseconds longer every century as Earth's rotation slows. At the time of dinosaurs a day lasted 23 hours.

09. We all live in the past. The time lag between things happening and us experiencing them is around 80 milliseconds.

08. Stalin abolished the weekend in 1930 to increase productivity. The Soviet Union then changed its week to 6 days and eventually back to 7 days in 1940.

07. The shortest moment of time that can exist is Planck time. It is approximately 5.39 * 10^-44 seconds long.

06. If Earth's existence were compressed into just 24 hours humans would arrive at 1 minute to mid-night.

05. Up until the 1800's most villages had their own time zones. Clocks were synchronized to the locar solar noon, making train travel somewhat complicated.

04. The World's most accurate clock measures vibrations with a single atom of mercury. In 1,000,000,000 years, it will not loose a single second.

03. All animals have same life span at roughly 1.5 billion heartbeats. An elephant lives longer than a mouse because its heart beats slower.

02. Einstein found that gravity slows down time. Subsequently hot air balloon passengers age a few nano seconds more per flight.

01. Some scientific theories suggest the expansion of cosmos is an illusion caused by the slowing of time. According to this time may eventually stop.

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Earth's Most Mysterious event with a Person (Gil Perez)

The Mystery event of Gil Perez (October 24, 1593) 

Gil Perez was a member of Filipino Guardia Civil during XVIth century in Manila, Philippines. That day while on his guard duties at the Governor's palace, Perez decided to lean against a wall and rest for a moment next moment Perez was found confused, in his uniform of the palace guards, in Mexico city's Plaza Mayor. More than 13,600 km away from where he was a few minutes before.

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Top 5 Best Racing Games

Dirt 3

5.   Dirt 3

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit

4.   Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit

Gran Turismo

3.   Gran Turismo 5

Burnout Paradise

2.   Burnout Paradise

Forza Motorsport 4

1.   Forza Motorsport 4

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Prehistoric MuSiC

I am back with the history of MUSIC in different eras. The first era on my list is PREHISTORIC ERA. Here I go.

Prehistoric Music

Prehistoric music (previously called primitive music) is a term in the history of music for all music produced in preliterate cultures (prehistory), beginning somewhere in very late geological history. Prehistoric music is followed by ancient music in different parts of the world, but still exists in isolated areas. Prehistoric music thus technically includes all of the world’s music that has existed before the advent of any currently-extant historical sources concerning that music of the early stage of development of the human. However, it is more common to refer to the "prehistoric" music which still survives as folk, indigenous or traditional music. Prehistoric music is studied alongside other periods within Music Archaeology.


Origins
Research on the evolutionary origins of music mostly started in the second half of the 19th century, and was much discussed within Music Archaeology in the 20th Century. After the appearance of the collection of articles "The Origins of Music" (Wallin, Merker, Brown, 2000) the subject was a debated topic of human evolutionary history. There are currently many hypotheses (not necessarily conflicting) about the origins of music.

Some suggest that the origin of music likely stems from naturally occurring sounds and rhythms. Human music may echo these phenomena using patterns, repetition and tonality. Even today, some cultures have certain instances of their music intending to imitate natural sounds. In some instances, this feature is related to shamanistic beliefs or practice. It may also serve entertainment (game) or practical (luring animals in hunt) functions.

Even aside from the bird song, monkeys have been witnessed to beat on hollow logs. Although this might serve some purpose of territorialism, it suggests a degree of creativity and seems to incorporate a call and response [citation needed] dialogue. From a psychological viewpoint, the question of the origin of music is difficult to answer. Music evokes strong emotions and changed states of awareness.


Prehistoric Musical Instruments

It is likely that the first musical instrument was the human voice itself, which can make a vast array of sounds, from singing, humming and whistling through to clicking, coughing and yawning. (See Darwin’s Origin of Species on music & speech.) The oldest known Neanderthal hyoid bone with the modern human form has been dated to be 60,000 years old, predating the oldest known Paleolithic bone flute by some 20,000 years; but the true chronology may date back much further.

Hope you will the blog and stay tuned for the next era. ;)

Also Read : History Of Music
Also Read : What is Music

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Top 5 Worst Traffic Cities (United States)

Bridgeport

5. Bridgeport : Drivers waste 42 hours in traffic.

San Fransisco

4. San Francisco : Drivers waste 48 hours in traffic.

Los angeles

3. Los Angeles : Drivers waste 56 hours in traffic.

New York

2. New York : Drivers waste 57 hours in traffic.

Honolulu

1. Honolulu : Drivers waste 58 hours in traffic.

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Presidential Cars (United States)

The Presidential state car is the official state car used by the President of the United States.The most recent vehicle to be customized as the presidential car is a Chevrolet Kodiak-based, Cadillac-badged limousine often referred to as Cadillac One and occasionally as Limo One (a reference to the U.S. presidential aircraft, Air Force One) or as The Beast.

Cadillac One

2009 Cadillac "Cadillac One", used by Barack Obama.

Cadillac DTS

2005 Cadillac DTS, used by George W. Bush.

Cadillac Fleetwood

1993 Cadillac Fleetwood, used by Bill Clinton. 

Lincoln Town Car

1989 Lincoln Town Car, used by Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush.

Other Countries  : The Emperor of Japan uses a Toyota, the Prime Minister of Italy uses a Maserati and the British monarch uses a Bentley. The President of France can choose from a fleet of luxury vehicles manufactured by Renault or PSA Peugeot Citroën and all major German manufacturers (Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Volkswagen Group) are represented in Germany's pool of vehicles available for use by the Chancellor and other state officials.

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HiStoRy of "MUSIC"

Hope everyone who reads our blog found our last blog, "What is MUSIC..??" informative and interesting. Now let me start the history of music. I will not give a extensive knowledge but a fair amount of knowledge. All of us wants to know about the history of music. So here we are:

History

Music is found in every known culture, past and present, varying wildly between times and places. Since all people of the world, including the most isolated tribal groups, have a form of music, it may be concluded that music is likely to have been present in the ancestral population prior to the dispersal of humans around the world. Consequently music may have been in existence for at least 50,000 years and the first music may have been invented in Africa and then evolved to become a fundamental constituent of human life.

A culture's music is influenced by all other aspects of that culture, including social and economic organization and experience, climate, and access to technology. The emotions and ideas that music expresses, the situations in which music is played and listened to, and the attitudes toward music players and composers all vary between regions and periods. "Music history" is the distinct subfield ofmusicology and history which studies music (particularly Western art music) from a chronological perspective.

In my next blog of music we will tell you about the history of music in different eras of the world. Stay tuned with our blog. ;)

Also Read : What is Music
Also Read : Prehistoric Music

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What is MUSIC..??

All of us around the globe love to listen music. It give us pleasure, it relaxes us, it make us happy, it us tells our state of mind. Music have become an integral part of everyone's life. But do u know the exact meaning of music? Do u? I guess no. So let me tell you the meaning of word music.

What is the meaning of word "MUSIC"

Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture.

The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music vary according to culture and social context. Music ranges from strictly organized compositions (and their recreation in performance), through improvisational music to aleatoric forms. Music can be divided into genres and sub genres, although the dividing lines and relationships between music genres are often subtle, sometimes open to individual interpretation, and occasionally controversial. Within "the arts", music may be classified as a performing art, a fine art, and auditory art. It may also be divided among "art music" and "folk music". There is also a strong connection between music and mathematics. Music may be played and heard live, may be part of a dramatic work or film, or may be recorded.

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To many people in many cultures, music is an important part of their way of life. Ancient Greek and Indian philosophers defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies and vertically as harmonies. Common sayings such as "the harmony of the spheres" and "it is music to my ears" point to the notion that music is often ordered and pleasant to listen to. However, 20th-century composer John Cage thought that any sound can be music, saying, for example, "There is no noise, only sound." Musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez summarizes the relativist, post-modern viewpoint: "The border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus ... By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be."

Hope all the music lovers will find it useful and stay tuned for our next blogs on history of music. :) ;)

Also Read : Prehistoric Music
Also Read : History Of Music

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Top 3 most expensive cars of 2012

Ferrari 599XX

3rd place is the Ferrari 599XX for one easy payment of $2,000,000. There are a limited number due to the steep price.

Bugatti Veyron Super-sport

2nd place and second most expensive car on the market is the Bugatti Veyron Super-sport for $2,600,000.

Maybach Exelero

1st place and currently the most expensive car in the world is Maybach Exelero. This two-seater coupe is for $ 8,000,000.

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Best Luxury Cars In The World

The main purpose behind designing luxury cars is to provide a true experience of journey. It’s very difficult to rank these luxury cars as the best rated luxury cars provide almost equal features with almost same price range. Due to their smoothness, safety, interior and exterior design, comfortable and performance, luxury car brands are most popular world wide. If we started listing or make a list of luxury cars, the list will be too long. The below list of best rated luxury cars are made considering their popularity, awards and reviews. This is not the top 10 luxury cars list as you started searching for top 10 luxury cars, in every article you will get different results. So, consider this list as just the top or best rated luxury car brands in the world.

Only one model of each luxury car brands are included in the list.

List of best rated car brands in the world :

Rolls Royce Phantom

Starting from 1925, the Rolls Royce is just a royal brand among the luxury cars. Though its too expensive, this flying lady is most popular for its sophisticated design and powerful engine. The unique feature of this car is the owner of this car can personalize the interior design as per his needs.

Bentley Mulsanne

Bentley is a renowned automobile company originated from British. Models of Bentley are super luxurious with powerful engine and extra-ordinary inner as well as outer decoration. Bentley Mulsanne contain 6752 cc turbo 8 engine.

Maybach 62 S

Maybach 62S comes with a whole host of features and extremely comfortable interiors. The 612bhp twin-turbo V12 allows sheer waft ability, but on the downside, it glues the expensive liquid quite heavily. And at over Rs.5 cr it is such that very few can afford it.

Mercedes Benz CLS 63 AMG

The new Mercedes Benz CLS Class launched newly is the face lifted version. It now has the innovative Blue Efficiency technology in it. The New CLS Class is available in two variants - New Mercedes Benz CLS Class 350 BE and the most powerful and German engineering at its best New Mercedes Benz CLS Class 63 AMG

BMW 7 Series

The BMW 7 Series 730ld is the top most full sized luxury car. The world has seen 5 generations of the 7 Series since it was introduce and the one BMW sells in India is the Long Wheel Base version hence the abbreviation L in its name LD. With all facilities and super comfortable interior, this is just a master piece from BMW.

Porsche - Panamera

The Porsche-Panamera Turbo S model consists of a 4.8lt twin turbo engine with a power of 550bhp @6000rpm. Porsche models are always a favorite among the people for its beautiful looks and high class smoothness and interior design. The luxury super fast auto vehicles from Porsche, are developed with resourceful drive concept, and the highly vibrant body is supplemented its light weight.

Audi A8 L 6.3 W12 Quattro

The Audi A8 is a 5 seated luxury car marketed and manufactured by German auto-giant Audi. This petrol model of Audi A8 consists of W12 6.3 FSI engine with a power of 493bhp@6200 rpm. With a great and simple style both from interior and outer body, comfortable driving and a great pick-up, the Audi A8 is just a stunning success from Audi.

Jaguar XJ Premium Luxury 3.0L

Jaguar XJ L Ultimate Premium Luxury 3.0L is powered by a 2993 cc Diesel Engine. The price of Jaguar XJ L Ultimate Premium Luxury 3.0L Diesel model in India is around Rs. 9041908 /-*. Its engine type is 3.0 LITRE V6 DIESEL LWB and with 6 cylinder its produced a max power of 271.2 bhp@4000rpm.

Hope you will like the blog and stay in touch for more interesting info. ;)

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