Does Google Hire "Mad Scientists?"

Written by Jim Edwards


Online search giant, Google, often testsrepparttar waters for new services by rolling out a "beta" (first) version of an idea to gauge public reaction.

By employing this strategy, it's easy to imagine a building full of creative, "mad scientist" types cooking uprepparttar 131570 latest and greatest online gizmos.

In fact, you can take a peek at what's cooking at Google by logging on to http://labs.google.com.

There you'll find glimpses ofrepparttar 131571 true "bleeding edge" technology Google thinks will shaperepparttar 131572 way we use information onrepparttar 131573 Internet inrepparttar 131574 very near future.

** Online Video Search **

Log on to http://video.google.com to seerepparttar 131575 next step in Google's quest to becomerepparttar 131576 world's foremost repository of online and offline information.

This first attempt at providing searchable data about video is currently restricted to recent television shows.

Unlikerepparttar 131577 video search at rival Yahoo! ( http://video.yahoo.com ) which provides a searchable database of actual video clips available for viewing right online, Google's video search results takerepparttar 131578 browser to a page with still frame images and text transcripts ofrepparttar 131579 show.

Since it rates much easier to search text than video, this particular format of transcript combined with still frame should win out overrepparttar 131580 straight video clip method (at least for now).

** Help With Keyword Searches **

One problem everyone encounters periodically online involves wanting to find something, but not knowing exactly how to phraserepparttar 131581 request to a search engine.

You sort of know what you want, but aren't 100% sure how to phrase it, orrepparttar 131582 results you get fromrepparttar 131583 phrases you use don't give yourepparttar 131584 results you want.

Log on to http://labs.google.com and clickrepparttar 131585 "Google Suggest" link (currently third link fromrepparttar 131586 top onrepparttar 131587 left side ofrepparttar 131588 page).

How to Double Your AdSense Income Instantly

Written by Daegan Smith


As you probably already know, AdSense is revolutionizingrepparttar way many infopreneurs are creating revenue from their web site traffic. The reason for this is its simplicity. Through AdSense, revenue is generated when someone simply clicks thrurepparttar 131568 AdSense ads displayed onrepparttar 131569 webmasters web site.

In this article I want to give you a few simple ways to dramatically increase your AdSense income.

The bottom line:

To increase AdSense income all you must do is increaserepparttar 131570 number of click thrus you receive.

There are two ways for you to increase your total number of click thrus. You can either increase your website traffic or you can increase your AdSense click thru rate. Now, getting more traffic would be great, but let’s be honest increasing your web site traffic is much easier said than done. So, let’s focus on increasing your AdSense click thru rate instead.

4 Tips to Increase Click Thru:

Match your AdSense to your website:

You want your AdSense ads to appear as seamless as possible. Your goal is to match every aspect of your AdSense ads torepparttar 131571 theme of your website. What you want to do is removerepparttar 131572 borders from your AdSense ads and matchrepparttar 131573 background color ofrepparttar 131574 ad to your website. Additionally, you want to matchrepparttar 131575 color ofrepparttar 131576 AdSense links torepparttar 131577 rest ofrepparttar 131578 links on your website plus choose an ad format that makesrepparttar 131579 ads look seamless.

For example, if your web site has a white background andrepparttar 131580 default color of your hypertext links is blue you will want to removerepparttar 131581 border from your AdSense, makerepparttar 131582 background white, choose either a square or a rectangle as your ad format instead of a skyscraper or banner, and yep you guessed it… makerepparttar 131583 links blue.

Placement Matters:

Where you place your AdSense ads is just as important as how they look. Luckily, there are only a few concepts that you need to worry about in order to increase your click through rate.

•The more white space around your adsrepparttar 131584 better •The closer torepparttar 131585 top ofrepparttar 131586 pagerepparttar 131587 better •The closerrepparttar 131588 left ofrepparttar 131589 pagerepparttar 131590 better

Follow these concepts and I can assure you that you will see an increase in your AdSense click thru rate. (It really is that simply!)

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