Archive for May, 2008
Below is a listing of the top 10 search engines in the United States. These listings are displayed in ranking order for the top 5 search engines and alphabetical order for 2nd tier search engines along with links to their FAQ’s and Add/Submit URI pages.
Search Engine Statistics - What Market Share?
According to 2008:
- Google has the largest market share of U.S. based web searches at 67%
- 2008 February 66.44%
- 2008 January 65.98%
- 2007 December 65.98%
- 2007 November 65.10%
- 2007 October 64.49%
- 2007 September 63.55%
- 2006 October 60.94%
- Yahoo is second with a market share of 20%
- 2008 February 20.59%
- 2008 January 20.94%
- 2007 December 20.88%
- 2007 November 21.21%
- 2007 October 21.65%
- 2007 September 22.55%
- 2006 October 22.34%
- MSN is third with a market share of 7%
- 2008 February 6.95%
- 2008 January 6.90%
- 2007 December 7.04%
- 2007 November 7.09%
- 2007 October 7.42%
- 2007 September 7.83%
- 2006 October 10.72%
- Ask is fourth with a market share of 4%
- 2008 February 4.16%
- 2008 January 4.21%
- 2007 December 4.14%
- 2007 November 4.63%
- 2007 October 4.76%
- 2007 September 4.32%
- 2006 October 4.34%
Top 5 Search Engines in the United States (The Majors) by Rank
- Google - Free Submit: http://www.google.com/addurl/
- Yahoo! Search - Free Submit: http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request/
- MSN Live Search - Free Submit: http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx
- AOL Search - Submit: https://adwords.google.com/select/
- Ask - FAQs: http://static.wc.ask.com/en/docs/about/webmasters.shtml#18
Alphabetical Listing of 2nd Tier Search Engines
- AltaVista - Free Submit: http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request/
- Fast (AlltheWeb.com) - Submit: http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request/
- Gigablast - Free Submit: http://www.gigablast.com/addurl
- Netscape Search - Free Submit: http://www.google.com/addurl/
- Snap.com - Submit: http://www.snap.com/
URL: Convex9
Call your dear ones unlimited using Convex9 VoIP services. Unique features include:
- Licensed VOIP Service Providers in INDIA.
- Only Broadband connection required.
- Easy setup.
- VoIP phone connection in India with USA number.
- 24/7 Customer service in the USA and India.
- Flexible yearly plans.
- Trial periods available.
Residential :
Monthly : 29.99$ on which Free 250 minutes from India to 140 destinations are included.
Yearly : 299.99$ that costs 19.99$ per month. This includes 500 free minutes to 140 destinations.
Convex9 VoIP services works very much like the any other VoIP service but with additional features you get in India with much lower rates than most of them with the following advantages:
- Customer Service in India.
- Only Broad band needed.
- Necessary permissions to provide ITSP services all over India legally.
- Assistance with ISP Providers for Broadband connections in India.
- Technical Support in India.
- Customized adapters to suit Indian conditions to handle power fluctuations and outages.
- Follow me service (Customer can login and provide the number to be re-directed to any number in India or any number in A-Z countries listed).
- No Contracts.
Hope many more voip providers come up in India, this will surely reduce the call charges.
Rainbow Blitz is a fairly simple game. The entire gameplay is on one screen - a house flanked by two cannons which coordinate aim and discharge with a single click on the mouse button.
The objective is to protect the house from randomly falling clusters of bombs by blowing them up with the cannons. The visuals of the game are smooth and colorful while the game progresses at a relatively slow pace. You can only destroy the bombs when projectiles shot from both cannons collide in the air next to a falling bomb.
The ensuing explosion can result in detonating bombs in close proximity to the explosion. The more bombs you destroy, the higher your score climbs, and the more bombs you destroy with one coordinated shot, the more bonus points you get.
Hints, tips, cheats and Instructions:
Aim and shoot with the mouse, shoot symbols too to get more weapons
URL: xpantispy.org
OS: Windows XP, Windows Vista
Type: Freeware
Manufacturer: Christian Taubenheim
File Size: 320 Kb
Price: Free
Many of us are very wary of the information our computer is sending back to software suppliers over the internet, security issues with the software installed on our computer and scares regarding the Windows operating system.
XP-AntiSpy is a tool that enables you to configure Windows so that it doesn’t use the internet to either submit feedback or download information without your knowledge.
For instance, Windows Media Player will look to the internet for information regarding song titles and will automatically download codecs when required.
It has been reported that it might submit usage information to Microsoft, and will save usage information to your system and much more.
Of course, most of this is speculation in the same manner that some of us worry about what supermarkets do with our personal shopping information when we use our ‘loyalty card’.
Generally speaking, they do nothing apart from use the information for statistical purposes. However, this doesn’t stop us worrying about submitting that information in the first place.
XP-AntiSpy will go deep in to your Windows operating system and enable you to turn off anything that you feel you do not want reported or submitted over the internet.
URL: www.freeworldgroup.com/games6/gameindex/tank-2008-final-assault.htm
As a one-man army in a combat tank, you have all the resources available from your allies. Using a tank to crush the strong rebel forces, you must complete a series of missions to ensure a comprehensive victory. Users control the tank through a third- person, overhead view or top-down perspective of the game map. The W-A-S-D keys will navigate your tank tank through the war-torn streets and using your mouse, simply point to aim and click to shoot. The game is fairly straight-forward and before each level you are briefed on the objectives, whether it is destroying enemy positions, vehicles and installations, civilian vehicles, foot soldiers, or even trees (to obtain hidden ocdes - and just to hate on the environment).
Completing certain missions will allow you to upgrade your tank’s arsenal but try not to kill the allies and hostages. Killing friendlies causes you to lose the game. The sliding Control Menu and Buy Menu is not distracting and allows your combatant to call up a range of features and options. Playing this game lets you to enjoy the feeling of pure destructive power.
URL: www.codershole.com/downloads.php
OS: Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows Visita
File Size: 667 Kb
iDump is a godsend to iPod users who are frustrated with not having enough control over the media files on their iPods. Users of the iPod are inherently unable to copy and store music files between their iPod and different computer with iTunes. This handy iPod hack will allow users to copy songs from and iPod to a PC just as they would copy any other file.
It works for all iPod models excluding the new iPod Touch and iPhone. Users can install the iDump in three languages English, Spanish and German, and periodically check for updates.
Although there have been several shareware choices to allow you to copy songs from your iPod to your computer, the freeware field has been empty–until now.
iDump offers a clean, spreadsheet-style layout that displays all music on your iPod. That lengthy list can be narrowed via the search function. Songs can be organized by terms as familiar as song name or artist to the more esoteric year, bit rate, or even location on the iPod. The app displays the song’s iPod path, cracking Apple’s unusual file-saving protocol. A main window tab takes you to output options, and from there you just have to choose your songs and hit Copy. Clicking once on a song selects it, and there’s also a smart feature that plays the song you’ve selected in iTunes. Clocking in at under 1MB, iDump is small enough to live on your iPod. We’ll let you figure out why that’s a good thing.
iDump does have some stability problems, and it doesn’t automatically import backed-up songs into iTunes once they’ve been copied to your hard drive, a definite drawback. Those are small quibbles, though, compared to what you get for free.
