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(A comparative study of Google, Yahoo and Msn)

It’s very interesting and baffling too! A stiff competition exists among the three major search websites. Every now and then, websites rank among one another. Surveys are conducted from time to time in order to gauge the traffic flow and thereby evaluate the popularity of the websites.

Popularity of the three search engines

To mention, in 2004,a survey conducted by Forrester Research revealed that Yahoo increased its market search to 40% alongside Google, which also owned the same value of market search. MSN followed in with 23%. The same year, comScore Networks released a data evaluating the traffic flow to the three major search engines. Yahoo ranked first with more than 115 million unique visitors. MSN invited around 113 million visitors while Google ranked fourth with 63 million web users (Source- http://www.searchengineguide.com/jennifer-laycock/yahoo-gains-on-googleor-does-it.php). (more…)

(A comparative study of Google, Yahoo and Msn)
Websites are at loggerheads with one another in order to establish one’s omnipotence in the cyber world. Every now and then, huge products and services have been added up by the websites.

In the following lines, an attempt has been made to give you overall glimpse of the product and services of the three major websites namely Google, Yahoo and Msn.

Birth of Yahoo, Msn and Google

The last few years of the 20th century witnessed significant achievements in the cyber world. Google, Yahoo and Msn were born and started to exercise a great influence.

Founder and Year of Birth (more…)

What is a site link? What factors work in getting site links for a website? All these questions often hover over our minds.

Site Links

The links that appear below some websites in the Google search engine results page are known as site links. An algorithm automatically generates these site links from site contents. Google says they “analyze the link structure of your site to find shortcuts.” The site links helps the web visitors to navigate through the web pages in a fast and easy manner.

All websites do not get site links. Even the most renowned companies like GE and eBay have not achieved site link status. (more…)

(A comparative study of Google, Yahoo and Msn)

Today, our lives have become more simple and easy. The dot.com world has transformed the big world into a small global village. We feel more connected to each other than ever before.

Big websites like Google, Yahoo, MSN and others offer huge gamut of services. We can access any information, news of the world anytime, anywhere.

Advent of the World Wide Web is one of the significant achievements in the history of technological advancement. Web has become a platform of active participation wherein people across the world are closely associated with one another. The rise of social networking sites and web-based communities speak volumes of the new trend where the Web has transformed into “architecture of participation”. (more…)

Flash provides the power to create sophisticated custom graphics, that too, within a short period. Apart from creating graphics in Flash with the help of the tools, graphics can also be imported from other files. First, it is necessary to understand two different types of graphics, viz. Vector or Object-oriented graphics and Raster or Bitmap graphics.

Vector Graphics/Object-oriented Graphics

Vector graphics are made up of lines and curves that are defined by mathematical objects called Vectors. Vectors describe an image according to its geometric characteristics.

Vector graphics are the best choice for representing bold graphics, like, logos. There are two main advantages of vector graphics- firstly, the file size remains small and secondly, they are resolution-independent, i.e. they can be scaled to any size and resolution without losing any detail or clarity.

All the graphics created in Flash are vector based. Despite all its advantages, vector graphics appear a bit unrealistic on the computer screen. (more…)

Live videos, sound, animation is the hot pie of modern web. Be it a business, e commerce website, to name a few, all have been using these devices to make the websites more interactive and appealing.

Gone are the times when websites were made of simple static pages with fixed background and flat colors. Websites have undergone a huge makeover in recent past. Today, video clippings constitute an integral of as part of the overall design of the newly built websites.

Rise of Clip Culture

With the growth of broadband network, video clips began to be added to websites increasingly. This new trend has given rise to new set of values within the web arena and set up a new web culture popularly known as the clip culture. (more…)