Happy Halloween and here is Google Halloween Doodle 2011

Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays and that’s not because I get to see weird costumes. Living in East Village of New York City I get to see plenty of interesting people, costumes and acts around the year. I actually like going trick-or-treating with my kids in the neighborhood. I have done that for more than 16 years now and it doesn’t get boring. I pretty much see how retailers in my neighborhood interact with kids – their customers. If I find a rude establishment or a less than generous entrepreneur, I try not to take any business to them for rest of the year. It is just my way to getting the pulse of local businesses.

I also encourage friends and neighbors to trick-or-treat for UNICEF.

“Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF” has become a common sight during Halloween in North America. Started as a local event in a Northeast Philadelphia neighborhood in 1950 and expanded nationally in 1952, the program involves the distribution of small boxes by schools (or in modern times, corporate sponsors like Hallmark, at their licensed stores) to trick-or-treaters, in which they can solicit small-change donations from the houses they visit. It is estimated that children have collected more than $118 million for UNICEF since its inception. In Canada, in 2006, UNICEF decided to discontinue their Halloween collection boxes, citing safety and administrative concerns; after consultation with schools, they instead redesigned the program.”

And, of course the parade But this year I am heading out to Amsterdam so I will have to trick-a-treat early. I know- it’s drag

Here is the Google video of Halloween:

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Twitter PR down 9 to Zero

Twitter PR went down? Google has dropped the PR of the Twitter. what was the reason that its PR went down to zero from 9. If anybody knows the reason please share with us.

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Who’s Driving the Most Traffic To News Sites?

No shocks here, Google tallies high as the large-scale lone person going by car of traffic to peak report sites with both Google Search and Google News, as asserted by Journalizm.com.

I use Google when I am seeking for data considering report or topics, and have not ever considered otherwise. Looks like I’m not the only one.

The study states on the mean 40% of report traffic arrives to peak report sites from outside referrals. The omnipresent seek motor was the lead mentioning location for 17 foremost report sites described in the study and graded second mentioning location for the other four.

Interestingly, as asserted by the study most of the referrals arise from theme or report event-related explorations like “Japan Tsunami” or “NCAA champion, men’s.” Users, who kind in the title of a exact location or data source, proceed to Google for the find.

Journalism.com accounts that Google’s leverage varies by the value of the site. When seeking for report inside legacy report sites with established famous emblems in their own right, Google was a less important source as a seek engine. At this grade, Google comprised an mean of 28.4% of the traffic per site.

Yahoo endeavours to contend with Google through its own seek motor, drawing only 2.7% of its traffic from its competitor. And it works the identical way for Google which got less than 1% of its traffic from Yahoo’s seek engine.

I occasionally marvel who has the most power over the Internet. Is it the seek motors or the communal networking platforms? If it’s the seek motors, which drives all the readers to one’s location, then Google directions the Internet.

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