Thaidoweb 2008

Thanks to a unique algorithm that produces most relevant results to any given query, Google has become, indisputably, the best search engine on the Internet. On the last count, Google has indexed over 4 billion pages and tackles around 200 million searches a day! A cluster of 100 thousand servers are used to store, crunch and spew out the query results with lightning speed that you are so accustomed to see.
This phenomenal growth has made Google from a garage startup [...]

Google is currently one of the dominant entities on the net period. The question is – is it really that omnipotent, is it really that advantageous. The question is ? IS IT REALLY "ALL THAT".
To understand role of Google in the modern net society we need to go deep into its roots. Google was born at hands of Larry Page (rich boy) and perfected by Sergey Brin (russian rich boy) at Stanford University. The idea was to rank internet pages [...]

The first question most people have is, "What the heck is a "Google?" It is a play on the word "googol," which is the mathematical figure 1 followed by 100 zeros. Depending on the level of your love for math, this is either the greatest or lamest name for a search engine. Regardless, the clever kids at Google have turned it into a cultural standard.
The Beginning
Larry Page and Sergey Brin co-founded Google in January of 1996, then known as BackRub. [...]

Google uses PageRank to rank your pages. To maximize your rank, you must understand how to work with it.
Page rank is defined as follows:
We assume page A has pages T1…Tn which point to it (i.e., are citations). The parameter d is a damping factor which can be set between 0 and 1. We usually set d to 0.85. There are more details about d in the next section. Also C(A) is defined as the number of links going out of [...]

Banners have been a major part of the World Wide Web world since
its early days. Copywriters burn the midnight oil looking for
new designs that will grab the visitor’s attention and compel
him to click on their banner. This article discusses some of the
most successful banner designs.
Teasing your curiosity
“Do Not Click Here”. How many of you have seen this slogan in a
banner? What did you do when you first saw it? If you are like
most people, when you first saw it, you [...]