Microsoft Live - Powered with Discounts !!
Microsoft’s struggle to spearhead into search engine market has taken a new dimension. Microsoft announced today that they will be offering discounts to their consumers who perform internet shopping via Microsoft’s search engine. Using Live search, consumers will get a refund from the participating merchants when they order an item. The merchant’s discounts may vary between 2 to 20 percent. Undoubtedly, Google is the dominant leader in search engine market. However, Microsoft’s attempt will certainly bring new air into this field.
Visit http://www.live.com See the cashback logo on right side of the search bar.
You need to create an account for visiting the merchant’s site. I could find almost all major line of merchants like Circuit city, homedepot, Sears, newegg, barnes & nobles, ebags and many more.
I didn’t tried purchasing anything from here yet to recommend to use this or not. But if you are buying from these sites directly, it is better to take the advantage of this discounts.
| Why Not Bet on Yourself ?
Below is an “as is” extract from the book Psycho Cybernetics by Maltz Maxwell written in 1960. I thought to rewrite below para for this blog purpose, but I have decided to publish as is to retain its original flavor. Read it carefully and see how each word has deep meaning that reflects in each of us.
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Nothing in this world is ever absolutely certain or guaranteed. Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one’s better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
We often think of courage in terms of heroic deeds on the battlefield, in a shipwreck, or similar crisis. But everyday living requires courage, too, if it is to be effective.
Standing still, failure to act, causes people who are faced with a problem to become nervous, feel “stymied” “trapped,” and can bring on a host of physical symptoms.
I tell such people: “Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise - and go ahead. If we wait until we are absolutely certain and sure before we act we will never do anything. Any time you act you can be wrong. Any decision you make can turn out to be the wrong one. But we must not let this deter us from going after the goal we want. You must daily have the courage to risk making mistakes, risk failure, risk being humiliated. A step in the wrong direction is better than staying “on the spot” all your life. Once you’re moving forward you can correct your course as you go. Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you’re stalled, “standing still.”
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Social Tools - The Big talk !!
The word “Social” has never been so popular on internet after series of social websites came into existance. Social websites got into quick success one after another and few dominated demographically like Myspace, Facebook more popular in US, UK. Google’s Orkut more into Indian subcontinent. Whatever is the service, the bottomline is same.. more social tools for users to interact with their friends and family. And there came social bookmarking to share urls with others. An intelligent guy posted nice video on social bookmarking, it worth watching-
Just lately Google announced its upcoming product Friend connect that helps users to view friends from all other social websites. Not just Google, myspace and facebook announced last week about profile sharing accross other sites. The service providers are getting into more “social” with each other and thats really a good thing for users.
With more social sites getting popular around, sites offering SEO services scope has expanded alot. This gives more opporutnity for website owners to promote their site using various tools. I have seen myself the amount of traffic flowing from social sites is pretty good.
Powerset - Powered by Wikipedia !!
Do you Wikipedia?? Everyone does.. don’t they?? Quench for knowledge is never ending.. hmm..
Now you can ask questions to Wikipedia… how??
Just type in a question and hit enter… see the results for yourself. Powerset is entirely different search process and the results are quite close to the questions asked. Try it!!