Search Engines are trying to dominate Internet by learning and understanding how people use and navigate through websites. Lately all major search engine's Google, Yahoo, and Bing have started their attempts to track your website history. One of the reason that search engines show about tracking website history is that they are trying to improve the search results. The major question that comes to visitor is that are search engines going to far by creating customer based search results based on once internet activities? . The privacy of people who search on this search engines is getting affected. The one way to stop search engines from doing this is to switch off web history or to use a search engine that safeguards your privacy.

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The third annual crunchie award winners have been announced by Techcrunch. Here is the list of nominees and winners:

Best Technology Achievement:
Backblaze
Bing (Microsoft)
Chrome OS (Google) (Winner)
Google Wave
PuSH
Silverlight (Microsoft)

Best Internet Application:
Animoto
Dropbox (Winner)
Groupon
MOG All Access
Posterous
Yelp

Best Social App:
Aardvark
Brizzly
DailyBooth
Farmville(Winner)
SocialVibe
StockTwits

Best Bootstrapped StartUp:
atebits (Tweetie)
Shoes of Prey
Tinychat (Winner)
Wildfire Interactive
wizehive
Wufoo

Best Mobile Application:
foursquare (Winner)
Google Voice
Gowalla
Kindle for iPhone
Skies of Glory
Tonchidot

Best International:
Amiando
Jolicloud
Playfish
Spotify (Winner)
TweetDeck
vente-privee.com

Best Time Sink Application:
Canabalt
Civilization Revolution (iPhone)
DailyBooth (Winner)
I Am T-Pain
Pandora
Zoosk

Best Design:
Animoto (Winner)
Brizzly
Chrome (Google)
Clicker
Facebook Mobile
Threadsy

Best Enterprise:
Amazon Web Services
Atlassian
Azure (Microsoft)
Chatter (Salesforce)
Google Docs/Office (Winner)
Yext

Best CleanTech:
CalStar Products
Locust Storage
Picarro
Sappphire Energy
Sun Run (Winner)
Tendril

Best New Gadget:
Apple Magic Mouse
Barnes & Noble nook (Winner)
litl webbookMotorola Droid
Sonos S5
Zune HD

Best Tech PR:
Brew Media Relations
LaunchSquad
OutCast Communications
PerkettPR
Spark (Winner)
SutherlandGold Group

Best Angel:
Betaworks
Chris Sacca (Lowercase Capital)
Jeff Clavier (SoftTechVC)
Ron Conway (SV Angel) (Winner)
Y-Combinator
Yossi Vardi

Best VC Firm:
Accel Partners (Winner)
Charles River Ventures
Benchmark Capital
Greylock Partners
Sequoia Capital
True Ventures
Union Square Ventures

Founder Of The Year:
Aaron Patzer (Mint) (Winner)
Elon Musk (Tesla)
Jack Dorsey (Square)
Jeremy Stoppelman & Russ Simmons (Yelp)
John Borthwick (Betaworks)
Omar Hamoui (AdMob)

CEO Of The Year:
Josh Silverman (Skype)
Marc Benioff (Salesforce)
Mark Pincus (Zynga) (Winner)
Neil Young (ngmoco)
Richard Rosenblatt (Demand Media)
Tony Hsieh (Zappos)

Best New Startup Or Product Of 2009:
Aardvark
Bing (Microsoft) (Winner)
Foursquare
Hunch
Milo
Spotify

Best Overall Startup Or Product Of 2009:
Android (Google)
Facebook (Winner)
LinkedIn
ngmoco
Twitter
Zynga

Source of Information : http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/08/crunchies-winner/

Google page rank update happened on 31st December 2009. Google page rank update is like history repeated again. Last year Google page rank update came on the same date.

This is Google's new year gift to all SEO's and Webmasters. Google conveys the message of Happy New Year and wishes that all your websites and blogs get much higher page rank in the coming updates. Google page rank is not an important factor anymore as Google have removed the same from webmaster tools. Google usually updates page rank once in 3 or 4 months. The real-time page rank data is still a secret and only Google knows the exact real-time page rank. If you are a person who still gives value to the Toolbar PageRank then go check out your website's page rank. Hope all of you had a great page rank update.

Google India launches landmarks a new feature that will enable driving directions for users of Google Maps. Google map users can now navigate around locations using landmarks feature on their desktops and mobile phones to locate petrol pumps, colleges and schools, bus and railway stations,local businesses and much more. India is the first country in the world to get this feature on Google Maps.

This will be an helpful feature for all Indians as they can easily locate the places they want to travel. Google India has collected good landmark data through Google Map Maker to which users have added "points of interest" information. Googles uses a navigation algorithm determines the data based on importance, and closeness to the turns the user is making and other available informations. Google users can also enrich the current Google landmarks data with additional resources using Google Map Maker.

If you have your own business which you want to expand it's services and offers worldwide, you need to get listed. One of the sources I recommend for you to get your business listed in their index is Google. Google has their own feature called Google Business Center. It is where all business firms get listed there. Keywords are definitely recommended for your business to start with.

It's important that your business is listed at the Google Business Center's database, because when the visitors and customers are trying to search the business with a specific keyword for local searches, your business could be found there. You just need to fill up the correct details of your business.

For example, if you have a spa business in New York. If you have submitted this to local listings in New York, the keywords generated would be something like "spa new york" or "new york spa". But still, it really depends on how many business that matches your own business are listed there in local searching of Google Business Center database.

However, if your website has generated more clicks than the others, you may have a chance to be on the top of search rankings. But first, you need to index your website and optimize it in order to generate more clicks to your website. You can search for the top SEO consultants existed today in the internet, in any database you found that may give you better results to make your business look very popular.

Keyword mixing is truly makes your website unique in local and international searching. You have to make sure that the keywords you're using are unique or in low competition status. If you are using highly competitive ones, your listing will be all the way down below. So try to think that your business will soon be on the top of the mountain, not below on it as keywords for your business are a basis of getting more clicks to your website.