With Live Search Cashback, Microsoft has determined that it’s willing to take roughly difficult losses to acquire search market cut. Ignoring the bribery, which unavoidably will have towards end, the search engine itself is actually pretty obedient.

The benefit of this program for the merchant is that it’s a cost-per-battle plan for customer acquisition, with the cash bribe coming from the merchant and going into the customer’s description. Usually the search machine corporation would escort a reduction of that funds — or every of it — but for now Microsoft is passing the entire amount back to the customer. It’s top in many ways than the sacrifice-apiece-click plan that’s typical of Google AdWords, which makes the merchant pay but doesn’t pledge a trade. It’s a lot harder to perpetrate “combat sham” than “click sham,” for example.

Live Search Cashback beats Google Product Search with the “Bottomline Price” present. I can’t impart you how many era I’ve searched for the best price by a product, only towards extend through mainly of the purchase process and observe obtainable there are extra processing sum or outrageously high shipping charges. So back I attempt towards the search schedule and try some other sites until single of them has a reasonable total cost. Reside Hunt eliminates persons empty-basket shopping trips by viewing the actual price after tax, shipping, and money back allowance. Several other investigate engines like PriceGrabber allow this feature as well; it’s shocking that Google lags after here.

A ration of you perhaps work for sizeable companies and produce troupe credit cards. That is one of the chairs where purchase gimmicks can generate sales, and one of the reasons why I lecturer’t like them. I’m a issue owner, and these kinds of deals supply the incorrect incentives. Workers can be tempted to turn visitors purchases toward these deals not because they’re the best price, but because they acquire towards curb the kickbacks — rebates, gift certificates, airline miles, you name it.

In the outcome, what I very want is to fast acquire a creation at a good price, and my experiments with Live Search Cashback did that. I’d dearest to understand Dwell Search incorporate product and merchant reviews, which Google Products already has; a good cost means nothing stipulation the merchant can’t deliver or the creation doesn’t run. While a lot of people will no doubt come to Live Exploration for the cash back, Microsoft’s built a search appliance that’s lovely enough to treat whether they compensate you or not.

A look at some of the deadliest natural disasters around the world in the past 40 years:

- May 2008: Earthquake (magnitude 7.8) hits Sichuan province in central China. Thousands are killed.

- May 2008: Cyclone Nargis strikes Myanmar, killing more than 30,000 and leaving an additional 30,000 missing.

- October 2005: Northern Pakistan earthquake (magnitude 7.6) kills about 78,000 people.

- August 2005: U.S. Gulf Coast Hurricane Katrina kills at least 1,600 people in Louisiana and Mississippi.

- December 2004: Indian Ocean tsunami (triggered by magnitude 9.0 earthquake) kills 230,000 in a dozen countries.

- December 2003: Southeastern Iran earthquake (magnitude 6.5) kills 26,000.

- January 2001- Gujarat earthquake (magnitude 7.9), epicenter: Bhuj, Western Gujarat. Over 20,000 killed.

- October 1999- Orissa’s super-cyclone- Over 10,000 killed.

- August 1999: Western Turkey earthquake (magnitude 7.4) kills 17,000.

- October 1998: Central America Hurricane Mitch kills 9,000.

- April 1991: Bangladesh cyclone kills 140,000.

- June 1990: Northwestern Iran earthquake (magnitude 7.7) kills 50,000.

- July 1976: Northeastern China earthquake (magnitude 8.2) kills 240,000, with some estimates at 655,000.

- November 1970: Bangladesh cyclone kills 300,000. World's deadliest cyclone on record.

Google Earth plans to bring even more than Earth and Sky


It was only a matter of time until the Mountain View-based company started looking for new worlds to explore so, after reaching the earth and the sky, Google
gets ready for the ocean. Elinor Mills of CNET reports that Google may be interested in developing a 3D version of the ocean which would be integrated into Google's downloadable tool, Google Earth.

A few weeks ago, Google rolled out Google Earth 4.3 beta, a brand new version of the application which incorporates many new functions such as Street View. Moreover, the Sky support was implemented a long time ago so the Ocean would be an obvious addition.

According to the same source mentioned above, Google refused to comment the speculations, saying that the Mountain View-based company has "nothing to announce right now." However, Elinor Mills writes that Google "has assembled an advisory group of oceanography experts, and in December invited researchers from institutions around the world to the Mountain View, Calif., Googleplex." Moreover, "they discussed plans for creating a 3D oceanographic map, according to sources familiar with the matter."

Obviously, such an improvement would be an amazing update and an extremely useful function for oceanographers because it would help them explore the underwater world. In fact, it's already known the fact that Google Earth is currently being used by numerous scientists out there for all kinds of purposes including monitoring volcano activity in different regions of the world.

"There is no real terrain or depth model for the ocean in Google Earth. You can't get in a submarine and in essence fly through the water and explore ocean canyons yet," Tim Haverland, a geospatial application developer at the Fisheries Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told CNET

There was an anti-France/anti-Carrefour/anti-Tibetan independence protest in China over the weekend (Carrefour is a large supermarket chain based out of France), and this taxi driver was quick to capitalize on the anti-French mood! Maybe it’s just because the French don’t tip well