Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: February 1, 2013

This week at the Search Engine Roundtable, we share the anger webmasters have about the new Google image search design. Some webmasters are upset with BingBot crawling too much and possibly even AdWords ads

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"The Scale of the Universe" Tool is as Mind-Blowing As It Is Educational

Before reading on, we must warn you that your next 20 minutes should be free, because once you discover the Flash tool "Scale of the Universe", that's just about the amount of time you'll need before you'll be able to focus on other things. Its goal is to help put the universe into perspective, size-wise, from top-to-bottom. If you like having...

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Credit Card Processing for Smooth Running of Your Business

The credit card processing facility has become a necessity for running business as most of the people use this facility to pay bills. Card transactions by mail, phone, internet, retail and purchases are done by credit card processing companies. The company which provides good facilities at a reasonable rate should be considered.

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50+ Events in Social Media, Online Marketing, PR and more

Check out the latest events to find opportunities for learning, networking and leading your industry.

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Why Every Responsible Adult Needs a Credit Card

In the modern world, paper money is not just an ever disappearing aspect of the economy, it is a very limited monetary unit. You can't use cash to make online purchases. Checks are only secure enough to use to pay bills to trusted companies. The same is true of most bank bill-pay programs. Cash is easy to steal and rarely traceable. Credit cards, on the other hand, offer the ability to carry high amounts of purchasing power with you wherever you go with very limited personal risk. Just as importantly, cards are the primary online and international purchasing medium in the global economy.

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Review: Classic Shell brings the Start menu to Windows 8 for free

Windows 8 doesn't have a Start button. If you don't think that's something that needs fixing, you're probably in the minority, at least for now. Maybe in time, Windows 8's Modern-style Start Screen will grow on users and it'll turn out Microsoft was right all along. Until that happens, there's a flourishing niche of aftermarket utilities that bring the Start button (and menu) back to Windows 8, from excellent ones like Stardock's Start8, to ones that add value like Pokki. But you don't need to pay to get a Start button: There's one tool that's free, open-source, and very customizable. Meet Classic Shell.

This is my Classic Shell Start menu, but yours may end up looking completely different, depending on your taste.

Unlike most Start menu replacements, Classic Shell has been around for a while. Its first version came out in November 2009, long before Windows 8 was even close to public. At the time, it was meant to fix interface annoyances in Windows Vista. That was version 0.9 (the first publicly available version), and today, more than three years later, it's at version 3.6.4. As software projects are wont to do, Classic Shell grew over time, and now consists of three separate parts: Classic Explorer, Classic Start Menu, and Classic IE9.

That tendency of software projects to grow and morph over time is exactly what Classic Shell sets out to fix. It doesn't try to invent anything new: In the project's own words, Classic Shell is "a collection of features that were available in older versions of Windows but were later removed." You're not going to find any groundbreaking UI innovations here, and in my eyes, that's a good thing. These are interface patterns that worked and that Microsoft took away for reasons unknown.

Classic Shell ships with three built-in skins derived from different Windows versions, which can be tweaked as needed.

Classic Shell's most newsworthy component is Classic Start Menu, and it's stellar. Hit the Windows key on your keyboard, and up pops a Start menu, just like you remember it from Windows 7 (or Windows Vista, or Windows XP?you can choose your own skin). Start typing to search for programs, hit Enter to launch. Search is blazing fast. You can pin items to the Start menu, and customize every aspect of it. Never use the Printers item? No problem, you can easily make it go away. In other words, Classic Start Menu is just like the Start Menu you know and love, only more customizable.

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GetGlue begins to monetize with Pepsi as big launch partner

Big social TV news today. GetGlue has announced that Pepsi will be there big launch partner in their first foray into monetization. Promoted Entries will launch for the Superbowl with “new sponsorship units available across GetGlue show feeds and the guide.” Here are the details. continued…

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Hotel review: Umaid Bhawan Palace, Jodphur, India

There are hotels with royal connections. And then there is the Umaid Bhawan Palace in Rajasthan, which, despite offering accommodation, is still home to the Maharajah of Jodphur...

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Syria Accuses Israel Of Bombing Its Military Facility

Israel's air force bombed a military facility in western Syria, according to Syrian media. It's a development that could further complicate the already volatile conditions in the region.

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Choosing The Right Lending Company - Get Out Of Debt The Right Way

In today's world there is so many opportunities and things to see, that we do not always posses the needed finances to get what we always wanted or what we really need. That is why there are so many different loan and credit options to choose from. But, this not only doesn't ease up our struggle, but makes it even more difficult.

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Importance of Credit Card Processing System for Small Businesses

Few small points regarding Credit Card processing can help your business to prosper and reach out to a much wider customer base. So if you want your business to make a place of its own in the market, its time to use the credit card processing system.

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Five tips to get that online tax return in before midnight Thursday deadline

With two million self-assesment tax returns yet to be filed online before tomorrow night's deadline, we present five survival tips to getting yours in on time.

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Auto Loans - How to Keep Your Monthly Payments Low

The difficulties of the economic conditions nowadays make us want to have more savings and less out-of-pocket spending. Lower school fees or even our monthly payments need to be kept to a minimum. We want all of them to have the lowest rates if possible. This had been one of the major concerns of many parents today. Since many of us cannot afford to hand-in a cash just to have a car, we tend to submit ourselves on having an auto loan.

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Black Africans Feeling Left Out

Many African-born immigrants are considered 'African-American,' but with different histories and cultures than we typically associate with black culture in America. Host Michel Martin speaks to writer Wayetu Moore about her recent article, 'How the Africans Became Black.'

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Milky Way directs dung beetles: How a beetle can use the stars to navigate its way across the deserts of Africa

Like sailors of old and Saharan nomads, the scarab can orientate itself by watching the sky.

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Karen Kazaryan: Sextortionist blackmailed 350 women to strip then took pictures of them via Skype

Karen 'Gary' Kazaryan, 27, of California, is accused of hacking into his victims' Facebook and e-mail accounts to search for nude pictures then using them to blackmail the women.

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Strategies to Help You Get Guaranteed Approval Car Financing

Getting guaranteed approval car financing is no dream. You can easily get approved for an auto loan by using strategies and tips mentioned in this article. Read it to secure the car loan program of your choice without any trouble.

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You Don't Need A Business Plan! Dixit Successful Multimillionaire Businessman Gurbaksch Chahal

Or do you? In order to run your business on a daily basis, of course you don't, particularly if you are at your early beginnings and you are building your business. Don't you believe this is true?

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Cyber crime sentencing is out of whack

Just a few years ago, malicious hackers could steal millions of dollars, send billions of spam messages, or infect millions of computers with viruses, yet still escape jail time. Now, cyber criminal prosecutions are on the rise along with prison time.

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