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10/7/04 – Google's PR (Page Rank) update
10/6/04 – "Google Growing – An Update On Google"
There is a lot going on at the Googleplex these days. For three different reasons, each of which is important to search marketing, Google has been in the SEO spotlight the past week.For the technology wonks, Google engineers are said to be developing a Google web browser to challenge Microsoft's Internet Explorer. For those of us interested in the business end of search, the SEC imposed a 40-day "quiet period" which has expired and speculation on their limited revenue streams has heated up again. Lastly, for SEOs and web masters trying to figure out what Google is up to this month, multiple versions of Googlebot have been observed super-spidering the web. To say there is a lot going on in Mountain View is likely an understatement. Google is retooling its shed and though there may be some bumps in store for organic SEOs, this might actually be the beginning of the end of Google's technical glitches.Google is being driven by two important forces. The first is the intellectual and competitive quest to develop the best possible product. Google faces obvious challenges from Yahoo, MSN and Ask Jeeves, and less obvious challenges from smaller companies developing search related products. The second driving force is the need to find as many viable revenue sources as possible. For a company like Google, the path to success is found on Advertising Avenue but most recently, the company came into a staggering amount of money through its IPO.
Google Browser – Playing Ruthless with Redmond – Google is most likely developing an web browser of its own to compete with Microsoft's Internet Explorer. This will allow Google to "brand" a user's experience, much like Microsoft does today. (Look at the top of your browser. About 90% of you will see the words "Microsoft Internet Explorer") Google has recently introduced its own Email system known Gmail and offers a host of other features that could be incorporated into a browser. The development of a Google web browser is much like Microsoft developing its own search engine. It is a direct challenge to a major rival and a smart move leading up to the next major phase of the search engine war, expected next spring. Here's the background on the browser story.
Google has a great deal invested in its engineering staff. Their resumé filtering process for engineers is the stuff of legends and is designed to allow only the brightest to solve their way through a series of mathematical puzzles. Joining those who solved the puzzles are a number of notable new staff members personally headhunted and recruited from other tech firms. According to a report in Digital Media Europe, Google has hired Java pioneer Joshua Block away from Sun Microsystems, Adam Bosworth and four others from Microsoft's Internet Explorer development team, and in a major coup, one of Microsoft's lead developers on the Longhorn OS, Joe Beda. This sudden grouping of famous IT engineers, combined with Google's April 2004 registration of the domain name "gbrowser.com" gives a great deal of credibility to the rumour. Google has also dedicated a substantial amount of time, attention and money to the Mozilla community. Mozilla is an open-source browser. Open-source software allows developers to work with the software-code to improve or change the product. By offering resources to Mozilla developers, Google may be micro-funding the creation of what becomes the backbone of a Google-branded browser. Google users would likely accept and use a Google browser, especially if it is based on the current tech favourite, Mozilla. Once they have converted from IE to Google's product, directing their interest will be as easy as tracking their movements, two important components in making the bottom line.
Money as a Necessary Evil – Expanding Revenue Sources – Making money is an important part of running a successful business. One might think that becoming the world's most referenced information source would be enough to make money. Apparently it's not. Moving the most advertising on the web… now that's a ticket to making good money. Google pushes product like nobody's business. With over ½ of all searches conducted through Google's system in one way or another, and the largest contextual advertising distribution network on the planet, Google's only major competition is Yahoo/Overture. Unlike Yahoo/Overture however, Google is in a somewhat precarious position regarding revenues. Over 90% of Google's quarterly revenues is said to come from contextual advertising. That's a lot of eggs to put in one basket, no matter how large that basket may be. The contextual advertising market is changing and this is a cause for concern for all search tools dependent on advertising revenues. Google is betting the server-farm on advertising so it has to develop as many ways as possible to deliver that advertising to viewers and do it in such a way that advertisers benefit more than they would working with Yahoo. Google has thus far been successful in competing with Yahoo's Overture. They have developed a better distribution system, have more advertisers, and have better semantic contextualization abilities than Yahoo. What they don't have is other major revenue sources.
One of the goals of all search engines is to deliver the most relevant results possible to each individual user. Concepts such as personalization and localization of search results are based on this goal. One of the effects of localization and personalization will be the adoption of Google as a replacement for daily-use items such as the phone book and yellow pages. This is an obvious goal for Google and other search tools however it also represents an extraordinary and recurring revenue generator, especially as the Pay-per-Call model layers over the current Pay-per-Click model. As Google engineers find new ways of presenting search to the public, perhaps we'll see new kitchen appliances referencing Google for recipes or even Froogle for the lowest prices on local produce. Eventually, digital radio and television will become the standard. Wouldn't it be cool to look for a specific song or show currently playing somewhere? That may sound far-fetched today but, if they can do it with the news, they'll soon do it with other digitalized signals. The bottom line to this section is the bottom line. Google knows it needs to diversify its revenue streams if only to continue to satisfy investors.
8/31/04 – Google's major update
7/26/04 – "Let's (Google) Dance!"
It has been a little over a month now since Google's last major update. Generally, about once a month Google updates its index. With over 4 billion pages in its index and several thousand servers working together to maintain and serve that information, a reindex is an undertaking of immense proportions and is roughly equivalent to some natural phenomenon like a lunar eclipse.There are several different datacenters used by Google to manage the immense flow of information in their system. During an update, it is not unusual to observe a measurable difference in the search results from data center to data center. The 'bouncing' of listings' positions across these datacenters has been affectionately dubbed the Google dance. As the dance goes on over the course of the following hours the datacenters gradually resynch and you have a return to consistency.Google dances are always gala events. Within hours of a confirmed dance or reindex, the search engine optimizers will be buzzing on blogs, forums and newsletters all over the web about who went up and who went down. It reminds me of those nature documentaries where the water hole dries up and all the animals leave. Eventually monsoon season comes, fills up the water hole again and all the wildlife return to drink from the water hole and eat one another.
The last Google dance (to the best of my knowledge) was on or about the 22 of June this year. Here is a list of approximate dates for the past few dances;
November 20, 2003The average time between crawls based on the past dates is a little over 20 days. The shortest intervals are 2 weeks or so and the longest period without an update was nearly 40 days. It has been a little over 30 days since the last dance, so I expect we could see one any time now. Time to see if all the work you've put into your sites over the past few weeks has paid off.
3/14/04 – "In Google We Trust"
By David Hochman – NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE – Sunday, Mar 14, 2004
With an estimated 200 million searches logged daily, the Web site that has become a verb has gained a near-religious quality in the minds of many users.Ben Silverman is what you might call a Google obsessive. A producer and a former talent agent best known for bringing Who Wants to Be a Millionaire to US television, Silverman Googles people he is lunching with. He Googles for breaking news, restaurant reviews and obscure song lyrics. He Googles prospective reality-show contestants to make sure they don't have naked pictures floating around the Web. And, like every self-respecting Hollywood player, he Googles himself. Competitively."Guys all over town are on the phone saying, `I bet I can get more Google hits than you.'" he said recently. "It's become this ridiculous new power game."
It's more like the new kabbalah. With an estimated 200 million searches logged daily, Google, the most popular Internet search engine, "has a near-religious quality in the minds of many users," said Joseph Janes, an associate professor at the University of Washington in Seattle who taught a graduate seminar on Google this semester.
"A few years ago, you would have talked to a trusted friend about arthritis or where to send your kids to college or where to go on vacation. Now we turn to Google," he said.
For the entire article, go here!
3/12/04 – Awesome Google & Yahoo Results Comparison Tool!
One of the coolest tools I've seen recently for comparing Google and Yahoo results lives over at the blog site langreiter.com. This tool displays in two rows where exact match listings appear in result sets from Yahoo and Google. Lines connect the matches, and mouse overs reveal the exact url.Use this to check on your competition, or to get a better feel for the difference in the algorithms.
Note: Yahoo! seems to limit the number of requests in a certain timeframe. If nothing cool shows up, just try again later.
For example, on a "cars" search, why does lotuscars.com, #3 in Google, appear at #41 in Yahoo? The #5 spot in Yahoo, http://cartalk.cars.com ranks at #41 in Google. What's going on here? On "alligator," a less competitive search term, there are 40 exact matches, while for cars there are only 32.What does this mean? Probably nothing, but for those who are looking to build their annecdotal theories of the difference between the algorithms, this tool will get you off to a great start.
2/04/04 – "Is Google Web Search at Risk?" From
In its legal battle with Google Inc., American Blind and Wallpaper Factory Inc. is challenging much more than the search engine's keyword-based advertising practices. The home decorating retailer also is questioning Google's cherished search algorithms and Web index.American Blind's lead attorney, in a recent interview with eWEEK.com, made it clear that the scope of the trademark infringement lawsuit filed last week against Google and the search engine's partners doesn't end with the sponsored listings for which advertisers bid on keywords. The retailer also is accusing Google of infringing on its trademarks by returning non-sponsored Web search listings from competitors when certain terms are queried, said David Rammelt of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, in Chicago.… Google's main search listings come from its index of 3 billion Web pages and are ranked by its proprietary algorithms. Google also runs keyword-based paid search through its AdWords program. Those listings appear before or alongside the Web search results on its site and those of its partners.
… According to search engine experts, American Blind will find it more difficult to prove infringement by Google in its regular search listings. Those listings are, in a sense, based on Google's editorial judgment embodied in its algorithms and technology, something one might argue is covered by First Amendment protections, said Danny Sullivan, editor of search industry site SearchEngineWatch.com.
… Google has tried to avoid conflict with trademark holders, often barring competitors from bidding on keywords that match unique trademarks, as it has done for companies such as eBay Inc. and Dell Inc., Sullivan said. But conflict has become almost inevitable with descriptive terms, especially as search companies such as Google earn growing profits from search-based advertising.
"Anytime you bid on a word and understand that it's a trademark…you better feel confident that if you go to court you can defend the reasons for doing that," Sullivan said.
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1/24-26/04 – Latest Google-Dance
1/15/04 – "Google Rumors" From
There are a lot of theories and rumors floating around. Most of them involve some sort of "filter" or penalty being applied to certain types of sites. Filtering out extreme spam is nothing new for Google. Among other things, they've been trying to catch hidden text for several months. I just don't see how a filter, or any combination of filters and penalties, could explain the current search results.Rumor 1: Google Is Using A Dictionary – There are far too many search terms affected, for it to be as simple as a "dictionary" of commercial search terms. Google might have a list of topics, for which they have computed a topic-sensitive PageRank score, but they aren't trying to penalize anyone, they're trying to deliver better search results.Rumor 2: Google wants to force commercial sites to use Adwords – The fact that there are two conflicting and equally implausible conspiracy theories should tell you all you need to know. In reality, Google has deliberately kept the "paid advertising" and "free search results" separate, and there's no reason why they would do something like this. Google doesn't need to "force" anyone to buy advertising.
Rumor 3: Google is using "Bayesian Spam Filters" – There is no conceivable way Google could implement a "Bayesian" filter to recognize "search engine spam," and I can't believe that hundreds of very intelligent engineers would attempt to do so. Google isn't trying to "penalize" or "filter out" anything. The people at Google are trying to build a system that identifies the most relevant web pages. Where they use filtering, it's to avoid being tricked by hidden text and that sort of thing. Bayesian filtering is very different.
Rumor 4: Google is punishing reciprocal links – The theory here is that Google is punishing web sites that trade links with other web sites. Maybe, if that's all you do, but that's probably been the case for some time.
Rumor 5: Google is punishing "optimized" pages – The rumor here is that Google is trying to drop "optimized" pages. Not only does this not hold up under close scrutiny, it doesn't make any sense to begin with. Another way to describe an "optimized" web page would be "a well structured page that clearly indicates the relevant topics." Does Google penalize dirty tricks like hidden text, over-stuffing HTML tags, etc.? Of course they do, but that's not optimizing, folks, that's spamming. Penalties for spamming are nothing new.
Rumor 6: Google is punishing "link text" – Nope, not true. If it were possible to create a penalty for another site by linking to them with the wrong words, you'd have complete chaos in a very short time.
Rumor 7: Google Is Out To Get You, And It's Personal – I haven't done a whole lot of detailed research to substantiate my beliefs on this, but trust me, it's not personal. The search engines are all trying to deliver quality search results, and maybe you aren't giving them what they're looking for. That doesn't mean you don't have a good web site. It doesn't make you a bad person. Maybe you just need to do some things differently.
12/30/03 – "How To Optimize Your Google Description" From
When it comes to describing your site, Google assembles what is known as a snippet description to display in their search results. Sometimes it's a good description – one that prompts potential visitors to click on your link. Other times, it isn't. Take the case in point where the following page (ranked at #1) in a keyword search for scuba dive "entices" the potential site visitor by listing the various PADI locations from around the world…Can the snippet be changed to entice users to click on your listing? – Of course, this is important because potential site visitors are judging whether to click or not based in part on those snippets. So, how can one go about changing Google's snippet advantageously? Let's take a look and see.For starters, we've found that Google actually pulls the snippet description from several different places on your Web page. Let's think about this for a minute. If we could determine where Google is pulling our description, perhaps we might be able to change that wording to "produce" a description that more accurately describes our page.
Where is Google pulling the snippet description? – Currently Google is pulling the snippet from any one or combination of the following areas:
1. META description tag (although Google doesn't use contents to determine relevancy).
2. First ALT text found on the page.
3. First text found on the page (which may be a heading tag, body text, etc.).
4. Additional heading tags on the page.
5. Additional body text found on the page.
6. Additional ALT text on the page.
7. Navigation bar on the left-hand side of the page (which is rarely a relevant description of a site!).
8. Copyright information at the bottom of the page.
9. Wherever the keyword phrase is found.Important Note… – One thing that's very important to note is that the snippet is determined by the search term. In other words, if you search for your company's name, you'll get a different description than what you would get if you search for a keyword phrase that is relevant for your site. Generally, Google appears to be pulling the description from areas of the page that surround the usage of that particular keyword phrase. The obvious question is, Is it the first usage of the keyword phrase? Usually, but not always.And the moral of the story is… Visit Google and search for your most important keyword phrase for each of your Web pages. What does the description look like? Do you like it? Determine from where on your page Google is pulling the description. You'll probably notice that, in most (but not all) cases, Google pulls the first text surrounding the usage of the keyword phrase, wherever that text may appear on the page.
If you don't like the description, try modifying the area where Google is pulling the description, and see if Google will pick up the changes and use the new description as the snippet in the search results.
Why? …because your description plays a crucial click factor! – Remember that the description of a page is crucial when it comes to increasing click throughs to your site. If your description is compelling and designed to produce clicks, you may even get more traffic than a competitor who is ranked higher.
To a greater degree than most are aware, you can manage some control over your Google descriptions. This is clearly a case where a little research and some easy tinkering can make a big difference in how your site is presented to potential customers, thereby increasing your click-through traffic coming from Google.
For the full article, go HERE!
12/24/03 – "Top 10 Google Myths Revealed" From
Google is the Web's most popular search engine, powering not only the popular Google.com Website, but also Yahoo! and AOL. Being listed in Google is very important, and being listed highly in Google can bring great benefit to your site. However, there are many myths about how Google works and, while fairly harmless in themselves, these myths tend to allow people to draw incorrect conclusions about how Google works. The purpose of this article is to correct the most popular Google myths.Myth #1: The Higher Your Google PageRank (PR), the Higher You'll be in the Search Results Listing. This myth is frequent, and is the source of many complaints. People often notice that a site with a lower PageRank than theirs is listed above them, and get upset. While pages with a higher PageRank do tend to rank better, it is perfectly normal for a site to appear higher in the results listings even though it has a lower PageRank than competing pages.Myth #2: The Google Toolbar will List Your Actual PageRank – When Google created their toolbar it was a boon for many Webmasters as this was the first time we got to see any value related to our PageRank. However, the toolbar has also caused some confusion. The toolbar does not show your actual PageRank, only an approximation of it.
Myth #3: PageRank is a Value Based on the Number of Incoming Links to Your Site – This myth is a frequent source of incorrect assumptions about Google. People will often see that a site with fewer incoming links than their own site has a higher PageRank, and assume that PageRank is not based on incoming links. The fact is that PageRank is based on incoming links, but not just on the number of them. Instead PageRank is based on the value of your incoming links.
Myth #4: Searching for Incoming Links on Google Using "link:" will Show you all Your Backwards Links – Similar to Myth #3, people will sometimes look for backwards links to a site on Google and fine none, but if the site does have a PR listed and it is in Google's cache, they know that the toolbar isn't just guessing. The reason for this is that Google does not list all the links that it knows about, only those that contribute above a certain amount of PageRank.
Myth #5: Being Listed in the Open Directory Project Gives you a Special PageRank Bonus – Google uses Open Directory Project (DMOZ.org), to power its directory. Coupling that fact with the observation that sites listed in DMOZ often get decent and inexplicable PageRank boosts, has lead many to conclude that Google gives a special bonus to sites listed in DMOZ. This is simply not true.
Myth #6: Being Listed in Yahoo! Gives you a Special PageRank Bonus – This myth evolved much in the same was as Myth #5. Google has been partnered with Yahoo! for a number of years by providing secondary search results, and just recently (Fall, 2002), Yahoo! started using Google to provide primary search results. Because Yahoo! uses Google, many have assumed that Google also uses Yahoo!, which is not the case. The only PageRank you will gain from being listed in Yahoo! is the same as the PR you'd gain from any other site of equivalent weight.
Myth #7: Google Uses Meta Tags to Rank Your Site – This myth is left over from the days when most search engines used meta tags. However, Google has never used them. This fact may be contested by some people, so I wouldn't post it without proof.
Myth #8: Google Will Not Index Dynamic Pages – Some search engines have, in the past, had problems with dynamic pages, that is, pages that use a query string. This was not due to any technical limitation, but rather, because search engines knew that it was possible to create a set of an infinite amount of dynamic pages, or they could create an endless loop. In either case, the search engines did not want their crawlers to be caught spidering endless numbers of dynamically generated pages. Google is a newer search engine, and has never had a problem with query strings. However, some dynamic pages can still throw Google for a loop.
Myth #9: Google Will Not List Your Site, or Penalize it, if you use Popups – This is a relatively minor myth but it still pops up (pun intended) every once in a while. Google has an advertising program called Adwords, and one of their policies is that they do not allow sites that use popup windows to participate in this program.
Myth #10: Google will Penalize you if You're Linked to by a Link Farm – Google has policies against the use of artificial means to increase your PageRank, which specifically include things like joining a link farm. Even so, Google can punish you if you link to a linkfarm from your site, or otherwise put hidden links in your pages. So the simple truth is that you can be punished for what you do to your own site, but not for getting linked by another site.
12/15/03 – "Danny Sullivan Explains Google Penalties From http://webproworld.com
Sparks of Controversy There was a substantial amount of controversy in the WebProWorld forums regarding what Marissa Mayer, the Director of Consumer Web Products at Google, told me at the Search Engine Strategies Conference in Chicago last week. She said, "If you dropped in rankings, go back and look at who you linked to and who's linking to you. If any of these people are using spam techniques, they're the reason your site no longer appears on Google."The subject of controversy here, as you can probably guess, is whether Google really is penalizing websites based on what sites are linking to them – a factor that is often beyond the control of website owners. This is a concern because if Google uses this method to determine a site's rank then your competitors could easily sabotage your site's ranking by linking to you from spam sites.Due to the brevity of our interview (I was literally walking Marissa to her taxi) I didn't have a chance to ask her to clarify her statement. That's why I called Danny today.
Danny says… Danny Sullivan is editor of http://SearchEngineWatch.com and also organized and moderated the Search Engine Strategies Conference. I asked his opinion on Marissa's comment regarding what readers should do if their sites drop significantly on Google.
"I saw that headline summary in SearchEngineGuide, if I remember correctly, and I noticed that it freaked some people out," Danny replied. "I remember [Marissa] saying that because it sounded really significant, but I took Marissa's comment slightly different. I think what she probably meant was not that who's linking to you can hurt you – the reason why is because it's very easy for you to hurt your competitors. That's why it's a terrible thing to use for relevancy. What I do think happened is [Google is] looking at links in a different fashion. If you've been in a neighborhood that's been helping you previously, [it] might not be helping you now."
Danny says that doesn't necessarily mean Google is penalizing you for inbound links. It just means that those links aren't counting as much towards your Google ranking.
Is Google getting smarter? Don't be surprised if you notice Google getting smarter about links. "In the past, every single link was counted for something," Danny says. "Perhaps now Google's still looking at the links but not counting them as much. They're perhaps not giving you as much credit as they used to."
Won't You Be My Google Neighbor? Danny believes Marissa's comment was misinterpreted, and he thinks there's another question at hand here. "I guess it comes back to: does the community have more of an influence now than in the past? I suppose so. On one hand, yes, but on the other hand, Google may simply be redefining how it determines a community and what that community is worth. [Google] has always looked at who's linking to you… I think it's still doing that, but it's using a different scoring method…"
So was it all just a misunderstanding? Danny thinks so. "I honestly don't think she's lying," he says, noting that Marissa is a very credible representative of Google. "Marissa is a wonderful resource. She's really, really good, but she doesn't deal with the webmaster side as much."
Danny believes that Marissa knows what she's talking about but perhaps she didn't choose her words correctly.
What did she mean, then?
"I think what she probably meant was that who links to you counts, and yes, that's always been the case, but who links to you doesn't count as much as it did in the past."
Who Gets Penalized? Is the penalty completely out of the question? Probably not. "If Google were penalizing sites for getting links, then that is a significant repercussion," Danny says. "I have no doubt that in some cases [Google] might penalize, but the criteria would be really high." Danny could understand a site getting penalized "if you're running fifty websites that have no reason to exist other than linking to themselves or if [Google] sees other stuff that makes them think, 'These links are odd! Not only should we not count these links, but we should do something to this website, period!'"
"It's too easy to make mistakes." But as far as the everyday link exchange, that's innocent enough in his eyes. When it comes to link exchanges, "it's too easy to make mistakes," Danny says. And he believes the people who run Google understand that. After all, they are only human!
11/19/03 Google-Dance Shakes Things in the SEO World
Google's Over-Optimization Penalty – In last month's Google update we discussed an Update that turned out to be the preliminary sign of an impending results shake-up. And, frankly, we were spot-on in our analysis – perhaps not in wording but most definitely in results. Our test sites that we DID make changes to, in response to the new algorithm, are now doing extremely well for the keyword phrases that in the end-of-month October had lost serious ground. Perhaps we were just lucky. Regardless, we made our changes before the majority of analysts even saw what was happening and our efforts were rewarded with page one positioning across the board.The main difference between the testing-and-changes we made in late October and the big shake up at Goggle around the 15th of November is, our changes took effect and are now showing up in the search results. However, sites that received (what we're calling) the "Over Optimization Penalty" (OOP) and made adjustments after the 15th of November have not seen their rankings improve.Adjusting your site(s) to the OOP – Regardless, however, of whether you've benefited or suffered from the change, it's important to understand how this penalty occurs and what you need to do to avoid tripping it.
Important: It's critical for you to understand that our research is still very preliminary (in the testing phase) and Google, indeed, is still fiddling with this algorithm. They could even change it drastically again at any time. There is no stability in what is going on and, until such stability returns at Google, what we are advising you to do may, or may not, work tomorrow. However here's what we are doing and our strategy is producing good results (so far). But, still, we can only hope that it continues to work and produces favorable results for you as well.
9/19/03 Microsoft Goes after Google! From
REDMOND, Washington (Reuters) — Microsoft, which is trying to drive growth by investing in everything from small business software to video games, has quietly set its sights on a new industry — searching the Web.Chairman Bill Gates, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer and a handful of other executives sat down in February to answer a question asked countless times before in the world's largest software maker's 28-year history. Should Microsoft build or buy?
9/5/03 Google Update Pattern From
Ever since the last Google update in late June, there has been wide speculation whether there would be any more "Google Dance" updates. As you recall, the "Google Dance" was about a 4 day period of time occurring about every 30 days when Google updated their entire index and SERPs (Search Engine Results Page).After observing Google for a little more than 2 months, we can now report that Google is now conducting a "rolling update". Position Research has plotted Google ranking movements for more than 60 URLs covering more than 500 keywords over a 60 day period of time. Three general observations can be made.
Incremental ranking movements were observed about every 4-5 days. These observations were most prominent in campaigns that were young and had ongoing link optimization efforts. Perhaps Google was incrementally attributing partial value from newly crawled links.
Large ranking movements took place within a 25-30 day period. Google backlink counts changed within 5-7 days following.
Different websites seem to be receiving their large ranking movements at different times. Although difficult to tell, there appears to be evidence to support an Alpha sort order (e.g. URLs starting with the letter B receive large ranking movements just prior to URLs starting with the letter C). Since this observation only applied to young campaigns where large movements could be observed, the sample set was small and was not statistically significant (a fancy way of saying it could be coincidence).
8/26/03 – Google Celebrates 5 yrs. old – "The Search Engine that Could" from USAToday.com
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Susan Wojcicki remembers when two Stanford students came to rent a room in her house in September 1998 for a new dot-com enterprise. It was a system for searching the Internet, one that they claimed was more effective than any other. "My reaction was, 'OK, good luck. The rent's $1,700 a month, and don't forget to separate the recycling,' " she says.Larry Page and Sergey Brin and their brainstorm, Google, quickly outgrew her home. Today, the founders and their landlady — who wound up quitting her job at Intel to join the boys — are in different wings of the four-building sprawling campus known as the Googleplex, a 1,000-employee paradise with free food, unlimited ice cream, pool and ping-pong tables and complimentary massages, plus the ability to spend 20% of work time on any outside activity. "They built Google to be their dream environment," Wojcicki says. And Google, in five years, has gone on to dominate Internet searching like nothing else. Rivals have been left in the dust — or became Google customers, including Yahoo and AOL, which license the technology and route search queries through Google. (Related: Google faces powerful competitors).Odds are that if you're on the Web, sometime within the next few minutes, you'll be using Google. Google, for example, powers the search engine on USATODAY.com. Overall, Google "represents 75% of all searches," says Danny Sullivan, editor of the Search Engine Watch online newsletter (searchenginewatch.com). "It's gotten to the point where people think if it's not in Google, it doesn't exist."
Today, millions Google themselves, friends, blind dates, employers and employees. Students wait till the last minute to Google assignments. Shoppers Google products and prices before purchasing. One columnist suggested that Google is so vital in our lives that it's a deity of sorts, everywhere and all-knowing. As Google prepares to celebrate its fifth anniversary Sept. 7, it's expanding beyond basic searches. Google now embraces comparison shopping, news, the personal online journals called Weblogs and even a service that blocks pesky pop-up ads. It answers 200 million search requests a day — more than 2,300 every second — in 88 languages. It indexes 3.1 billion Web pages with the help of 10,000 supercomputers.
The aim: to organize the world's information. "We've been very lucky," says Page, 30, wearing black Google-logo T-shirt and jeans during an interview at the Googleplex, where bicycles, Segways and hammocks line the hallways and the Grateful Dead's former chef oversees the 24-hour food operation. "We've made a tremendous amount of progress, but we have so much more we can do." Google at 5 "is beyond anything I would have pondered extrapolating," says Brin, 30. "The most amazing thing is seeing how important search is to people in all walks of life."
Take, for example, Havva Eisenbaum. She Googles people "every day" — friends she went to school with, old boyfriends, new clients, buddies she meets via instant messages. "I don't know what I'd do without it," says Eisenbaum, 25, who works at a Hollywood talent agency and as an SAT tutor. When she books new students, she looks up their parents first. "I want to make sure they're not crazy," she says. "I always find stuff, too." When users type in names or subjects at www.google.com, results pop up in seconds: a list of links to Web sites and discussion boards on which the name or subject are mentioned.
With the Web at 6 billion pages and growing, organizing the chaos is an increasingly daunting task. Yahoo was the first major enterprise to tame the Net with a highly regarded directory of Web sites vetted by a team of editors. But to cover the larger Web, Yahoo had to look to outside sources for software that "crawled" Web pages and indexed them by keywords. Savvy Webmasters found ways to exploit Web crawlers by sticking multiple keywords into the background language of pages. Search results often were skewed. Steven Johnson, who writes for Slate.com, says the link system is skewed because Web users who create many pages and generate many links, such as Webloggers, tend to rise to the top of the list. Google "reflects the biases of the overall Web population," he says.
Google staffers concede its mechanisms aren't perfect. "We've come a long way, but we believe search is in its infancy," says Marissa Mayer, Google's director of consumer products. "We need more content and ways to interact with search. For instance, you can't ask a question and have it answer you." Google bases its results on popularity, judging pages by the links to them from other sites. The larger the links (influential sites that get lots of traffic), the higher the page is listed among results. Google (named for the "googol," the mathematical term for 1 followed by 100 zeros) calls this the PageRank — named after Page. The technology not only proved far more effective in delivering pertinent results, but it also was lightning fast. A search for a popular topic such as the California recall election retrieves more than 1 million links in a fifth of a second.
The system was born when Brin, a Russian émigré, met Page when both were PhD candidates at Stanford. He and Page, the son of a computer science professor at Michigan State University, decided to merge their graduate projects on search technology. The two knew they had something when 10,000 fellow students and professors started using it regularly. Stanford still owns a small piece of Google, which stands to be worth a fortune if Google goes public as expected next year. Google always has explained its success by its singular focus. "We never strayed from search," Page says. But the horizons of those searches have been broadening in the past year or so, including:
A test comparison shopping site, Froogle (froogle.google.com). On the regular Google, Wojcicki says, "if you type in china, you'll more likely get the country than the dish. This is a way around that."
A test news site that assembles and categorizes reports from more than 4,000 sources worldwide (news.google.com).
The purchase of Blogger, a site for the increasingly popular Weblogs. Page says blogs fall in line with Google's pursuit of information. "If you search a plane crash, we'll give you a site about the plane and news articles about what happened. Now we can also bring you to personal Web pages to tell you how people feel about it."
Everett Ward, assistant director of the Salt Lake City library, says the danger in researchers relying so much on Google and online information is that much of it is unsourced and inaccurate. "One of the problems with online searching is trying to understand the credibility and authority of what they're looking at. Google sends you everything. People still come to the library to research, not because they can't find it online, but they're finding too much." In her fifth-grade classroom in Atlanta, Amy Wilson worries that Google "doesn't teach (students) the basic skills they need, because they're getting quicker access in a shorter amount of time. They hardly go to the library or encyclopedia anymore." Page says he wants people to still frequent libraries, even if it is "a lot easier to go to Google first."Google is well compensated for its success. Analysts estimate Google's revenue at $600 million to $800 million this year from advertising and licensing fees. Small sponsored links are served to surfers along with search results, and many Web sites pay to let users search their domains via Google. Though the founders don't have to put in the time, they still work long Silicon Valley hours. Wojcicki says that even with their newfound wealth, Brin and Page are fabulously eccentric. "Sergey's car broke down recently, and instead of getting it fixed, he either bummed a ride home with other employees or rollerbladed to work." Page says his only extravagances have been boy toys, including a high-definition video camcorder and a $2,000 digital camera.
Meanwhile, Google already has outgrown the Googleplex and plans to move to a bigger facility. And more competition looms: Yahoo this year purchased search engine Inktomi, which provides searches for Microsoft's MSN, and Overture, Google's main rival in paid search marketing. MSN also says it will upgrade its own service to reduce reliance on outside providers. Yahoo hasn't commented on its future with Google. Page's response to the competition is quietly confident: "Search is going to get a lot more interesting. And that's all to the good. We're a society that's used to losing information to new generations. Now more than ever, search is really important."
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SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) — In five mind-blowing years, Google has blossomed from a nerdy college experiment to a mainstream sensation so ubiquitous that its goofy name is now synonymous with looking things up. Millions of people turn to the Internet search engine every hour, trusting Google to speed through its index of 3 billion Web pages to find just about anything imaginable.In a less than a second, Google routinely finds lost friends, merchandise, pop trivia, academic research, news, pornography and even references to God, to whom Google has been compared. "It's hard to imagine a day when I'm not using Google for something," said Todd Goldman, a 37-year-old marketing executive in Silicon Valley. "I can almost always find what I'm looking for on the first or second page of results. It's almost like black magic."
HOW GOOGLE WORKS – Google's technology is built around a secret formula called "PageRank" that rates the relevance of Web sites based on the number of links from other relevant Web sites. The method has raised concerns that Google has created a caste system in which a group of elite Web sites largely determine the popularity of other sites. But Web surfers have embraced the approach. "Googling" information has become so popular that Google.com attracts some of the heaviest traffic on the Web. Only Microsoft's MSN.com, AOL and Yahoo lure more visitors in the United States.The steady growth has turned Google into one of the Internet's biggest success stories, and made the still relatively small company of 1,000 employees a target for some formidable foes. Both Yahoo! and Microsoft are searching for ways to steal Google's thunder in a showdown that could reshape the way people find their way around the Internet.
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7/10/03 – The Truth About Google – "What the Web's Leading Search Engines are Really Looking For" – by Keith Boswell
The anticipation of something is often more exciting than the event itself. When you work yourself up over an idea, emotion, or event, your body produces an exhilarating sensation of pleasure mixed with a keen sense of anxiety. It reminds me of the night before Christmas as a child, slightly modified for the adult mind where growth in business easily substitutes for new toys and candy.For many online businesses, waiting to see if they show up in Google produces the same effect. Derrick Wheeler, Marketleap's VP of Search Engine Marketing, calls it Googlebumps. He defines this as the adrenaline rush and excitement he feels when checking to see if one of our clients is now located in Google's search results.If you ever doubted Google is the world's most popular search engine, ask yourself if you've gotten Googlebumps. Being in Google today is like being in Yahoo in 1996 or 1997. If you aren't listed, you aren't maximizing your online investment.
Google's database contains over 2 billion documents. Estimates suggest Google reviews anywhere from 8 to 10 billion documents to create their index. Danny Sullivan from SearchEngineWatch.com refers to the pages that are not included in a search engine index as the "invisible web".
How do you go from being a part of the "invisible web" to the part readily found by people searching at Google and other popular search destinations? Often people are misguided into thinking the best way to show up in Google is to find as many websites as possible to provide a link back to their website. Many people know PageRank, Google's proprietary method for ranking a page, looks at links to help determine a page's relevancy.
Here is what Google says about PageRank at their website:
"PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."
This seems to be where most people stop. They don't go on to read the next section of the description which is an even more important disclosure about what Google is really looking for – quality content.
"Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines all aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query."
Google uses PageRank as one factor in determining if a site is relevant to a search request. A more important factor to them than PageRank is the content of a given page and the content on the pages that link to it. You could establish one million links to your website, but if they have no relevancy or content related to a search request, they don't mean anything to Google. This is also true for the other crawler based search engines Inktomi and FAST as they all face the same challenge.
Many are quick to quip, "Who is Google to determine relevancy? The products and services I offer are the best in my market space? I should show up Number #1 for a search without question." That may be true in the offline world, but online does your website accurately reflect and describe your products and market space enough to establish your perceived leadership?
Google and Inktomi have created search engines known for delivering quality results: successfully matching a person with a website they are looking for. These engines strive for relevancy. This means that a website must prove, through the content and structure of its code, that it is pertinent to a search request.
There seems to be a great misunderstanding that products and services alone build a successful web business. The web was created as a way to share information. Search engines were a by-product of that movement as Internet users looked for ways to find the information they believed was out there.
Because we have not created a governing method of identifying data online, like the Dewey Decimal system for books, search engines can only hope to find highly relevant documents containing text similar to the keyword terms people are searching for. To do this, they have to review the content of a website and evaluate the people who are linking to it.
Looking at part of the equation, if a website only gives an end user product numbers, images, five word descriptions, and a shopping cart, that website is less relevant than a website that accurately describes the products it carries, provides useful images of those products, and publishes editorials and consumer resources valuable to that market.
The onus does not fall on Google, Inktomi, FAST or the rest of the Web to find your website relevant. The responsibility lies with your online business to create something worthy of being included in these search engines databases and linked to by other websites. You have to contribute relevant content to your market space if you want to be found and reflected in search engines.
The more valuable content you create and share about your online business, the more credibility you are establishing. This also usually means that others will start to find your website and link to it because of the value your website provides. This hopefully helps to contribute to increasing the quality of your content and your relevance in the major search engines.
Showing up in Google should be much easier if you continually focus on your websites content. Be creative and show the same leadership online that you do offline. Contribute to your market and your market will give back to you.
In an age where the Web is quickly becoming a part of all businesses, remember why the Web was created – to share information with everyone who's connected. Search engines are just trying to make sense of it all as a benefit to the public. If search engines can't tell your website has something to do with your market, your potential customers are feeling the same way.
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Main » Scientific counsils » Council of Young Scientists » The Story Young Scientists Council
The modern history of the Young Scientists Council of IRE NASU began in 2001 with the active participation of Olexander Kogut, who headed the first council, and Ganna Boiko, who helped to compile the organization charter of the Council, which in updated versions is acting till today (Statute YSC-2021.pdf). At various times, the Council was headed by Artem Boriskin, Oleksiy Kuleshov, Michael Balaban, Pavlo Vyplavin, Maxim Khruslov, Darina Pesina, Tetiana Rokhmanova. Since the beginning of 2021 the evelenth convocation of the Council started its work with Yuriy Kovshov as its chair. Having eleven convocations means more than 150 young scientists working in all scientific areas presented in the Institute. It is more than 150 different people, united by the desire to create meaningful things, move forward and lead the others.
Since the early years the aim of the Council was to promote professional development of young scientists, their creative growth and experience gaining, and to represent the interests of young researchers and professionals of the Institute (scientists, graduate students, doctoral students, engineers, and university students working part-time in academic departments).
The Council work combines both scientific and social activities. Young Scientists Council holds regular meetings and seminars to hear the candidates for NASU and the President of Ukraine scholarships. In addition, a representative of the Council at the Scientific Council of IRE provides its members a full report on the scientific activity of each of the candidates and takes part in the vote to support one candidate or another, and on other issues.
For a long time, one of the main activities of the Council was the organization of Kharkiv Young Scientists Conference on Radiophysics, Electronics, Photonics and Biophysics (YSC, http://ysc.org.ua). Originally it was created as a local event where young scientists of IRE could improve their oral presentation skills, and the authors of the best works and reports in each of the sections by the decision of members of the editorial board (jury) were given the opportunity to publish their researches in the "Radiophysics and Electronics" proceedings of IRE. Over time, the conference has grown into an international event: every year young scientists not only from all over Ukraine but also from Belarus, Russia, Armenia participate in YSC.
Traditionally, the topics of the conference covered the research areas represented at the Institute. Among them are the following ones: solid-state radiophysics, microwave and terahertz electronics, nano- and metamaterials, optics and photonics, geoscience and remote sensing, computational and experimental electromagnetics, molecular and applied biophysics. Due to close and friendly relations with young scientists from RI NASU, for many years the radioastronomy section has been presented at the conference.
13th Kharkiv Young Scientists Conference on Radiophysics, Electronics, Photonics and Biophysics
We were always striving to make our conference relevant and interesting event that presented the results of modern scientific achievements, so maximum of our efforts are directed to the invitation of foreign lecturers from leading institutions and universities in the world. Over the years, scientists from USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Italy etc. visited us and took part in YSC with plenary lectures.
IEEE lecturer, Prof. Simon Deleonibus, CEA LETI, Grenoble, France at YSC-2013
Every year, we also devoted attention to the career development events for young researchers. Since 2012 the remote, or on-line, education (MOOCs, Massive Open Online Courses) became the traditional topic of discussion, and in 2014 we decided to make an experiment and to turn our Career and Development Workshop into KIT, Kharkiv Ideas & Technologies Workshop. The goal of KIT was to demonstrate to each other one's usual instruments of working, and to teach others to use them in their area.
Final preparations before the KIT Workshop beginning. From left to right: Maksym Khruslov, Pavlo Krasov, and Daryna Pesina
Also, special attention during the conference we paid to the social activities. The communication of the participants in an informal and friendly atmosphere, which is as much important for meeting and potential cooperation as communication within the sections, has always been an integral part of the young scientists conference. Over the years, the cultural program included such activities as visiting Kharkiv theaters, a jazz concert, city tours with Maxim Rosenfeld, and an excursion to the Museum of Aviation and the open-air museum of Kharkiv State Aircraft Manufacturing Company.
YSC-2013 welcome party in anticafe "Om"
The experience in organizing Young Scientists Conferences allowed some members of the Council to be successfully involved in the organization of major scientific symposia and conferences like MSMW and MMET.
In 2015-2017, inspired by the success of previous conferences, we decided to organize something more ambitious and courageous, the International Young Scientists Forum on Applied Physics (YSF). YSF was a new format of the event, bringing together young scientists, students and graduate students not only from Ukraine, but also from other countries. The main idea of YSF was an interdisciplinary interaction, a discussion of a wide range of issues on modern state of physics and science in general, and an attempt to find solutions to urgent problems and the existing difficulties.
YSF-2015, Dnipro
The organization of the Forum was carried out by the joint efforts of the representatives of scientific and educational organizations. An important step in increasing the level of the event was to have new requirements for publications, which in 2015 will be published in IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The advantage of such conference proceedings, corresponding to uniform IEEE standards, is that they are indexed in such scientific databases as Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and others.
Since 2017, the capacity of the YSC has decreased, but we continue to organize useful events for young scientists, but on a smaller scale, including:
Workshop on writing articles in English by Natalia Korol, Ph.D. in Biological Sciences (Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, NASU, Kyiv, Ukraine).
Seminar on science-intensive startups – a meeting with IT-Jim, which provides high-quality research in the field of computer vision and machine learning.
Scientific quizzes (SciQuiz) in pubs to promote science and unite young scientists of Kharkiv and science fans.
Party for the day Pi.
Workshop "Introduction to Machine Learning (for scientists)", which had two parts – lecture and practice. The purpose of the workshop was to acquaint young scientists of Kharkiv with the possibilities and limitations of machine learning using in scientific research.
Participants of the workshop «Introduction to Machine Learning (for scientists)», 2019
Lecture from the famous science popularizer, Ph.D. in physical and mathematical sciences Anton Senenko "How to see an atom?" open to a wide audience.
Articles competition for young scientists with prizes, which was held in a reduced number due to quarantine restrictions.
Articles competition for young scientists, 2020
Most of these events were supported by EPS YM (https://www.epsyoungminds.org/).
Apart from that, members of IRE Young Scientists Council actively cooperate with IEEE and OSA. For instance, representatives of the Council are involved in the work of the Young Scientists Council of Department of Physics and Astronomy of NAS of Ukraine and Kharkiv Regional Council of Young Scientists; in the summer of 2013 members of the Council along with IEEE ED-S representatives visited field laboratory for research of the ionosphere (Martovoe, Kharkiv region); in May 2015, together with colleagues from the RI NASU, we organized visit to the radiotelescope UTR-2 (Grakovo, Kharkiv region).
Visiting radiotelescope UTR-2
Also, YSC members actively participate in Science Days with popular science reports on their scientific activities. For example, the recording of the lecture "Metamaterials – from theory to application" can be found at: https://youtu.be/Qn-yNV_5xVY
Young Scientists Council is actively involved in the social life of the Institute:
We assist in the organization of New Year events. For example, in 2014 we held an intellectual casino "IRE Royale", in which young scientists acted as the croupiers, explaining the rules of the various board games for the employees of IRE.
We organize exhibitions of photos, hand-made products and workshops on how to create them.
Exhibition of S.M. Kolpakov's photos Exhibition of hand-made products by IRE employees
Workshop on weaving machine tool from I.E. Pochanina at the exhibition of hand-made products
We designed and built bicycle parking.
YSC members organized the IRE & RIAN Speaking Club. For some time, young scientists of IRE and RI NASU, motivated to improve their knowledge of spoken English, gathered together in a friendly atmosphere to discuss various interesting topics, to share useful information on communication skills and work in an English-speaking environment. Currently, the club continues to exist online: https://www.fb.com/groups/IreRianSpeakingClub
From April 2015 to November 2020, thanks to the YSC and network "Batteries, give up!", the Institute collected used batteries with the aim of further recycling. In 2020, all collected batteries were sent for recycling to a plant in Romania.
For many members of the Council sport is an integral part of their lives. For example, we have built a volleyball court, organized joint kayak tours by Vorskla and other rivers. Pavlo Vyplavin, who was the chair of the seventh convocation of the Council, is one of the main organizers of the Kharkiv Bicycle Day and a pioneer of Kharkiv Ultimate, non-contact team sport with a flying disc.
Kayak tour by Vorskla, 2014
Kharkiv Bicycle Day, Pavlo Vyplavin is in the center holding speaker
Despite the difficulties that began in 2020 due to the pandemic, we continue to develop. A great example of this was the workshop "Using LaTeX in the preparation of scientific articles and more!", which took place on the ZOOM platform.
LaTeX workshop in ZOOM, lector:Dr. S. S. Apostolov, 2021
So the story goes on!

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Many services allow you to sign up to receive an SMS message whenever you log into your account. That SMS message will contain a short one-time-use code you'll have to enter. With this system, your cell phone is used as the second authentication method. Someone can't just get into your account if they have your password—they need your password and access to your phone or its SMS messages.
This is convenient, as you don't need to do anything special, and most people have cell phones. Some services will even dial a phone number and have an automated system speak a code, allowing you to use this with a landline phone number that can't receive text messages.
However, there are big problems with SMS verification. Attackers can use SIM swap attacks to gain access to your secure codes or intercept them thanks to flaws in the cellular network. We recommend against using SMS messages, if possible. However, SMS messages are still much more secure than not using any two-factor authentication at all!
You can also have your codes generated by an app on your phone. The most widely known app that does this is Google Authenticator, which Google offers for Android and iPhone. However, we prefer Authy, which does everything Google Authenticator does—and more. Despite the name, these apps use an open standard. For example, it's possible to add Microsoft accounts and many other types of accounts to the Google Authenticator app.
Install the app, scan the code when setting up a new account, and that app will generate new codes approximately every 30 seconds. You'll have to enter the current code displayed in the app on your phone as well as your password when you log into an account.
This doesn't require a cellular signal at all, and the "seed" that allows the app to generate those time-limited codes is stored only on your device. That means that it's much more secure, as even someone who gains access to your phone number or intercepts your text messages won't know your codes.
Some services—for example, Blizzard's Battle.net Authenticator—also have their own dedicated code-generating apps.
Physical authentication keys are another option that are starting to become more popular. Big companies from the technology and financial sectors are creating a standard known as U2F, and it's already possible to use a physical U2F token to secure your Google, Dropbox, and GitHub accounts. This is just a small USB key you put on your keychain. Whenever you want to log into your account from a new computer, you'll have to insert the USB key and press a button on it. That's it—no typing codes. In the future, these devices should work with NFC and Bluetooth for communicating with mobile devices without USB ports.
This solution works better than SMS verification and one-time-use codes because it can't be intercepted and messed with. It's also simpler and more convenient to use. For example, a phishing site could show you a fake Google login page and capture your one-time-use code when you attempt to log in. They could then use that code to log into Google. But, with a physical authentication key that works in concert with your browser, the browser can ensure it's communicating with the real website and the code can't be captured by an attacker.
Expect to see a lot more of these in the future.
Some mobile apps may provide two-factor authentication using the app itself. For example, Google now offers a code-less two-factor authentication as long as you have the Google app installed on your phone. Whenever you attempt to log into Google from another computer or device, you just need to tap a button on your phone, no code required. Google is checking to ensure you have access to your phone before you attempt to log in.
Apple's two-step verification works similarly, although it doesn't use an app—it uses the iOS operating system itself. Whenever you attempt to log in from a new device, you can receive a one-time-use code sent to a registered device, like your iPhone or iPad. Twitter's mobile app has a similar feature called login verification as well. And, Google and Microsoft have added this feature to the Google and Microsoft Authenticator smartphone apps.
Other services rely on your email account to authenticate you. For example, if you enable Steam Guard, Steam will prompt you to enter a one-time-use code sent to your email every time you log in from a new computer. This at least ensures an attacker would need both your Steam account password and access to your email account to gain access to that account.
Recovery codes provide a safety net in case you lose the two-factor authentication method. When you set up two-factor authentication, you'll usually be provided with recovery codes you should write down and store somewhere safe. You'll need them if you ever lose your two-step verification method.
Be sure you have a copy of your recovery codes somewhere if you're using two-step authentication.
You won't find this many options for each of your accounts. However, many services do offer multiple two-step verification methods you can pick from.
There's also the option of using multiple two-factor authentication methods. For example, if you set up both a code-generating app and a physical security key, you could gain access to your account via the app if you ever lose the physical key.


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Interpump Group S.p.A. è un'azienda italiana specializzata nella produzione di pompe ad alta ed altissima pressione ad acqua ed uno dei principali gruppi mondiali nel settore oleodinamico.

È quotata alla Borsa Italiana negli indici FTSE MIB  e FTSE Italia STAR della Borsa di Milano.

Storia
L'azienda nasce nel 1977 in provincia di Reggio Emilia, a Sant'Ilario d'Enza, grazie a Fulvio Montipò, reggiano di Baiso, figlio di un muratore che lavora stagionalmente in Svizzera mentre la mamma fa la domestica,
studi di sociologia a Trento nel periodo caldo del 1968. Inizialmente la produzione dell'azienda, fondata dopo aver convinto alcuni imprenditori della zona a finanziarlo in cambio del 40% delle azioni, è legata a pompe e pistoni ad alta pressione caratterizzata da dimensioni contenute e materiali di tipo nuovo (la ceramica) che portano l'azienda a detenere il 50% del mercato in pochi anni.

Dagli anni novanta inizia ad espandere le aree d'interesse acquisendo altre aziende nel settore delle macchine per pulizie professionali e motori elettrici.

Nel 1995 Montipò vende l'azienda ad un fondo di investimento, BC Partners, dedicandosi all'allevamento di cavalli e agli immobili. Nel 1996 la società viene quotata alla Borsa di Milano e dall'anno successivo inizia ad entrare nel settore oleodinamico con acquisizioni mirate di aziende del settore. E nel 2003 Montipò si riprende l'azienda: esce BC Partners ed entra la Tip di Giovanni Tamburi più i gruppi Ferrero (metallurgico), Seragnoli e Vacchi.

Nel 2005 viene ceduto il ramo relativo alle macchine per pulizie professionali a seguito di un riposizionamento nei settori più tecnologici. Nel 2007 sbarca negli Stati Uniti con l'acquisizione della Nib, uno dei maggiori operatori nei sistemi ad alta pressione.

Nel 2016 acquisisce Tekno Tubi, azienda specializzata nella lavorazione di tubi rigidi.

Nel 2018 Intermpump rileva le attività internazionali di Gs-Hydro dopo altre due acquisizioni realizzate nel 2017: l'inglese Bristol Hoss e, per 76 milioni, la spagnola Inoxpa, entrando così in un nuovo settore: il trattamento dei fluidi per alimentare, cosmetica e farmaceutica. La strategia è di rilevare aziende altamente specializzate che lavorano per i grandi operatori del settore come Nestlé, Barilla e Danone. Nel febbraio 2019 rileva il 75% della società canadese Hydra Dyne Tech per 17,2 milioni, proprietaria della tecnologia LocSeal e sede nell'Ontario.

Dati economici
Nel 2017 il gruppo ha registrato ricavi per 1086,5 milioni di euro con un utile di 135,7 milioni di euro. Nel 2018 il fatturato ha toccato 1,279 miliardi di euro con un aumento del 17,7% e l'utile ha raggiunto i 173,9 milioni (aumento del 28,1%). Nel 2019 le vendite hanno superato 1,3 miliardi (+7%), l'Ebitda è pari 317 milioni, l'utile netto di 180,7 milioni.

Consiglio di amministrazione
Il consiglio di amministrazione di Interpump è composto da Fulvio Montipò, che è presidente, Giovanni Tamburi, vicepresidente, e da 8 consiglieri: Angelo Busani, Antonia Di Bella, Víctor Gottardi, Fabio Marasi, Marcello Margotto, Federica Menichetti, Stefania Petruccioli, Paola Annunziata Tagliavini.

Comitato di coordinamento operativo
Il comitato di coordinamento operativo è composto dai 4 direttori generali di prodotto e dal responsabile delle relazioni con gli investitori, Luca Mirabelli, oltre che dal vicepresidente Paolo Marinsek.
I direttori generali sono:
Mario Ramazzotti, pompe e sistemi ad alta pressione (settore acqua)
Paolo Mastrostefano, prese di forza e cilindri (settore oleodinamica)
, distributori e valvole (settore oleodinamica)
Fabio Marasi, tubi e raccordi (settore oleodinamica)
L'ultima parola sulle iniziative del coordinamento spetta comunque al presidente Fulvio Montipò.

Azionariato
L'azionariato principale è suddiviso tra IPG Holding s.r.l. (23,3%), Mais S.p.A. (3,3%), FMR LLC (7,8%), Fin Tel s.r.l. (4,1%) ed azioni proprie (2,4%), sul mercato circa il 60% (il 32% in mano a fondi esteri, il 28% a investitori istituzionali). Alla fine del 2017 Fulvio Montipò risulta in IPG Holding, la società di controllo, l'azionista di maggioranza relativa col 34,2% dopo l'uscita dal libro soci di Giovanni Cavallini e Sergio Erede, mentre un 12,2% è suddiviso in parti uguali tra le figlie Laura e Lella. Tamburi Investment Partner ha il 23,6% cui si aggiungono titoli propri per il 29,8%.

Il gruppo
 Settore acqua: Interpump Group S.p.A. (Bertoli, Pratissoli Pompe, Mariotti&Pecini, Ricci Engineering), General Pump Inc., Hammelmann G.m.b.H., Inoxihp S.r.l., Inoxpa S.A., NLB Corporation Inc.
 Settore olio: Walvoil S.p.A. (Galtech; Hydrocontrol), Avi S.r.l., Contarini Leopoldo S.r.l., American Mobile Power Inc., Hydroven S.r.l., I.M.M. Hydraulics S.p.A., Interpump Hydraulics S.p.A. (HS Penta; Hydrocar; Modenflex Hydraulics; PZB), Mega Pacific New Zeland, Mega Pacific Pty Ltd, Muncie Power Inc., Oleodinamica Panni S.r.l. (Cover), Takarada Industria e Comercio lta, Teknotubi S.r.l., Tubiflex S.p.A..

Presenza internazionale
Interpump è presente nei seguenti paesi con almeno una delle aziende del gruppo:
 America: Canada, Stati Uniti d'America, Brasile, Cile
 Europa: Italia, Francia, Spagna, Inghilterra, Germania, Romania, Bulgaria
 Africa: Sudafrica
 Asia: Emirati Arabi Uniti, Cina, India, Corea del Sud
 Oceania: Australia, Nuova Zelanda

Note

Voci correlate
Oleodinamica
Presa di potenza

Collegamenti esterni

Aziende della provincia di Reggio Emilia

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Barkerville Enters into Relationship Agreement with the Soda Creek Indian Band | Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd.
TORONTO, Aug. 30, 2017 /CNW/ – Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd. (TSXV:BGM) ("Barkerville" or the "Corporation") is pleased to announce that it has entered into an interim relationship agreement (the "Relationship Agreement") with the Soda Creek Indian Band ("Xatśūll"). Pursuant to the terms of the Relationship Agreement, both parties have committed to maintaining an ongoing relationship with respect to the Corporation's exploration and short term mining activities on its Cariboo Gold Project, located in the Xatśūll stewardship area. The intent of the Relationship Agreement is to establish a mutually-beneficial and cooperative foundation for the development of a long-term relationship between the Xatśūll First Nation and Barkerville. The agreement establishes a framework under which Barkerville and Xatśūll can benefit from training, ongoing communication on stewardship and opportunities for businesses within the community to participate in the exploration activities and operations of the Corporation. Under the terms of the Relationship Agreement, Xatśūll and Barkerville have further agreed to commence negotiations on an extension to the Relationship Agreement, or a longer term and more comprehensive relationship agreement.
On August 18, 2017, pursuant to the terms of a relationship agreement entered into among the Lhtako Dene First Nation and Barkerville as announced on November 17, 2016, Barkerville issued an aggregate of 400,000 common shares of the Corporation (the "Common Shares") to the Lhtako Dene First Nation. The issuance of Common Shares represents a continued commitment on the part of Barkerville to create a positive and mutually beneficially relationship between the Lhtako Dene First Nation and Barkerville. The Common Shares issued to the Lhtako Dene First Nation pursuant to the relationship agreement are subject to a four month hold period, which will expire on December 18, 2017.
On August 1, 2017, the Corporation completed the acquisition of certain real estate with an office building in Wells, British Columbia to support growing infrastructure requirements of the Cariboo Gold Project. In accordance with part of the purchase agreement the vendor will be issued 50,000 Common Shares (having a value of $41,000 on the date of issuance). The Common Shares issued in connection with this acquisition are subject to a four month hold period, which will expire on December 1, 2017.
On August 25, 2017, the Corporation appointed Claire Lehan as Corporate Secretary. Ms. Lehan is a law graduate of Western University and currently practices corporate and securities law at Bennett Jones LLP.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange ("TSXV") nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSXV) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. No stock exchange, securities commission or other regulatory authority has approved or disapproved the information contained herein. This news release contains forward-looking information which is not comprised of historical facts. Forward-looking information involves risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events, results, performance, prospects and opportunities to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Forward looking information in this news release includes, but is not limited to, the Corporation's objectives, goals or future plans and exploration plans. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking information include, but are not limited to, capital and operating costs varying significantly from estimates, the preliminary nature of metallurgical test results, delays in obtaining or failures to obtain required governmental, environmental or other project approvals, uncertainties relating to the availability and costs of financing needed in the future, changes in equity markets, inflation, fluctuations in commodity prices, delays in the development of projects and the other risks involved in the mineral exploration and development industry, and those risks set out in the Corporation's public documents filed on SEDAR. Although the Corporation believes that the assumptions and factors used in preparing the forward-looking information in this news release are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on such information, which only applies as of the date of this news release, and no assurance can be given that such events will occur in the disclosed time frames or at all. The Corporation disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, other than as required by law.


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So I just wanted to share the set up that my family uses for Tết. We use the alter, entryway dresser and dining table as our platforms. The alter is for Buddha (bàn thờ Phật), the entryway dresser is used for the Saint of the Property (Đức Đai) and the dining table is used for my ancestors (ông, bà).
On the alter sits a bowl of dry rice in which we have placed many incense sticks (cây nhang) over the years during each Tết celebration. On the entryway table is the set up for the Saint of the Property (Đức Đai), which includes a small bowl of dry rice for the incense sticks, water glasses, a variety of foods such as soup (Canh), Vietnamese braised pork with eggs (thịt kho), Vegetarian stir fry egg noodles (mì xào chay), shrimp salad (gỏi tôm), and fresh fruit. On the dining table, there is a small bowl of dry rice for the incense sticks, three bowls of rice for my ancestors (one for my dad's side, one for my mom's side and the third is for all other ancestors), water glasses, candles and the same variety of foods as on the entryway table but in addition, there are also Vietnamese mung bean dumplings (bánh ít trần).
Tradition goes that when ceremony starts, each person always prays and greets Buddha first with 3 bows (ba xá) and 3 prayers (ba lạy) at the alter, then we move over to the entryway table and ask the Saint of the Property, permission (xin phép) to invite our ancestors to come and celebrate Tết with us with 2 bows (hai xá) and 2 prayers (hai lạy). Then at the dining table, we invite our ancestors to come and celebrate with us with 2 bows (hai xá) and 2 prayers (hai lạy). After each request, we each place one incense (cây nhang) into the designated dry rice bowl. At the end of the first round of bows, each person will visit each table again to ask permission to leave the ceremony, but using the same amount of bows and prayers per table that was used in the first round. This second round of bows and prayers will release the person to go on with their day as they please.
The bows, prayers and the placing of the incense sticks are repeated each morning for three days (ba ngày Tết), during the three day celebration. At the end of the three day celebration, there will be another feast that will be the same set up on each table and on the alter in which we bid farewell (tiễn đưa) to our ancestors.
In the late evening, we celebrate the New Years Eve (Cúng giao thừa) by lighting the alter candles and welcoming the new year. This ceremony includes three separate steps by the owner of the home. The first prayer (lạy Phật) takes place at the alter to Buddha with 3 bows (ba xá) and 3 prayers (ba lạy). Then the owner will step outside on the front porch of the home and prays to Heaven and Earth (cúng trời đất) with 3 bows (ba xá) and 3 prayers (ba lạy). The owner will then come inside to the alter and will pray to the lord of Heaven and Earth (lạy trời đất) with 3 bows (ba xá) and 3 prayers (ba lạy). The owner of the home will then place three incense into the rice bowl at the alter after these last three bows are completed. This last set of bows will end the ceremony of welcoming the new year.
This is an overview of what the set up is for my family for this year. There are traditional baked goods missing from this set up such as Bánh chưng (Vietnamese rice cake which is made from glutinous rice, mung beans, pork and other ingredients) and Bánh tét (savoury but sometimes sweetened cake, made from mung bean or mung bean and pork filling), as well as tea in addition to the water glasses. Each family has their own variation of what foods they cook or how they set up their ceremonies, this is just my family's set up for this year.
This thịt kho recipe is a low and slow braise so the meat is going to be reeeeally tender. In this recipe we're going to use pork belly because the fat on the meat tastes awesome! If you can get pork belly with the bones, you'll have even better results. My ideal ratio of pork for this dish is actually 1/2 pork belly and 1/2 of a leaner cut like shoulder.
Near me in Southern California's Little Saigon, I hear you can get a higher quality of pork belly at Quang Minh Mini Market. It costs more for the belly, but there seems to be a consensus that its worth the cost–something I need to check out soon!
Here are the brands I use for the seasoning: Rico coconut soda, Kikkoman soy sauce, and Three Crabs Brand fish sauce. The thick soy sauce brand is Koon Chun, to be used in a pinch.
As a kid I enjoyed mashing the yolk with the rice and spooning sauce over it–it's fun! This dish is commonly eaten with a side of dua chua (pickled mustard greens) which provides a fresh and crunchy balance.
I have tried adding slices of yellow onion too and it adds a nice layer of flavor to this dish. You can remove the onion at the end of the braise if you prefer since it will have given up all its flavor to the broth. For the seasoning in this thịt kho recipe: tinker with the soy sauce, fish sauce, and salt after the liquid has finished reducing, to taste.
Cut the pork into smaller pieces. I like 1.5″ cubes so it cooks slightly faster.
Bring 2-3 quarts of water boiling on high, or enough to fully submerge the pork.When the water's boiling, add the pork for 1-2 minutes just to clean it. Drain then rinse the pork under running water until the water is clear.
Make the hard-boiled eggs: add to a pot and cover the eggs with cold water by 1 inch. Bring to a boil on medium-high heat. Remove from heat and let it sit for 8 minutes. Cool in water then peel. Add the hard boiled eggs to the pot of pork in the last ~30-40 minutes of cooking.
Just tried your recipe. Turned out so awesome. Thanks!!!
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Happy New Year!- this is beautiful and I love learning about other families traditions. Thank you for sharing this!


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