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Rings are well known status symbols, and the included jewel’s weight in carat is a comparable value for the personal ranking of its owner.

The VanityRing doesn’t have a jewel, instead it shows the number of hits one gets, when he searches Google for the name of the person who wears it, a more adequate value in our time. It is personalized using a custom software, and after the name is typed the ring will change its display to show the personal “attention carats”, while every night, when it is inserted into its docking station the ring is reloaded and updated.

- via BoingBoing

Inetresting article from Radaronline

Google suggests in Hindi is the first google project to graduate out of Google India Labs

Search queries can be typed in english as usual and google suggest will suggest hindi transliterated suggestions.

http://next.yahoo.com used to look like this few months back.

and this was explanation from yahoo about it

This is how it looks like now.

Well written article from SEOmoz about hidden text and search engines take on this.

Searchengineland got confirmation from Google “that PageRank scores are being lowered for some sites that sell links.”
In addition, Google said that some sites that are selling links may indeed end up being dropped from its search engine or have penalties attached, to prevent them from ranking well.

Google says that most people hit with a PageRank decrease will likely notice this, and then they can request a review.

Full article here.