[ VS Specials ] Google Query Operators : Get Extremely Specific

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site : restricts results to sites within the specified domain

Sample
“site:vivsingh.com quotations” will find all pages containing the
word Quotations, located within the vivsingh.com domain

intitle : restricts results to documents whose title contains the specified phrase

Sample
“intitle:fox fire” will find all sites with the word fox in the
title and fire in the text

allintitle :restricts results to documents whose title contains all the specified phrases
“allintitle:fox fire” will find all sites with the words fox and fire in the title, so it’s equivalent to “intitle:fox
intitle:fire”

inurl : restricts results to sites whose URL contains the specified phrase
“inurl:fox fire” will find all sites containing the word fire in the text and fox in the URL

allinurl : restricts results to sites whose URL contains all the specified phrases
“allinurl:fox fire” will find all sites with the words fox and fire in the URL

filetype, ext : restricts results to documents of the specified type
“filetype:pdf fire” will return PDFs containing the word fire, while “filetype:xls” fox will return Excel spreadsheets with the word fox

Popular formats : txt, docs, ppt, zip, rar, info

link : restricts results to sites containing links to the specified location
“link:www.google.com” will return documents containing one or more links to www.google.com

+ : specifies that a phrase should occur frequently in results
“+fire ” will order results by the number of occurrences of the word fire

- : specifies that a phrase must not occur in results
“-fire” will return documents that don’t contain the word fire

“” : delimiters for entire search phrases (not single words)
“fire fox” will return documents containing the phrase fire fox

. wildcard for a single character
“fire.fox” will return documents containing the phrases fire fox, fireAfox, fire1fox, fire-fox etc.

* wildcard for a single word
“fire * fox” will return documents containing the phrases
fire the fox, fire in fox, fire or fox etc.

Few of my favorite corporate/product punchlines/taglines

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Think Different - Apple

Stop Talking. Start Doing. - IBM

What makes you Special? - IBM

What the web can be - Macromedia

Just do it - Nike

Impossible is nothing - Adidas

I am, What I am. - Reebok

More than meets the eyes  - Tata Sumo Grande

More car, per car - Tata indica

The World’s Local Bank - HSBC

Citi never sleeps - Citibank

There are some things money can’t buy. For everything else there’s MASTERCARD.

High Performance. Delivered - Accenture

Profit from it. - CNBC

News you can use - NDTV

The king of good times - Kingfisher

We move the world - DHL

The best a man can get. - Gillette

Because you are worth it TOO. - L’oreal Men

[ VS Special ] Best of HOUSE MD

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Dr. Cameron: Men should grow up.
Dr. Gregory House: Yeah. And dogs should stop licking themselves. It’s not gonna happen.
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Dr. Gregory House: Perseverance does not equal worthiness. Next time you want to get my attention, wear something fun. Low-riding jeans are hot.

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Dr. Gregory House: A patient comes because she’s sleeping 16 hours a day, and it takes ten doctors and a coma to diagnose sleeping sickness.

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Dr. Gregory House: You can think I’m wrong, but that’s no reason to quit thinking.

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Dr. Gregory House: Nobel invented dynamite. I won’t accept his blood money.

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Dr. Gregory House: J’ever notice, how all the self-sacrificing women in history, Joan of Arc, Mother Teresa… can’t think of any others, they all die alone? The men, on the other hand, get so much fuzz it’s crazy.
Dr. Wilson: It’s an unfair world.

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Dr. Eric Foreman: “The body does crazy things.” Well, that explains everything.

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Dr. Robert Chase: She was fine two hours ago.
Dr. Gregory House: If by fine you mean bleeding profusely out of every orifice, then yeah, I believe you.

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Stacy Warner: God, you are such an idiot.
Dr. Gregory House: Actually, I thought I was more of a jerk.

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Dr. Cameron: Twelve-year-olds don’t have sex.
Dr. Gregory House: Their mistake.

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Dr. Cameron: You want me to tell a man whose wife is about to die that she may have cheated on him?
Dr. Gregory House: No, I want you to be polite and let her die.

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Dr. Gregory House: I’m extremely disappointed. I send you out for exciting, new designer drugs, you come back with tomato sauce.

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Dr. Eric Foreman: It’s dangerous, it could kill him. You should do it.

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Dr. Wilson: Did you know your phone is dead? Do you ever recharge the batteries?
Dr. Gregory House: They recharge? I just keep buying new phones.

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Photoshop Express: online photo library, editing and sharing

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Photoshop Express is an Free to use ( with 2GB online storage ) online photo library, editing and sharing website. Think of it this way. You shot it - not it’s time to do something with it. You can crop, rotate, change colors, enhance, remove red eye, and even some crazy special effects like twirling and distorting. When you’re done, you can share the photos using galleries and even give people a link to go see them. Photoshop Express works with JPEG photos only—the most common format used in cameras.

Features:

Crop & Rotate—Turn it, straighten it, crop out the background.
Auto Correct—Automatic, one-click, optimal lighting and contrast adjustment.
Exposure—Change the brightness of the photo.
Red-Eye Removal—Removes red eyes caused by some camera flashes.
Touchup—Remove scratches and other imperfections.
Saturation—Ramp up the colors to blinding brightness, dampen them down to black and white, or anywhere in between.
White Balance—Ever notice how people look different inside an office with the ugly fluorescent tubes, as opposed to outside on a bright sunny day? Adjust the white balance and you change the type of lighting in the photo.
Highlight—The brightest parts of a photo are the highlights. This control lets you brighten or darken just the brightest part of the photo, without affecting the darker parts (we call those the shadows).
Fill Light—If you take a shot facing into the sun, your subject can end up too dark due to the camera’s automatic exposure adjustment. Fill Light brightens the dark area without overbrightening the background.
Sharpen—It’s like putting in your contacts. Suddenly everything comes more into focus.
Soft Focus—It’s like taking your contacts out. Soft Focus creates a subtle blur for artistic effect.
Hue—This one changes all the colors in a photo at once.
Black & White—Control how the colors are converted when you change a photo to black and white.
Tint—Imagine instead of black and white, you want red and white, or pale brown and white for that old Western look.
Sketch—Makes any photo look like you drew it yourself.
Distort—Stretch, twist, bulge specific areas of your photos.

TOO MUCH?? Don’t worry, they have fully illustrated Video Tutorials for every feature.

Visit : http://www.photoshop.com/express

Tutorials : http://www.photoshopexpresstechniques.com/

Top 10 Website By Traffic ( June 2008 )

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1. www.yahoo.com

2. www.google.com

3. www.youtube.com

4. www.live.com

5. www.msn.com

6. www.myspace.com

7. www.wikipedia.org

8. www.facebook.com

9. www.blogger.com

10. www.yahoo.co.jp

Source : Alexa

Google owns 68% of shares of Search Engine Market

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This list features the top 4 leading search engines based on US Internet usage, ranked by volume of searches for the 4 weeks ending May 31, 2008.

1. www.google.com 68.29%
2. search.yahoo.com 19.95%
3. search.msn.com 4.33%
4. www.ask.com 4.23%

Source - Hitwise - May, 2008 - based on volume of searches.

The MySpace Story : Interesting Facts about Myspace.com Social Networking

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MySpace was founded by former Friendster members Chris Dewolfe and Tom Anderson in 2003.

MySpace was purchased in 2005 for $580 million by Rupert Murdoch creator of a media empire that includes 20th Century Fox and the Fox television stations.

The 100 millionth Myspace account was created on August 6, 2006 in the Netherlands and a news story claimed 106 million accounts on September 8, 2006.

The site reportedly attracts 230,000 new registrations per day.

MySpace has more than 40 billion page views a month.

Google paid $900 million to be MySpace’s search provider.

In May 2006, Long Island, New York teenagers Shaun Harrison and Saverio Mondelli were charged with illegal computer access and attempted extortion of MySpace, after both had allegedly hacked into the site to steal the personal information of MySpace users before threatening to share the secrets of how they broke into the website unless MySpace paid them $150,000. Both teens were arrested by undercover Los Angeles police detectives posing as MySpace employees.

Tallest buildings in the world

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Rank Name City Country Height
1 Taipei 101 Taipei Republic of China (Taiwan) 509 m
2 Shanghai World Financial Center Shanghai People’s Republic of China 492 m
3= Petronas Tower 1 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 452 m
3= Petronas Tower 2 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 452 m
5 Sears Tower Chicago United States 442 m
6 Jin Mao Tower Shanghai People’s Republic of China 421 m
7 Two International Finance Centre Hong Kong Hong Kong SAR 415 m
8 CITIC Plaza Guangzhou People’s Republic of China 391 m
9 Shun Hing Square Shenzhen People’s Republic of China 384 m
10 Empire State Building New York City United States 381 m
11 Central Plaza Hong Kong Hong Kong SAR 374 m
12 Bank of China Tower Hong Kong Hong Kong SAR 367 m
13 Bank of America Tower New York City United States 366 m
14 Almas Tower Dubai United Arab Emirates 360 m
15 Emirates Office Tower Dubai United Arab Emirates 355 m
16 Tuntex Sky Tower Kaohsiung Republic of China (Taiwan) 348 m
17 Aon Center Chicago United States 346 m
18 The Center Hong Kong Hong Kong, China 346 m
19 John Hancock Center Chicago United States 344 m
20= Rose Tower Dubai United Arab Emirates 333 m
20= Shimao International Plaza Shanghai People’s Republic of China 333 m

Source : WikiPedia

Top 25 Money Making Movies of All-Time, Worldwide

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Rank Title Worldwide Box Office
1. Titanic (1997) $1,835,300,000
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) $1,129,219,252
3. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006) $1,060,332,628
4. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001) $968,657,891
5. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007) $958,404,152
6. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) $937,000,866
7. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) $922,379,000
8. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) $921,600,000
9. Jurassic Park (1993) $919,700,000
10. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) $892,194,397
11. Spider-Man 3 (2007) $885,430,303
12. Shrek 2 (2004) $880,871,036
13. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) $866,300,000
14. Finding Nemo (2003) $865,000,000
15. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) $860,700,000
16. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) $848,462,555
17. Independence Day (1996) $811,200,000
18. Spider-Man (2002) $806,700,000
19. Star Wars (1977) $797,900,000
20. Shrek the Third (2007) $791,106,665
21. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) $789,458,727
22. Spider-Man 2 (2004) $783,577,893
23. The Lion King (1994) $783,400,000
24. The Da Vinci Code (2006) $757,236,138
25. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) $756,700,000

Bestselling Music Albums - World’s Top Selling Music Albums of All Time

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29 Million
EAGLES/THEIR GREATEST HITS 1971 - 1975, EAGLES, ELEKTRA

27 Million
THRILLER, MICHAEL JACKSON, EPIC

23 Million
LED ZEPPELIN IV , LED ZEPPELIN, ATLANTIC
THE WALL, PINK FLOYD, COLUMBIA

22 Million
BACK IN BLACK, AC/DC, EPIC

21 Million
DOUBLE LIVE, Garth Brooks, CAPITOL NASHVILLE
GREATEST HITS VOLUME I & VOLUME II, Billy Joel, COLUMBIA

20 Million
COME ON OVER, SHANIA TWAIN, MERCURY NASHVILLE

19 Million
THE BEATLES, The Beatles, APPLE
RUMOURS MAC FLEETWOOD, WARNER BROS.

17 Million
BOSTON, BOSTON, EPIC
NO FENCES, GARTH BROOKS, CAPITOL
THE BODYGUARD (SOUNDTRACK) WHITNEY HOUSTON, ARISTA

16 Million
JAGGED LITTLE PILL , ALANIS MORISSETTE, MAVERICK
THE BEATLES 1967 - 1970, THE BEATLES, APPLE
GREATEST HITS, JOHN ELTON MCA
PHYSICAL GRAFFITI, LED ZEPPELIN, SWAN SONG
CRACKED REAR VIEW, HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH, ATLANTIC
HOTEL CALIFORNIA, EAGLES, ASYLUM

15 Million
SUPERNATURAL, SANTANA, ARISTA
DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, PINK FLOYD , HARVEST
THE BEATLES 1962 - 1966, THE BEATLES, APPLE
BORN IN THE U.S.A. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, COLUMBIA
APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION, GUNS ‘N ROSES, GEFFEN
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (SOUNDTRACK) , BEE GEES, RSO
GREATEST HITS, JOURNEY, COLUMBIA

Source : RIAA

Number Thirteen

Microsoft plans to skip Office 13 for being “an unlucky number,” going directly from Office 12 to Office 14.

Some airplanes skip a row 13, going straight from 12 to 14.

In Scotland, there is no gate 13 in any airport, instead there is a gate 12B.

In Formula One, there is no number 13 car.

The Apollo 13 spacecraft malfunctioned after being launched on April 11th at 13:13 CST, forcing it to return to Earth without a landing on the moon and imperiling its crew.

After 13 years of being the richest man in the world, Microsoft Corporation chairman Bill Gates lost this title, according to Forbes magazine’s 2008 list of the world’s billionaires.

On the first two albums by the Avant-Garde metal band Fantômas, Track 13 has no title, is unlisted on the album cover and consists of a few seconds of silence.

In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10


A building in which each floor can rotate 360 degrees

Imagine a building in which each floor can rotate 360 degrees, completely independently of all the other floors. Imagine the possibilities, for resort hotels; luxury apartments and condominiums; and Class A office and retail space. Imagine the investment potential for an astute developer.
This unique concept in building technology and design is actually available today. Unlike previous rotating structures that required expensive and space-consuming mechanics to rotate only the top floor, this amazing system enables independent rotation, speed and direction for each floor, up to fifty stories, by local or remote control.
The entire living/working space, ceilings and outer walls revolve around the center core, which houses all the plumbing and wiring. The wrap-around balconies remain stationary. The mechanics that make all this happen are contained in an extremely small space, require virtually no maintenance, and use no more energy than a hair dryer. Cutting-edge “smart-house” technology is integrated into the design.

It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.


Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.