How many websites exist

Binary Globe

We all surf the Internet to find what we want. We read the news, we see sport results, we download software, we learn new things, we watch funny videos, we are informed about new songs and movies and anything else we can think of. In order to do this we visit websites but how many are they? Are we talking about thousands, millions or more? Many people don’t think about it but some of us wonder. A friend of mine recently asked me about that, I didn’t know for sure and I guessed that they could be several millions. I am glad to say now that I was not wrong.

We are a PR3 website now

If you have a blog or website then you are probably familiar with the term PageRank (PR). PageRank is an algorithm that analyzes the links of each website and generates a number which shows the importance of that website. It got its name from Google’s Larry Page who developed the algorithm when he was still at Stanford University. PageRank shows the website’s link popularity and its range is from 0 to 10. When you create a new website, it is a PR0 website because there are no links pointing to that website. If the number of the links that point to the website (also known as backlinks) grow, then the PR of the website will grow too.

Play with Android on your computer

If you want to check out the Google’s OS Android, without a device that supports it, you can do it. This one is different from the Bluestacks app player. You don’t play just the apps but you see the operating system as a whole. If you are not familiar with Live CDs (such as Ubuntu Live CD) then you should know that it is a bootable CD that runs an operating system from the CD without requiring any installation. This is how you can also try Android. LiveAndroid is a LiveCD for x86 platforms (normal PC) that runs Android. You can download the image of the CD from the LiveAndroid’s website and burn it to a CD. As we said, you don’t need to install anything, it will not affect your files and all you need to do is insert the CD and restart your computer.

Flexible Screens from Samsung

Samsung Electronics said that its goal is to produce mobile phones with flexible screens in 2012. Flexible displays will be added later to tablets and other mobile devices. Samsung is willing to continue its Galaxy S II success which sold 10 million devices in a period of five months. What flexible screens means to consumers? Hopefully less cracked displays and better mobile designs. It might also means higher prices at the beginning but this is expected on any new device. All we can do for now is wait.

Anonymous VS Mexican drug cartel

Anonymous

In the past few month we have seen Anonymous go against law enforcement, governments, companies and organizations but we never saw them messing with drug cartels. Well, now they do and to do such thing you need some very big balls. A member of Anonymous, who was taking part to a street protest, was kidnapped by Los Zetas. Los Zetas is a Mexican drug cartel and Mexican Anonymous is now demanding that they release him or else they will reveal identities, names and addresses of syndicate’s associates. In those associates are included politicians and corrupt police. Anonymous is not only threatens to reveal associates but also syndicate’s businesses. Anonymous is not just words, they already started revealing information about the cartel. They have also defaced the website of a politician that is suspected to have connections with Los Zetas. The website is still defaced now that I am writing this post with the message “es Zeta” which means “is Zeta”.

Google.Org – Enhanced Geothermal Systems

Everyone with internet connection knows Google and use at least one of its services. How many of you know google.org, an organization which spends millions of dollars in research and funding. They characterize it as a technology-driven philanthropy. One of the projects of google.org is the Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) and a new study about EGS was conducted by SMU Geothermal Laboratory. EGS produces electricity by exploiting the heat and energy from hot rock beneath the surface of the earth. From the data they gathered, they estimate that with EGS they can generate about 3.000.000 megawatts for the continental U.S.

Google shows your IP in results

Every time I wanted to view my public IP address I was googling “show my IP” or “what is my ip” and I was visiting, most of the times, the first result to find out. I have done this few thousands times so far but things are about to change. Now, the only thing I have to do is google for what is my ip and Google shows my IP address before the other results. It was about time, after currency conversion and mathematical equations, I was waiting for something like this. It does not save a lot of time, but for a repeating action even little is big.

Another Microsoft Patent Agreement for Android

Microsoft Dollar

About a month ago we mentioned in a post that Microsoft will earn $444 millions from Android patent agreements. Microsoft has won another battle in the Android patent war and it now has its tenth licence agreement. The newest agreement is with Compal, a Taiwanese company with about $28 billions annual revenue. Big news for Microsoft which now has agreements with more than 50% of the companies who produce Android devices (about 55%).

JavaFX 2.0 has been released

avaFX is a platform for developing rich client applications and also rich internet applications (RIA). With JavaFX 2.0 you can create JavaFX applications completely with Java code. This was not able with the previous version and it was a main reason why many developers didn’t choose JavaFX for their applications. Now you write the application and then you can deploy it as a desktop application or as a web application. In JavaFX 2.0 you can use FXML, a new XML-based markup language, to define the user interface. Version 2.0 has also a new graphics engine to handle modern GPUs and a new media engine based on the GStreamer multimedia framework.

Microsoft still wants to buy Yahoo!

ilver Lake Partners, a private-equity firm, works with Microsoft in order to bid on Yahoo! Inc. Microsoft wanted to buy Yahoo! in the past and apparently it didn’t give up. If we consider the search market share of Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft, it is obvious why Microsoft wants Yahoo!. Google’s search market share in the U.S is about 65.4%, Yahoo!’s is about 17.2% and Microsoft’s 13.4%. Microsoft is in the third place and has about the 1/5 of Google’s market share. By acquiring Yahoo! Microsoft is automatically moved to the second place with almost the half search market share of number one in the U.S which is huge.