Google Commerce search is a product that is hosted on cloud and is a software-as-a-service offering aiming at online retailers. When a consumer visits an e-commerce portal, searching for a product or a number of products is one of the basic and most widely done tasks.

Hence, in order to make it a pleasant experience for the consumers to find a product, collaboration with Google search technology for the same, makes it fast and customizable.

Let’s have a look at the features of Google Commerce Search:

• Visitors to the online shop can take the advantage of parametric search i.e. sort their search by category, price, brand and on many similar criterions.
• It provides automatic spell-check, advanced synonyms and stemming option coupled with Google speed, search quality and ranking capability.
• Site administrator has the privilege to manage product promotions and in this capacity he can promote specific products, vendors or product categories at the top of the search results.
• You can change the look and feel of both your search engine as well as search results and can integrate search results into other application using the XML API.
• As it is a software-as-a-service offering, the deployment and maintenance is very simple and economic. As soon as there is an enhancement that is developed, it would be available to the online retail enterprise. There is Google Commerce Search support for assistance in case of any difficulty.
• Use of integrated Google analytics enables the enterprise to have customized      reporting and statistical analysis.
• Google Commerce Search being a hosted solution, it ensures the continuity of good quality search experience even there is a sudden rise in site visitors specially  during the holiday period, hence it provides immense scalability.

It’s working:

After signing up for Google Commerce Search, the steps to be followed by a site administrator are:

1. He must submit the product data to the Google Merchant Centre and Google Product Search and upload the items through www.google.com/merchants via data feeds, direct upload or API
2. He should log into the administrative console to manage product promotions, upload synonym dictionaries and control parametric search option.
3. He can get an idea about the site usage and effectiveness using Google analytics.

Its pricing model is based on the number of products in your data feed and the number of search performed on the site each year.

Also, check out the video at YouTube :  Google Commerce

Check out http://www.google.com/commercesearch/# to have a real experience of the latest product from Google which is right in time with holiday season approaching.

Reliance mobile has come up with an appealing job search which is aimed to benefit the common people of India. This is meant for people who are not very tech savvy and not very comfortable in using web but definitely have potential and a lot of hidden latent. 

Reliance mobile in collaboration with Babajob.com (A company that specialises in informal job hiring) has launched this service on its VAS platform, the R- World. It will be available in five languages – Hindi, English Telugu, Kannada and Tamil.

It will not only become easier for job seekers to find the right job for them based on their skill but also be a great channel for the employers to reach out to the larger untapped market in rural India, for the so called blue-collared jobs. It educates the rural users about the jobs available in their area as well as higher paying job in near-by cities. 

Until now there have been many job search portals, but they featured only white collar job vacancies which require a great deal of experience and educational qualification.

So India, which has a large rural and sub-urban population, is definitely going to relate, accept and take full advantage of this new service.

As the job market looks bright again after the downturn, Reliance Job search service might give a good competition to the current market leaders in that segment.

Lets watch and see how it brings valued service to jobseekers and employers.

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In IST the eclipse will begin at 5:28am when the shadow of the moon will touch the earth and the total eclipse will end at 10:42am IST when the shadow of the moon will leave the earth at a point in South Pacific Ocean. The umbra of the eclipse will touch the earth at sunrise near Gulf of Khambhat. The path will be 200km wide and duration not more than 3min30 sec. The shadow crossing over Arunachal Pradesh and Myanmar enters China before passing out through Japan’s Ryuku Island.

This eclipse will be the longest total solar eclipse lasting 6 minutes 39 seconds.

If you are living in that part of the world where you cannot watch this total solar eclipse, then you can enjoy the magnificence and beauty of this celestial extravaganza at the following links in your desktop.

• http://www.sems.und.edu/
• http://www.live-eclipse.org/
• http://www.atlaspost.com/2009tse
• http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/index.html

In India, according to the NASA report, this solar bonanza will be best viewed from Taregana village, 30 kms south of Bihar capital city Patna. More than 1000 years ago, it was in this same village that astronomer Aryabhatta did set up a camp to study the impact of celestial movements. In this small village people from all walks of life have started flocking in.

Scientists are expected to study the impact of this total solar eclipse on

• Atmospheric ionization.
• Possibility of asteroids
• Geomagnetism
• Animals and avian behavioral changes
• Microorganisms’ behavior.

These are the following two links of NASA that provides with detailed path of the Total solar Eclipse

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEmono/TSE2009/TSE2009.html

And the following is the official 2009 eclipse bulletin page of NASA

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEmono/TSE2009/TSE2009.html

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Hillary Clinton on IT business:

However, the breakfast meeting with corporate India dealt with subjects ranging from protectionism to outsourcing. She did put opinion on President Obama’s comment on to stop outsourcing and to bring jobs from Bangalore to Buffalo. She diplomatically spoke that it is friendly competition that has been talked about and there is not protectionist policy being adopted by US government. But, on the other hand she did claim that outsourcing is a genuine problem in US and that back home her government needs to look into it with serious thoughts.

 Madam Senator on Education:

Ina special interaction with the students of St. Xaviers College and interview with Arnab Goswami, of Times Now, US Secretary of State was greatly impressed with the Teach India campaign and praised involvement of celebrity icon Aamir Khan in this great initiative. She emphasized that global prosperity lies in collaboration and co-operation among countries and among people. This is important to bridge the gap between talent and opportunities. She also went in to praise India’s technical education and says it to be the best in the world. 

 US Secretary of State on Environment:

Hillary at the opening of the ITC Green Center in Gurgaon spoke her mind out and said that this building will soon be one of the monuments of 21^st century. Referring to her visit earlier as the First lady at the Taj Mahal, she says that ITC Green building will soon become a stopover in the India’s Tourist Map just as the other wonders of the world.

 US wants India to sign on the dotted lines to put a restriction on carbon emission but India is reluctant to do so as it is believed that India figures quite low in statistical data of carbon emission and feels it would be detrimental to its growing industries (US is responsible for 20 percent of carbon emission while India accounts only 1.8 tonnes per capita). Madam Senator was quick to state that US will not impose any restrictions on India that would be unfavorable for India’s growth and development.

 Hillary Clinton on Agriculture:

Cutting-edge technology should be incorporated to harp greater benefit and to raise crop yields. She visited Indian Agricultural Research Institute and was vocal about the need to identify the root causes of hunger. It is important to begin with the next generation of agrarian economy but was tight lipped on emotive GM (genetically-mapped) food crops.

 Hillary’s visit impact on Defense:

Besides sale of US weapons to India, India did approve two sites for US firms to build two nuclear power plants.

 According to the state media report, the airline was bound for Armenia and it fears that all passengers are dead. This particular commercial airline basically operates within Iran and also travels to Syria, UAE, Ukraine, Armenia and Turkey. Reports say that this airline uses Tupolev jets made in Russia and Iranians fear that these Tupolev jets are extremely prone to accidents and malfunction.

As US has stopped supplying commercial aircraft and airplanes parts to Iran, people in that country feel that has put the lives of people at greater risks.

Let’s see what 360 or Rubik 360 is all about…

360 is a transparent plastic ball. Inside this plastic ball there are 3 interlocking sphere. These three interlocking sphere contain 6 balls of different colours. The challenge is to take these balls into the matching colour coded slots in the outer sphere by shaking them through the middle sphere, which has only two holes. Prof Rubik claims that it involves a lot of kinetic and physical challenge because of gravity involved. It took The Times, 5 hrs to roll the first ball to its correct slot. The first Rubik 360 tournament is scheduled to be held in Dusseldorf in October.

Some Interesting facts about Rubik Cube that will influence you to raise your expectations from Rubik 360:

1.  350 million units of Rubik Cube sold after its invention in 1974 by Prof.Erno Rubik in Budapest, Hungary
2.  The world record for completing the cube was 7.08 sec in 2008.
3.  The largest cube weighs 500kgs and is 3 metres tall, is in display in Tennessee.
4.  The 25 move solution, named God’s Algorithm is the shortest solution.
5.  ‘Rubik Cube’ made its place in Oxford English Dictionary just after two years of its launch and is permanently exhibited in New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

This is what David Hedley, the senior vice-president of the Rubik brand had to say about Rubik 360 “It can’t be that hard. But it is incredibly complicated — there are some really cunning tricks to it.”

As Rubik 360 hits the market, we will see how many of us grab a 360 and test our patience to solve the puzzle.

An epic Wimbledon final for all to remember that marked the beginning of an era of Roger Federer affirming his place in the history of tennis with a scintillating win.  

It’s after Serena Williams ousted her sister Venus William to clinch the Women’s Wimbledon, the battle of Men’s Wimbledon crown got hotter with Roger Federer and Andy Roddicks.  

This final for Roger Federer of Switzerland implied a 15^th grand slam victory and that by itself created a record as he chased history. By this win he actually beat the record of 14 grand slam victories that of Pete Sampras.  

Again, this 2009 Wimbledon final also went into the fifth set as it was in the last year. The fight was intense and the first set win (7-5) went to the 6^th seeded Andy Roddicks. The second and third set, both were tie breakers and Roger Federer pulled a win in both the sets. However, without losing the calm and composure, Andy Roddicks pulled a win in the fourth set (6-3) and forced Wimbledon 2009 into a fifth set game.

The showdown lasted for more than four hours and finally ended in the 30^th game in the fifth set. With this win, Roger Federer puts under his belt sixth Wimbledon championship title.

Steve Jobs had a liver transplant but it unraveled the flaws in Organ Transplant System

It is the geographic division that came in the forefront when Steve Jobs CEO of Apple got operated for liver transplant when he flew from California to Memphis. What does the geographic division of liver transplant means? It simply highlights the fact that a patient who has only few months to live can be denied a liver while a healthier person can get a liver transplant just because he is in a position to fly. 

It is in Memphis that the lists for liver transplant patients are shorter than that in California. The organ sharing network divides US into 11 regions and according to a rule most livers are allocated by using MELD (Model for end stage liver disease) system. MELD assigns scores to liver functions and overall health. Higher scores in the range of 6 to 40 imply those patients get priority to receiving a liver.

In the year 2008, about 17,000 American patients were on the list of liver transplant but only 6000 were lucky to get them. It is the organ system’s regional disparities on the access of liver are highly criticized by many doctors. 

The patients who can fly get themselves enlisted at multiple transplant centers in an attempt to get the liver transplantation done quickly by increasing the chances of receiving the organ. There is a need to change the local and regional organ distributing system.

The case of Steve Jobs only highlighted the issue of DISPARITY!!!

The pop star Michael Jackson dies due to cardiac arrest. He was rushed to UCLA Medical Center in an unconscious state. It is said that some one from his rented residence at Holmby Hills dialled 911 and when paramedics arrived they found no pulse and that pulse never came back. He is survived by his three children.

 The world is shocked and his fans are hysteric…

His last public performance was in the month of March where he announced about his comeback Tour in UK where a series of 50 concerts was slated to begin from July 13^th.

 The news of the death of a legend has sent shockwaves not only in US but all over the world.

 Born in the year 1958, the legendary pop icon rose to fame with his all time best music album Thriller in the 1980s. He is known for his dancing maneuvers and on stage electrifying energy. However, his career was tainted with sex abuse scandal, financial calamity and many a times he made headlines for the wrong reason.

 After a period of recluse he wished to comeback with his performance once again.

But the candle flickered and the flame was put off as destined.