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Search is considered as an essential part of the online world and search engines are playing a vital role in this regard. Beta 100 is also a search engine but its not the usual one. It has a noble cause behind it. The company will be spending 50% of the profit in sponsoring children who are facing poverty. It is some what like Kiva which also has a mission to help people.

It would be very hard to design a search engine from the scratch and make people use it, specially for such a cause. So what the Beta 100 did was that they took Google’s help and powered its search engine. This means that the search engine will return the same results as that of Google. The only difference will be that you will be helping the poor children with this search and it won’t even cost you a single penny.

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China might ‘has been’ the winner when it comes to population, something that has been alarming to analysts at planning out how to make the land stretch to make enough room for all the people. But a recent survey and statistics from China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) has revealed that this population has come out beating the US when it comes to most internet users, as reported by BBC.

The figures leap past US 223 million by a huge number (30 million more). Overall net penetration in the US is 71% as compared to 19% in China revealing that US would soon be ripped off in coming time. Definitely significant when you check out the records that are topped by the United States ever since the concept of most users online has been there.

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gOS is an Operating System that targets the huge user base of MySpace. It’s a great OS for using on netbooks as well, as it combines the best of Linux, Google and MySpace mixed with ease of use and superb eye candy. The feature list is good. And with the new gOS Space Dock, Design, Technology and Desktop Applications, it is an outstanding idea to target the OS at the users of the second largest social network in the world.

The best thing about gOS is that it doesn’t try to be general purpose like Vista and OS X Leopard, but instead it focuses on what the users of MySpace would want. Space features a shiny dock full of stacks that expand to show the most popular destinations and web apps for MySpace, celebrity news, photos, videos, music, TV, and everything that matters to the MySpace generation.

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Intel Corporation’s global investment organization has taken up another jump at investing in Indian online services, namely Yatra an online travel portal, BuzzInTown, a social networking site and Emnet Samsara Media Pvt. Ltd.

The over all investment sums to around $17 million and is directly generated form the $250 million Intel Capital India Technology fund. Arvind Sodhani, President of Intel Capital and Intel executive Vice President added:

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There have been plenty of ups and downs for business up late and MySpace is no different. With Facebook surpassing MySpace worldwide in terms of users (though MySpace is still dominant in the US), reports according to Peter Kafka suggest that the growth of MySpace has flattened out. Sad isn’t it? But there is enough analysis present to comment at MySpace still doing a good bit of business. Pretty contradictory and confusing, that is exactly what one feels when you go through the report.

Goldman Sachs has put Rupert Murdoch’s web business to be around $3 billion, almost half of what had been expected earlier this year. The estimates put up by Goldman were based on FIM’s earning and it adds:

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If you want to create your own social web site, where you can share news, reviews and other links so check out Slinkset. Slinkset allows you to build and customize social news sites with a minimal effort and technical know-how. At a first glance, It looks like little more than a Reddit clone with a few extra features.

Slinkset give you the user complete ownership of your site, therefore giving you the ability to build the type of community you want. You can also check out the hosted version of the site created for Startup Meme readers. The difference here is that, unlike Reddit or Digg, Slinkset isn’t looking to become a destination site. Instead, it is allowing users to create their own “Reddits” without any coding. As of now, it is offering free hosting services but has got plans to charge a fixed fee in future.

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Delicious has made an announcement regarding their new updated version which is about to come out very soon. All Delicious users will be logged out of their accounts and have to log in again when the new version will be implemented. This is in line with some alterations going on behind the scenes at the site.

If the users have to log in again, they have to make sure that they remember their username and password. This is what has been focused in this announcement. The address bar of the social bookmarking website right now appears like this: http://del.icio.us/your_username, but in the updated version, it will look like this: http://delicious.com/your_username.

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We talked about Slingpage late May and how it made bookmarking and sharing the bookmarks amongst friends pretty easily. The same service is now reported to be launching its version for Firefox users.

The new version will enable around 125 million Firefox users worldwide to gain access to its social browsing platform after being pretty successful with its launch for Microsoft Internet Explorer. Firefoxers can now discover and share Web in time as less as an instant according to the press release.

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Just like Myspace and Facebook are/have undergone redesigns, another relatively unpopular social networking website, Zorpia has launched its version 2.0 as well. The new design features drag and drop content, very much like Windows Live Spaces and dynamically customizable home pages.

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With a gargantuan expansion in the Internet over the last decade or so the need to fire up searches at a lightening pace, yielding the best results has soared up. Unfortunately the growth in search engines has not been proportional compared to that of the Internet. Google has been dominant in this department with claim of having indexed around 1 trillion pages. There is definitely enough room for another and this is where Cuil comes in with an index of 120 billion pages as reported by Michael Arrington.

Based in Menlo Park, the search engine that has been tipped in as the most comprehensive search engine is the brainchild of Tom Costello, his wife Anna Patterson and aided by Russell Power (both Patterson and Russell are ex-Google employees). The current indexing makes it the largest search engine, almost three times as big as any other search engine presently.

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