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Tips & Tricks For An Effective Google Search

We all use a lot of search engines to get various info. But How many of us know to do an effective Google search?

Yet at times we are unable to get the required information in a single search .

So hence, What went wrong in our search? Whether the words we entered were wrong ?
Google doesn’t have proper database? Then how can we get the apt result in a single search???????????????

This is where you need to gain little bit of logical information based on google algorithm based on which Google access its database for the search we put…….

The logic behind the search engine algorithm is as follows…..

On a whole, searches are classified into various types

· Basic searches

· Compound search

· Search modifiers

· Restrictive searches

· Specialized searched

· Fact searches

· Math & number searches


Basic searches

All needz
This kind of search finds the pages with words all and/or needz in title or in anchor text link or on the page. In this the two words may be anywhere in the page.

“All needz”
Finds the page with words all and needz in title or in anchor text link or on the page. In this the two words will be near to each other and also in the same order.

All or needz
Finds the page with either all or needz in title or in anchor text link or on the page.

All and needz
Finds the page with both the words all and needz in title or in anchor text link or on the page. The words can be anywhere in the page and also in any order.

All-needz
Finds the page with word all in title or in anchor text link or on the page, but it will not have the word needz in them. Make sure no space is there before and behind the minus sign.

All~needz
Finds the page with word all in title or in anchor text link or on the page, also finds the page with synonyms for the word next to ~ (i.e) needz.

Define: needz
Finds the page with definition for the word needz in title or in anchor text link or on the page.


Compound searches

Compound searched can be done using logical operators like OR & AND. Along with this [“], [-] can also be used.

All (NeedZ OR NeedS)
Finds the page with word All and either NeedZ OR NeedS in title or in anchor text link or on the page.

All (NeedZ AND NeedS)
Finds the page with word All and both NeedZ AND NeedS in title or in anchor text link or on the page.

All (NeedZ AND NeedS)-home
Finds the page with word All and both NeedZ AND NeedS in title or in anchor text link or on the page, but without the word home in title or in anchor text link or on the page.




Let’s say you wanted to do a search for people who haven’t painted or modified their home in a while, here’s how you would create that query
"haven't (painted OR modified)" AND home

Online Q&A ???????????

Getting answers is not difficult in todays networked world but sometimes its very hard to sort out the answer you really want. Maybe you can google it, look in wikipedia, post the question in your blog or even send the ques. to your friends and family, You still may not find the answer you’re trying to find. But there are some websites that are all about answering questions! People from all over the world can see your question and you can get answers from professionals. Some of my favourite Sites which i look for answers are:

LinkedIn Answers — Mostly Questions on this site are supposed to focus on business, Finance and other similar stuffs.

WikiAnswers — This site, as it happens, is a wiki where you can add a question to a particular category. You don’t have to actually wikify either questions or answers, though. The site handles that sort of thing automatically.

Yahoo!Answers — Yahoo!Answers have more people roaming around than anyother sites i have found for Q&A's. If I’ve struck out everywhere else, I head to this site. This one of my personal favourites for Q&A, the probability of getting an Answer is higher in Yahoo!Answers.

Beyond these sites there are thousands of sites in the internet for Q&A's. If your question is more related to a profession you can also try Forums related to that topic, there are professionals exchaniging Q&A's in Forums. So you can get a better quality answer in a Forum if its more towards a particular profession. Forums are usually used to discuss on a selected topic by the users. By no means should you consider this list exhaustive, and if you have a site you prefer, please mention it in the comments.

Designing the Question
Not all questions will get an answer in these Q&A website, so you need to design or craft the question accordingily which helps the person to answer within less than 5min. Usually people dont want to give very long answers, I have seen that really broad questions usually get ignored in these sites. With really broad questions, there is a certain feeling that whoever is asking hasn’t done any research, and no one wants to do someone’s work for them.

Considering The Answer
Once you have received an answer do some research based on the answer to confirm the validity of the answer. Since some sites like Yahoo!Answers offer points for answering, some people will send junk answers. So do some google search to confirm the answer

There are also some sites offering answers from experts, the major difference is about the price. The sites i mentioned are offering free service. If you need something a little more reliable, though, it might just be worth investing in a few minutes of an expert’s time.

Answer Some Questions...
Answering every question you can, may not seem like a good time for you but still may be worth your while to spend a little time on one of the various answer sites. It can be a good way to kill time, especially if you stick to the relatively simple questions, but some people do it for other reasons. Many members of LinkedIn, for instance, answer questions to help build up their reputations as experts in particular subjects. Other sites (like Yahoo!Answers) award points for good answers, although some points systems may be arbitrary and I’m still not sure what value most of those points have. No matter what the reward, though, I firmly believe that answering questions gets my brain going and are probably better than the many YouTube videos I could be spending my time on instead.

Social Engineering...!

The basic goals of social engineering are the same as hacking in general: to gain unauthorized access to systems or information in order to commit fraud, network intrusion, industrial espionage, identity theft, or simply to disrupt the system or network. Typical targets include telephone companies and answering services, big-name corporations and financial institutions, military and government agencies, and hospitals.

In computer security, social engineering is a term that describes a non-technical kind of intrusion that relies heavily on human interaction and often involves tricking other people to break normal security procedures. A social engineer runs what used to be called a "con game". For example, a person using social engineering to break into a computer network would try to gain the confidence of someone who is authorized to access the network in order to get them to reveal information that compromises the network's security. They might call the authorized employee with some kind of urgent problem; social engineers often rely on the natural helpfulness of people as well as on their weaknesses. Appeal to vanity, appeal to authority, and old-fashioned eavesdropping are typical social engineering techniques.

As for why organizations are targeted through social engineering – well, it’s often an easier way to gain illicit access than are many forms of technical hacking. Even for technical people, it’s often much simpler to just pick up the phone and ask someone for his password. And most often, that’s just what a hacker will do.
Social engineering attacks take place on two levels: the physical and the psychological. First, we'll focus on the physical setting for these attacks: the workplace, the phone, your trash, and even on-line. In the workplace, the hacker can simply walk in the door, like in the movies, and pretend to be a maintenance worker or consultant who has access to the organization. Then the intruder struts through the office until he or she finds a few passwords lying around and emerges from the building with ample information to exploit the network from home later that night. Another technique to gain authentication information is to just stand there and watch an oblivious employee type in his password.
The facilitator of a live Computer Security Institute demonstration, neatly illustrated the vulnerability of help desks when he “dialed up a phone company, got transferred around, and reached the help desk. ‘Who’s the supervisor on duty tonight?’ ‘Oh, it’s Betty.’ ‘Let me talk to Betty.’ [He’s transferred.] ‘Hi Betty, having a bad day?’ ‘No, why?...Your systems are down.’ She said, ‘my systems aren’t down, we’re running fine.’ He said, ‘you better sign off.’ She signed off. He said, ‘now sign on again.’ She signed on again. He said, ‘we didn’t even show a blip, we show no change.’ He said, ‘sign off again.’ She did. ‘Betty, I’m going to have to sign on as you here to figure out what’s happening with your ID. Let me have your user ID and password.’ So this senior supervisor at the Help Desk tells him her user ID and password.” Brilliant.

All social engineering techniques are based on specific attributes of human decision-making known as cognitive biases. These biases, sometimes called "bugs in the human hardware," are exploited in various combinations to create criminal attack techniques.

Even if criminals lack cracking skills, common confidence tricksters or fraudsters also could be considered "social engineers" in the wider sense, in that they deliberately deceive and manipulate people, exploiting human weaknesses to obtain personal benefit. They may, for example, use social engineering techniques as part of an IT fraud.
The latest type of criminal social engineering techniques include spoofing or hacking IDs of people having popular e-mail IDs such as Yahoo, Gmail, hotmail, etc. Among the many motivations for deception are:
• Phishing credit-card account numbers and their passwords.
• Hacking private e-mails and chat histories, and manipulating them by using common editing techniques before using them to extort money and creating distrust among individuals.
• Hacking websites of companies or organizations and destroying their reputation.
Another aspect of social engineering relies on people's inability to keep up with a culture that relies heavily on information technology. Social engineers rely on the fact that people are not aware of the value of the information they possess and are careless about protecting it. Frequently, social engineers will search dumpsters for valuable information, memorize access codes by looking over someone's shoulder (shoulder surfing), or take advantage of people's natural inclination to choose passwords that are meaningful to them but can be easily guessed. Security experts propose that as our culture becomes more dependent on information, social engineering will remain the greatest threat to any security system. Prevention includes educating people about the value of information, training them to protect it, and increasing people's awareness of how social engineers operate.

POST WINDOWS ERA :: Microsoft Midori

Microsoft closing the windows and opening the doors!

Microsoft is incubating a componentized non-Windows operating system code named Midori, the predecessor to Windows Vista. Microsoft’s logic behind the naming of midori is still mysterious, as it has different meaning in different languages. Microsoft has kicked off a research project to create software that will take over when it retires Windows. Midori, the cut-down operating system is radically different to Microsoft's older programs. It is centred on the internet and does away with the dependencies that tie Windows to a single PC. It is seen as Microsoft's answer to rivals' use of "virtualisation" as a way to solve many of the problems of modern-day computing.

Midori is Internet-centric and predicated on the prevalence of connected systems. Midori is an offshoot of Microsoft Research’s Singularity operating system, the tools and libraries of which are completely managed code. One of Microsoft’s goals is to provide options for Midori applications to co-exist with and interoperate with existing Windows applications, as well as to provide a migration path.

Singularity is an attempt by Microsoft to create a completely new built from scratch operating system. It has an entirely new Microkernel, process management and a made over task and resource allocation manager.

According to SDTimes, Midori will be focused not on the desktop as Windows was, but on the cloud and on connected systems. With Windows 7, Microsoft is already bridging the operating system with Windows Live, but Midori will take this aspect one step further in the quest for what will end up as the first fully-fledged Software + Services platform from Microsoft.

Building Midori from the ground up to be connected underscores how much computing has changed since Microsoft’s engineers first designed Windows; there was no Internet as we understand it today, the PC was the user’s sole device and concurrency was a research topic.

Today, users move across multiple devices, consume and share resources remotely, and the applications that they use are a composite of local and remote components and services. To that end, Midori will focus on concurrency, both for distributed applications and local ones.

According to the documentation, Midori will be built with an asynchronous-only architecture that is built for task concurrency and parallel use of local and distributed resources, with a distributed component-based and data-driven application model, and dynamic management of power and other resources.

The Midori documents foresee applications running across a multitude of topologies, ranging from client-server and multi-tier deployments to peer-to-peer at the edge, and in the cloud data center. Those topologies form a heterogeneous mesh where capabilities can exist at separate places.

The Midori documents indicate that the company has not decided what user interface abstractions are appropriate when applications cut across boundaries, or how to combine the best qualities of rich client applications and Web applications.

Unlike Windows, Microsoft intends for Midori to be componentized from the beginning to achieve performance and security benefits. It will have strong isolation boundaries and enforced contracts between components, to ensure that servicing one component will not cause others to fail.

This so-called "cloud-computing" aspect of the Midori OS seems to be what the future holds, and I think it’s right. The Internet will become the ultimate central storage unit, and simple, cheap hardware will be all that’s needed to access it.

E mail Management

E mail Management

Recently yahoo announced its two new email domains for its customers, ymail.com and rocketmail.com. With this two new email domain, yahoo consumers have a better option to select the desired user name. Yahoo.com email addresses are currently used (or claimed) by over 260 million global users, and chances are, if you’re new to Yahoo Mail, your name is taken and you probably have to register some ridiculous email address, like yourname1989_abc768@yahoo.com. Now, Yahoo Mail users have a more vivid choice in registering their favorite email addresses or usernames. Ymail.com and Rocketmail.com will have the same features as Yahoo.com email addresses like unlimited storage, instant messaging integration and virus protection. So select your favourite email address now from ymail.com and rocketmail.com. I have already registered my name on both domains…

Getting an Email address is not a tedious task. But managing it effectively needs greater effort, particularly when you have multiple email accounts. In my opinion you should create at least two email addresses, one for friends & family and other for official use. You can have multiple email accounts delivered to a single email. i.e if you have 3 email address you can read all mails inside one single mail by using POP downloading or message forwarding. For eg: you have one gmail and one yahoo account, and you usually checks only gmail: in this case you can forward your incoming yahoo mails to your gmail account and read it inside one mail address, similarly multiple emails address can be directed to forward to a single mail.

Email Mail Forwarding
Email forwarding or pop download to another email is the easiest way to access multiple emails in a single email. Different email providers have different settings to do this, moreover a few free email service providers don’t allow pop download also. So if you want to do pop download, first check with your email service provider that whether they have a POP server or not.

Setting UP a POP Downloading to Gmail



Click on Settings > Accounts > Add Another Mail Account


Enter the mail address to be downloaded to Gmail


Check Whether POP Access is activated in your other mail.



Enter the correct POP Settings for the other mail account. These settings can find inside the particular mail providers website. Here i get the settings from yahoo website.

Finally a message appear, asking that whether you want to send mail using that mail account. i.e in this case i can send mail using ymail account from my gmail. select the desired option and click finish.

You have now successfully enabled POP downloading into your gmail account.

I selected Gmail here for the incoming mail, because i think gmail have better spam identification features. and gmail also have an embedded messenger for communication.

What if your Mail provider dont allow POP?

If your mail provider dont have a pop facility, you can use the mail forwarding feature. It works similar. The main difference is that you can use POP download in as many programs but mail forward usually can used to forward to only one email address. So the choice is yours.

A mail forwarding feature inside yahoo mail.

Another feature inside Gmail for email management is the labels. You can add labels to a particular mail address and you can retrive all mails from those mail using a single click on that label.

If you recieve any unwanted messaged into your inbox, report it as a spam to the service provider. So that will be sent to the spam box instead of your inbox.


Yahoo have some other features, like folder so that we can create folders and arrange differnt mails or filter mails into those folders.

Gmail also have filter which enables to filter mails based on the incoming mail.

Web War...!

The silent Attack! In the web war there will be no weapons and no one will die! During a web war, outside everything will be quiet. The border guards will report no incursions, and the airspace has not been violated. But they were under attack by a rogue computer network. The attacks were aimed at the essential electronic infrastructure of a country.

The entire world is fully interconnected through internet and most communication’s depends on some type of Network. All networks are computer controlled. For eg. Our telephone network! Today everything is controlled over internet, traffic control is regulated through cctv’s connected to the network, electricity distribution controlled over the network. What more to say even national securities like defense, aerospace are all controlled using networks.

So I hope you get an idea of the importance of network in a country. All borders of a country will be highly secured by Army. Navy or whoever it may be… The least protected border of a country is the internet! There is no physical border for the internet for each country. But each country’s network can be identified uniquely in several ways by identifying the URL to check any extensions like .in , .sg etc.. A URL contained .in will surely an Indian website. The entire government website will follow the country extension in their official URL address and also the .gov extension. Another way is to identify is to trace the location of the server. So in this way each country have a unique virtual border for their networks.

In that way one can break down the entire country’s network. What if all the bank, news and govt. websites networks were down for a few days?? What is someone hack into airspace network? what if ATM's, police communication network all were down??What if someone hack into electricity distribution network? Whole country will be in chaos for at least a day!

Yes it is possible the simple way to down a website is to overload the server. That means every web server have a capacity to response for the request. i.e the number of simultaneous users have a limit. If a webserver have a capacity of 1lakh simultaneous users and if the server overfloods the amount means the server will crash! The allocated bandwidth to the server and website will be overflooded and thus the sites would become inaccessible. To overload a website is very simple for an experienced programmer as he will write a program that sends a few thousands of request simultaneously instead of a single request. The primary weapon was the "ping" attack, a simple request for a response from a webserver, repeated hundreds of times per second.When deployed by massess of attackers, the "pings" could overwhelm a server. Most times this method is used to test web servers to analyze the capacity of the server. What if this method utilized in the wrong way? Hackers can use war dialing to down a telephone network, which will initiate a large amount of anonymous calls and overload the telephone network.

If hackers are able to access those highly secured networks means it will have a higher impact than putting an atom bomb. The whole country cannot communicate by hacking the telecom and internet networks, the country will be in dark if they can access the electricity distribution network, the whole country will face traffic blocks and accidents if they access to traffic network and so on…Whoever behind this type of assault was sophisticated, fast and intelligent.

This type of attack is known as a botnet. Security tools do not inspect data downloaded through browsers - a loophole that attackers can exploit. A piece of malicious code has been added to the page you are viewing by the hackers. This uploads software onto your computer via your browser, turning it into a "zombie" PC under the remote control of a malicious user. As a result of this loophole, PCs are increasingly becoming infected with "bot" software, creating networks of zombie computers, or botnets. Bots first establish a link to a remote "botmaster" before probing your computer for email addresses and personal data, and even logging your keystrokes, and attackers send programs to flood designated internet address witha variety of useless network-clogging data.

As firewalls allow free passage to code or programs downloaded through the browser, the bot is able to install itself on the PC. Anti-virus software kicks in at this point, but some bots avoid detection by immediately disabling it. Once a computer has become infected with the malicious software, the zombie periodically connects to a web server controlled by the botmaster to receive instructions and download more software. Botnets themselves are also evolving. Most existing bots are vulnerable because they receive their instructions via an internet relay chat (IRC) server, a simple communication system. Botmasters distribute new bots programmed to establish contact with one of a group of operating zombies. Once contact is made, the P2P network relays information to the botmaster, who can link to the network through any zombie. In this way, even if security professionals trap a bot, they would have no way of identifying the botmaster.

Attacking a country’s network will have a huge impact on all the people in the country. Attack can be vary time by time like denial of service attacks and sending spam to botnets and zombies. Attackers can squeeze the entire country's badwidth capacity.

There is a real incident of Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe. To read more about that web war in Estonia visit this link : http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/15-09/ff_estonia

So next time when you try to browse internet and nothing comes means maybe your country’s network is under attack… but not always… before coming to this conclusion make sure you paid last month internet bill…!

Source : wired News, Readers Digest