Google to charge companies for product search listings

The price comparison service also states delivery
times and other users' ratings of listed retailer 

Google is to start charging for listing products in its Product Search service. From autumn, only retailers who have paid a fee will appear.

For the past 10 years the price comparisnn service's results were based soley on relevance.

It drives traffic worth about $1.3bn (£849m) in annual sales globally, according to e-commerce consultants Channeladvisor.

The move has the potential to generate new profits for the US firm.

"We believe that having a commercial relationship with merchants will encourage them to keep their product information fresh and up to date," said Sameer Samat, vice president of product management for Google Shopping in a blogpost.

"Higher quality data - whether it's accurate prices, the latest offers or product availability - should mean better shopping results for users, which in turn should create higher quality traffic for merchants."

The service, which will be renamed Google Shopping, is available by clicking "more" on the search site's toolbar.

Additional costs
Martin Gill, principal analyst with Forrester Research, said Google Product Search had been a popular way to drive traffic to websites without incurring extra costs.

"Consumers are more likely to search for a product in a search engine than directly on a company website," he said.

"These changes add another layer of complexity to online advertising."

Amazon and eBay are among companies that have profited from traffic driven by Google's price comparison lists and now face fees if they want to continue appearing.

The changes may come under close scrutiny by the European Commission, further complicating an ongoing investigation into whether Google has abused its dominant market position.

"If Google is transparent to consumers about the new sponsored results and promoted search results, they have a better chance of securing a settlement in the antitrust investigation" said Mr Gill.


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Akira Yoshizawa Google Today

Akira Yoshizawa (吉澤 章 Yoshizawa Akira; 14 March 1911 – 14 March 2005) was considered to be the grandmaster of origami. He is credited with raising origami from a craft to a living arts. According to his own estimation made in 1989, he created more than 50,000 models, of which only a few hundred designs were diagrammed in his 18 books. Yoshizawa acted as an international cultural ambassador for Japan throughout his career. In 1983, Japanese emperor Hirohito named him to the Order of the Rising Sun, one of highest honors that can be given to a Japanese citizen.

Early life
Born on March 14, 1911, in Kaminokawa, Japan, to the family of a dairy farmer. When a child, he took pleasure in teaching himself origami. He moved into a factory job in Tokyo when he was 13 years old. His passion for it was rekindled in his early 20s, when he was promoted from factory worker to technical draftsman. His new job was to teach junior employees geometry. Yoshizawa used the traditional art of origami to understand and communicate geometrical problems.
In 1937 he left factory work to pursue origami full-time. During the next 20 years, he lived in total poverty, earning his living by door-to-door selling of tsukudani (a Japanese preserved condiment that is usually made of seaweed). His origami work was creative enough to be included in the 1944 book Origami Shuko, by Isao Honda (本多 功). However it was his work for a 1951 issue of the magazine Asahi Graph that launched his career although, according to another account, his first step on the professional road was a set of 12 zodiac signs commissioned by a magazine in 1954.
In 1954 his first monograph, Atarashi Origami Geijutsu (New Origami Art) was published. In this work he established the Yoshizawa-Randlett system of notation for origami folds which has become the standard for most paperfolders. The publishing of this book helped Yoshizawa out of his poverty. It was followed closely by his founding of the International Origami Centre in Tokyo in 1954, when he was 43.
His first overseas exhibition was organised in 1955 by Felix Tikotin, a Dutch architect and art collector of German-Jewish origin, in the Stedelijk Museum. Yoshizawa lent many of his own origami models to other exhibitions around the world. He would never sell his origami figures, but rather gave them away as gifts to people, and let other groups and organizations borrow them for exhibiting.
In 1956, he re-married. His new wife Kiyo[1] acted as his manager and taught origami alongside him. It was around this time that he became famous worldwide.
In honor of his birthday, Akira Yoshizawa was featured on 14 March 2012 as Google's doodle, 7 years after his death


Technique
Yoshizawa pioneered many techniques, including wet-folding. In this technique the paper is dampened before folding, letting the folder create a much more rounded and sculpted look. This was considered by many to be the paradigm shift of sorts that allowed origami to become an art form, as opposed to a quaint oddity of folk craft.


Later years
In March 1998, Yoshizawa was invited to exhibit his origami, in what still remains the greatest origami exhibition ever staged, in the Louvre museum. He did it so joyfully, and was not at all opposed to having his photo taken with other competing origami artists, whom he used to detest in his earlier years; many of his patterns were diagrammed by his professional rivals, which angered Yoshizawa when he was younger. However, he found that he was no longer so repulsed by rival origami folders, and that, in fact, he now enjoyed their company.
Akira Yoshizawa died on March 14, 2005 in hospital in Ogikubo, of complications of pneumonia, on his 94th birthday.


Books
ATARASHII ORIGAMI GEIJUTSU, Origami Geijutsu-Sha 1954 [2]
Origami Reader I, Ryokuchi-Sha 1957 [2]
Dokuhon, Vol.1 (Origami Tokuhon) ,1973 , ISBN 4-8216-0408-6
SOSAKU ORIGAMI (Creative Origami), Nippon Hoso Kyokai 1984, ISBN 4-14-031028-6
Dokuhon, Vol.2 ( Origami Tokuhon),1986 [2]
ORIGAMI DOKUHON II(Origami Reader II), Kamakura Shobo 1986 , ISBN 4-308-00400-4



source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Yoshizawa

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Welcome to Doodle 4 Google, a contest

Welcome to Doodle 4 Google

Welcome to Doodle 4 Google, a contest where we invite students in the United States to use their artistic talents to think big and redesign Google’s homepage logo for millions to see. This year, we ask students to exercise their creative imaginations around the theme, "If I could travel in time, I'd visit…" One lucky student artist will see their artwork appear on the Google homepage and take home some cool prizes--and as a special bonus, the winning artwork will appear on a limited edition of Crayola's iconic 64 box!

source: http://www.google.com/doodle4google/

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Ucapan Hari Wanita / Perempuan Sedunia 2012

Hari Perempuan Sedunia 2012 - Hari ini merupakan momen yang tepat untuk hari perempuan sedunia di tahun 2012 ini. Dari data statistik setiap tahun jumlah perempuan selalu meningkat 15% jika di bandingkan oleh lelaki. Jika di indonesia hari perempuan atau yang lebih di kenal hari ibu yang jatuh pada bulan desember namun untuk di dunia kali ini jatuh pada bulan maret. Dalam menyambut hari ini google doodle juga melakukan ucapan hari perempuan yang jatuh pada tanggal 8 Maret 2012.
Dari hari perempuan internasional ini juga banyak di lakukan berbagai lomba untuk menyambut hari ini seperti di california dimana para wanita melakukan berbagai macam lomba dan untukmemeriahkan hari perempuan 2012 ini. Tidak kalah di luar negeri para perempuan di indonesia juga merayakan hari perempuan ini.

Jika ada suka dan kesenangan kali ini adalah banyak juga kekerasan yang dimana perempuan menjadi korban salah satunya tercatat lebiyh dari 3.000 di dunia juga telah menjadi kekerasan. Di peringati hari perempuan ini adalah untuk memberikan yang terbaik kepada para perempuandi dunia.

Selamat Hari Perempuan Sedunia 2012


source: http://computerindonesia.blogspot.com/2012/03/hari-perempuan-sedunia-2012.html

Untuk Hari yang Spesial yaitu Hari Wanita Sedunia aku ingin menucapkan terimakasih untuk wanita spesial dalam hidupku rhinda marestiani, terimakasih kamu masih menjadi wanita paling spesial di hidupku dan hatiku, dan akan sulit untuk tergantikan, kamu memang bukan yang pertama bagiku, tapi aku ingin kamu yang terakhir dalam hidupku. I LOVE YOU Rhinda.. My Heart and My Soul Just For You Forever..

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