Google Ultimate Interface About Google In 1996-1997, Larry Page and Sergey Brin came up with an algorithm to rank web pages, called PageRank. Realizing the potential to improve search engines, they tried and failed to sell the technology to any. So they founded Google, which in an incredibly short period of time has become one of the world’s most powerful companies. While primarily known as a search engine, Google now makes a wide variety of web-based and other software and is known for investing in wide-ranging projects outside their core such as through their philanthropic arm, Google.org. Google’s enourmously successful advertising business accounts for almost all of their revenue and allows Google to subsidize many other ideas. Google is a market and quality leader in web search, online maps, online video (through YouTube), and areas. Alternatives to Google Why not use nothing but Google all the time? Try out the Bing search engine, for instance, for web, image, and other searches.
The Big Picture Will 2011 Make You Rich or Crush You Like a Bug? Last week I happened to notice that Fisher Investments' MarketMinder site had picked up one of my articles. Unfortunately, the purpose was to give the article a thumbs-down, saying that it was: Yet another example of overly bullish and bearish sentiment coexisting simultaneously. It's a good point. Make no mistake: 2011 can be a perfectly good year. Looking at the broad market, Fisher believes that the pessimists still hanging onto their bleak pre-recession outlook have been counterbalanced by a fist-pumping group of optimists who -- inspired by the gains of the past two years -- are still expecting big things. And as the market tends to do what investors least expect, Fisher thinks this split sentiment means that the market will neither be sharply up or sharply down and instead either "up a little or down a little." When bears lose and bulls lose...Who's left? Charles Schwab recently released results from its survey of independent investment advisors.
Watercress Is The Healthiest Vegetable? Carrot Is #26? Here's A Chart To Memorize. - Daily Health Post The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta doesn’t just have the morbid job of monitoring and managing negative health concerns–it is also responsible for helping us live better. It has recently released a study in its journal Preventing Chronic Disease to define “powerhouse” fruits and vegetables–those delivering the biggest nutritional bang for the buck.[1] What is a “Powerhouse”? The first thing the researchers had to do was define “powerhouse” and devise a scale, a point of reference on which to base the forty-seven foods tested. The definition they landed on: Based on these criteria, a vegetable not particularly popular in North America was jettisoned to the top of the list: watercress. Watercress Received a Score of 100 (on a scale of 0 to 100). Watercress is not unknown in other parts of the world; there is even an annual Watercress Festival in the United Kingdom to celebrate this terrific vegetable. Other Produce is Important, Too.
Trader Mike — PulteGroup Gains on Narrowed Losses BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. (TheStreet) -- PulteGroup (PHM_) gained ground Friday morning after the homebuilder narrowed its pre-tax quarterly losses. PulteGroup widened its net losses to $165 million, or 44 cents loss per share, but the bottom-line figure included $196 million in land-related charges and costs associated with organizational restructuring, debt reduction and other financing amendments completed in the recent quarter. On a pre-tax basis, PulteGroup narrowed its quarterly losses significantly to $190.5 million, from $917.2 million in the year-earlier period. Results beat expectations for a loss of $30.3 million, or 10 cents loss per share. That led investors to bid PulteGroup shares 0.9% higher Friday morning to trade at $7.61. "After four years of steep declines, the U.S. housing market continues to show signs of stabilizing, albeit at historically low levels," said CEO Richard J. The homebuilder said net new orders decreased 19% in the recent quarter to 3,044 homes.
Magnets Manufacturers Information The Many Types of Magnets Magnets are objects or pieces of material that generate a magnetic field that is either natural or forced. A magnetic field is moving electrical charges that repel or attract one another. Size, strength, shape, and materials all differ in the make up of magnets, making each one unique to serve an exact purpose. Magnets are used in the industrial, medical, dental, and many other industries as well as in the home and workplace. Permanent magnets are the most commonly used magnets around. Temporary magnets are objects that perform like permanent magnets, but only when they are in range of a powerful magnetic field. Electromagnets work by the flow of electric current producing the magnetic fields and are made up of tightly wound coil of wire. Superconductors are also composed of wire coils of special metal alloys without a metal core. Magnets Magnet Types Magnet Terms - The measure of strength of the total size of a given magnetic field found in magnetic assemblies.
Are you done with stocks? A no-stock portfolio could work By Adam Shell, USA TODAY NEW YORK — If you are risk averse, retired or nearing retirement, or just hate the thought of losing money, you probably view stocks as the financial equivalent of an atomic bomb. You know what could happen to your nest egg if the stock market blows up. The dot-com-driven stock plunge in 2000 and the Great Depression-like losses suffered in the recent financial crisis taught you all you need to know about the risks of owning stocks. What if you never bought a stock again? Don Luskin, chief investment officer at Trend Macrolytics, sums up the traditional Wall Street take on this issue: "It makes no sense to have a portfolio without stocks. Having some of money in stocks also guarantees you won't miss out on rallies. While Luskin says the premise of a zero-stock portfolio is "flawed," he stresses that investors who insist on no stocks should at least spread their cash in as many other assets as possible to boost performance and reduce risk through diversification.
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