ARM, the top mobile chip manufacturing company will be demonstrating its first ‘Android Operating System(AOS)’ with the help of a prototype mobile device during the ‘Mobile World Congress Conference’ which is scheduled this week at Barcelona.

This was also confirmed by the Google’s spokesperson last week. ARM will be displaying its technological compatibility with the ‘Android’ platform which is based on the typical ARM processors.

During this World mobile Congress at Barcelona, there will be many more companies who will also be demonstrating their several types of hardware devices in varying forms that are based on the ‘Android’ platform. Google’s spokesperson however, did not disclose any further details about these displays and their forms.

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The internet is scattered with unreliable, biased information that is tilted in the favor of the writer who wants you to believe what he thinks is right. The problem becomes imminent especially in cases where the writer is actually selling you something – in which case, the opinion will be heavily tainted with his intentions to make you believe what the writer wants you to think is right.

So, how do you get good and reliable information if that’s the case?

This is where authority sites come into the picture. You want information that is genuine and shows you all facets of data that you need to make a rational decision and get the right information to solve your problem.

Authority sites are basically sites that you can trust, that have the authority to boast about having reliable information. They come in a whole range of appearances; and some do look admittedly uglier than their un-trustable counterparts. There are however, a few major ones that have almost all the information that you would need on any subject at all. I will speak about one of these first – and it is probably the only one you will ever need.

Major Authority Site – Wikipedia

URL: Wikipedia

Wikipedia is certainly one of the sites that have left a huge impact on the internet and it has grown to become one of the largest resources on the internet about anything and everything. Essentially, it is an encyclopedia, similar to that of the famous Britannica.

Articles from reliable sources such as news.com have touted the quality of articles there to be as accurate as Britannica, so it is most definitely one of the authoritative sources you can turn to when you are in need of any information.

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Key Points:

• Sell more and earn more money.
• Get visitors that have genuine interest in your content.
• Build trust in your visitors even before they visit your website.

Sounds like the things you want? Search engine traffic does just that. When you get listed in the results for a search term on Google, these things happen:

1- The visitor would have the impression that you’re an authority.

This is automatically built up by the fact that search engines function on good content in the top results. Google became the leading search engine because they could provide very relevant content in their search results; closest to what the searcher expected. As the many searches come up with results that the user wants, the user begins to trust that the search engine will give them good, reliable information in the results - meaning that if your site appears there, you are most likely to be trusted. Visitors who trust you will buy your products and subscribe to your feeds and come back for more information.

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Microsoft has announced on Oct 1st 2007 that it has acquired a comparison shopping search engine called jellyfish.com. Now jellyfish will be part of Microsoft’s live search division. Microsoft believes that the technology used by jellyfish.com has good potential applications which help them to continue investing heavily in commerce and shopping.

Jellyfish is based in Madison, Wisconsin and is a customer centric new form of online advertising website. Jellyfish.com is very successful in generating huge discounts by mobilizing a large group of consumers through their auction and chat tools to buy a single product in a single day. The President of Jellyfish, Mark McGuire who has teamed up with Brian Weigand to pioneer an innovative online shopping idea to help the businesses and the consumers experience a unique internet marketplace.

Jellyfish had done remarkable venture in the field of comparative shopping engines. In terms of the deal with Microsoft, Jellyfish.com maintains its standalone identity and continues to remain in Madison with its 26 employees. Jellyfish has a very strong consumer feedback base. Most of the account holders in the site feel that shopping online with jellyfish is exciting and fun. The support staffs of jellyfish are amazing and friendly. The buyers benefit from saving lot of money more money, through shopping in jellyfish than other sites. Jellyfish also offers lot of prizes and discounts as well as cash back incentives

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After years of take-overs and mergers, the top 3 search engines, Google, Yahoo!, and MSN Live, are showing all the signs of 2008 being the year they finally square up to each other in the war for dominance of the search engine market. The smallest players have been bought out or reduced to irrelevance amidst expanded service offerings and higher expectations from consumers. The first shots have already been fired, now the world waits to see who will lead the charge.

Google, Yahoo, and Live Search

The top three search engines have been built up quite differently from each other, they each started with different goals at different times in the evolution of the search engine market. Strategic acquisitions are complementing organic growth. Each has now built a solid business, protected with a range of patents, and driven by talent, and most importantly, access to massive investment dollars. Here’s the breakdown;

Google is currently number one in terms of market share and brand awareness. Founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google has always been a search engine utilizing off page links to webpage content as the basis for determining the popularity and authority, and therefore the relevance of indexed content. Google owns Adwords, AdSense, Picasa, YouTube, and Feedburner to name but a few. They also operate one of the most popular free email services, Gmail.

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