Last year, Amazon CEO and space enthusiast Jeff Bezos discovered the underwater whereabouts of Apollo 11's F-1 engines and announced his plans to bring them up to the surface. Now, nearly a full 12 months later, Bezos' team has recovered a number of F-1 engine parts and brought them out of the ocean — his blog goes into full detail, with a variety of great photos and a quick video showing the underwater recovery. Bezos says that his team recovered enough "major components" to put together displays of two flown F-1 engines. "We want the hardware to tell its true story, including its 5,000 mile per hour re-entry and subsequent impact with the ocean surface," Bezos writes. Unfortunately, many of the serial numbers from the recovered parts are missing, which will make determining which exactly Apollo mission the parts are from quite a bit more difficult.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Monday, February 18, 2013
Are steam cars poised for an epic comeback?
Once upon a time, the steam engine reigned supreme — first in trains and heavy tractors, as you well know, but eventually in cars as well. It’s quite hard to fathom today, but at the turn of the 20th century, more than half the cars in the US were steam-powered. The steam engine was so advanced that, in 1906, a steam car called the Stanley Rocket even held land speed record — a heady 127 mph!
Now, you might think that the steam car was only a success because internal combustion engines (ICE) didn’t exist yet — but in actual fact, steam cars and ICE cars were developed contemporaneously. Because engineers already had 100 years of steam engine experience, though, the steam car had a rather large head start. While hand-cranked ICEs were breaking the arms of hapless operators, by 1900 steam cars were already highly automated — and, with no clutch or gearbox (steam provides constant pressure, unlike the piston strokes of an ICE), very easy to drive. The one caveat, of course, was that you had to wait a few minutes for the boiler to heat up.
Thursday, December 27, 2012
SEO Companies: Should You Hire One?
When you type out any search word, Google or other search engines display sites that they believe are authoritative and relevant to the words typed in. The relevance is measured by making an analysis of the content in the words. The authoritative aspect is measured based on the quality of the page content, the number of pages linked to the page and so on.
Saturday, December 8, 2012
30+ Epic Engine Design
Engine Design, we all rely on it, but we don’t always realize it, or see it! Hidden beneath the hood of your car (and many other things like boats, planes, trains, etc.) hides a magnificent engineering marvel known as the engine! We don’t really put much thought into what we rely on to survive but maybe we should! As Designers & Engineers it is important to know how it works if you want to build a better version and make the future better with that product for everyone. It is important to learn the history of such things, and find out how it works because someone else may not have done that and continued with an inferior design and thus held society back.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
10 SEO measurements every marketer should know
“If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll probably end up someplace else,” said Laurence Peter. For any brand doing business on the internet, to get where you want to go, an understanding of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is required. The reasons why are simple.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
15 SEO Factors You Should Not Ignore
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine’s “natural” or un-paid (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, video search, academic search, news search and industry-specific vertical search engines. The following list is a quick run-down of the most fundamental and easy SEO techniques nobody should miss.
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Best SEO Tools to improve search engine ranking
SEO, Search Engine Optimization is a technique of getting pages more prominence. It works on the basis of re-arranging the search results that are displayed every time a relevant keyword is searched for over the internet, they give priority to the pages that were the latest visited by the users. Now that we know what SEO is, we’ll move on to our post today that is about the Best SEO Tools to improve search engine ranking.
Saturday, September 1, 2012
SEO for Ecommerce [Infographic]
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
The 5 Greatest SEO Secrets
It seems like everyone pitches the same “tips” for conducting good SEO, “Make sure you only build natural backlinks“, try to focus on “gaining natural followers” and “never pay for any links”. While these fundamental aspects of SEO are certainly true, many people find them difficult (if not impossible) to achieve. Tutorials, guides and blogs often fail to provide actionable tips on how to actually acquire these natural links to rank your sites using legitimate tactics.
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Google to pull Gmail information into search engine results
Google Inc. is creating an information bridge between its influential Internet search engine and its widely used Gmail service in its latest attempt to deliver more personal responses faster.
The experimental feature unveiled Wednesday will enable Google’s search engine to mine the correspondence stored within a user’s Gmail account for any data tied to a search request. For example, a query containing the word “Amazon” would pull e-mails with shipping information sent by the online retailer.
Friday, August 3, 2012
5 Rules Every SEO Should Live By
You might have noticed in the last year a lot of talk about SEO algorithms, the responsibility of the SEO and how that role has changed over the years due to constant change in search algorithms.
That’s left a lot of companies and SEOs wondering exactly what they should be doing and focusing on. In other words, people are asking what really defines good SEO and what is really important.
Well, to help you answer that question I want to share with you the 5 rules that I live by when I do SEO. Because if you follow these rules, you’ll continually do well in the world of SEO.
Monday, July 23, 2012
The Periodic Table of SEO
Simplifying SEO is as hard as trying to make a pocket-sized schematic of a computer. Sure, you can do it, but it takes a lot of work and you need to stay dedicated to it for a long time. That is exactly the case with SEO. You have to know what you are doing and try new things. Sometimes things just won’t work out, and that is why trial and error is so important. If things don’t turn out favorable for your site then refine and redo. That is the only way to rank higher when people are searching for things in your niche. I could sit here all day long for a whole month just writing articles about search engine optimization, and I would still not deplete the bottomless hole of factors. However, there are some things that can simplify things quite a lot.
Monday, July 16, 2012
100 Lessons Learned from 10 Years of SEO
This June marks my tenth year in SEO, which means that I’ve gone through dozens of different algorithm changes and implemented SEO techniques on hundreds of websites across various market verticals.
I’ve worked both in-house and at agencies, but all this experience doesn’t mean that I’ve got the final answer on what works and what doesn’t work when it comes to SEO. In fact, I’ve made tons of mistakes along the way – and today, I wanted to share with you some of the lessons I’ve learned throughout my career.
Friday, July 13, 2012
SEO 101: Beginners Guide to SEO [Infographic]
As you may know, SEO stands for “Search engine optimization”. It is a technique which helps search engines find and rank your site higher than the millions of other sites in response to a search query. Enhancing SEO is the best way to improve your website and increase its visibility in search engines.
Search engine optimization is the holy grail of getting more traffic. Placing high in search engine rankings for prime keywords related to your niche could send thousands of visitors to your site on a regular basis.
Like several other fields of this world, SEO consists of thousands of questions, which have made this field quite confusing. In the starting days of SEO, everything was easy and direct. The techniques were not that complex and it doesn’t require a lot of time to make someone aware of its techniques. However, as time passed by, search engines launched more complex tactics which lead the field to these confusions.
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Remember When Google Was A Search Engine?
The lineup of products announced at Google io last week was disorienting: JellyBean, Nexus 7, Nexus Q, Google Glass, an updated Google Maps, Google Now and so on. It was about as disorienting as reading and navigating through the entire Wikipedia entry for Google or getting stuck in that “YouTube” parody loop where you can’t find the thing you’re searching for because there are so many viral spoofs of it.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
5 Alternative Search Engines That Respect Your Privacy
Google, Bing, Yahoo – all the major search engines track your search history and build profiles on you, serving different results based on your search history. Try one of these alternative search engines if you’re tired of being tracked.
Google now encrypts your search traffic when you’re logged in, but this only prevents third-parties from snooping on your search traffic – it doesn’t prevent Google from tracking you.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
10 Google Search Tricks You Might Not Know
Google is used by millions of people every single day to resolve any query you could possibly imagine. That being said, it seems there's a hidden trick or two that even the most skilled in "Google Fu" might not know exists.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Most Advanced and Important Techniques In SEO
From excellence content to social media the features of SEO is fast changing and increasing. If you desire to stay up you will require to learn a small number of innovative tricks as well as re-learn and re-evaluate a small number of previous ones.
Friday, February 24, 2012
5 Great Tools for SEO Project Management
Coming up with the right Search Engine Optimization (SEO) can drastically improve your website’s ranking online. And even though great SEO requires some manual labor and what we like to call our very own “Cadbury secrets”, when it comes to actually implementing a new SEO campaign, it’s the project management part of the equation that often leaves companies gasping for air. Regardless of the SEO strategy that you devise, you will need some trusty SEO project management tools in order to see it through to fruition. Lucky for you, I’ve been involved in SEO for the past half dozen years, and so I can point you towards a number of tools, a few of them free, that can give your SEO projects and your website a welcome boost.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
What is SEO, and how does it affect my business?
SEO is big business, very big business. We’re all fighting to get to the top of Google, Yahoo or Bing, but there are a few things we can do to automatically give us an edge over our competitors. So, what is SEO and how does it affect my business?
SEO stands for search engine optimization. In layman’s terms, it’s how visible your site is to a search engine, but more that this, it’s how visible your site is though organic, natural methods. No adsense and no advertising.