Google has been quietly laying off staff and up to 10,000 jobs could be on the chopping block according to sources.
Google has been quietly laying off staff and up to 10,000 jobs could be on the chopping block according to sources. Since August, hundreds of employees have been laid off and there are reports that about 500 of them were recruiters for Google.
By law, Google is required to report layoffs publicly and with the SEC however, Google has managed to get around the legal requirement. In fact, one of the ways Google was able to meet Wall Street’s Q3 earnings expectations was by trimming “operational” expenses.
Google reports to the SEC that it has 20,123 employees but in reality it has 30,000. Why the discrepancy? Google classifies 10,000 of the employees as temporary operational expenses or “workers”. Google co-founder Sergey Brin said, “There is no question that the number (of workers) is too high”.
The classification affords Google several advantages such as:
1) Hire full time employees without full time benefits. The classification enables Google to pay them above minimum wage, provide no health benefits, no insurance coverage, no stock options, and no offer of permanent employment.
Even Google is Focusing on Costs. You have to focuse too.
Google Inc., owner of the most popular Internet search engine, is adding fewer employees and focusing on controlling expenses amid the global economic slump, Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said.
“We have slowed our hiring, but we’re still hiring,” Schmidt said in an interview that will be aired on Bloomberg Television at 9 p.m. New York time. “We’re still doing the same kinds of exciting and crazy things that Google always does.”
Google is grappling with an economic slowdown that’s curbing growth in the online advertising market, while competition intensifies with Yahoo! Inc. and Microsoft Corp. for customers’ budgets. Schmidt said that while the overall ad market may be shrinking, Google benefits from its ability to target specific users. The company’s business hasn’t changed significantly in the past two weeks, he said.
Facebook Needs a new CEO
Let me tell you what will happen in Tech Industry in 2009. I think, most of the bloggers, experts, developers, publishers, advertisers will start to say “seriosly”; Facebook needs a new CEO. Yeah, they’ll say that; World’s 5th most visited site has to earn more. When you compare Facebook’s earnings with PlentyOfFish.com, you get surprised. Plentyoffish has nearly 1 million registered users and earns more than 350.000 dollars a month. That’s really amazing. Facebook was not a very-well-monetized-web-site before indeed, but the new facebook design, killed and doubled unsuccess. Okay Mark Zuckerberg is a genious, he is a smart guy but if he keeps on being an over-self-confidence guy, it will directly hurt facebook. I think, facebook urgently needs a new layout, needs to use 3rd party advertisers instead of their own flyers, they need to use large size of ad banners, and they need a new CEO, maybe.
Follow Your Dreams, Don’t Let Anything Stop You!
Eleven year old Brenden Foster died this past Friday, but throughout this world he will be remembered always. His darkest hour was his brightest light. This is a story as much of his words as it is of his deeds. He wasn’t afraid to die. He had said that he just wanted to make a difference, before his time came. And that’s exactly what he did. And the end of the video, there’s a shining sentence. Memorize and never forget that sentence…
Want to Find A Life Changing Idea? Just Sleep On It! From solving problems to flashes of inspiration, scientists are beginning to unravel the creative powerhouse that is the mind at night
History is peppered with tales of phenomenal ideas taking shape in sleeping minds; Paul McCartney said that he awoke with the tune of Yesterday in his head, and Robert Louis Stevenson said that the idea for The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde came to him in a dream. But what exactly is going on in our minds while we sleep? Does slumber really prompt creative genius? And can the most uncreative of people receive flashes of inspiration once their head hits the pillow?
Scientists believe that the mind at night weaves together bits of information in innovative ways. Throughout the day your brain rarely gets a chance to stop and think. In a state of constant alertness, it responds to a stream of challenges, from writing a report for a work deadline to remembering where you left your car keys and figuring out what to buy for dinner.
Even when we are relaxing in front of the television, the brain is still beavering away, processing the information about the plot lines, or co-ordinating your arm movements every time you sip your wine. Believe or not, even watching Strictly Come Dancing requires brain power. Sleep is the only time when your brain gets to relax and mull over the thoughts of the day. This is when new ideas and ways of thinking start to emerge.
“Think of your brain like a web,” says Russell Foster, Professor of Circadian Neuroscience at Oxford University.
“During the day the web is very tight, so you can only put information in a certain number of places. During sleep the web expands, and with the luxury of time, those bits of information can be put into lots of different places and make new associations.”
He adds that this process may help to foster the formation of new ideas. Experts, however, are divided on whether this occurs when you dream, or during deeper, non-dreaming sleep. This bringing together of seemingly unrelated bits of information is crucial to helping the brain think itself out of problems, says Matthew Walker, a sleep researcher at University of California, Berkeley.
“Sleep seems to stimulate your mind to make non-obvious connections. It puts all the information from the day into a big biological theatre and forces the mind to speak to people at the back of the theatre, who you may not think you have any connection with. This is the basis of creativity - connecting ideas, events and memories that wouldn’t normally fit together.”
Traffic Sorting By Quality - Best to Worst to Make Money Online
1-) Direct Visitor.
2-) Referrer Site (in related content)
3-) Search Engine Traffic (Via Web Search, Not Image Search)
4-) Refferrer Site (in different content)
5-) Social Media Traffic ( Stumbleupon, Digg, Reddit etc.
Making Money Online with a Web 2.0, Startup News Blog, Does it Worth?
Tech, Web 2.0, Startup related keywords really earn good via adsense. But as we said many times before, Money is equal to traffic and traffic is traffic when it’s quality. You can promote a funny picture via social media and get 50.000 hits a day but getting even 500 visitors to a tech related blog is not that easy. Authority, Fresh and Quality content can bring you traffic and money.
Advantages of Web 2.0, Startup News Blog
1-) Pay Per Click rates are high.
2-) Maybe you can’t make living with an entertainment blog that receives 10.000 hits a day but you can earn good money with 5000 hits a day.
Disadvantages of Web 2.0, Startup News Blog
1-) Promoting and Branding is very hard.
2-) Generally developers visit your site and many developers do not see ads on a page.
Question: If you were me, Would you start a Tech, Web 2.0, Startup News Blog?
Answer: If you are experienced at least 3 years, If you really have something great to share, if also others congragulate you for your works, if you’re good at blogging, if you have budget (for a unique theme, for a proffessional brandable logo etc.), if you think that you’ll be incomparable in the crowd, Why Not?
Most Common Tips Together: How to Maximize Your Google Adsense Earnings
1-) Adsense ad background and site background should be some color.
2-) Square ads earn more.
3-) Default adsense link colors earn more according to experiences of many webmasters. But personally, i’ve seen higher earning with different colors. Probably it depends on the layout of the site.
4-) “Text” content earns more than “Image” and “Video” content.
5-) Get Direct or Search Engine Traffic. You need high traffic but also you need “quality” traffic. Social Media Buzz can’t make you rich.
What is Your Monthly Adsense Reveneu Target?
I have read to many adsense success stories. Most of the adsense riches have targets. Working without target will be boring in 3 days. Having a target will motivate you. It seems like a common and unnecessary thing but there is a “magic” hired into target. Maybe the power of sense turns into power of adsense.
For example if your target is 2000$/month, you can easily calculate your daily earnings and how much click (avarage) do you need. If you need 300 clicks every day, you will detect your position to your target everyday and get motivated to work everyday.
To Focuse on Making Money or To Focuse on The Product
Product is your site. Money always follows a good site. But money do not brings you a good site everytime. So just focuse on building an incomparable and successful product. To think like that also good for your health too 
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