“Google maps” is a fun and useful application, slowly gaining popularity among the users. Google map’s satellite often come across strange photos of unusual scenes. Listed below are some weird Google map’s satellite photos which will amaze you.

10. Colonel Sanders:

Kentucky’s fried chicken is the first company whose logo is visible from space, after creating a huge mosaic of Colonel Sanders in the Nevada desert.

9. The deer:

A photo, of an upside down large deer running through the fields, is caught by google’s satellite. It’s yet another finding of Google maps.

8. Speaking trees:

Somewhere in the middle of Texas, “LUECKE” is literally written in the trees.

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Sign boards have been in use since almost 3 centuries now. They were first in the shape of banners. That was the most primitive of their forms. Since then, Signs boards have evolved as a medium for communicating. The communicating bond between the customer and the manufacturer is very important. New and innovative ideas are hence being used.

Sign Boards are Finally Humorous

Not only the advertisement Sign Boards but also the ones showing domestic symbols have changed. All around us we see many different bill boards. Some of them are funny. I have compiled for you a list of some of the best Signs I have come across. These are designed to taunt or humiliate you to the limit. Do not get enraged. Enjoy this comic thrill.

1. What’s Your Life Plan?

This picture is clearly asking you a question. Why? Why do you have to drive fast?  And if you do then you know where you will end up. It can surely distract you while driving. So be careful and drive safely. Always remember that speed thrills but it eventually kills!

2. Animals May Get Sick!

This warning sign is warning you to stay away from the fence and not climb it. If you fall you may be eaten by the hungry animals. So what? The animal may get sick! Gosh this is so insulting. It adds insult to your injury seriously. Always act responsibly when in such a place.

3. To Obey the Law or Not

There are times when you get easily confused. I wonder what will become of you once you recover from the shock of obeying law and still being pulled over.

4. A Fantastic Offer

2 Drinks for the price of 2. That is rational. This sign is for people who do not read them and notice important things. A way to teach them a lesson.

5. Who Would Drink This?

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Generally it is believed that most airfare searches start at an online travel agency or airline website. However, this conventional wisdom could not be right. Nowadays, a new so-called “meta” searches sites such as Kayak.com, Mobissimo.com and Hipmunk.com are getting popularity. These sites select fares from different airlines and online agencies and then display the options.

More Than 38% Travelers Use Meta-Search Site

Most of the travelers nowadays prefer meta-search sites. A large number of travelers in a new Consumer Travel Alliance poll (38 %) say they click on a meta-search site first. Some travelers begin with the airlines’ own websites, such as Delta.com and AA.com. About 1 in 5 travelers go directly to an online agency, while only 6 percent call a travel agent and 2 percent visit a search engine like Google or Bing.

Coalition of Online Agencies

A survey of a large number of people was conducted at time when a coalition of online agencies was fighting a proposal by Google. Its purpose was to get ITA Software. This software develops airfare search applications for many major travel sites. It has its own site, ITAsoftware.com, that is, something popular or fashionable for meta-searches.

The coalition, which considers itself Fair Search, claims that Google’s acquisition will capture the market that would raise airfares, and puts pressure on the Justice Department to stop the sale.

According To Director of the Consumer Travel Alliance

Director of the Consumer Travel Alliance, Charlie Leocha, reviews that it also comes as online travel agencies are fighting airlines over how tickets are distributed online. No major airlines currently disclose their additional fees, such as extra charges for meals, luggage and reservations. They try to provide travel services in a meaningful and systematic way.

According to him, Google’s pending purchase of ITA would further mislead what consumers see through a Google-dominated search, since most meta-search engines use ITA software. Also, the airlines move towards unknown airfares and fees, combined with possible Google manipulation of search results to keep advertisers happy rather than provide unbiased prices, a sign of a bad outcome for consumers.

Jack Vanesko’s Point Of View

Jack Vanesko is a retiree who lives in Ajijic, Mexico says that he usually starts with Kayak.com. Then he goes to the specific airline and makes the reservation directly with the airline. He says that he still tries to find an easier way.

According To Tom Logue (A Market Researcher)

Tom Logue is a market researcher in Memphis. He plays an agency off an airline when he goes shops for a ticket. First he goes to Delta, his airline of choice. If the fare seems excessive, he will go to Expedia to compare fares, hoping that he can justify a purchase through Delta. Either way, he always buys through the airlines rather than other sites.

Marti Mayne Does It the Other Way

Marti Mayne is a regular flier from Yarmouth, Maine, does it the other way around, beginning with Expedia. She guesses that is because she is used to their format and it allows her to check different airlines and prices and schedules quickly and easily.

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Travel consulting can be a valuable business with lots of benefits. Once you start or administer this business, you will find yourself in a dream world touching the height of success. You will get a chance to enjoy your life and have a lot of excitement and entertainment along with money making.

Working As a Travel Agent

Working as a travel agent can bring you a lot of advantages and travel discount is one example. When you become a travel agent or start your own travel agency, you will be paid for recommending your favorite vacation destinations, secluded hotels, and luxurious cruise lines to grateful clients. You can work according to your convenience, create your own hours and enjoy flex-time for travel. You can even work with an internet-based business while you are traveling.

How to Open a Travel Agency

You can avail a lot options for starting your business. You can start work from your own home or open a retail travel agency. You can also buy an existing travel agency if you know how to find travel agencies for sale. Opening a new travel agency and work as a partner with an established travel agency is also good.

Travel Agent License

Before you start a travel business, first question that comes into your mind may be a travel license. You are not required to obtain a specialized license or any certification to start as a travel agent. In order to get answers about general business license requirements to open a travel agency, you can use different government business websites. Travel business requirements differ from city to city and state. You will to find appropriate information when you enter the city and state in which you are located.

Professional Travel Consultant

Before you start travel business, you must study and find out other successful travel agents; this will help you get enough information and knowledge of travel consultant business. There are number of well known travel agents. They usually have a wide experience of travel business, and keep on sharing the pros and cons of the travel industry, showing you exactly what you need to succeed.

Attracting the Clients

You must be aware of the tips and skills required to attract customers. For that purpose you need to know how to make a booking for your clients? You must have idea of low-cost options, high-volume business travel and special interest groups.

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After denying the existence of the base for many years, 5 original players dared to speak out

Area 51.It is the most renowned military establishment on our earth that does not officially present. If it did, it would be present nearly hundred miles away from Las Vegas in Nevada’s high desert, tucked between United States Air Force base and deserted nuclear testing ground.

On the other hand, might be not, as the United States government refuses to say. You cannot go or drive close to it, and till now, the air space overhead has been bounded all the way to outer space. Any mention of Area 51 has been edited from official record, even those documents that have had security classification removed for decades.

It has turned into as the Holy Grail for many conspiracy theorists, as UFOlogists continue to state that the Pentagon reverse engineers UFOs and keep extraterrestrials stored in freezers. Urban Legend accounts that this Area 51 is linked with some other secret establishments through underground tunnels, passages and trains across the country. In 2001, Katie Couric said while talking to Today Show audiences that seven percent of American citizens have doubts on moon landing happening; they believe that it was arranged in the Nevada desert. Hundreds and thousands of X-Files fans think that the truth is “out there”, but there are more chance that it has been concealed somewhere in Area 51’s Strangelove-esque hangars-buildings that, had also been confirmed by Google Earth; however the authorities refuse to acknowledge.

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Rumors are widely spread over net that latest Google Earth software has found the mythical sunken city of Atlantis off the coast of Africa. However, Google is officially contradicting all this. Either this is a fact, or Google don’t want to disclose the facts. As I always love to discuss new and nice spicy conspiracy theories, I am just to go with the latter.

Actually, a British aeronautical engineer was having fun with the latest Google Earth 5.0 that provides undersea information. He found sort of funny things off the coast of Africa, approximately 600 miles towards west of the Canary Islands, that appeared like in a shape of a street grid. As stated by the United Kingdom’s Press Association, the structure of streets is equivalent to the size of Wales.

Atlantis remained a legendary island city first discussed by Plato, supposed to be a hard-core naval power present someplace near North Africa that vanished when it slid down into the ocean. See global warming was an issue that time also. Anyhow, majority of people believe that it’s a Plato’s creation, similar to the story crafted by few boys in Georgia about shooting Bigfoot, but people always believe it.

So this man is trawling the sea bottom with Google Earth and instantly declare his finding. It resembles The Telegraph published the story first, mentioning the exact coordinates – 31 15′15.53N, 24 15′30.53W.

In the recent past, Google’s mapping products have exposed almost each thing happening in the world ranging from a creepy fellow walking around with a sniper rifle to the U.S. drones operating in Pakistan.

“It’s fact that lot of astonishing findings have been made in Google Earth, like a pristine forest present in Mozambique (home to previously unknown species and the remains of an historical Roman villa,” a news from Google read.

People place security cameras for one reason. to secure the premises.  Little do they know that when  they put them online at internet, These security camera need to be  password protected.  Otherwise whole world will be watching you live. There is nothing more foolish than to put your Security camera on web without using security features that come along those web cams.

Here we have listed some Google searches for you.  so  you can find an open security camera that is streaming live for everyone to see. Just copy and paste any of the lines in Google Search box and hit search to find millions of web cams streaming live for every one’s pleasure. For best result and fast searches we recommend that you Download Google Chrome and use it’s exceptional capabilities. There are  some really sophisticated cameras online that even let you control these camera like pan them , zoom them , focus on an object. It’s plenty of fun…

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As repeated request had been made to disqus people to fix this no follow issue. This issue has been inviting spammers of all kind to the websites installed with disqus commenting system.

I finally took the things to my hand and prepared a mod for the popular WordPress DISQUS Comment System Plugin. I just added a rel=”nofollow” attribute to all the links I could find within the plugin files so that no link juice can escape.

With SEO getting tougher and tougher as more people learn about it, It is not good for your Google Standing aka. page rank to spill all your link juice through comments.

I am forced to launch the mod due to non-responsiveness of the disqus team. It seems like disqus is more interested in getting the link juice from the sites that have installed the plugin and it is not concerned about spam and related issues.

I have submitted the request to include this Modified plugin to wordpress.org here untile it get approved from wordpress you can do following

1. Open the Plugin files with your favorite editor like notepad or wordpad or what have you…
2. Find the string  “href”
3. add  “rel=nofollow”  before that or after that in the <a …. > tag before the > character
4. repeat untill all links are no follow
5. Do this with all the files in DISQUS folder

To save you the trouble, I have saved a copy of disqus-nofollow plugin used by me on this blog. click here to download it.

I normally use DO NO FOLLOW  FireFox Extension to check the do follow or no follow nature of links on a page. it is very convenient and quick way to check any web page.

• Click here to download orignal DISQUS Plugin
• Click here to download Modified DISQUS-NOFOLLOW Plugin

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Contrary to what people at large think, becoming popular on Internet is very easy. is As SEO consultant for a BPO that deals with outsourcing  to Asia, I deal with many clients of theirs. Most of the IT Managers have a common request. they all want their name to be popular online so that if some one Google it, it shows up. I am often called upon to help companies get their name to properly show up in Google’s search results. Here is some of the advice that I extend to my clients.

1. Create a page on http://www.linkedin.com

   - Linkedin is a business networking website that allows you to interact with other business professionals easily online. In order to make your name show up towards the top of the search engines, you need to start adding friends and interacting on the social website.  Depending on the popularity of your name will determine how much time you need to spend on this website.

2. Become an expert writer on a website like http://www.articlesbase.com

1. and create your author page tailored to yourself. If you submit one article every 2 weeks this will build up your author pages link popularity and the result will be a high Google ranking.

2. Explore Facebook.com

   is a great place similar to LinkedIn where you can create a profile about yourself to help your rankings, the only negative thing is that people must become your friend before they can see your information.

3. Create a blog on http://www.WordPress.com

   with the URL http://yourname.wordpress.com – if you post occasionally and use tags in your posts, your blog will start to show up.

4. Buy a domain name like YourName.com

   and talk about yourself or post your biography. However you will need to get links to your website from other website’s for this to work.  This is a slower method, however some people prefer this over other options.

Or else you can always hire an affordable search engine optimisation & marketing company or an organic seo consultant to help!

I hope this has helped you a bit or will get you started…

R. MAK.

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