Lakshmi Mittal richest in Europe

Tilak | Business | Monday, April 30th, 2007

Lakshmi Mittal is doing what he does best. Making money.

For the third successive year, the Indian stell tycoon is top of a list of the super rich in Britain - who have also trebled their wealth during Tony Blair’s reign as Prime Minister.

Mittal’s own wealth galloped to £19.250 billion from £14.881 billion last year, increasing the distance between him and second placed Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich (£10.800 billion) by almost £480 million within a year. Mittal’s growing wealth has been attributed to his successful takeover of Arcelor.

He is also the richest among the 50 richest in Europe, while the Hinduja brothers are at number 25. Amonth the 50 richest in the world, Mukesh and Anil Ambani, with a wealth of £19.6 billion, come in at number five, followed by Mittal at number six. Predictably, the top two positions stayed with two familiar names - the Walton family (Wal-Mart) topping with £42.6 billion, followed by Bill Gates with £28.7 billion.

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More Information on Anchor Text

Tilak | Search Engines & Directories | Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

Google engineer, Vanessa Fox shares more information on anchor text. Google has replaced the individua anchor text words that we showed for your site in webmaster tools with a list of full anchor phrases. She also said:

we’ve enhanced the information we show you in the following ways:

  • We’ve expanded the number of phrases we show to 200.
  • You can now see the variations of each phrase (for instance, with different capitalization and punctuation).
  • More sites now have access to the anchor phrase report. So, if you didn’t have this report before, you may have it now.
  • We’ve brought back the report showing the most common individual words in anchor text (you asked; we delivered!).
  • We’ve expanded the number of common words in anchor text and common words in your site that we show to 100 each.

They have also updated robots.txt analysis tool to correctly interpret the new Sitemap instruction that all three search engines announced support for last week.

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Microsoft Release Media Player of Firefox

Tilak | Web/Tech | Friday, April 20th, 2007

Microsoft has announced the release of its Windows Media Player for Mozilla Firefox web browser. The plug-in, available on Firefox’s add-on site, is compatible with the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the XP SP2 and Vista OSes. This new add-on lets web surfers use Windows Media Player to view multimedia content in Firefox.

Firefox 3.0, the next upgrade of the browser, is scheduled for release later this year.

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Experian Acquires Hitwise

Tilak | Business | Thursday, April 19th, 2007

Experian has acquired Hitwise, a leading Internet marketing intelligence company. The approximately price is $240 million. Hitwise also posted the press releases on the announcement.

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Blogger Comes in More Languages

Tilak | Search Engines & Directories | Friday, April 13th, 2007

Google is now available in eight new languages, which brings in nineteen total.

Google is coming in more languages too — stay tuned!

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Yahoo! Update

Tilak | Yahoo! | Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

Search Engine Lead mentioned that today evening, Yahoo! is going to update their search result and will be complete soon.

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