Google Launches Streamlined Image Search

Out With The Old

Currently, viewing an image through Google Image Search is a multistep process. You do the search, see several images and can hover to get a slightly larger thumbnail:

If you want to see a larger version of the image, you have to click on the image, which brings up a bigger version superimposed over the actual web page the image is from:

In With The New

With the new system that’s coming out today, selecting an image after a search brings up the larger version in a central preview area:

This makes it easy to quickly skim through multiple images, rather than the existing system that requires a lot of clicking, then closing windows to go back and select a new image.

Fewer Publisher Visits? Phantom Visits?

The change also suggests that fewer people may visit the actual pages hosting the images, which might be a concern to publishers. Anticipating this, Google’s post about the change says that it has added new ways to reach the image owner’s site that supposedly increase visits:

The domain name is now clickable, and we also added a new button to visit the page the image is hosted on. This means that there are now four clickable targets to the source page instead of just two. In our tests, we’ve seen a net increase in the average click-through rate to the hosting website.

When talking to Google about the change, I was also told that by not loading the hosting page, Google is no longer generating “phantom” visits that were a concern to some publishers, one of the biggest complaints Google said it heard from publishers about Google Images.

“That was causing problems for some webmasters, and so we thought we can do away with that. That’s gone now,” said Pierre Far, a webmaster trends analyst with Google. This, along with new options to reach publisher sites, is “a net win for webmasters,” he said.

Of course, publishers who might not feel this is a net win have an easy solution. They can block Google from indexing their images with just two lines in a robots.txt file, as Google covers here.

When do you get the new look? Google says it is rolling out live now worldwide and should be available to everyone over the coming days.

Happy Pongal

PONGAL CELEBRATIONS

This is to inform students that a Pre-Pongal Celebrations are going to
be held in LITAM campus on 12-1-2013.Stude­nts who are interested in
any of the events listed below can participate.
1. Rangoli - Dots based :)
2. Flying Kites - we have to get our own kites :P so get some good designs.
3. Cultural dress - Boys buy Pancha , salwars and girls asusual come
dressed in sarees.
4. Folk Songs - Janapadha geethalu
5. Food Court - Get some aresalu,chakalu ­,chekaralu :D
6. Games - Volleyball,Kaba ­di,Tugof war
Apart from this Our NSS Team is going to celebrate on the occasion of
Swamy Vivekananda Birthday and National Youth Day by conducting
Elocution on"Awake Arise and Stop not till the Goal is Reached"
So interested candidates please do register with the respective organizers.

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smarty

PGECET Eligibility Criteria

1. The students should be a citizen of India.

2. The students should possess a bachelor degree of any discipline to appear for PGECET.

3. No admission for other country students. The NRI students also cannot be able to apply for PGECET.

4. The students should have Andhra Pradesh as their residential address.

5. The admission procedure has to be followed strictly by the students.

6. General category students should possess a minimum of 50% aggregate marks in the Qualifying examination.

7. For reserved category students there is a relaxation of 5% marks. that is they should posses a minimum of 45% aggregate marks in their qualifying examination.

 

POST GRADUATE ENGINEERING COMMON ENTRANCE TEST (PGECET)

The Osmaina University is considered to be one of the well known universities in Andhra Pradesh is organizing this exam on behalf of  Andhra Pradesh State council of Higher education (APSCHE). This exam is organized to admit graduates in PG courses across Andhra Pradesh College. The residents of other states can also write this exam, but their admission will be based upon the norms under National Integration quota.

The applications will be issued from April in Osmania University & other various universities across Andhra Pradesh till first week of May. The application can be availed online by logging into the link www.osmania.ac.in or www.apschepgecet.net.The cost of application is Rs.80/- application, kindly note that for 1 application the applicant can avail maximum of 4 subjects. The duly filled supplications must reach concern office on or before mid week of May. The exam will be conducted in June across Andhra Pradesh.

 

The exam will be conducted for a total mark of 120 marks and the questions asked in the examination will be of objective type. The exam is partitioned various paper. The duration for each paper is 120 minutes.

 

PGECET 2013 Important Dates:

 

Exam Date: 08-6-2013 to 11-6-2013.

pgecet Online Applications Start From 14/3/2013.

Last Date for submission of PGECET 2013 application form without late fee: 23-4-2013.

Last Date for submission of PGECET 2013 application form with late fee of Rs. 500: 5th May 2013.
Last Date for submission of PGECET 2013 application form with late fee of Rs. 2000: 14th May 2013.

PGECET 2013 Hall Ticket Download: 21-5-2013 to 5-06-2013.

You can get Application Forms via Online only.