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When can Microsoft provide Sinhalese culture logic?

Have you ever tried to sort a list into ascending or descending order when the locale is not English? probably  you might have not noticed it. Nowadays all the large scale websites are moving towards Unicode compatibility to make the product globalization. However globalization is not just input or output compatibility. 


There are lots of aspects that you need to think of before thinking of making your website Unicode compatible. One such aspect is the support for culture logic. You can make your website compatible for an Unicode language anytime but you might not be able to provide a true globalization experience to your visitors\users if they are outside of the below list. Below is the full list of all the supported cultures we have so far. 

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How Does Google Earn Money


How many options do you need to success in a web application? I would say even with single text box you can be a billionaire.  The classic example is GOOGLE.  One of the most profit earning companies in the world and started with a Text Box and two buttons.  Its amazing to know the way Google earns money.  In fact most of you should have the same question.  
If you go back to 2005 Google just able to made $6 billion with the net income of $1.5.  They were never in the list of most profit earning companies in the world.  
Do you know the current wealth of Google? its $110 billion....how did Google earned that much of money from such a short time?  The simple answer would be effective advertising.
Well, Google makes most of its money through the sale of ads. In fact, of the company's $6.2
Billion in revenue in 2005, over $6 billion is from the ads.
 However there is another fact that we need to consider that is the share price of the Google.  Google went public and by that time their share price was $80-100.  Now it has increased to $350.  Just imagine how much they have earned by just selling its shares. 
Of course share price increased not just because its Google.  Their advertising strategy also accelerates their performance in the market.  Now lets do dome mathematics and see how much of money does Google earn? 
Cost Per Click = 25cents
Google gets 24 billion ad clicks and that means 60million per day just from paid advertisements.   Just imagine how much of money do they earn per day?
Below are some of the ways how Google earns money
1. Charge advertisers for presenting online "banner" ads to users
2. Collect marketing data on consumer habits, then selling the data or using it for targeted advertising.
3. Charging websites to become listed
4. Charging websites for better placement in lists
5. Charging websites to purchase keywords for themselves
6. Charging users for searches
7. Charging other search engines to use their catalog
Up to now we have discussed how Google earns money from its own web surfing.  There is another major cash cow which is the Google AdSense program.
 “AdSense” allows individual webmasters and site owners to place Google ads on their sites and earn a percentage on every click. From these types of ads there are reports that site owners have earned more than $1 million per year on Google ad clicks.
In addition to this Google also has partnerships with other large sites such as AOL which also display Google ads and take a percentage of every click.
But in every case where Google ads appear on other sites, you can pretty much be guaranteed that Google feeds its accounts.  The good side of it is Google always optimizes its services and does invest money on research and development.   

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Latest trends in ICT and Education

Hundred years ago little Smith goes to the School for his studies. Teacher comes to the classroom and writes something in the backboard and finishes the class.

If little Smith had to come to modern class will he notice a difference? The answer is NOOO.

Smith will notice the development of the infrastructure, technology and etc but still he will feel almost the same inside the classroom.

The above example shows how strong the education structure is. Human being is so much used to ordinary classroom structure and however nowadays people have started to obtain the assistance from the technology in order to make education easy. However I would say still the education is more powerful inside the classroom as still technology is unable to simulate the face to face human interaction which is more important in the education.

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HOW DO I GET TRAFFIC TO MY SITE?

I just went through a site and found the below article and thought of putting it here as this might serve the need of the people who are trying to make money out of the traffic coming to the website.

Many people think that having a good website is all you need to get tons of visitors. Wrong answer. Getting traffic to your site takes hard work and diligence and is not accomplished overnight. Think about it this way - how are people supposed to know where to find your site if you don't tell them? You must advertise. Here are some proven ways to advertise your site without spending [much] money:

Submit your site to as many search engines as you can. Here are some of the popular ones you can start with:

Alexa
AltaVista
AllTheWeb
AOL
Ask
DMOZ
ExactSeek
Excite
GigaBlast
Google
Hotbot
Kanoodle
Live
Lycos
LookSmart
MSN
National Directory
Netscape
SearchIt
WebCrawler
What-U-Seek
Yahoo

Then Use a favicon.ico


Have Dynamic content on your site - Message Board, Links Directory, Guest Book, Online Search, Picture Gallery, Quote of the day, News items, Site Search, Links Engine ... It all makes for a more enjoyable experience for your visitors ... and happy visitors come back.

Make sure you don't have broken links on your site! There is nothing more annoying when one clicks a link and it does not work. There are hundreds of places you can go on the internet that will check your link validity. Use them.

Make sure your META TAGS are done right. Learn how to do this here.

Submit your site to as many privately run Link Directories/Search Engines as you can find. These will not generally boost your traffic in any major way but will help to maintain steady stream of qualified visitors.

Use Banners with care. See below.

Subscribe to the Usenet groups and advertise there. A good place to start is Google Groups

Be sure to submit your site in appropriate groups!

Be sure to signup with a backup email or you will get onto every spammers database!

Be sure you don't SPAM -- only submit a write up of your site once to any given group.

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