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Based on the top-selling, award-winning videogame franchise, the “Hitman” is a genetically-engineered, elite assassin known only as Agent 47. His hallmarks are a lethal grace, unwavering precision, and resolute pride in his work. But even 47 couldn’t anticipate a “random equation” in his life of exactitude: the unexpected stirrings of his conscience and the unfamiliar emotions aroused in him by a mysterious Russian woman.

As I am at the height of my surfing in the net, I came across about the new version of WordPress which will be 2.4.

According to Ryan Boren, they decided to push the official release date on January 24th 2008.

The said version was dubbed its tentative release this December 12.

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Internet blogging, online marketing, online gaming, making money online are among the jobs making me busy this last few months. Engaged in these activities since I joined the second seo contest here in the Paradise Philippines, the ituloy angsulong contest where I joined my first blogspot site now with niche of technology matters and some site reviews. It was ranked 3rd at MSN search engine. Since then, related jobs and activities online made a part in my life, I was thankful because I am working in public school which engaged online, the e-library of my school, the Pangasinan State University.

Trying to accomplish all those things tick tasks to me a difficult one. For I cannot acquire yet an online connection to my place, seeking for a home based one. Bad ISP’s I got.

Meanwhile, I had set up my article site for a free article submission and a link web directory. Website reviews made me so much busy through my SEO blog. At present, I joined the 3rd Bayanihan SEO Contest for the keyword Paradise Philippines trying to compete to come out at SERP. Find some relevant free articles in my free article submission site. And lastly, I setup my free flash games site, a gadgets blog and another technology blog a few weeks ago, and I’m still into some configuration of it.

Learning all these things and still trying to discover more techniques in an online community giving me hope to conquer more relevant strategy in improving and developing more trusted websites in the future.

At the recent Search Engine Strategies conference in freezing Chicago, many of us Googlers were asked questions about duplicate content. We recognize that there are many nuances and a bit of confusion on the topic, so we’d like to help set the record straight.

What is duplicate content?
Duplicate content generally refers to substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely match other content or are appreciably similar. Most of the time when we see this, it’s unintentional or at least not malicious in origin: forums that generate both regular and stripped-down mobile-targeted pages, store items shown (and — worse yet — linked) via multiple distinct URLs, and so on. In some cases, content is duplicated across domains in an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or garner more traffic via popular or long-tail queries.

What isn’t duplicate content?
Though we do offer a handy translation utility, our algorithms won’t view the same article written in English and Spanish as duplicate content. Similarly, you shouldn’t worry about occasional snippets (quotes and otherwise) being flagged as duplicate content.

Why does Google care about duplicate content?
Our users typically want to see a diverse cross-section of unique content when they do searches. In contrast, they’re understandably annoyed when they see substantially the same content within a set of search results. Also, webmasters become sad when we show a complex URL (example.com/contentredir?value=shorty-george〈=en) instead of the pretty URL they prefer (example.com/en/shorty-george.htm).

What does Google do about it?
During our crawling and when serving search results, we try hard to index and show pages with distinct information. This filtering means, for instance, that if your site has articles in “regular” and “printer” versions and neither set is blocked in robots.txt or via a noindex meta tag, we’ll choose one version to list. In the rare cases in which we perceive that duplicate content may be shown with intent to manipulate our rankings and deceive our users, we’ll also make appropriate adjustments in the indexing and ranking of the sites involved. However, we prefer to focus on filtering rather than ranking adjustments … so in the vast majority of cases, the worst thing that’ll befall webmasters is to see the “less desired” version of a page shown in our index.

How can Webmasters proactively address duplicate content issues?

• Block appropriately: Rather than letting our algorithms determine the “best” version of a document, you may wish to help guide us to your preferred version. For instance, if you don’t want us to index the printer versions of your site’s articles, disallow those directories or make use of regular expressions in your robots.txt file.
• Use 301s: If you have restructured your site, use 301 redirects (”RedirectPermanent”) in your .htaccess file to smartly redirect users, the Googlebot, and other spiders.
• Be consistent: Endeavor to keep your internal linking consistent; don’t link to /page/ and /page and /page/index.htm.
• Use TLDs: To help us serve the most appropriate version of a document, use top level domains whenever possible to handle country-specific content. We’re more likely to know that .de indicates Germany-focused content, for instance, than /de or de.example.com.
• Syndicate carefully: If you syndicate your content on other sites, make sure they include a link back to the original article on each syndicated article. Even with that, note that we’ll always show the (unblocked) version we think is most appropriate for users in each given search, which may or may not be the version you’d prefer.
• Use the preferred domain feature of webmaster tools: If other sites link to yours using both the www and non-www version of your URLs, you can let us know which way you prefer your site to be indexed.
  
• Minimize boilerplate repetition: For instance, instead of including lengthy copyright text on the bottom of every page, include a very brief summary and then link to a page with more details.
• Avoid publishing stubs: Users don’t like seeing “empty” pages, so avoid placeholders where possible. This means not publishing (or at least blocking) pages with zero reviews, no real estate listings, etc., so users (and bots) aren’t subjected to a zillion instances of “Below you’ll find a superb list of all the great rental opportunities in [insert cityname]…” with no actual listings.
• Understand your CMS: Make sure you’re familiar with how content is displayed on your Web site, particularly if it includes a blog, a forum, or related system that often shows the same content in multiple formats.
• Don’t worry be happy: Don’t fret too much about sites that scrape (misappropriate and republish) your content. Though annoying, it’s highly unlikely that such sites can negatively impact your site’s presence in Google. If you do spot a case that’s particularly frustrating, you are welcome to file a DMCA request to claim ownership of the content and have us deal with the rogue site.

In short, a general awareness of duplicate content issues and a few minutes of thoughtful preventative maintenance should help you to help us provide users with unique and relevant content.

Source: Official Google Webmaster Central Blog

One of my favorite celebrity personalities here in the Paradise Philippines, Katrina Halili.

Maria Katrina Irene Pe Halili (born on January 4, 1986 in Quezon City but raised in El Nido, Palawan, Philippines), popularly known as Katrina Halili, is a Filipina actress. She is an alumna of the StarStruck talent search and was the cover girl of FHM Philippines for its December 2005 issue. She was subsequently voted as FHM Philippines’ sexiest woman for the year 2006 and bagged the title yet again in 2007. She is the first StarStruck contestant to top the FHM Philippines’ 100 Sexiest list.

She is the lead villain in Marimar with Marian Rivera at Dingdong Dantes.

The country’s sexiest woman for 2006 according to FHM Philippines, Katrina heated up magazine stands, billboards, and primetime TV. She’s been everywhere lately, and we still cannot get enough of her!

Mozilla has released the first beta version of Firefox 3, which promises to provide improved security, greater ease of use and better performance. There will be at least three beta version before the final release, with the next coming as soon as December.

The installer frustratingly insists on writing over your existing copy of Firefox, which is hardly an incentive to try out the Beta version. Even more discerningly, the first thing that you notice is that it looks almost exactly the same as previous versions.

In fact, most of the improvements in Firefox 3 are incremental rather than revolutionary. The new download manager includes a handy search box to help track down downloaded files, but the pause and resume features, which now sport media player-style buttons, crashed each time we tried to use them.

Rendering pages seems to be slightly faster than under version 2, thanks in no small part to the new Gecko rendering engine used behind the scenes. The performance boost is most noticeable when using web applications such as Flickr, GMail or Bloglines.

With the updated version of GMail the speed boost is particularly noticeable; in fact, on our test PC emails loaded far quicker than under Microsoft Outlook.

Under the hood, Gecko 1.9 provides rendering improvements in CSS and SVG, improved display of fonts with ligatures and complex scripts, and more accurate image display with support for colour profiles.

One interesting new security feature is the website information
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Google is by far the most important search engine on the net. To rise to the top of their search engine, you need to improve your link popularity and you need to understand how they measure your link popularity (over 50% of all search engine traffic comes from Google, and if you can rise to the top, you will likely rise to the top of all the other search engines as well).

Link popularity is defined as the number of sites that are linking to your site. Some websites have thousands or even millions of sites linking to them, while others might have only a few. The search engines use the number of inbound links your site has as a measure of how important your site is, which translates into your search engine ranking.

The actual number of links to your site is not the only variable used to calculate your link popularity. The search engines also examine the relevance of the links to the subject matter of your site. For example, if a website that sells vitamins has 4,000 inbound links, but the source of most of the links are websites that have nothing to do with vitamins, then the algorithm that search engines use to determine link popularity will take that into account, and the link popularity score will not be very good.
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Viewers know Jon for his good looks and admirable body. However, despite the fame he is experiencing now, Jon has not had an easy life growing up in London. Jon struggled with harsh racial discrimination since he was the only Asian in school. Because of being constantly ostracized by his schoolmates, Jon’s self-esteem hit rock bottom. The bullying finally came to an end when he entered college where he found real friends.

Then he traveled to the Philippines in search of a new life, but to his disappointment, more trials and difficulties came his way. Jon recalls the time when he used to live in a small room with no air con and electricity. For some time, he slept on a cheap mattress, feeling lonely and missing the company of family and friends. But just like a true Filipino, Jon managed to rise above all the hardships. He persevered to fend for himself, shedding off some extra pounds and later becoming one of the most sought after male models in the country. Despite the Western upbringing, Jon never forgot his Filipino roots. When he came back to the Philippines, he felt a greater privilege of being liked by Filipinos.

Will Jon finally find the truest sense of belonging inside the Big Yellow house?

Nickname: Jon
Real Name: Jonathan Mullaly
Origin:United Kingdom
Age: 22
Birthdate: September 1
Place of Birth:United Kingdom
Nationality: Irish-Filipino
Occupation: Model
Sports: Boxing
Hidden Ambition: To be a Hollywood actor
Claim to Fame: Century Tuna Superbod 2006, BenchBody model
Charity: Tahanang Sta. Luisa, Quezon City

Source: PBB Site

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Just when women are about to accept the fact that Prince Charming can never exist, comes one of Big Brother’s too good to be true celebrity housemates, African Am-German Will Devaughn. Love brought Will to the Philippines. Born to a pure German woman and a half-Pinoy, half-Afro American military man he had never met, he didn’t have much knowledge about the country he now calls home. He took the risk of flying thousands of miles just to follow the woman he loves. Later on however, they broke up and Will decided to stay in the country and make a living as a model. Spell out tall, dark and handsome, Will was practically everywhere around the country in less than a year of his stay because of his billboards, television commercials, magazine print ads and features. As his search for true love continues, could be his princess just waiting for him inside Kuya’s house? Here, let’s take a look at his bio.

Nickname: Will

Real Name:William Devaughn Stumpf

Origin:Germany

Age: 25

Birthdate:27 February

Place of Birth:Germany

Nationality:German/Afro-American

Occupation: Model

Sports:Basketball

Hidden Ambition: To travel the world as a photographer

Claim to Fame:McDonald’s McRice Burger TV Commercial

Charity: Brave Kids Foundation

Source: PBB Site

View ore pics of Will.

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