Why It Is Important To Compare Free Insurance Quotes

Everyone is looking for a best deal at a good price when it comes to insurance. Free insurance quotes can help you save time and money as you can compare the various plans that are offered and choose the one that meets your specific requirements. If you are confused about which insurance plan is best for you, it is time to get an estimate from the various companies that offer these plans.

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Person To Person Loans - Investing In Other People Online!

Investing online can be one of the most effective as well as one of the easiest and fastest ways to earn money online. While there is of course risk involved, there are some investments which offer a more steady return opportunity and less volatile risk than others that are out there. One of the up and coming most popular ways to invest online is by investing in others through peer to peer lending networks.

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Father-of-four shot dead as he prepared to give evidence against men accused of kidnapping him in Pakistan

Malik Iqbal, 55, from Bradford, was shot by masked gunmen in Rawalpindi after he returned to Pakistan to testify against the men accused of kidnapping him last year.

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Get Adequate Cheap Health Insurance Today!

Getting cheap health insurance is a simple concept of saving your life from unwanted expenses that can easily create financial chaos in your life. You can easily find hundreds of websites talking about insurance policies but there are very few of them that actually provide affordable health insurance. As I have mentioned in my earlier posts, there is no definite time of death or unwanted accidents but you can take precautionary measures to face such natural disasters. The best way to face unwanted expenses after accidents or health issues is to get proper coverage policies from a reliable source.

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L.A. City Council clears path for downtown stadium

City officials approve documents for Farmers Field, but the big question is whether AEG can persuade the NFL to move to L.A.

Los Angeles took its biggest step yet toward luring the NFL back after a 17-year absence, signing off on crucial agreements for a new downtown stadium even though it remains unclear who will own the company seeking to build the $1.2-billion facility.

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'Tomahawk chop' pops up in Mass. politics

The manager of the Atlanta Braves sees it as a harmless way to fire up his team. A spokesman for the Navajo Nation's president says it's a display of such profound ignorance, it's hard to be offended.

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NASA wants outpost far past the moon

The planning documents indicate the outpost is possible only with "modest increases" to the current budget

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Wrongful Death Lawsuit - How a Good Lawyer Can Help You

Wrongful death is one case that is hard to face without the help of a good lawyer. It is important to hire the services of a good lawyer to help the victim's family, relatives, or friends.

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Lombardi: Winslow has heart but not knee

NFL Network analyst Mike Lombardi made his weekly Patriots Friday visit with Dennis & Callahan guest hosts Dale Arnold and Kirk Minihane to talk about the return of the regular referees and other news from around the league.

The veteran officials returned for Thursday night's Ravens-Browns game and were welcomed back by the players and fans.

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What Is The Importance Of Buying Health Insurance?

No one knows when will you have the signs and symptoms of a specific disease. You cannot even know when will you encounter an illness. So, it is always important to have health insurance. With this, you are secured to have timely health assistance whenever you need to. You will not need to pay large expenses in the future because you are assisted when it comes to financial aids.

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Curren Caples, 16, of Ventura, California, has been making headlines on his skateboard for some time now, finishing fourth in the skateboard park event in his first X Games, when he was only 14. But skateboarding isn't Curren's only talent, as he's been boardriding since he could stand on his feet. (His father even named him after local legend and style god of surfing Tom Curren.) Today, Curren is emerging as one of the more impressive crossover athletes we've seen in a while. Here is a..

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Unique Home Designs Are Possible With Black Slate Tiles

Among the numerous tiling varieties available in the market, black slate tiles have the ability to completely transform your home with their unique design and beauty. Whatever the kind of design you have imagined, slate makes it possible. Their unique colours and patterns add a lot of character to your home interiors.

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Installment Loans for the Unemployed: Some Factors to Consider

Unemployment does not have to make loan approvals impossible. With specially structured installment loans for the unemployed, it is possible to access vital funds to cover living expenses until a new job is found.

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Brand-new hardware -- now with malware pre-installed!

Pity the poor cyber criminal -- there are only so many to spread maliciousness without getting caught. One avenue, at least, doesn't require phishing emails or drive-by downloads. I'm talking about hardware infected before it ships to users or PC sellers.

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Cloud Based Bug Tracker: The Benefits of Using a Web-Based Tracker

Cloud computing is an IT solution that involves moving applications offsite. More often than not, a service provider streams the applications to the user over the Internet for an affordable monthly fee. Since the user would not pay this fee to operate the application in house a web-based application, such as a cloud based issue management system or a cloud based bug tracker, actually costs less to operate.

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Cup drivers back Allmendinger return

Leading NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers have welcomed NASCAR's reinstatement of AJ Allmendinger , following his suspension after a failed drugs test. Allmendinger successfully completed NASCAR's Substance Abuse Policy Road To Recovery programme in August, after first being suspended in early July when results of a test performed at Kentucky Speedway on June 29 drew a positive result. A test of a 'B' sample later led to an indefinite suspension

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The Role of APIs in the Future of Search

Posted by Tom Anthony

People talk a lot about APIs in the SEO industry (me especially) - the tools you can build with them, the competitive analysis data you can access, the reports you can automate. However, we tend not to discuss the wider picture, the thousands of APIs out there for other things, and, most importantly, the profound effect that APIs are going to have on the web, and thus the SEO industry, in the coming decade.

I believe that over the next 10 years there will be a huge decline in the number of users visiting websites, and that APIs (and structured data) are going to play a pivotal role in that shift.

To understand why I think this, lets take a look at the evolution of the web over the last 20 years.

(Note - I'm not going to explain APIs in this post - but you only need a broad understanding of them to get my point.)

History of How the Web Looks

The (public) web has been around for a little over 20 years, and in that time it has changed a lot. The first website, built by Tim Berners-Lee, looked like this:

(see it here)

With black and white text and no images, it was a pretty static experience, but was the birth of something amazing. Over the next 5 years, although the web grew and moved forward, it didn't see any drastic changes. Over the next 10 years the web got more colourful, with images appearing and layout being improved:

(Image courtesy of archive.org)

However, it was still a pretty static experience, and a long way from the web we know today, which looks more like:

Good old Bear Grylls. His site (which he updated this week!) shows off animation, high-res imagery and video, is interactive, has embedded social media, and is representative of the dynamic web we know and love today.

Obviously, this was a crude history of the web, but my point here is that in 20 years the web has accelerated from something akin a simple set of interlinked text pages to an interactive multimedia system. Let's tie this together with how the web is consumed and searched.

History of How the Web is Consumed

We've seen the web has become a far richer experience to interact with in the last 20 years. We can see that it has also undergone drastic changes in the way that we consume it. In the beginning, it was almost universally accessed via desktop machines:

Some readers won't even remember the days of having to turn on the external modem, dial up to connect and wait whilst the modem sung its song as it connected for a while. Using the web back then was something you made a slot of time for - you'd decide you need to check your email, and you'd head off and maybe spend 30 minutes or an hour using the painfully slow connection, before disconnecting and turning off the modem.

That slowly changed, and by the early 2000s you were quite possibly looking at the internet on a laptop:

(Image: Wikimedia Commons)

Your laptop maybe had a built in modem giving you 'mobile internet' you could use by a phone line, but we were starting to see 'broadband' connections and the advent of wifi. This was the beginning of always being connected for some people, but still the internet wasn't truly mobile, and there certainly wasn't widespread availability.

Nowadays, the majority of readers here will be accessing the web on their mobile:

There is prolific availability of wifi, most of us have 3G internet built into our phones, and using the internet is completely without thought; on the occasion that I'm not connected I'll inevitably try to do something on my phone before remembering "Yep, that also requires internet."

We have moved from interacting with the web via infrequent and prolonged interactions of minutes or hours to many short interactions of only a few seconds. In 2002, the average internet user used the web for 46 minutes a day, but in 2012 that has gone up to 4 hours a day. We're using the web for more time, more frequently, and in shorter bursts. Using the web has moved from being a task in and of itself and has become ubiquitous tool that we don't even notice. 

History of How the Web is Searched

Finally, let me briefly discuss the way the web has been searched over the last 10-15 years. Very broadly speaking the general process, which has been changing in the last 2-3 years, has been searching in a generic fashion to searching in a specific fashion. Crudely this could be thought of as 'searching to find the place where you can search for the answer'.

You traditionally have started with the '10 blue links' result, which has taken you to a place where you could often refine your search in a context specific fashion. What do I mean by context specific? I mean that this specific search allows you to specify attributes unique to the type of thing you are searching for.

For example, in the image above, the search page on Amazon allows me to specify attributes such as author, ISBN and others which are specific to the context: book. Whereas the search box on Google / Bing is a single text entry box to cover all types of search for all types of results.

A Shift in How the web is Searched

However, we have been seeing a shift in this generic -> specific model. Google has started to detect the context of your search from keywords, and then provide additional context specific inputs to refine your search. The classic example is the hotel search:

Now, beyond the general text field, Google allows me to enter a Check-In and Check-Out (attributes, unique to the context: hotel) date to refine my search, and see real-time prices from a variety of vendors. What is notable is that these prices I'm seeing from sites such as ebookers.com are right here in the search results - I'm not visiting their site to see them. I'm not seeing any of their marketing bumpf, any of their special offers or deals, I'm just seeing their price.

Google has also began customising the display of the results based on context, with various examples from maps to weather:

Rather than the 10 blue links of days gone by, we are increasingly seeing the a context specific SERP with a customised display. With emerging search technologies such as Siri, this is often the norm rather than the exception:

With Siri, there never was 10 blue links, but only ever context specific results, each presented in a fashion appropriate to that context.

Siri's weather results above are provided by Yahoo!, but again the user never visits the Yahoo! Weather site. Likewise, the results about the distance to the sun are from Wolfram Alpha, but the user never visits their website. The results are being server via APIs, allowing Siri to leverage Yahoo! and Wolfram Alpha's services directly.

Decline of the Web

If we look over this history of the web we can see that the web has become progressively more dynamic, progressively more interactive, and richer and richer. Along the way internet use has become increasingly mobile, increasingly ubiquitous, used increasingly often and in shorter and shorter interactions.

You'll notice above that I distiguish between 'the web' and 'internet use' - not all internet use is via web pages. The internet existed for many years before the web was invented, where email and bulletin boards reigned. We can see above that more and more often APIs are serving people's search requests in place of the web.

Beyond search, wildfire adoption of Apps in the last few years has seen another avenue which has replaced people web use with something else; people are Facebooking and Tweeting, doing internet banking, finding routes, sharing photos and more all directly via apps instead of via the web. Masses of these apps are using publicly available APIs, with others using private APIs.

If we extrapolate from the changes to the way we consume the web, the shift in the way search results are being delivered, the uptake of apps I can't see how there is any conclusion other than the web will continue to give way to these other technologies.

The technological changes that push this are going to keep on coming:

 

Google Glass

 

Nokia Lumia - CityLens

 

Amazon Flow App

 

A Final Thought

Will the web die? I don't imagine so, and certainly not any time soon. However, it is going to be ever more superceded, and progressively relegated to be where your marketing lives, and less where your customers interact with you.

The majority of the services that will replace the web will be connecting via APIs, whether they are public or private. Having a private API, with an App and other ways to access it is going to be increasingly important. Having a public API allows other people to build on top of your platform; Paul Graham of the startup accelerator YCombinator says "APIs are self serve business development" (Paraphrased from this tweet).

I can imagine a lot of you are thinking 'We don't need an API!' / 'What would we do with an API?' / 'We have a website, so no need for an API.' These all sound strangely familiar to the same arguments we heard 15 years ago with the web. In the 90s hoardes of companies were unconvinced by the web, but later came to regret it. It's how companies such as Nissan ended up spending millions in later trying to secure their domain names (nissan.com remains owned by a small computer company with a handful of employees), and how other companies went out of business to their competitors who did embrace the web.

I'm not sure that all companies need an API, and we are in early days still. We're going to see the landscape change more still, and certainly many smaller companies might not need an API. However, my point is that companies need to be thinking about this, we as SEOs need to be thinking about how this will affect the industry over the next few years, how we can be forward looking to help out clients, and I'm mostly hoping this post kicks off some discussion about it all.

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Understanding Men - Cracking the Minds of Guys

"I am woman, hear me roar." You are powerful, independent, confident, you can be and do anything. You are virtually all-powerful except for one little thing. You don't understand guys. You can understand anyone else on the entire planet but when it comes to dating guys, you know no more about them than you do the exact day the earth began. Every relationship you get into is hard work and you think you're being what men want but it seems not to be the case. "Walk a mile in my shoes." You have to see things the way they see them to understand them. Keep reading to find out how.

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Best Places to Meet Women That Most Men Don't Even Know!

So you have been dating for a while now and trying to find the woman of your dreams. If you have gotten your hopes crushed and your dreams sunk just because you have been dating the wrong girl, then you might feel disappointed or feel a sense of despair. You might even say to yourself: Where can I find the women that I want to meet?

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Report: BMW issues stop sale on M5 and M6 models over fauly oil pump

Filed under: Convertible, Coupe, Sedan, Performance, Recalls, Safety, BMW, Luxury

According to the M-obsessed boys and girls at M5Post.com, BMW has issued an immediate stop sale on new M5 and M6 (both coupe and convertible) models. The problem stems from the engine oil pump; if the pump doesn't supply the correct amount of oil to the engine's moving parts, "severe engine damage" is the likely result. That's not good at all.

BMW is also "contacting customers that have already taken delivery and recommending customers not drive their cars." Sad news for M5 and M6 owners, to be sure, but we think it beats a bunch of blown engines. Check out the official bulletin above and be sure to contact your local dealer if you happen to be lucky enough to own one of the possibly affected machines.

BMW issues stop sale on M5 and M6 models over fauly oil pump originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Xerox Wins Contract For Nevada Health Insurance Exchange

Nevada awards $72 million to Xerox to build its health insurance exchange system--and to prepare the state for the onslaught of users.

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Alonso: Ferrari weaker than at Monza

Fernando Alonso warned that Ferrari will be less competitive in the Singapore Grand Prix than it was at Monza a fortnight ago after two difficult Friday practice sessions . Ferrari's new rear wing design appeared not to work as hoped, leading to a switch back to the 'baseline' wing , and although Alonso was third quickest, he said it was clear that the twisty, low-grip Marina Bay street circuit was a tough venue for his car. "We tried various new components on the car: some seem to be positive, others less so, but maybe in the case of the latter, we need to spend a bit more time for them to be developed as well as possible," he said

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Universal's bid for EMI music division approved

Regulators in the U.S. and Europe on Friday approved Universal Music Group’s $1.9 billion acquisition of the music division of EMI Group Ltd., giving the Los Angeles-based music company control of the Beatles music catalogue and the iconic Abbey Road studios in London, but forcing it to divest interest in the music of Coldplay.

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Dehaier Medical wins three-year supply contract, shares up

(Reuters) - China-based Dehaier Medical Systems Ltd said a medical equipment manufacturer in Ukraine signed a three-year contract to buy its air compressors and customized trolleys.

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Cochise County (Ariz.) Sheriff Dies in Single-Vehicle Crash

His death comes less than a week after his mother died of cancer.

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Build Your Online Business Effectively by Answering Questions!

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Waitrose in Twitter backlash: 'I shop at Waitrose because... I don't like being surrounded by poor people'

The supermarket, which has Royal approval and includes Kate Middleton as one of its fans, was hit with barbed responses when a Twitter campaign went wrong.

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September Mozscape Update is Live: Fresh, New Link Data for All!

Posted by randfish

The Big Data Team at Moz has had one of the hardest periods to date producing an index (and we've had some nightmarish doozies in the past). In June, after our funding from Foundry & Ignition, we started running 4 simultaneous indices on Amazon while also starting to set up our new hybrid (our processing and Amazon storage) cloud data center in Virginia. This tactic mostly worked until August, when we had 4 indices collapse on us due to a high rate of Amazon EC2 disk failures. Naturally, this makes us want to move off the cloud more quickly, and it also meant our bill was higher than ever - nearly $700,000.

But, despite those 4 lost indices, today we have one that survived. It's now available through Open Site Explorer, the Mozbar, the PRO web app campaigns, and the API.

Here are the metrics for this latest index:

• 64,023,562,478 (64 billion) URLs
• 1,282,691,523 (1.2 billion) Subdomains
• 148,634,588 (148 million) Root Domains
• 651,894,828,133 (651 billion) Links
• Followed vs. Nofollowed 2.28% of all links found were nofollowed
  • 55.53% of nofollowed links are internal
  • 44.47% are external
• Rel Canonical - 13.74% of all pages now employ a rel=canonical tag
• The average page has 71 links on it
  • 60.74 internal links on average
  • 10.87 external links on average

And the following correlations with Google's US search results:

• Page Authority - 0.34
• Domain Authority - 0.24
• MozRank - 0.20
• Linking Root Domains - 0.24
• Total Links - 0.20
• External Links - 0.24

The Big Data Team knows you want fresher and larger indices and they have been dedicating all their time trying to deliver. To that end, we have moved to Amazon’s new crazy-fast cluster compute machines that have 6 times the computing power we have now, allowing us to reduce the hardware needed to process! It should mean fewer failures due to fewer boxes required to run the processing cluster. We are also continuing down the path of standing up our own hardware in our cloud data center in Virginia. Huge thanks to the team for aggressively working on the processing and on our own solution.

 

As always, we appreciate and look forward to your feedback!

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6 Things You May Not Know About HIPAA Exams

HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) Exams is a company that has been offering healthcare training courses to hospitals, universities, pharmacies, and even the US Air Force, for over a decade. When it comes to staying healthy, HIPAA Exams is an encyclopedia of knowledge and relevant training courses. Below you will find some information on how the company works and what their healthcare course entails.

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Project software ? the successful tools for successful projects

Is your project suffering for the want of the proper management? Are your overrunning costs and time in every single project that you undertake? It is time you switched the manual management for the more sophisticated project software that enable complete management and looking after for the project.

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Kanye West's Critics Only Prove He's 'Successful,' Pusha T Says

'I want him to keep being criticized; I want people to keep talking about him,' Pusha T tells MTV News of Cruel Summer criticism.
By Nadeska Alexis, with reporting by Simone Hillard

Pusha T
Photo: MTV News

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PSA: Passbook supported apps now listed in iOS 6 App Store

Now that iOS 6 has officially landed, Apple has pulled back the veil revealing the first wave of apps to support its new Passbook feature. The initial group of companies to jump on the bandwagon include: Ticketmaster, Live Nation, Lufthansa, MLB.com At Bat, Sephora to Go, Walgreens and Fandango Movies. While this list is a tad bit shorter than we hoped for, it's safe to say that more apps will follow in the not-so-distant future. Want to be the first to know when they arrive? Be sure to keep an eye on the Passbook section of the App Store for the latest updates.

Filed under: Cellphones, Software, Mobile

PSA: Passbook supported apps now listed in iOS 6 App Store originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 Sep 2012 06:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Finding the Right Accident Attorney

When you get involved in an accident and you were injured because of it, getting an accident attorney can be one of the most important choices that you will be making. It is standard practice for insurance companies to not to offer a fair settlement, just in case you accept then they can save on the money that they have to pay. That is why you need someone who can help you see to it that what you are going to get what you really deserve.

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'Glee' Star Lea Michele Preps Debut Album

Actress who plays Rachel Berry on hit show announces that she's 'officially on the road' to releasing solo music.
By Jocelyn Vena

Lea Michele
Photo: MTV News

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Find The Very Best No Win No Fee Solicitors Online

There may come a time in your life when you need to employ the services of professional no win no fee Solicitors.

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Why To Insure Your New Vehicle In California

Driving is almost like a right of passage in the United States. It provides freedom, fosters responsibility, and can provide means for income. One of the most notorious hurdles that must be overcome is the process of shopping for car insurance.

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Channing Tatum Should Direct Magic Mike Sequel, Says Costar

Sounds like Channing Tatum is the right person to direct the sequel to Magic Mike. "Channing has clearly proven he can do anything he wants," Magic costar Cody Horn told me last...

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