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France has officially banned Email! Wait a minute, this doesn’t mean that you will no longer be able to send email messages and will be forced to use Instant Messaging, SMS or a service like Twitter to communicate online. It simply means that French authorities have decided to rename “Email” as “Courriel”. The original idea was to replace the word “Email” with the french equivalent “Courrier Electronique” meaning electronic letter, but the hipper term “Courriel” made it in the end. Also, a start-up will now be referred to as “Jeune Pousse” or young plant. We’ll have to wait and see if the French start “Courriel”ing each other!

People have started noticing changes in Google Trends of late, and, finally Google announced the release of the latest version of this tool yesterday on its official blog. This version includes a new feature called ‘Relative Scaling’ which is a type of numeric metric and also incorporates the ability to export data on the trends. Relative Scaling basically will provide you with a ballpark estimate of how certain terms are ‘trending’ instead of exact data. On the new graph, you can notice a number at the top as well as one on the y-axis. These numbers don’t refer to exact figures, but rather, it’s a scale of the first term entered by you so that the average search volume is equal to 1.00 in the given time period.

The new export function comes with two options, relative scaling and fixed scaling. Fixed scaling is simply the data scaled as described above in a specific time-line. Google Trends users had previously noticed that the ability to view trends on an hourly basis had been removed from the tool.

If you thought there exists a search engine for every possible cause and reason, you thought wrong! TFTHostels.com is the web’s first exclusive hostel search portal. This search engine integrates the directories of every major hostel booking website, giving a one-stop solution to an online hostel-seeker for the first time ever and saving considerable time and money in the process. Services offered include:
Search the largest online directory of hostels anywhere in the world
Compare rates and specs, check availability and location
Check out reviews and recommendations
Zero in on the perfect choice and book your hostel online

This cool new search engine is in the beta stage and derives its horsepower from Travelers for Travelers. The service is currently free and does not charge additional fees to favor a certain hostel/booking service over another, according to the website. Marco Van De Kamp, the Head Honcho at TFTHostels, recommends combining his service’s capabilities with Twitter, Google Blog Search and Summize to get all the latest recommendations and reviews on the hostels that his service serves up.

And speaking of Google, it announced its Website Workout contest at the recently held SMX Seattle Conference. The idea behind the contest is to help four businesses to “pump up” their websites; to specifically generate more leads, sales or signups, whichever the case maybe. Enter the contest by answering a few simple questions on why exactly your website needs to be pumped up! The four chosen winners will benefit from the expertise of Google’s consultants who will put its Website Optimizer tool to work on identifying and testing the best combinations of page design, graphics layout and copy and other web page factors that will yield the best possible conversion rates for the site. Google is accepting entries through June 17, so get going!

RSS (Really Simple Syndication), has been around for a good few years now - its basically a method where you can easily syndicate your content. For example if someone finds your posts interesting and they would like to publish it on there site it would be much more simple to use an RSS feed.

RSS is a very useful tool for delivering information and news to clients and bloggers around the world, alot of companies still do not use RSS feeds which is very likely going to slow them down in the long run. It is also great for SEO efforts as there are numerous RSS feeds around these days where you can submit your feed to and everytime you publish your content vwalla - its in the front of thousands of people increasng your link bait and viral awareness. If you are still clueless as to what RSS is thn read on

It was developed by th now retired Netscape (RIP) it is a means of receiving updated content instantly, when the user subscribes to your RSS feed. The growth of RSS over recent years has been extrodinary to say the least it could infact take over email communication as a new way to deliver and read content.

Nowaday any sort of information can be sent via RSS and the end user can also choose what category or subject they would like to receive information about, one tip is not to use javascript when creating your RSS feed as this will stop the spiders in there tracks .

So for anyone that is not using RSS we recommend to as it will not only help your SEO with keyword rich content but it will also open your site up to a whole new audience that will be going crazy to read your unique content!