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Megaglobe Search Engine

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I just discovered a brand new search engine that’s about to start up. It’s called Megaglobe – New International Search Engine. Right now it’s spidering the web collecting websites for it’s search engine. Of course I listed 6 of my sites as soon as I saw that it was asking for url submissions. Why not?

I read a few press releases for Megaglobe and they plan to implement tools that will help put a stop to click fraud. They’re calling it “Zero Click Fraud” technology and they state it will be able to detect false clicks. This will be beneficial to advertisers and websites that place pay per click types of advertising on their sites.

Here’s an actual quote from one of the press releases:

A new search engine to be released in June will offer faster and better quality internet searches as well as providing unique protection against expensive “click through fraud” for companies who advertise in its advertisements section.

Megaglobe will be available in 45 languages thus enabling it to service the whole world. It sounds like it will be an amazing search engine as it will operate from over 300 individual country-specific URL’s, will be translated into hundreds of languages, and it will employ a unique and sophisticated algorithm to improve the quality of Internet searching. Looks like it’s setting up to rival google.

I can’t wait to fully explore Megaglobe when it starts up. It sounds good and it looks like it will be offering some kind of ad system. I’m not sure if will offer a way for website owners to make money on their websites through the use of their ads or if the ads will just be on the megaglobe pages. That’s one thing I will be checking out when it starts up. In the mean time why don’t you visit megaglobe and get your site listed too?






Blast from the past

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Hey, I just thought I’d show you what part of my garden looked like three years ago. How do you like this photo? It has quite the assortment of plants doesn’t it?

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Delphinium, lilies, poppies – blooming and producing seed heads, Cleome, a sunflower and I think I see the leaves and the bud of a dahlia. Yeah, I like an assortment of plants.

I’ve since stopped planting my plants so close together and I haven’t grown any poppies for a couple of years. Sunflowers I now grow in the front boulevard, same with the dahlias. The rest I still grow in the backyard though.

I want garden themed stationary

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Are you an office supply addict? I have all kinds of sticky notes like post it’s, and assortment of pens and my beloved sharpies. I use the sharpies to write on those wooden garden marker sticks when I plant new seedlings or even in the trays when I’m growing them in the spring. The writing doesn’t fade off very easily with all the humidity because sharpies are permanent markers.

I also write down any new plants that I plant in my garden beds. I usually do this on lined paper or yellow notepads. I guess I just love office supplies. My desk is full of stuff that I use all the time. Now I’m trying to use this blog to keep track of new plants that I’ve placed around the garden and their progress. It’s not working out all that well though as I still find myself writing something on one type of piece of paper or another each day.

I still haven’t decided on what type of designer personal checks I’m going to get yet either. As I said in an earlier post I want to get checks with some kind of garden theme as a background, perhaps a rose background, but which ever kind I decide on my plan is to buy cheap checks because I don’t use checks very often so I don’t feel that I need to spend too much on them. Still I’d like them to be personal.

I don’t think I’ve ever said on this site that I used to keep reptiles, well I still do – two box turtles. Back when I had a lot of reptiles – many lizards I used to go to reptile shows and I’d buy writing pads with different reptiles designs on them. I bought so many back then that I still have a few. I was even thinking of trying to find some checks that had a reptile on them. I don’t think I ever found any though. LOL

So tell me – are you hooked on office supplies too? Do you have pads of papers or pens stored in several rooms in your house?

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