Germany squeezed by the Turks, beating them at their own game! Lahm scored the winning goal in the 90th minute. Woohoo!
We’ll be watching the final at the Brickyard (directions) on Sunday. Come on out and support Germany!
Germany vs. Spain: TV coverage starts at 2:30 and kickoff is at 2:45.
I’m organizing a get together with some friends and my German group Netzwerk Central PA for the semi-final game. It’s not a strictly German event, but hopefully everyone coming out will be supporting Germany!
TV coverage starts at 2:30 and kick off is at 2:45. Location to be announced (At a bar in Lancaster).
We’ll be at the Brickyard in Lancaster. TV coverage starts at 2:30 and kick off is at 2:45. If you need directions click the link.
Check this out last month I was featured in the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce Newsletter!
I joined the chamber last fall and then attended a new members welcome event in January. During the event everyone had to get up and give their 30 second speech about their business. One of the ambassadors for the chamber, Jen Strobel of Superior Wash of PA and Accubright Systems LLC, heard what I had to say and approached me after the meeting. She said she was looking for help with getting found on-line, or Search Engine Optimization. We talked some and she contacted me a few weeks later. As you may have seen in my earlier posts, they are now a client. Afterwards I sent a note to the chamber to thank them and they were so excited about the success of the chamber meeting they decided to do an article about us in the Chamber Newsletter! Check it out here:
Chamber Event Pays Dividends to Three Members
The project with Accubright Systems, LLC is still underway, but you can read about the success we have had with Superior Wash here:
On Friday, June 6, 2008 we signed a new client: Hamilton Precision Metals of Lancaster, PA. We will be localizing an Material Safety Data Sheet for one of their customers in Germany. This is the first project with the new client and we are looking forward to working together further on future projects.
Thursday May 29th at 7pm FC Blackbird will be playing MC Kickers in the O-30 Premier League final. Check out the event details on Facebook or at the FC Blackbird page.
Come on out and support our team!
Location:
Lanco Field House
1901 Miller Road
East Petersburg, PA
From Search Engine Watch
Internet advertising revenues reached an all-time high in 2007, totaling $21.7 billion, which is 26% higher than 2006. The data comes from internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers 2007 Internet Advertising Revenue Report. Keyword search leads the field when it comes to types of internet advertising. Here’s the breakdown of ad types:
For full Article: Internet20Advertising20Reaches20Record20High20in202007205BSearchEngineWatch5D
This is a follow up to my posting on February 29th, 2008: Blackbird e-Solutions Secures SEO Deal With Accubright Systems, LLC and Superior Wash.
In conjunction with their sister company Accubright Systems, LLC, where 4 pages were to be optimized, Blackbird e-Solutions was contracted to optimize 1 page for Superior Wash’s site. The page to be optimized was their mobile truck washing services page.
Superior Wash operates throughout Pennsylvania and using their website they are specifically targeting various cities and counties in PA. Some examples are Lancaster, York, Chester County, Reading as well as others. Organic search optimization is a living process and it usually takes some time for newly optimized pages to climb up the ranking and settle in with a high page rank. As of today, when using the Superior Wash’s target search query “mobile tuck washing lancaster pa“, the page Mobile Truck Washing and On-Site Fleet Cleaning Services- Superior Wash of PA, is ranked number 1.
Too see more results click on the search queries below (.pdf format):
“mobile fleet washing lancaster pa”
“truck washing lancaster pa”
“fleet washing lancaster pa”
“mobile fleet washing chester county pa”
Looking beyond its existing business, Schmidt says “the next big thing” for Google could be online translation services. “I’ve always thought that the scariest piece of innovation is knowledge understanding and language translation,” he says.
“I don’t understand how it works, but to watch a computer - literally watch it - read something in English, dissect what it’s about, translate it into a language that I don’t speak and having that other person say, ‘Wow, that’s incredible,’ to me, that’s magic.
“And it isn’t magic, it’s just very good computer science, very good artificial intelligence, very good physics. And that’s where we are. So the things that are most impressive to me are the things where the computer does something that nobody could do, literally translate things 100 language in parallel, summarise something for me, take me to something which I didn’t know I was interested in but knows that I cared about it. And we’re right on the cusp of that.” To read more: Making money out of YouTube is Google’s “top priority”.
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Can translation software ever take the place of human translators? In my opinion, no. Well, maybe for simple things. But to truly translate something well, you have to have an understanding of how the words are being used. Not just what words are being used. This is something you can only learn when you actively use a language.
