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25 Essential Web Resources for Researchers and Students

admin — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:50:00 +0000

These are the sites that I found very useful to conduct my research. Due to the nature of my research, these bookmarks may be technology oriented, so do not blame me for that. If you have a good site / web tool that you think is worthy, mention in the comments section.

1. Find a PhD

FindaPhd is the lucky place where you find fellow geeks and nerds, a pretty busy Postgraduate Forum provides advices and opinions on your queries about research life and how to find funds, scholarships. Upon the success of this site, two new sites FindaMasters and FindaPostDoc have been started and serving the student researchers actively busy exchange of advice and opinion on PhD life.

2. Google Book Search

You know Google book search exists, but have you tried citing from those books. Often, I had to produce a write-up, essay or the last-minute paper for a conference. When I dotn have enough time to pull out a strong reference from books, I issue a Google book search, up comes the results from book with snippets view showing paragraphs and texts that I were exactly looking for. I paraphrase them and correctly reference them. Neat hack.

3. Book Finder

If you are looking for any kind of book, whether it is rare or out-of-print, specific edition – You will find it at Bookfinder. Over 125 millions book titles to search, you can actually buy new and old-books from this site. They achieve by doing a search through every major catalog available online.

4. Free Note-taking

Mynoteit is a web service that you need to manage all writing works at uni. With mynoteit, you can upload office documents, scanned notes and audio lectures at one place. Yuo can access them at will with even with your mobile.You can join groups of students who are taking the similar subject all over the world. You can bookmark your assignment dates, deadlines at one place.

5. Re”Search Engine”

Scirus is a popular search engine among research community. Scirus searches for scientific information with its comprehensive trusted network of article bases like Science Direct, PubMed and other journal databases. The results are highly relevant and you can choose the keywords used by authors to search for relevant scientific domain. You get the results in three categories, journal results, preferred web results and web results. If you try Scirus once, you will stick to it. It saved me lot of my research time.

6. Digital Theses Networks

Australia is probably, the only country where every research student is asked to deposit a digital copy of their theses to a national database for a common cause. The Australasian Digital Theses Program is very popular among the researchers as every university in Australia is participating in it. A similar initiative is being carried out at the international level, which is PhDData.org – a 5 year old program which aims to collect the research theses from the universities around the world. There is also another initiative named “Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations” that looks promising as well.

7. Bibliography made easy

It’s a pain to follow the style guide of various journal styles when you are writing a paper. Tools such as EndNote help in maintaining your database of references. If you are looking for an online tool, then Ottobib is a really useful. You can store, organize your references, and Ottobib will format it to a style when you need. There is another web service that does a similar job , which is Easybib.

8. Job portals for researchers

Monster has a special site Phd jobs that lists research oriented jobs. There are sites where you can find Policy jobs, Political jobs, Ethical jobs, Market Research jobs, Museum jobs, PostDoc jobs, Law jobs and Human Rights jobs. All these sites provide world-wide listings of opportunities specific to researchers.

9. Docs, Spreadsheets and Presentations

The benefits of Google Docs are obvious, you can maintain your documents and edit on the run. Particularly useful when you are traveling for field visits and you do not have access to your favourite Desktop Office applications. I used to upload a copy of my thesis chapters in Google Docs and share it with my supervisor. He would comment and add suggestions. If you are thinking of developing a document with your peer researchers – across boundaries, you have to use this. No more copying drafts, final versions and confusions on which one is what. With the added spreadsheets and presentations, it is a cool collection of tools for storing documents on the move.

10. List Sharing

Tadalist is about having a to-do list on the web. You can share between your supervisors to track your progress and communicate with your fellow researchers to meet the research deadlines or to organise a holiday.

11. Phd Comics

We are researchers, so what. We need fun, right? I have seen no other humour site that caters exclusive to researchers and PhD students life. PhDComics is awesome because, the site was started by a student and has plenty of cartoon strips on any conceivable aspect of Phd life.

12. Tracks almost everything

An easy way to track all the favourite blogs / research web sites in my subject is to use Google Reader. I use the ‘Star’ function to mark the essential posts, and use them later. A thousand eyes are looking for me and blogging things that are important and I follow them at one place with my reader. Great help – is it not?

13. Research Channel

Research channel is a site that offers videos on various research topics. Research Channel functions as a nonprofit media company with a mission to connect the world research community with latest developments, insights and discoveries across the globe. Anyone can watch the videos for free. But, if you are a researcher or research organisation who wish to contribute video content, you have to apply for a membership to the research channel. All the video submissions are strictly moderated.

14. Wikipedia

Often, the power of Wikipedia is grossly under-rated by the research people, who dismiss it based on the credibility. Well, that is an acceptable fact but from Wikipedia, you will get to know about a human view of a topic. You may get to know the latest happenings or the first hand information on a cutting-edge technology in your field (equivalent of gossips in the film industry).

15. MIT Web

Massachusetts institute of technology maintains a comprehensive web portal on the current research happenings at MIT and covers news and research events that affect humanity. The research covers any conceivable topic under various categories .

16. Eduforge – Free software for education

Just what Sourcefourge did for a programming and application development, eduforge does it for research community. It provides a free, open access to share ideas, form collaborative research groups, content and software development to solve specific research problems.

17. SuTree – Watch and learn

SuTree is a YouTube stye video site for Do-It-Yourself projects. You can watch videos and learn rather than reading plain texts and procedures. You can learn something new, every day. SuTree does not host your videos, users host them on youtube or google videos and provide a link and embed the videos here. These videos are voted by the community and the editors hand-pick them and monitor to keep the scum out of the site.

18. Wridea – Free ideas

Wridea is the place where ideas get into shape. You can record your ideas, browse others’ ideas, rate them, improve them and what not. The design and performance of the site is awesome and you can create unlimited pages for free. Liberate your ideas and watch them grow.

19. World Lecture Hall

World Lecture Hall is the place where you can find course materials developed by the teaching faculty around the world in almost any language. Some courses are only available online, but most of them can be downloaded for offline use. It is a great collection of lectures – a good bookmark.

Academic Materials can also be found at this blog post – 134 free academic podcasts organised by topics.

20. University Channel

University Channel is another directory of lectures (videos, audio and text presentations) developed and hosted by Princeton university. it not only lists the academic lectures and presentations, but also some of the key public affairs lectures, panel discussions and events from the best industrial conferences and academic institutions all over the world.

21. Backpackit- organize your life

You have to experience Backpackit to believe it – this site will be tremendously helpful for keeping track of your research developments. You can track your tasks, references (who said what – over phone / email), appointments, action items etc. If you are looking for an efficient organizing tool, this is the one for you.

22. FreeMind – Free mind maps

If you are looking for a tool to create and organize your thoughts and ideas, mind maps are the best way. With freemind – a java based open source program, you can develop complex yet, easy to organize mindmaps.

23. Free Data and Texts

Freelunch.com – Free economic data for you to download
Geographic Data – Free geographic data (worldwide)
World Bank Economy – Data collected and organised by the World Bank
Project Gutenburg – Free literature (almost any subject)
Bibliomania – free literature online
Literature collection – free literature
Citeseer – Massive resource for papers related to Computer Science.
Algorithms Base – Over 250 algorithms at one place
Tree of Life – Large Biology project that aims to organize the evolution of life.

24. Free Newspaper Archive

Paper of Record is the largest newspaper archive on the web. You can get snapshots of news articles from leading newspapers of the world from pre-1600 era to the current date. You can search through the archive and download the clips as images (gif). You have a quota of 250 mb every day.

25. Citations Database

Refbase is the place where people are sharing their citations and organising them at one place. You can download a copy of the refbase on your PC and connect to the server periodically to update them. Also try CiteSeer for searching through millions of citations.

Bonus Resources:

1. Find quotations

With ThinkExist, you can find a nice quotes for your thesis and papers. The quote is accompanied by the essential information about the author/speaker which will be useful to reference.

2. Research webpages

Research pages at Major companies who likes to share their ongoing developments and trials:

Google Research Blog
Research at Philips
Sun Research
Microsoft Research
IBM Research centre
Yahoo Research Labs
Honda Research
GE Global Research
General Motors Collaborative research centre
Sports Research Centre, Canada

3. All Biographies

Find anyone’s biography here – you can search by a keyword, birth date or place of birth.

Did I miss anything? Which sites are useful for conducting researches?

There are many ways and resources through which one can get information about different online courses. There is lot of material available about 642-503 courses on Google. One can also check Wikipedia for PMI-001 course information. If one is looking for hardcopy or soft copy of 642-825 courses then one can get it on book finder website. Free material of 642-901 courses is also available on free note-taking site. People who are interested in smart business communication systems 650-178 course then they can get interactive test guides on Eduforge – Free software for education site. The world lecture hall site can give free lectures of different course like 70-272 and so on. If you are interested in 70-270 course then its helping guide can easily be searched on yahoo. So there are so any sites from where one can get many helping guide for these courses and thus make exams easy to pass.

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Hidden Programs in Windows XP and How to run them

admin — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:40:00 +0000

There are plenty of Windows based utilities and programs that a System Administrator (or a geeky person) can run. Here’s a collection of such little utilities and instructions on how you can initiate them.

1- Private Character Editor
This program is for designing icons and Characters(Alphapet )
Click :start
Then :run
type :EUDCEDIT
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2- iExpress
This Program is for converting your files to EXCUTABLE files
Click : start
Then : run
type : iexpress
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3-Disk Cleanup
This program used for cleaning harddisk to offer space
Click : start
Then : run
type : cleanmgr
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4-Dr Watson
This program Is for repairing problems in Windows
Click : start
Then : run
type : drwtsn32
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5-Windows Media Player 5.1
Opens the old media player
Click : start
Then : run
type : mplay32
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Program ………… . CODE
__________ __________
Character Map = charmap

DirectX diagnosis = dxdiag

Object Packager = packager

System Monitor = perfmon

Program Manager = progman

Remote Access phone book = rasphone

Registry Editor = regedt32

File siganture verification tool = sigverif

Volume Control = sndvol32

System Configuration Editor = sysedit

Syskey = syskey

microsoft Telnet Client = telnet

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Find "Happy Hour Beer" on a Map

admin — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:21:00 +0000

Getting thirsty? Now, you can find which bar in your neighbourhood offers drinks (beer) at their bets price – you can browse pubs that offer “Happy Hour” plans.

This MappyHour application is built on top of Google maps and you can add your own favourite bars and pubs on it with a simple click and edit.

You can chat with your friends, organize a pub crawl and share links with your friends if you sign up to the service.

Enjoy drinking.

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6 Recent Changes for Thiru

admin — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:31:00 +0000

1) I have got a job as a GIS officer with TimberCorp Ltd. In short, they are the leading agribusiness investment managers in Australia. I will be helping them to map their plantations and resources with satellite images and aerial photos.

2) I am without an Internet connection – which is in a way good. I can write more blog posts without any online distractions and schedule them later for publication using this technique.

3) I have moved from the City of Adelaide (South Australia) to a country town Hamilton (Victoria) that is surrounded by a beautiful landscape of wetlands and parks.

4) I have to look for a single house accommodation, because I have to leave away lot of my friends to travel to a new State. I am sad. I miss them.

5) I am undergoing driving lessons so I can drive a car (duh!). Any tips?

6) I am getting up early at 7 am to be at the workplace by 8.30 am. Finally, I am becoming an early riser.

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Australian Users to try New Google Adformats on Google Maps

admin — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:03:00 +0000

Australian advertisers will try their hands on the new ad format. The new AdWords ads can be placed on Google Maps and when users do a local search, they appear on the results page. The advertsement will be tied to the business location.

“Users searching for your products or services will be able to clearly see how close they are from your business’ physical location. In addition to your ad text, you can also include a phone number or add an image of your company logo or one of the products you carry. Whether it’s a hotel or flowers, art galleries or rugby league jerseys, you can get key information about your business in front of potential customers as they browse or shop locally online.”

More details on Google Australia Blog
Official Google Australia Blog: Get your ad on the map….literally

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400th Post:50 Best Posts from the ‘How to Live Online’ blog

admin — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 02:01:00 +0000

This blog has reached the magical 400. 400 blog posts in How to Live Online. I am taking a break of 7 days (more or less) and would be returning with fresh ideas and blog posts.

Meanwhile, here are the best 50 posts from the How to Live Online blog. Read them today, tommorrow and on the day after.

Stay beautiful!

1. 101 fun things to do online – a list of fun and useful web services available online for you to try

2. How do you send anonymous email messages? – just in case, if you need to.

3. 241 fun things to to online! – another exhaustive list of things to get when you are bored.

4. 7 Best Articles on "How to Make Money with your Blog" - I mean, the very best. They are enough to make money online.

5. Send FREE SMS to any mobile – Yes, absolutely free.

6. Save your blog posts to your PC – How to backup all your blog posts from Blogger, Wordpress or Typepad?

7. Some of the improvements are well on their way – but, Digg has to improve – Why Digg is a failure (as of now) and how it can be improved?

8. Stop wasting your time searching for the movies you will like -Find movies worth watching

9. Do you want to become popular in Orkut – How I built an Orkut Empire in 30 days?

10. Thinking of buying your first digital camera? – Which digital camera to buy? An Easy-to-use 3 step Guide

11. Simple guide to include Adsense code inside New Blogger (in between blog posts) -How to insert Adsense Code into New Blogger

12. How to use Flickr in a productive way? – 25 Useful scripts for Flickr users

13. How to create a viral video campaign for FREE – 9 Tips to become Popular with Youtube Videos

14. Now you can get a "CAPTCHA" program for your website FREE -How to protect your email-id with a free Captcha when you publish on a webpage?

15. Provide full RSS feeds for your readers (they are loving it!) -How to provide Full RSS feeds from New Blogger

16. Like this blog, how do I insert Adesne ads into the blog content – How to insert Adsense Code into New Blogger

17. How I took 25 months to earn the first $100 from Google Adsense – The mistakes I made and the lesson I learnt as a Adsense Publisher. Thank God, I made the next $100 in few days.

18. Build a custom Search Engine and Make some Money with Google Adsense – Customised search engines are the next big thing, jump in and make money early.

19. Earn a Guranteed income from Paid Reviews: at least $150 a month – Failing with Google Adsense and Affiliates? Come home to paid blogging. I will show how you can make money and maintain a dignity as a blogger.

20. How much did I earn from working on the Internet: Report – Yes, I have crossed A$1000 this year alone. Here’s my detailed earnings report for you.

21. Schedule and Publish blog posts on a future date – A killer hack for Blogspot users, now you can also turn a professional blogger by writing and posting your blog posts working on weekends.

22. The visitors of your blog know how to improve your blog: 7 tips to make them speak – 90% of your visitors have an opinion on your blog that you can use it to improve your blog.

23. Get a custom domain with Blogger for maximum benefits: 10 reasons why it is good for you – Do you know the benefits of a custom domain with Blogger blog. It wont cost much but it’s worth every penny.

24. A simple hack to add Recent Posts and Recent Comments to a New Blogger Blog – Simple but quick hack to show Recent posts and comments in a New Blogger blog.

25. How to get more Popular and Famous in Flickr: 9 Killer Tips for Flickr newbies – Do you want to get more comments, more favourites, more friends in Flickr? Follow me.

26. The Ultimate Collection for Facebook users:Tools, Videos and Scripts – A must have collection for facebook users and newbies.

27. Let your Global customers find you:Put your Small Business on Google Maps – Easy steps to add your business on Google Maps for FREE.

28. Ten mistakes most of the web 2.0 starters make: How to correct them – Many of the web companies (start-ups) make these mistakes. Do they learn from them?

29. Five Newest Social Web Services and Applications – Will they make your life easy?

30. StumbleUpon is better than Digg for your Blog’s Growth – 8 reasons why StumbleUpon is better for your blog. This blog post is most read blog post in the month of June with more than 30,000 readers and 40 comments.

31. Do you want to be a Pro Blogger? 23 things you should know about Google Analytics that will help you to build massive traffic for your site

32. Do you know what most people do on the web?: See this picture - Research on what people do by age-group wise.

33. 5 funny websites to make you laugh - bookmark them , in case if you have not done.

34. Imagine Bush, Borat and God in MySpace: Youtube Videos to make you laugh - hilarious collection.

35. History of Web 2.0 – A hilarious cartoon collection.

36.How to add a Favicon for your Blog: A Quick & Easy 3 Step Guide- Add a cute favicon for your site.

37. Are you going to buy the Apple iPhone or Not? – 11 things that you need to check before you fall for iPhone.

38. 10 Freshest and Most Useful FireFox extensions to enrich your browsing experience – Become a power user on the web.

39. How to create a Site Map for your Blog – An easy way to create site maps for FREE.

40. Do you have knowledge in something? Earn money with it – Share your expertise and make money: weRlive.com Review

41. Get on top of ranking web services – Alexa Pagerank, Technorati Rank and Google Pagerank for Newbies:Tips to improve your blog’s rank

42. Screenshots from 2004 to 2007 – How Flickr has changed since 2004:Screenshots Timeline

43. A comic, informative video on YourTube success – A brief history of YouTube:3 Minute video

44. What is LZZR linking and will it increase your pagerank? – What LZZR linking will do for you?

45. What it takes to become a Pro Blogger? – The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers:Tips for becoming a Problogger

46. An essential bookmark for people who would like to master Google – Search Google like a Pro:An Ultimate Guide

47. A hilarious picture – Funny:Jaguar S-Type Fully covered with Post-it Notes

48. How can you generate a Complete A-Z list of your Blog Posts?

49. Hilarious Hack: How to print a Microsoft Word Document without a Printer (Picture)

50. How to get into Flickr Explore? (Revised)

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13 Must-See Google Maps Mashups

admin — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:03:00 +0000

“Google is launching a new maps mashup service called Mapplets this week, which has made us all nostalgic for our favorite Google Maps mashups.”Mashable.com has come up with this list that includes sites like,WikiMapia.com – where user can add information on maps TaxiWiz.com – helps to find an estimated taxi fare along a routeFindbyclick.com – a map-based store locatorFastfoodmaps.com – helps to locate fast food restaurants in your neighbourhood (McDonalds, Subway etc).http://npa.rmlabs.net/index.php – lets you to locate the telephone prefix (dial codes) with the help of a mapTo see the full listvisit 13 Must-See Google Maps Mashups – http://mashable.com/2007/07/11/google-maps-mashups-2/

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Do you know how many Web 2.0 startups are based in Australia? Just 5!

admin — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:25:00 +0000

Just 5 web start-ups are based in Australia, if you have to believe the web 2.0 Innovation map.

By taking the whois lookup of the domain register and combining with Google Maps, the founders have mapped the distribution of Web 2.0 companies across the globe.

I wish they would add a prominent link – “Suggest a Web 2.0 company” – so that users can submit their web 2.0 start-ups.

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How to Live Online Digest for June

admin — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:07:00 +0000

June has come to an end. What a month it has been for this blog! I wrote 38 blog posts in this 30 days (at least one post every day). The readership for How to Live Online has gone up by heaps and bounds in the last 30 days. My Google Analytics report says that I had 35,000 unique visits with 70,000 page views (which is not a small achievement). On an average, every visitor visits 2 blog posts (doubled over the last month), the “bounce rate” has come down to 35% (why is this good for me?) and on an average, they spend 2 minutes (Do you know that a visitor stays only for 30 seconds or less in a new site or a blog?) on this blog.

I have learnta few things in the month of June regarding blogging. When you post good content (compelling and really good), and do it frequently – your blog readership will go up – no magic tricks. All it takes is a real, good Stumble or Digg to skyrocket your blog’s traffic within a short time. Happy Blogging, mates!

Making Money

How I took 25 months to earn the first $100 from Google Adsense – The mistakes I made and the lesson I learnt as a Adsense Publisher. Thank God, I made the next $100 in few days.

Build a custom Search Engine and Make some Money with Google Adsense – Customised search engines are the next big thing, jump in and make money early.

Earn a Guranteed income from Paid Reviews: at least $150 a month – Failing with Google Adsense and Affiliates? Come home to paid blogging. I will show how you can make money and maintain a dignity as a blogger.

How much did I earn from working on the Internet: Report – Yes, I have crossed A$1000 this year alone. Here’s my detailed earnings report for you.

Blogging Advice

Schedule and Publish blog posts on a future date – A killer hack for Blogspot users, now you can also turn a professional blogger by writing and posting your blog posts working on weekends.

The visitors of your blog know how to improve your blog: 7 tips to make them speak – 90% of your visitors have an opinion on your blog that you can use it to improve your blog.

Get a custom domain with Blogger for maximum benefits: 10 reasons why it is good for you – Do you know the benefits of a custom domain with Blogger blog. It wont cost much but it’s worth every penny.

A simple hack to add Recent Posts and Recent Comments to a New Blogger Blog – Simple but quick hack to show Recent posts and comments in a New Blogger blog.

Web 2.0, Social Web

How to get more Popular and Famous in Flickr: 9 Killer Tips for Flickr newbies – Do you want to get more comments, more favourites, more friends in Flickr? Follow me.

The Ultimate Collection for Facebook users:Tools, Videos and Scripts – A must have collection for facebook users and newbies.

Let your Global customers find you:Put your Small Business on Google Maps – Easy steps to add your business on Google Maps for FREE.

Ten mistakes most of the web 2.0 starters make: How to correct them – Many of the web companies (start-ups) make these mistakes. Do they learn from them?

Five Newest Social Web Services and Applications – Will they make your life easy?

StumbleUpon is better than Digg for your Blog’s Growth – 8 reasons why StumbleUpon is better for your blog. This blog post is most read blog post in the month of June with more than 30,000 readers and 40 comments.

Do you want to be a Pro Blogger? 23 things you should know about Google Analytics that will help you to build massive traffic for your site

Interesting

Do you know what most people do on the web?: See this picture

5 funny websites to make you laugh

A blogger gives away 77+7 (=84) free, linkbacks for you: Whats your 7-7-7 plan?

Imagine Bush, Borat and God in MySpace: Youtube Videos to make you laugh

History of Web 2.0 – A hilarious cartoon collection.

Useful

How to add a Favicon for your Blog: A Quick & Easy 3 Step Guide- Add a cute favicon for your site.

Are you going to buy the Apple iPhone or Not? – 11 things that you need to check before you fall for iPhone.

10 Freshest and Most Useful FireFox extensions to enrich your browsing experience – Become a power user on the web.

How to create a Site Map for your Blog – An easy way to create site maps for FREE.

See you in July!

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Put your Business on Google Maps for FREE: Just 10 minutes to set up

admin — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:13:00 +0000

Attention, all small business owners, now you can put your business on the world map. Google Local Business Center lets you to add a business listing to the Google Maps and when someone is looking for your business via Google Local search, they can find you.

The benefits of putting your business on the world map is enormous. Let me tell you a short story. Once my friend had to send some flowers from Australia to his lover who was residing at a hotel in USA on a Valentine’s day. But, we had a day left to deliver the flowers and we tried many online sites – every one said it would take at least 2 days. We used Google Local search to find a flower shop which was in the same street in the City and placed a direct online order, paid via credit card. BHOOOM. The flowers were delivered within hours. The world is flat, huh?

How does it work?
Start here to add your business. You can place a location mark by zooming in to the Google map or you can enter your address with Street, City and Zipcode details. Provide at least one phone number (must), specify which category your business is in, your business hours, what type of payment do you accept (from customers) and photos if any.

The final step involves Google verifying your business address by phone, SMS or sending a post card (may take 2 weeks). It is wise to choose the verification method by phone – so, your business will be added in 10 minutes.

Which countries are covered by this scheme?
As of now, only for businesses in Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Spain, the United States and the UK.

Do you need to pay for a listing?
No. This is different from a sponsored listing such as adwords. Here, you add your business on the Google Map for free. When a user searches for your business type with Google Local, your business listing will appear on the map.

If you want to combine your existing sponsored ad listing with this Google Local listing, you can do it too.

[link via Kate, Google Latlong blog]

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