In an effort to make their Search function think more like a human, Google has announced changes, by the introduction of Knowledge Graph that will streamline the search results by categories and from which the user can pick the category related to his search.

Jack Menzel, director of product management at Google, explains the need for this change in approach in saying, “The web pages we [currently] return for the search ‘kings’, they’re all good. You, as a human, associate those words with their real-world meaning but, for a computer, they’re just a random string of characters.”

The search term, ‘kings’, that the user is looking could really be anything right from who monarchs were, to the Sacramento basketball team, the TV show or even the L.A hockey team as well. With this change, the information pertaining to each of these topics that are related to the search term ‘kings’ will be placed in separate boxes.

The user will have to choose the box [category] and find the information that he or she may be looking for. Of course, this makes the user’s task of finding information easier and faster.

This is being done by the use of Knowledge Graph, which has about 3.5 billion facts and the connections between them at its disposal while also containing information that amount to about 500 million objects.

The release of this new search feature by Google will revamp the way people search for information in terms of relevancy, and will be available to American users first and in English after which it will tablet, mobile and desktop searches as well as available to people from other countries in other languages.

The Facebook IPO set a stock record with more than 460 million shares traded. Obviously this will changes the lives of many who will become billionaires or millionaires with the social media site going public.

But how will affect those who use Facebook, and didn’t necessarily show any interest much less participate in the company going public?

Here are 3 ways by which the IPO will change things for Facebook users:

#1: More Ads

Facebook generates revenue by advertisements. With the company going public, there will definitely be an increase in the number of these ads as investors will put pressure on its management to meet quarterly targets. Of course, to add to this, it’s also expected that considering the IPO valuation that just took place, there will pressure to increase its revenue and net income substantially.

#2: Less User Privacy

Yet again, it all comes back to ad revenue. Google, for example, uses searches to provide users with paid ads that might sell the very product or service that the person is looking for. This happens in real-time too, and is the reason why the company makes about $ 9.52 per user in a month as opposed to $ 1.32 for Facebook. All this might change, as with the increased pressure to generate more revenue, Facebook will have to mine user data that has been largely unexplored until now with a result of less user privacy.

#3: Facebook generated content

Until now, Facebook runs on user-generated content but it is possible that they can generate content of their own and compete with the likes of Groupon, Craigslist and Yelp. The potential is unlimited considering the data that has been largely untouched until now amounting to almost 900 million Facebook pages.

Companies in the construction, service, delivery, and transport fields swear by the importance of installing a vehicle tracking system in all of their transportation properties, for the reason that it enables the managers to keep a close eye on the transport operations. Currently, the most reliable method of tracking system for vehicles is the GPS tracking system. The fact that it is wireless and can be operated using either mobile or satellite signal makes it more accessible to people as compared to other forms of tracking systems, like the lojack which is largely restricted to police use. With GPS installed vehicles, company owners can then monitor the movement of their properties, and in effect reduce unnecessary overhead costs connected with excess fuel consumption, billing errors, maintenance, overtime expenses and unauthorized use of their vehicles. Insurance companies also offer discounted premiums for vehicles equipped with real-time GPS devices, because it makes recovery of lost or stolen property much more immediate.

Tracking systems can be used not only to monitor a vehicle’s location, but also to develop strategic routes and schedules which can then be input to the device. GPS tracking system is designed to be manageable and user-friendly for average consumers. You don’t have to be an expert at electronics or computers to operate the system. And if you’re looking to make GPS tracking even more efficient, there are packages that integrate this device with ProMiles, which will automatically track and calculate data from every trip, which means you can automate tax calculations, compile and organize reports, and in turn experience a reduced paperwork load.

There are huge dividends to installing tracking systems on your vehicles; whether for commercial and business use or for private transport, tracking devices are too much of a good thing to overlook.

If you operate a business where you need to keep an eye on transportation vehicles, such as an armored car business or a truck driving agency, then it might be time to get interested in gps tracking, so that you can make sure that your shipment is arriving at the correct destination, in a timely manner, and that your employees are not making an unscheduled stops that you are not aware of.  When you are operating a business that transports valuable items from one destination to another, you need to make sure that you know where your truck and crew are at all times, and that doesn’t mean riding with them, because you can’t ride in more than one truck at one time, but instead that means having a systems that allows you to cover yourself from theft and other problems – a system like lojack.  If you are operating a business where you are trying to keep track of a fleet of vehicles, whether it is a transportation agency or a shipping line, then you need to make sure that you are responsible for all vehicles that are in your company, which means that fleet management should play a fairly important role in everything that you do regard company regulation.  Managing a fleet of several hundred or several thousand vehicles may be impossible for one person to do by hand, but if you have several computers that do the job for you, then you never have to worry about anything!