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Columnist Pratik Dholakiya explores current search trends and speculates on where the industry might be headed in 2018 We’re already over a week into 2018, and the start of a new year is a great time to check in and see where we stand as an industry — and how things might change this year. Prepare for fake news algorithm updates Back in 2010, Google was getting beaten up in the media for the increasing amount of “content farm” clutter in the search results. That negative press was so overwhelming that Google felt it had no choice but to  respond : [We] hear the feedback from the web loud and clear: people are asking for even stronger action on content farms and sites that consist primarily of spammy or low-quality content. Soon after that, in February 2011, the  Google Panda update  was released, which specifically targeted spammy and low-quality content. Why do I bring this up today? Because the media has been  hammering Google for promoting fa...

The workmen want to be absorbed into the rolls of LIC so that they get the benefits offered to permanent staff More than 750 temporary workers of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) seeking permanent employee status participated in a protest rally at Mumbai's Azad Maidan. The rally was organised under the aegis of the All India National Life Insurance Employees Federation, the national and registered Union of the regular and temporary workmen of LIC. The matter dates back to 1991 when the Federation had filed a petition in the Labor Court seeking the absorption of 8,000 temporary workmen as permanent employees in LIC. Though the Labor Court ruled in favour of the Federation and ordered LIC to accord the status of permanent employees to the workmen, the order was not executed. The Federation then approached the Supreme Court in 2007 for seeking justice for the workmen and the Supreme Court passed an order in 2015 to absorb all workmen in LIC services and stated that ...

To put this into perspective, aircraft worth approximately $3.6 billion are lying idle in the hangars, the ICPA alleged. Debt-laden  Air India  has grounded as many as 19 aircraft, including nine Airbus A321, due to lack of spares, resulting in a significant loss of revenue to the carrier besides flight cancellations, one of its pilots' body has alleged. Besides, there are also aircraft fleet swaps which result in last minute change of inventory, the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) said in a letter to Air India chairman and managing director Pradeep Singh Kharola today. "Almost 23 percent of the Air India fleet is grounded for lack of spares. To put this into perspective, aircraft worth approximately $3.6 billion or approximately Rs 25,000 crore (at today's price) are lying idle in the hangars," the ICPA alleged. While as many as eight Airbus A321 aircraft, of the total 20 such planes operated by Air India, are out of operations at...

7th Pay Commission 7th Pay Commission Latest News:  The 50 lakh Central Government employees and an equivalent retirees can get a good news regarding a hike in  minimum pay and fitment factor  beyond the  7th Pay Commission  recommendations in next three days. The reports of the same are doing rounds since many days. The announcement about the hike in  fitment factor and minimum pay  beyond  7th CPC or 7th Central Pay Commission recommendations is likely to be made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on  August 15 during the Independence Day  speech. With the announcement, the minimum pay of Central Government employees will increase by Rs 8,000 and the  fitment factor will be increased by up to 3.68 times . The salary of the Central Government employees, after the announcement, will reach up to Rs 26,000. (7th Pay Commission Latest News) Meanwhile, the All India Station Masters’ Association (AISMA) called a 24-hour ...