Posted by sharath on September 2, 2010 ·
Have you noticed those small colorful icons on the top of the browser page, when ever you visit a popular website? Yeah, those are called as favicons. These are small icons which can be used on every websites (to signify the website).
These images are available at google.com/images/icons/product/blogger-128.png
[Replace blogger with other google products & you can also tweak the size such as [...]
Posted by sharath on August 29, 2010 ·
After Google launched its new real-time search, one thing the interface missed was the style. The real-time results from twitter & Facebook were in the middle of the search results and looked ugly. Now the Google team has come up with a new-nicer look for the real-time searches.
You can hit – http://www.google.com/realtime/ to start searching in real-time. This new interface is almost the [...]
Posted by sharath on August 17, 2010 ·
Like any big company, Google has not only had success with its various services BUT also failures. Here is an Infograph made by wordstream about TOP Google Failures.
Posted by sharath on August 11, 2010 ·
We all love Google and we also know that Google doesn’t like people who sell links and penalizes the sites which do. So I’ve figured out way of selling links and still NOT be penalized by Google .
Of course, as Jeremy Sussman, Google’s Product Manager replies to a question saying:
“I can assure you that the last thing we (Google) want is for the business who hires the best SEO to win a better [...]
Posted by sharath on July 30, 2010 ·
YouTube has announced a new version of embedding code for Youtube videos . The new code will use an iframe that lets you watch both embedded videos in Flash and in HTML5, according to the users’ browser settings.
The default is to show HTML5 , and it automatically switches to Flash if HTML5 is not available.
According to YouTube, “another benefit of the new code is that in the future [...]
Posted by sharath on July 13, 2010 ·
One of the questions that I had been asking is ‘why Google does not have a cloud-based program to edit and modify videos on YouTube’. And now, YouTube Now (finally) has a new simple, video editor online.
With the editor you can easily create new videos with pieces from your videos you’ve uploaded on the youtube channels. You drag the desired video programs in the timeline and for [...]
Posted by sharath on June 23, 2010 ·
Google has launched a new website dedicated to the development of HTML5, called HTML5Rocks.com , which bring together all the resources, themes, developing APIs and functionality for anyone interested in this language.
The site HTML5Rocks.com also contains: | Presentation | Playground | Tutorials | Resources | about HTML5
The website is divided into four main parts:
* Interactive presentation on [...]
Posted by sharath on June 21, 2010 ·
Everyone has a Google Account, but just in case, if you do not have a Google account, the company has just launched a new site for anyone who wants to try Google Docs can do so without having an account. The exact address would docs.google.com/demo.
From this new move Google aims to capture as many users as possible and compete more strongly with Microsoft Office.
On opening the demo site, we would [...]
Posted by sharath on June 13, 2010 ·
I’ve always had this question in my mind. Which search engine do people use if Google fails?. According to the latest study of Chitika , Google users do not find what you seek try again first on Yahoo and Ask.com and then Bing.
The following graph, we can see the percentages of search engines that Google users use when they find something wrong with the Google Search:
The study took 40,000 [...]
Posted by sharath on June 2, 2010 ·
The latest study by Chitika, the first search result on Google receives twice the clicks than the second result and three times the third.
According to data gathered in searches of Google, the first results received for 35% of clicks, the second gets 17% and third 12%. But above all that the biggest leap of visits to appear on the first page of results. The pages at # 10, the end of the first [...]