Google Holiday Logo with Indian Dances
This year, Google kicked off it’s holiday logo series with an Indian Dances theme. It’s yet another interactive logo. Google has been getting more and more creative with non-image based logos, offering its millions of daily visitors something fun to play with. Here is a video of what the logo looks like, thanks to Barry.
Google Buys Part of New York City
In Google’s most recent spending frenzy, they have outright purchased a building in New York City. Today, we’re pleased to announce that we’ve closed a deal with the partnership of Taconic Investment Partners, Jamestown Properties and the New York State Common Retirement Fund to purchase 111 Eighth Avenue (also known as 76 Ninth Avenue). As [...]
Does Google Use Social Networking Sites for Ranking?
The short answer, yes, it does — now. It didn’t earlier in the year, but today’s world, it certainly does. Here’s a short 3 minute clip from Matt Cutts explaining it.
How to Unsubscribe from Mailing Lists in Gmail
Gmail added this feature quite a while ago, but I wanted to highlight how awesome it is. If you’ve ever subscribed to a mailing list, you may run into an issue where you can’t remember your password for that mailing list. And where it won’t let you unsubscribe, unless you have the password. Or maybe [...]
The New Google Chrome Webstore
The Google Chrome team has officially launched the Google Chrome Webstore. Head on over and take a look! http://chrome.google.com/webstore And then here is what it looks like inside the actual browser.
Google Timeline Search Malfunctioning
It seems that the Timeline filter you can apply, doesn’t really sort the way it should. You would expect that it would show you the same results you saw when you did a normal search. For this particular query, mozilla site:techcrunch.com, there are 1800+ results in normal search. When you add the Timeline filter, it [...]
Google Celebrates Rosa Parks
Google is celebrating the 55th anniversary of Rosa Parks “not moving.” You can read the full Rosa Parks story here.
Best of Bieber [Videos]
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Checkin’ out the top 5 videos of Justin Bieber, from top to bottom. 1. Justin Bieber – Baby ft. Ludacris ~400M views 2. Justin Bieber – One Time ~200M views 3. Justin Bieber – Never Say Never ft. Jaden Smith ~115M views 4. Justin Bieber – Never Let You Go ~100M views 5. Justin Bieber [...]
Google Thanksgiving 2010
Today, Google is celebrating with a special holiday logo. But instead of sending users directly to a search query, Google is sending you to a landing page. Could this be the start of a content-driven trend by Google? A landing page with a recipe by Ina Garten.
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Google Chrome Webpage Auto-Translation
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How Google Search Works
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