Google Traffic Based Sitemaps Generator

The Google Webmaster Central blog announced the release of a new Google Sitemaps generator available at http://code.google.com/p/googlesitemapgenerator/

Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about the web pages on their sites available for crawling. By submitting Sitemaps to SEs, you are advanced to get better indexing, crawling and coverage in search engines. Google Sitemap Generator is a tool installed on your web server to generate the Sitemaps automatically. Sitemap Generator takes a different approach: it will monitor your web server traffic, and detect updates to your website automatically.

Get more information on http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-google-sitemap-generator-for-your.html

Google Happy Holidays Doodles 2008

Google has jump-started the holidays celebration for this year 2008 with the following doodles on the Google.com homepage -

Day 1

Day 2

Check more at – Google Happy Holidays 2008
or go directly to – http://www.google.com/doodle15.html

Google SMS Search India

Google India has launched a newer version of its SMS Search service that allows users to SMS their query to 9-77-33-00000 at the cost of a regular SMS and get instant answers. You don’t need to pay a premium charge for any of this.

According to the giant search giant Google Inc., this new SMS Search service is available across all operators on both GSM and CDMA mobile phones across India; even to those who have mobile phones but do not have Internet connections.

A mobile users can SMS query to 9-77-33-00000 and get automated answers on many topics like cricket scores, Indian Railways, stock quotes, local business search, movie showtimes, currency conversion, flight status, weather, horoscope, taxi service and ATM. Incoming messages from Google are not charged.

Read more at Google SMS Search – Newer Version

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Colors and Themes in Gmail

Google innovative mail, Gmail has just been reloaded with more colors and wonderful themes now.

Google Themes

These themes allows you to customize the look and feel of your Gmail account. To choose a theme, you just need to click on theme thumbnail on the Themes tab of your Settings page. You can also asked to fill your location (city) after choosing a theme as some themes changes during the day (changes with your local sunrise, sunset, and/or weather).

So, it’s no more to tired out of the blue on white simple Gmail way. You can customize your Gmail anytime by choosing any theme; just need to go to Settings > Themes.

Read more at Wonderful Themes by Gmail

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Search Engines Election Day 2008 Logos

Search Engines Election Day 2008 Logos

Google Election 2008 Logo

StumbleUpon Election 2008 Logo

Yahoo Election 2008 Logo

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Google can read text from images

Google has recently announced in their official blog that they are now using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to index and show an HTML version of a scanned PDF document.

In the past, Google only showed an HTML version of PDF’s created with text enabled formatting. But from now, if a document is scanned as an image, Google can also read it and create an HTML version for it (click “View As HTML” in the search results).

Click here to read more – Google can read text from images

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