iGoogle Artist Themes

Now you can personalized your Google page, iGoogle with themes created by the world’s top artists, designers, and musicians.

And, we can see this message on the Google.com homepage itself suggesting to make your iGoogle more colorful with the Artistic themes. If we click on the link, we can get a web page to choose our favorite theme from the theme collection inlcuding Tommy Hilifiger, Betsey Johnson, Havaianas, Sara Bareilles, Celion Dion, Paul Frank, Gucci, and many more.

Cheers!

Google LHC Logo

Today, Google place a different logo for their homepage having Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment theme.

We can easily see the excitement about this LHC experiment on any face who have interest in science and scientific things specially in physics as this would be the future of physics.

Scientists at the CERN research centre in Switzerland are aiming to use this wonder machine to gain a better understanding of the birth and structure of the universe, and to fill gaps in our knowledge of physics.

Well, it’s a big topic to discuss…I am not that much intelligent…however a well known Prof Stephen Hawking said that “Whatever the LHC finds or fails to find, the results will tell us a lot about the structure of the universe.”

Cheers!

A new Search Engine Cuil

Do you know Cuil?

Cuil (pronounced as COOL) is the Search engine launched by some Ex-Googlers and it’s really cool too. Cuil’s search results are also really relevant. It has the biggest index on the internet. It (www.Cuil.com) has indexed 120 billion web pages, three times more than any other search engine.

And after this announcement, Google asserted on its blog Friday that “the web is big” and Google system hits a milestone which is 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!

This would be an interesting topic for a long time now. I am sure! Google will win but who knows about the future! Best of luck to Cuil and Google too.

Cheers!

PageRank Toolbar Update is near

PR update is going on and can be visible in next few days.

This is what the Google guy, Matt Cutts stated in his blog on 24th July, 2008 -
“Hey folks, I wanted to let you know that new toolbar PageRank values should become visible over the next few days. I’m expecting that also in the next few days that we’ll be expiring some older penalties on websites.“

So, be ready to check your new updated PageRank for your websites / blogs and web directories.

My best wishes to all.
Cheers!

Technologies behind Google ranking

Amit Singhal, a Google Fellow in-charge of Google ranking team have made a new post now in Official Google blog about the technologies behind Google rankings. This is addition to the previous post which was the Introduction to Google rankings. There, he shared the philosophies behind Google ranking in the brief:

1) Best locally relevant results served globally. – they often this the “no query left behind” principle.
2) Keep it simple – this simple understandable system has allowed them innovate quickly, and it shows.
3) No manual intervention – answer to “Does Google manually edit its results?”.

Well, the above points are the philosophies of Google rankings. But now, it’s all about the technologies behind the rankings for any website in Google results. Basically, the technologies for understanding the three components (of the search process) including the pages, the queries, and the Google users. He has explained these three components with some good examples.

URL to read about behind Google rankings – http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/technologies-behind-google-ranking.html

Cheers!

Google just released a 3D world, Lively

Now, get ready to experience the 3D world – Lively, where you can chat with your friends and others; and can also design your own chat rooms.

Download link – http://www.lively.com/html/landing.html; it requires Windows XP / Vista with the browser compatibility of IE or Firefox.

So, let’s enjoy this feel also