New Google is better, dont beg for the old one.

Posted on May 9, 2010 by Jasbir

Change is constant, and change is the only thing that makes people from around the globe, to be connected via the world wide web and keep them glued to their screens. Google , last week upgraded its view from a classical one to modern.

And, as we all know, the most common homepage is Google’s, so any change to that, will catch attention.The new rolled out model, has three columns, if you search for any option, you get a result page, which is what I think similar to Bing.

There is a middle column consisting of the results, there is a right column consisting of the ads, and the left column for the advanced search options. The newer interface allows us to get multiple results at once, without going for the advanced options in the top left options row in the classical model. Simply put, the new Google layout is good, user friendly.

In the Google forum, there are ,variety of people complaining of the design and want the old one back in. But Google is not going to listen to them, The google spokesman Nate Tyler confirmed by stating : “We’re not offering a way to revert back to the old design.” That is expected, Google has had changes in the past, and there come a bunch of people who hate the change in the first place and then going on to be liking it. People can use the search preferences page to control number of results shown, popping-open search listings in their own windows, enabling subscribed links and other options. For people who desperately want the old design back, they can bookmark this site.

The move to a permanently three-column design sees Google following in the footsteps of Ask.com, which pioneered the look back in 2007. Bing and Yahoo followed the three pane trend in 2009, and now it has effectively been given the stamp of approval by search giant Google itself.

Yahoo! calls Google’s homepage “A Button and a Box”

Posted on May 7, 2010 by Monik

Last thing you would have ever pondered would be Yahoo! taking over the web and becoming homepage to everyone. Google’s phenomenal success scares a lot of tech companies, Yahoo! esp. as it’s business’s are continuing to be shot down one by one. Yahoo! search has shrunk rapidly and simultaneously Google has grown to take a large part of the Search cake.

Both the companies have different philosophies. Big “G” believes in simplicity and it’s homepage is a mark of it, while at Yahoo! they want the homepage to be your eternal lookout for everything, yes Twitter, Facebook, Search, News, Entertainment, Everything. Yahoo! constantly stresses that Google needs to “diversify” if it wants to retain it’s market, and that’s what Yahoo is doing with multiple partnerships with leading social networks, portals and lot more.

Here’s a piece of Yahoo’s 85 Million Dollar marketing campaign, the commercial is straight from Yahoo!’s heart. BTW i kinda like the tune they’ve used! Video down after.

Google slapped : Bing to replace search on iPhone [Rumor]

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Monik

Apple Vs. Google war couldn’t have got more bigger. This time Apple is planning to remove google search from it’s browser Safari and guess who would be taking it’s place? Bing!

Apple was planning to replace Google Maps and advertising marketplace with their own products and this time they aim to chuck out search also.

Apple is supposed to be in talks with Microsoft to kick off Google as default search provider and let Bing take it on according to Business Week. This fight is just getting better and better. Apple won’t loose out much if this happens, but possibly Google could loose quite a few million users, yes thats it.

Via Engadget.

What keywords and websites are censored in China?

Posted on January 16, 2010 by Monik

Censorship in China took a new turn with Google un-censoring all the search results. But first tell me which websites and keywords are blocked/censored in China?

Here’s a nice infographic by InformationIsBeautiful which was modified by Guardian which shows up websites and keywords which are censored in China. Image after break, and click to enlarge it!

Google Vs. China : The war has begun

Posted on January 16, 2010 by Monik

Google Vs. China. It was bound to happen and it did now. I mean it was happening in the form of cold war but now, everything is public.

Few activist’s from China were hacked by Chinese authorities (mostly) and that the services used by these activists were from Google and Yahoo! prominently. I think Google was planning some sort of answer to chinese authorities and this gave Google an amazing opportunity to speak away.

Google.com was blocked in China years down the line, but later became accessible after 2006 with the launch of Google.cn when Google was asked to censor results because China did not want chinese people to be affected by the “Western Culture”.

Western Culture meant a lot, and Google had to censored so many results in accordance with China. I mean Google had to do it to get into the market of the country which has the largest internet user base of 380+ Million users.

Now the struggle broke out after accounts being hacked and Google has said that they will no longer obey Chinese authorities rules and censor results as they believe in free information for everyone and also they decide to go by their mantra, “Do no evil”.

This could be start of a bigger rebellion later on, but for now Google has threatened Chinese authorities to leave China. Google currently has less then 1000 employees who currently are on holidays.

One of the most important step Google had taken quite early was not storing user data physically in China because if it was so, they would have to submit to the will of China just like what Yahoo! had done leading to imprisonment of chinese activist and reporter.

Google went uncensored after the announcement on it’s blog and thats when the web went on fire. Frankly speaking even if chinese governments let go of Google, it won’t be a big loss to china as Google only has 37% of the search market share while Baidu, has about 58% so bad luck Google.

Well, for other services then search like mail and Android too could be a major loss to China.

Google also won’t have a major loss as the profits they were making in China were not high owing to low market share. This whole act brings up the matter, wasn’t internet supposed to be free access to information and free meaning freedom provided to user? Share your thoughts in the comments.

Image Credit :MyJoyOnline

Google’s traffic goes up 31 percent thanks to Iranian Cyber Army [hackers]

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Monik

Iranian Cyber Army, the most popular hackers these days who had managed to hack into Twitter and change the homepage to something what people did not want.

Something similar did happen to China’s biggest search Engine, Baidu. Recently, the search engine’s homepage had that nasty picture, somewhat which was on Twitter too saying that the website was hacked because of Iranian Cyber Army.

The reason for Twitter being hacked was because of the Iran Politics buzz on twitter. Why was baidu hacked? No idea say chinese security experts.

The DNS records had been played with. At first they had been changed to Yahoo, then to some other nameservers, and this battle went on for 3 hours till the Baidu engineers finally managed to get complete control.

The worst outcome of this whole hacking event was that Google China’s traffic had increased by nearly 31% because of millions of users dropping baidu for the time being and using Google china! What next could be hacked? Possibly facebook?

Search thousands of royalty free images with one click!

Posted on December 16, 2009 by Srivathsan

Certain search engines are specialised in video or music search, some are good with information text. If you need to search images, we usually go for google image search or flickr or some image search engines. Have you ever thought of searching on eight major search engines at one go ? Yes, you can do with Cyclops.

Tired of searching stock photos on websites ? Desperately searching for the perfect image ? Here comes the beautiful baby Cyclops. Cyclops is a Monster search engine for royalty stock images. It brings the results of the most popular stock sites to one location. Search once. See it all.

Just like an ordinary search engine, you have to enter the keyword for finding the stock photos and it gives search results from websites such as Flickr, Shutterstock, BigStockPhoto, Fotolia, stock.xchng, Cutcaster, Photos.com, stockvault.

Cyclops – Homepage

Cyclops is worth a try if you are searching for fresh royalty stock photos.

Try out yourself and leave your comments =)

Self Improving Search from Google : Now for everyone

Posted on December 6, 2009 by Monik

Google self improves it’s search results using it’s Personalized Feature. It tracks your Google Searches and what links you click and according to that it shows results that match the results you clicked.

Till now the feature was available to only those users who had enabled web history and we signed in to their Google account. Now, it will track your searches for 180 days and refine your results according to the searches without the need of being signed in.

This could be another major improvement in Google Search which drastically improves search performance. It track web history via a Anonymous browser cookie.

Try the New (Redesigned) Google now with this browser hack!

Posted on November 27, 2009 by Monik

For all those who are sick of hearing about new google, here’s a super easy hack to get the new Google Working on your computer right away.

I tried it on FireFox, though this hack did not work with Safari. This look reminds me of Google Wave. Not sure why, perhaps the buttons? No idea!

Why Should you get it? Well,if You think Google only works on it’s logo for the design, you must check this out.

New Google

Search Results

Go To Google.com and not to any regional website.
Type in the Following Code in your URL Bar in your Browser
javascript:void(document.cookie=”PREF=ID=20b6e4c2f44943bb:U=4bf292d46faad806:TM=1249677602:LM=1257919388:S=odm0Ys-53ZueXfZG;path=/; domain=.google.com”);
Thats it! Refresh the Page and Enjoy!

In the mean time, check it out and let us know what you think in the comments!

Etiole

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