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Google Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Pac-Man with it’s game as doodle!

Posted By: Santhosh | May 21st, 2010

Google has always kept us informed about the day’s special through it’s artistic doodles on the homepage. They always come up with something good looking and interesting. From past few weeks, they are now using interactive doodles instead of good old static images. Last time, when Hubble Space Telescope celebrated it’s 20th anniversary, Google came up with a doodle with night sky which had option to see some information of few stars and galaxies when the mouse pointer hovered on it.

This time, Google is celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Pac-Man with a interactive classic pac-man doodle as it’s logo on the homepage! Head over to Google homepage and take a look!

How to access classic Google Search without any hacks

Posted By: Santhosh | May 10th, 2010

It’s been about a week since Google finally set it’s new beta interface as its new default interface. Although this new facelift comes along with a host of new features like sidebar with options to refine your search and other stuffs, there are few people who still like the classic Google interface rather than the elegant new looks.

So how to access the good old Google Search?

New Google Image search comes for Andriod and iPhone!

Posted By: Santhosh | Apr 29th, 2010

Recently, I tweeted about Bing’s image search result page for mobile phones. If you have ever searched for images on Bing from your mobile device, you might probably have liked it. Because of the way how thumbnails are being arranged in the result page, it makes Bing to stand out from other search engines. Bing uses some technology known as ‘Seadragon’ to achieve that output.

Taking a cue from Bing’s image search, Google has now come up with a shiny new Image search result page for iPhone 3.0 and Andriod 2.1 devices. Google’s new image search result page not only arrange thumbnails in perfect rows and columns, but also responds to your touch inputs like swiping to see next image and taping the screen to see next result page.

Geotargetting your website to a particular country in Google.

Posted By: Santhosh | Jul 14th, 2009

Google lets you to target the search results of your website to a particular country with the aid of it’s Webmaster Tools and This is known as “Geotargetting”. Which means, making your website to blip on the search results based on the Geographic location of your choice. This feature is helpful if your website is related to a information, service or a product which is related only to a certain country. Doing this will drag users to your website and will increase your number of visitors from that country.

This feature is only for a fully qualified top-level domain such as .com .org and .net etc. If your domain is already top-level country specific domain, like .in .jp and .fr etc, you don’t have to use this feature.

List of Google accounts on Twitter.

Posted By: Santhosh | Jul 12th, 2009

Ever since Twitter became popular, many people are dragged into the blackhole of twitter and got addicted. Till date, millions of users are registered on twitter and twitter never sleeps. Even high profile people like celebrities, politicians and sports persons have joined twitter.

Twitter not just keeps friends in touch and share updates with each other but also help build businesses and promote products, business tycoons have also entered the world of twitter and one of the company which changed the web is also present on this crowd.

Google has hundreds of services and is being actively involved in development user experience on the web. So, to get one step closer to people, google has joined twitter this year (2009) and is updating it’s followers about various aspects about the company and their services. Recently google has released a list of official google accounts on twitter and here they are:

Find and Replace feature comes to Documents in Google Docs.

Posted By: Santhosh | Mar 29th, 2009

Now you can Find and Replace text in Document files in Google Docs. This feature enables you find a text somewhere in the middle of the post and helps you to replace it with a new word or to fix a spelling mistake etc.

You can trigger this feature by pressing Ctrl + F on your keyboard and a toolbar appears just below the Standard Toolbar. This is how it looks:
find and replace

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