By default Google redirects all search request and direct Google.com access to your local (country-specific) Google homepage; for my case, it is Google Malaysia (Google.com.my).

Google Web Search is customized for a number of countries and regions across the world. For example, Google.fr provides search results that are most relevant for users in France; Google.co.jp is the Google domain for Japan. We try to direct users to the site that will give them the most relevant results.

Sometimes you don’t want this. The reason is because your search will be more relevant if using Google.com rather than your local Google search.
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I have been waiting for this feature (I bet you guys do as well!) to be made official since Gmail was born and finally Gmail now supports inline images — officially!

Previously, there are a few tweaks to put inline images in your Gmail’s email but you no longer need that now. Gmail’s got a new option in its labs section that lets users insert images directly into their e-mails, and not just as attachments.

How to activate? Easy pie! Just turn on “Inserting images” from the Labs tab under Settings, and you’ll see a new toolbar icon beside the emoticon’s icon. Continue Reading →

Google has been running on its own servers at its own data center for some time now. So, have you ever wonder how Google’s servers and data center look like?

For the first time at Google Data Center Energy Summit, Google provided a look inside its data center operations and revealed its custom web server to the public.

Google Data Center

Google uses shipping containers to store its servers and storage. Each of these 40-foot data center containers can house up to 1,160 servers and a power consumption that can reach 250 kilowatts.

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This…

I’ve blog about similar stuff couple of months ago. They (Google dudes) did it again, now with Google homepage! Check it out.

Note: This is pure javascript, meant to test out Google Chrome and have some fun but works well on other browsers too : )

Want more? Go to http://www.chromeexperiments.com/

If you are running Google Adsense on your website/blog you might have came across articles/posts/ebooks related to Adsense on how to increase CTR and earnings. You MUST have seen (especially in ebooks) screenshots of Adsense earnings hitting the three, four or five figure mark a day.

Those so called “Adsense gurus” will teach you a fool-proof blueprint method that you can follow easily (just like them) and hit the five figure mark DAILY. And those ebooks are written is a very convincing manner that makes you believe those figures are 101% REAL. But the fact is, you might have been duped!

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This is a very easy trick to determine who appears “invisible” from those who are really offline in Google Talk. It is not like in MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger where it is impossible (as far as I know) to differentiate from those appearing offline and real offline.

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YouTube Upload Enhanced!

If you are a frequent YouTube user, you might have noticed the current default Youtube video upload page has been set to the new YouTube uploader (still in beta version). You can switch back to the old uploader if you want.

This new uploader has been in private beta for sometime and now it is open to public.

[The old Youtube Uploader]

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The much anticipated Google very own browser, Google Chrome is now open for download.

Some of the features are:

• 2 in 1 address bar (address bar + search bar)
• Top sites thumbnail
• Application shortcuts

For a full list of features, check out Google Chrome features page.

Go to Google Chrome download page now!

Let me get the figure right.

1 trillion = 1,000 billion = 1,000,000 million

OK, you get the number right. So, here is the story…

According to Google Official Blog, Google has hit the one trillion mark of unique indexed URLs.

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