Google announced a new onslaught of lawsuit targeting Google Image Host and of course the domain name googleimagehost.com. The reason behind this is that domain name contains Google’s trademarked terms and it didn’t follows the Guidelines for Third Party Use of Google Brand Features.

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This online tool checks and calculates an estimation of a given domain name.

dnScoop.com provides this service – dnScoop Domain Check and Value Estimation Tool.

dnScoop.com attempts to estimate a value for an established website or a domain name by using factors such as:

• Links pointing to the domain
• Popularity of the domain
• Age of the domain
• Pagerank of the domain
• Traffic to the domain
• and more…

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With Google Gmail Loader (GML), you can easily stuff your old mail that stuck inside your mail client to your spacious Gmail account.

More info: http://marklyon.org/gmail/default.htm
Download: http://marklyon.org/gmail/download.htm

Dress up your Google homepage with one of six colorful new themes.

The themes add a cartoonish backdrop to the top of the page and tweak text and border colors to match. What’s more, they’re dynamic, meaning they change depending on the time of day. Alas, the background below the header remains as stark and white as ever, and you can’t make custom changes to any of the themes.

Even so, it’s good to see Google finally giving the homepage a little window dressing. On top of that you can add several things like the weather, Time & Date, news, etc….

Go here: http://www.google.com/ig

[Note: You must have a Gmail/Google account first]

masterplanthemovie.com – Master Plan About The Power of Google was directed and produced by Ozan Halici & Jürgen Mayer. Their Bachelors’s Thesis at the University of Applied Sciences Ulm, Germany and was inspired by “What Barry Says” by Simon Robson and “The Google Story” by David A. Wise.

Have a go!

Yeah, with Google nothing is impossible! Just follow these 10 steps below:

1. Go to http://print.google.com or http://books.google.com/
2. Enter the title of the book that you prefer.
3. Now, you should see the title of the book listed (if else, the book is not in Google Library database), click on it.
4. Go to the “Contents” page and see if the book has what you are looking for.
5. Note the page number of the book that interests you.
6. There is an option “Search in this book”. Just enter the page number (say 123) of the book and hit OK. (You need a Google Account – Sign up)
7. There should be several links listed. Click the one that shows “Page 123″.
8. You can read 3 pages before and 3 pages after your specified page. Now enter the page number that you want to read (in the similar way)
9. Using this method, you can read all the books that are in Google Library.
10. Nothing much, just ENJOY!

A note of reminder: Some pages are restricted though, this method is not 100% works.

Now you can have a “personal” Google search engine! Oh ya, not the one that you personalized Google.com search, but the one with your name instead of Google.

See?? Pretty cool isn’t it??

You can DIY too, go here: www.googlealive.com

Enjoy your own search engine!!

I found this super interesting, yeah…everything regarding Google will pull my attention. Just read on!

The prime reason the Google home page is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. Infact it was noted that the submit button was a long time coming and hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.

Due to the sparseness of the homepage, in early user tests they noted people just sitting looking at the screen. After a minute of nothingness, the tester intervened and asked ‘Whats up?’ to which they replied “We are waiting for the rest of it”. To solve that particular problem the Google Copyright message was inserted to act as a crude end of page marker.

One of the biggest leap in search usage came about when they introduced their much improved spell checker giving birth to the “Did you mean…” feature. This instantly doubled their traffic, but they had some interesting discussions on how best to place that information, as most people simply tuned that out. But they discovered the placement at the bottom of the results was the most effective area.

The infamous “I feel lucky” is nearly never used. However, in trials it was found that removing it would somehow reduce the Google experience. Users wanted it kept. It was a comfort button.

Orkut is very popular in Brazil. Orkut was the brainchild of a very intelligent Google engineer who was pretty much given free reign to run with it, without having to go through the normal Google UI procedures, hence the reason it doesn’t look or feel like a Google application. They are looking at improving Orkut to cope with the loads it places on the system.

Google makes changes small-and-often. They will sometimes trial a particular feature with a set of users from a given network subnet; for example Excite@Home users often get to see new features. They aren’t told of this, just presented with the new UI and observed how they use it.

Google has the largest network of translators in the world

They use the 20% / 5% rules. If at least 20% of people use a feature, then it will be included. At least 5% of people need to use a particular search preference before it will make it into the ‘Advanced Preferences’.

They have found in user testing, that a small number of people are very typical of the larger user base. They run labs continually and always monitoring how people use a page of results.

The name ‘Google’ was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for ‘Googol’

Gmail was used internally for nearly 2years prior to launch to the public. They discovered there was approximately 6 types of email users, and Gmail has been designed to accommodate these 6.

They listen to feedback actively. Emailing Google isn’t emailing a blackhole.

Employees are encouraged to use 20% of their time working on their own projects. Google News, Orkut are both examples of projects that grew from this working model.

This wasn’t a technical talk so no information regarding any infrastructure was presented however they did note that they have a mantra of aiming to give back each page with in 500ms, rendered.

Source: Email

This is a little tutorial to show you how to use Google Translate to access blocked websites or restricted pages due to a proxy block (by your office, school, university, etc.)

We all know that Google is more than a search engine; we do use it as provider for email, mapping, news and many other services. But do you know, indirectly, Google is also a free proxy service.

Proxy is a device that stands between a PC and the internet, providing all the connections to the world wide web. What a proxy does is to receive all data from a requested site, so when you access web pages all data come from proxy.

What’s the purpose for Google as a proxy? We often use office/school/university connections, usually those services are set to provide more safety, blocking the access to undesidered web sites (the “black list”). What you can do now is use Google translator service (language tools) as a proxy to bypass the restrictions set for our connection!

You just need to type the following URL in the address bar:

http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.restricted.com

Note: www.restricted.com refers to the URL that you want to browse.

What you’ll get is the translation (English to English – that’s the content) of the page you want to see, your connection is directed to a Google.com page so this page won’t be blocked (would be blocked only with Google.com on the black list), no matter what’s the content.

Source: http://www.manuali.net/ | http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/h/4807

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Wireless technology is rapidly growing, and playing very important role in changing life style. Through the use of wireless network, information can be sent within seconds even at distanced places. While wireless security has increased the security level by decreasing the risk factors. In fact a large number of people are relying on it. Another major invention of the wireless technology is wireless camera that enables you to watch at places where the wire can not be through.

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