When do I wish you..

Google celebrated its 11th B'Day yesterday with the two 'Ls'.. L's were supposed to represent 1 and thus 11.

But the best part is, last year google turned 10 on September 2nd as mentioned in this news article. So my guess, Google was reborn this year on a new date as an 11 year old. Happy Belated Birthday, to the most busy 11 year old, I know of.

Innovative Orkut..

I noticed something new at orkut a couple of days ago. Yes, I am also an addict. Anyways..now whenever you upload the photographs in album. Or for that matter even the photographs already loaded. It suddenly prompts to name all the faces present in the photograph. It actually automatically creates a tag for all the faces and just wants you to add a name to the tag.

Some processing power google is showing off. Processing so many photographs in real time for all the faces present, takes some serious graphics processing skills and processor power.

Take care everyone. *peace*

Jabber..

Step 1: www.blogger.com

Step 2: Layout

Step 3: Configure Blog Post

Step 4: Arrange Items

Well, it was around here that I pleasently stumbled upon a sample 'Post body' while trying to re-arrange the post structure. It could very well have been Latin and it indeed was. Well, it was not just Latin but ancient Latin, from 45 B.C.

It comes from "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum"  (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero. The passages of Lorem Ipsum themselves have been used for typesetting print works ever since 15th century because it has been proved that if the text used for typesetting is legible to the reader, then he will lose focus on the layout. Besides, these passages contain just about the correct frequency of recurence of the various alphabets as in a regular passage.

So, if any of you curious fellow want some of it for your own site layout testing. Just navigate to www.lipsum.com

Take care everyone. *peace*

Googled

Pre-Script: This is an amateurish attempt at documenting the Googol (that spelling is not a typing mistake) that grew out of the labs of Stanford University. Google.

So in keeping with the motto of google: Simple is beautiful..

This is what the original interface of google looked like.

The most that we come across is Google Search..

There are a few sites which are sure to be of a great help if we read across before we search next time. It will save you a lot more time and frustration in searching for relevant information regarding your search queries then the time spent reading through these.

1. The most obvious: The google help pages. All of them.

* Basic search help

* More search help

2. Besides these two help pages there are a couple of other links at google which are pretty neat and helpful. One of these is the Google Cheat Sheet.

3. This other one is a tool which google offers to be downloaded, installed and then used. And this is one of the most handy search tools I have come across. The Google Hack.

Besides, these two of my favorite options to use while searching with google, include:

* The option to set the date limit in Advanced search. We can decide, what is our tolerance for the age of information we are looking for. Because there are so many times that we are looking for maps, statistics regarding something. And after searching when we open the site, the information is simply so old that its useless. One nifty advantage of setting this option is, with each search result it starts to show the date as to when was the page last edited.

* The other option which took a steep climb lately in my liking for it, has been. 'site:' We can search a specific site for all the articles regarding our search query. Like the site of one company for all the articles it has regarding one of it's products. Or say the website of a new media house, for all the posts contains a specific name or incident.

Okie, that was my take on a quick beginners lesson at searching with google. But, the thing is the more I googled (yes, that is a legitimate verb) google. There was an almost endless supply of material. There were books about google, about hacking google, there were websites and blogs exclusively dedicated to following google. And the number of services offered by google seem to keep going endlessly. Even tried the, Google is Evil. Returned great search results. The nuts of it is, posts about google are gonna be endless. And I am gonna keep coming up with them from time to time. Thus, until next post.

Happy Googling. And adios.

Take care everyone. *peace*