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Happy 11th Birthday to Goog11e .. or Google |
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Google introduced a new logo today to celebrate its 11th birthday since the company was first started back in 1998 by two Stanford students. In the logo, the “L” in Google is replaced by an eleven “11″, spelling out Google as “Goog11e”.
If you click on the Google logo, it takes the user to the search results page of “google”, sporting a special Google 11th Birthday element in the search query field of the URL :
http://www.google.com/search?q=google&ct=11th_birthday&oi=ddle
The Google results themselves make for a nice highlight and timeline of the company, listing Google products and services which have launched over the past 11 years, including Google Adwords, Blogspot, Google Maps, GMail and Google Video. It’s pretty amazing that in only 11 years Google has become the technology powerhouse that it now is, and I firmly feel that Google has a long way to go, especially as they focus on cloud computing, mobile, operating systems and global broadband connectivity.
Last year for its 10th birthday, Goolgle launched a 10 year Google timeline to celebrate, I hope they make some updates to it this week :)
Happy 11th Birthday Google!
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How to Optimize Images Found via Google Image Search |
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Google Images Smush It Link
This userscript adds ‘Smush It!’ links to each search result on Google Images, making it easier and faster to optimize images you find. Smush.it uses optimization techniques specific to image format to remove unnecessary bytes from image files.
Just click the link and you will see how much the image was optimized (in %) as well as the link to download the “smushed” image:
How to Search Google for Visually Similar Images
Google offers to search for “visually similar images” to the one found via its experimental search. This works as follows:
- Search it like a regular Google image search;
- See a few image thumbnails invite you to search for “similar images” and “related images“;
- Click “similar images” link to see more images that look like the selected one:
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Profile of Ireland Online : Google.ie |
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Profile of Ireland Online : Google.ie September 10th 2009
- 69% of Irish People are regular internet users
- 1.25 million people are subscribed to broadband in Ireland
- 10th is Irelands rank in the world for online buyers
- 25% of Irish people expect to spend more online in 2009
- 50% of Irish consumers look for advice online before making a purchase
- 90% of consumers believe they can save money online
- €1700 was the average online spend of an Irish consumer in 2008
- €300 million worth of goods were purchased online in Ireland in 2008
- €2.5 billion spent in total online transactions including travel, gambling and finance in Ireland in 2008
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Best Way to Compare Google, Yahoo and Bin |
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A while ago I wrote a post reviewing 3 tools to compare Google and Bing search results. Blind Search slipped in the comments (many thanks, Gidseo) and the time has come for me give it more attention here, at SEJ.
Created by Microsoft employee, Michael Kordahi, Blind Search is a great way to decide what really works better for you: Google, Yahoo or Bing. It offers you to search once to see results from all the three engines but you won’t know which results belong to which engine: you will have to choose blindly.
Perform at least 10 searches to be able to judge with at least some level of certainty – you can also install its search plugin to use the tool for your regular searching:
Michael shares the results of 8-week testing here but I found it necessary to also conduct our own SEO experiment as we, SEOs, search differently. So, after 10 attempts what was your most favorite search engine?
Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal. |
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