When is Google birthday

Have you ever wonder when is Google birthday? It’s somewhere around in September. Here is the official explanation.

Google opened its doors in September 1998. The exact date when we celebrate our birthday has moved around over the years, depending on when people feel like having cake.

While we are waiting for Google celebration of their 9th birthday, you can enjoy Google Corporation history. It’s really interesting.

Google PR not yet update

Since I restarted my blogging, I am looking for Google Page Rank update. But now, Google must be doing really big to crack link baiting scam. That’s a good thing actually as many people are taking advantages of a number assigned by Google almost every 3 months.

According to SEOlogs, this is the longest pagerank update in history. I can’t wait to see when Google will update.

Come on Google! We know you are busy and we all are waiting.

Explore Sky with Google Earth

Google Earth is now not limited to Earth only. It could let you explore the space also. Starting from version 4.2, Google added sky feature in the famous Google Earth program. It depends on location. So that when you are at New York and click sky button, the sky you see will be different if you click when you are at Africa.

You should download this new version and feel the different.

Reference : Google

Google image can search faces

This is the coolest trick I’ve ever got for Google.

You can use Google Image search to search only faces of people. Did you know that already? If not yet, try these:

- Ordinary Image Search for Microsoft
- Faces Image Search for Microsoft

This picture is faces search for keyword, “Microsoft”, on Google Images.

You need to add the following line after the image search queries to use face search.

&imgtype=face

Your address bar should look like below:

If you don’t want to use manually typing, you can select from Google Advance Image Search option as in the following picture.

How could this be useful? Well, if you are looking for images of the people behind popular companies, products or even countries, this tool will be very handy indeed.

Updated: I just figured out that Windows live also just introduces faces search at July 27. (See their official blog). Thanks garyprice for the info.

To use new feature in Windows Live image search, try these:

1.without the new features – jimi hendrix
2.with new face filtering on – jimi hendrix filter:face
3.with new portrait filtering on – jimi hendrix filter:portrait
4.with new black and white filtering on – jimi hendrix filter:bw

Currently, this Window Live feature is only available by adding the following filter after the image search queries,
filter:face, filter:portrait, or filter:bw. Microsoft may make these features accessible through a drop-down menu or maybe radio button (just like Google) soon.

Microsoft has also provide you Related People feature on the right side of the screen. Try it! You will be amazed by the new technology of the world’s two giants companies.

Reference : Blogoscoped, Live Search Official blog
Special thanks to all commentators for helpful infos.

Gmail custom domain vs Yahoo mail

Since I’ve bought bridgetonova.com domain, I haven’t setup up any email addresses yet. Of course, my domain registrar provide Forward Email for free of charge, but I want POP3 access. So I am shopping for email services.

Yahoo! provide these email services.

But when I checked for Gmail, it’s free! (Link) Not only Google provide this services for free, but also far more better than Yahoo! Services.

While Yahoo! provide only 1 or 10 email addresses for either $34.95/year or $9.95/mo, Google provide 100 email addresses for free. Yes! that’s right 100 email addresses for your domain.

Without any hesitation, I’ve already signed up with Google. Now you can contact me at jason at mydomain name.

I’m really wondered is there anyone who would buy Yahoo! email services.

Purchase more storage for Google services

At last, Google official blog announced Google more storage services plan.

With a Google shared storage plan, you won’t have to worry about deleting files, pictures, or emails. After purchasing a storage plan, some of your individual Google services (e.g. email and photos) will share a single new storage space.

It’s a good news, isn’t it? Well, it looks like $500 / year for 250 GB is a lot more expensive than external hard disk, you can’t compare external hard disk with Google storage.

1. Google will protect your data with their million dollar cluster servers.
2. Unlike your external hard disk, you can access your data anywhere without having to carry anything.
3. Imagine 250 GB Gmail inbox? Of course, only if you’re doing email archiving for all descendants, you’ll need that much. But, I mean, it’s a lot!
4. Google share storage plan looks very cool as you can use in many of Google services including Picassa and Gmail and many more.

Ready to purchase? Go Here!

Google Earth can zoom more than you think

If you think Google Earth is only for viewing hybrid image and satellite imagery for streets and building, think again! Because Google earth can take this kind of pic too:

Still don’t believe it, right? Think I play with Photoshop? Here is Google Maps link. Go there and choose Satellite. You will see that man is looking up.

How can we get it? Here’s how:

Go to Google Maps
1. Select a location and switch to satellite view
2. Zoom in as far as you can, and click “link to this page” at the top right
3. Now replace the “z” parameter in the URL with a higher value, e.g. 20, 22, or 23, and wait. Some locations will now show more detailed imagery

Remember you might be able to zoom more to only those location which could zoom to highest level(z=18).

If you want to see more, check what others found out here and here.

Updated: Now I have found out the truth about Google Earth.

How to run multiple Gtalk clients?

If you are a big fan of Gtalk, you do have many Google accounts for different purposes, you might want to run multiple instances of Gtalk client.

Well, first I thought we might need a special program to do that. Finally, it’s not that difficult at all.

All you have to do is just change in the Properties field of Gtalk shortcut as shown in picture below:

Add -nomutex at the end of Target file path.

Enjoy your talking!!

Yahoo! Unlimited mail storage vs Gmail!

We all know that Yahoo! mail become unlimited, but still there is 10 MB attachment limit.

How genius and innovative Google responds to this? Well, 20 MB attachment size. As most email providers limit message size by 10 MB, if you want to send 20 MB message, you don’t have much choice left. The way Google respond left Yahoo! really looks bad. Unless Yahoo! or any other company can come up with innovations, Google will surely rule for a long long time.

What a nice respond GOOGLE!

When Gmail will reach 3 GB?

I just found this article very interesting. This blogger point out that Google is just playing number game.

The current rate of increase is at an average of 4 bytes per second

Now, we’re ready to do some basic math:

4 bytes / sec => 240 bytes / min => 14400 bytes / hr => 345600 bytes / day

If our goal is 3 GB and we’re going at a rate of 345600 bytes / day, it would take:
X days = 3,221,225,472 / 345,600 bytes
~ 9320 days => 25 years to go from 1 byte to 3 gigabytes

Ok, now we’re already at 2,693,144,200 bytes as of 4:30 PST, Feb 9, 2006. We’re now 528,081,272 bytes (503 MB) away from our 3 GB goal. So, let’s count how many days are left for GMail to become 3 GB.
X days = 528,081,272 / 345,600 bytes = 1528 days => 4 years

Because of counter running at Gmail website, we all think that we will get 3 GB soon, but in reality, it would take 4 years to come. Yes, that’s true 4 years.