March 18, 2006

Gmaio (Google Mayonnaise)

http://www.therewillbemachines.com/ has a parody about google gmail and mayonnaise. :)

Yahoo is testing more streamlined home page

new-yahoo-home-page

Yahoo is testing its new home page. It looks clean,less daunting and uncluttered than previuos page.

  • All the channels are listed on left.
  • Yahoo Answers gets limelight just below the search box.
  • There are only 2 adverts on the entire home page… which is so not yahoo!!

Google : Judge tells DoJ “No” on search queries only URL’s

Google blog writes:

“…This is a clear victory for our users and for our company, and Judge Ware’s decision regarding search queries is especially important. While privacy was not the most significant legal issue in this case (because the government wasn’t asking for personally identifiable information), privacy was perhaps the most significant to our users. As we noted in our briefing to the court, we believe that if the government was permitted to require Google to hand over search queries, that could have undermined confidence that our users have in our ability to keep their information private. Because we resisted the subpoena, the Department of Justice will not receive any search queries and only a small fraction of the URLs it originally requested…”

Google’s post on it blog

Google and Nike’s Community game!! Joga.com (Exclusive Screenshots)

Send me a mail info at seocase.net to get invite

Google and Nike have launched a community site http://www.joga.com. When I first saw this site with the google login, the first thing that came to mind was google’s social networking site orkut.com. Below are few exclusive screen shots of this site and much more.

This is a home page of Nike’s new commnity site powere by google. It takes google account as login.
google nike ourkt joga

Read more…

Interesting adwords for google blogscoped

Found this interesting screenshot of google ad on flickr. When you search for google blogscoped in google titled “G-String Transformations“.

Looks like searchcafe.blogspot.com has done this ad.

http://static.flickr.com/44/113165527_918e6e6a6b_o.jpg

It does not show up if you search now though.