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Rings are well known status symbols, and the included jewel’s weight in carat is a comparable value for the personal ranking of its owner.

The VanityRing doesn’t have a jewel, instead it shows the number of hits one gets, when he searches Google for the name of the person who wears it, a more adequate value in our time. It is personalized using a custom software, and after the name is typed the ring will change its display to show the personal “attention carats”, while every night, when it is inserted into its docking station the ring is reloaded and updated.

- via BoingBoing

Inetresting article from Radaronline

Google suggests in Hindi is the first google project to graduate out of Google India Labs

Search queries can be typed in english as usual and google suggest will suggest hindi transliterated suggestions.

http://next.yahoo.com used to look like this few months back.

and this was explanation from yahoo about it

This is how it looks like now.

Well written article from SEOmoz about hidden text and search engines take on this.

Searchengineland got confirmation from Google “that PageRank scores are being lowered for some sites that sell links.”
In addition, Google said that some sites that are selling links may indeed end up being dropped from its search engine or have penalties attached, to prevent them from ranking well.

Google says that most people hit with a PageRank decrease will likely notice this, and then they can request a review.

Full article here.

Google launches code search as Google labs project.

Google product manager Tom Stocky said the Mountain View, California-based company is set to help programmers sift through billions of lines of computer source code using its familiar search box to uncover snippets of reusable software.

“For a long time it has been sort of an unsolved problem,” said Stocky, a product manager in the developer products group. “It is hard to find references to this sort of data.”

Google has been taking series of initiatives catering to developers like

• Google Summer of Code
• Google Projects
• Project Hosting

This places them in direct competition with http://www.koders.com and http://www.krugle.com/

Google in association with Frankfurt Book Fair Literacy Campaign (LitCam) and
UNESCO’s Institute for Lifelong Learning Launches Literacy Project site.

More information is at Google blog.

Site uses Google projects like Google Book search, Google Scholar, Google Video, Google Maps, Google Blogger and Google Groups.

Video section… purpose is to “See what literacy organisations, schools, and educators around the world are doing to promote literacy or share your own project with the world.”

The very first video is a song from Bollywood movie… to promote literacy wow!!.

In the map section only literacy organisation in India is in east of india with address of Rajasthan which is in west india. Grossly misplaced.
One more pre-baked offering from Google kitchen.

The site is available in German and English.

Want to buy a domain with word Google in it?

Well you can buy these domains which are on auction on various domain auction sites.

Get ready to hear from Google’s legal department soon.

There is new entry in Google Labs, Picasa for linux. But the link is serving 404 page. Date on google labs says it was added on 5/25/2006.

Here is a google labs screeen shot, in case they take it off from here.

There is also a google group for picasa or linux with 2 posts already.

http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux

On Digg
people are commenting about page being on removed later on.

Some of them have tried it already. Some think its GTK, others think its windows picasa that runs on wine. Comments are coming along. Interesting space to watch till google comes with formal or blog announcement.

Its one more case of google’s announcement rolling slippage.

PS: Newsforge has covered this here.