All Google Services

Hello Friends,
Well I know a lot of them but when I googled about various services about Google, I found a lot and I thought I should share them with you. So below is the link to all services provided by Google.

1. Google Search
2. Google Adwods
3. Search Based Keyword Tool
4. Custom Search Engine
5. Script Convertor
6. Google Fast Flip
7. Google Fusion Tables
8. Google Moderating
9. Google Audio Indexing
10. 1-800-GOOG-411
11. Google Reader
12. Google Trends
13. Google SMS
14. Google Groups
15. Google Sets
16. GMail
17. Google Toolbar
18. Google Experimenatl Search
19. Webmasters Tool
20. In Quotes
21. Analytics
22. FeedBurner
23. Google Chat
24. Google Docs
25. Google Code
26. Blogger
27. Google Sites
28. Google Wave
29. Orkut
30. Google Web history
31. Google Voice

The Story Behind Google

Hello Friends,

We all use Google in some way or the other. The way Google has evolved is a story worth telling. Here are some of the interesting facts about Google :
1. The name ‘Google’ was an accident. It was the result of a spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for ‘Googol’. The domain name “Googol.com” was already taken by the time Google was founded.
2. The domain Google.com was registered on 15 September 1997.
3. The first operations of Google was started in this garage


4. Google (aka Googol) is a mathematical term which means “1 followed by hundred Zeros”. The term ‘Googol’ was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasne.
5. Google receives daily search requests from all over the world, including Antarctica.

6. Google’s Homepage has 42 validation errors. Check Google Validation
7. Google’s homepage can be accessed in 88 languages including Urdu and Latin.
8. Every day the Google servers receives about a billion search requests . 20 to 25% of Google queries have never been searched before.
9. The main reason why the Google homepage is so simple is because the founders didn’t knew HTML. The submit button was included much later and hitting the return key was the only way to get the search results.
10. The “I am feeling lucky” button is almost never used by the end user. However it was found that removing the button would reduce the Google experience.
11. In the early days of testing Google employees noted people just sitting and looking at the screen. After a minute the tester asked “What are you waiting for ?”. To this the users replied “We are waiting for the page to load”.
To solve this issue the copyright message was added which acted as an end of the page marker.
12. Google has the largest network of translators in the world.
13. All Google employees are encouraged to use 20% of their time working in their own projects. Google news and Orkut are two big examples that grew from this working model.
14. Google consists of over 450,000 servers, racked up in clusters located in data centers around the world.
15. Google started in January, 1996 as a research project at Stanford University, by Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were 24 years old and 23 years old respectively.The original google project was named backrub.
16. When Google started it indexed 25,000 web pages. Today Google indexes billions of web pages and each time it grows by 10-25%.
17. According to Google “As the web grows search becomes more and more important”. It acts like a library , the bigger the library the more important is the index.
18. The pagerank algorithm uses more than 200 attributes to determine the rank of a given webpage.
19. Google has the largest corporate solar panel installation in the US.
20. The biggest break in search came when Google introduced their improved spell checker seen as “Did you mean ? ”.This feature doubled their traffic and soon the developers discovered that the ideal placement was at the bottom of the search results.
21. Every now and then Google makes small changes and test them with a given set of users. The users aren’t told of this. They are presented with a new interface and the testers observe how the users react to it.
22. Google believe in 20 % – 5% philosophy. According to this, if at least 20% of the users use a feature then it will be included. To make it to the advanced search preferences, at least 5 % of the users need to use a particular feature.
23. In the results found in user testing and design, Google testers found that only a small number of people are typical of the larger user base. Hence,Google labs was born and it monitors how people use each and every service.
24. Gmail – Free email from Google was used internally for nearly 2 years by Google employees before it was launched for public use. The engineers discovered that there are typically 6 types of email users and Gmail was made to satisfy the needs of them.
25. Google’s index of web pages is the largest in the world, comprising of 8 billion web pages. Google searches this immense collection of web pages often in less than half a second.
26. They listen to feedback actively. Emailing Google isn’t emailing a black hole.
27. Google’s first April fool prank went live on April 1st,2000 and was coined “MentalPlex” – Google’s ability to read your mind.
Some thought the announcement of Gmail in 2004 around April Fool’s Day was a joke.
28. Google Groups comprises of more than 845 million Usenet messages, which is the world’s largest collection of messages or the equivalent of more than a terabyte of human conversation.
29.In a 2006 report of the world’s richest people, Forbes reported that Sergey Brin was #26 with a net worth of $12.9 billion, and Larry Page was #27 with a net worth of $12.8 billion
30. There isn’t any restriction for proper dress code in the Google office. This may include pajamas and even super hero costumes.
31. Tom Vendetta is the youngest google employee ever hired. He was hired by Google when he was 15 years old. Vendetta used to fool his friends by sending fake press releases and news. Vendetta was employed to know the know-how of the teen and to implement them in Gmail security flaws.
32. The first employee that google hired is Craig Silverstein.

33.The first human being named after Google is Oliver google kai. He was born on September 12th 2005 and his parents named him because they wanted Oliver to have as many friends as google has.

Search Engine Basics || Submitting Your Site to Google || The Search Engine Optimization Template

Hello Friends,

Search Engine Basics

When you type a term into a search site, the engine looks up potential matches in its database and presents the most relevant web page matches first. How those web pages get into the database and, consequently, how you can get yours in there as well, is a three-step process:

1. A search engine visits a site with an automated program called a spider (sometimes called a robot). A spider is a program similar to a web browser that downloads a site's pages. It doesn't actually display the page anywhere; it just downloads the page data.
2. After the spider has acquired the page, the search engine passes the page to a program called an indexer, which is another robotic program that extracts most of the visible portions of the page. The indexer also analyzes the page for keywords, the title, links, and other important information contained in the code.
3. The search engine adds your site to its database and makes it available to searchers. The greatest difference between search engines is in this final step where ranking or result position for a particular keyword is determined.

Submitting Your Site to Google

The first step is to get your pages listed in the database, and there are two ways to go about this. The first is direct submission of your site's URL to Google via its "Add your URL to Google" page. To counter programmed robots, search engines routinely move submission pages around on their sites. You can find Google's submission page linked from its Help pages or Webmaster Info pages (http://www.google.com/addurl.html).

Visit Google's add URL page, enter the main index page for your site into the submission form, and press Submit. Google's spider (called GoogleBot) will visit your page, usually within four weeks. The spider will traverse all the pages on your site and add them to its index. Within eight weeks, you should be able to find your site listed in Google.

The second way to get your site listed is to let Google find you based on links that point to your site. Once GoogleBot finds a link to your site from a page that is already in its index, it will visit your site.

Google has been updating its database on a monthly basis for three years. It sends its spider out in crawler mode once a month, as well. Crawler mode is a special mode in which a spider traverses, or crawls, the entire Web. As it runs into page links, it indexes those pages in a never-ending attempt to download all the pages it can. Once your pages are listed in Google, they are revisited and updated on a monthly basis. If you frequently update your content, Google may index your search terms more often.

Once you are indexed and listed in Google, the next question for a site owner naturally is, "How can I rank better under my applicable search terms?"

The Search Engine Optimization Template

This is my general recipe for the ubiquitous Google. It is generic enough that it works well everywhere and is as close as I have come to a "one-size-fits-all" SEO (Search Engine Optimization) template.

Use your targeted keyword phrase:

• In META keywords. It's not necessary for Google, but it is still a good habit. Keep your META keywords short (128 characters max, or 10 keywords).
• In a META description. Keep your keywords near the left but as part of a full sentence.
• In the title at the far left, but not as the first word.
• In the top portion of the page in the first sentence of the first full paragraph (plain text: no bold, no italic, no style).
• In an H3 or larger heading.
• In bold (second paragraph if possible and anywhere except in the first usage on the page).
• In italic (anywhere except in the first usage).
• In a subscript/superscript.
• In a URL (directory name, filename, or domain name). Do not duplicate the keyword in the URL.
• In an image filename used on the page.
• In the ALT tag of the image.
• In the title attribute of the image.
• In link text to another site.
• In an internal link's text.
• In the title attribute of all the targeted links in and out of the page.
• In the filename of your external CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) or JavaScript file.
• In an inbound link on the site (preferably from your home page).
• In an inbound link from off the site (if possible).
• In a link to a site that has a PageRank of 8 or better.

Other search engine optimization issues to consider include:

• Use "last modified" headers if you can.
• Validate the HTML. Some feel that Google's parser has become stricter at parsing instead of milder. It often misses an entire page because of a few simple errors; we have tested this thoroughly.
• Use an HTML template throughout your site. Google can spot the template and parse it off. (Of course, this also means it is pretty good at spotting duplicate content.)
• Keep the page as an .html or .htm extension. Any dynamic extension is a risk.
• Keep the HTML below 20 KB; 5 to 15 KB is the ideal range.
• Keep the ratio of text to HTML very high. Text should outweigh HTML by a significant amount.
• Double-check your page in Netscape, Opera, and Internet Explorer. Use Lynx if you have it.
• Use only raw hrEFs for links. Keep JavaScript far, far away from links. The simpler the link code, the better.
• More traffic will come once you realize that 1 referral a day to 10 pages is better than 10 referrals a day to 1 page.
• Don't assume that keywords in your site's navigation template are worth anything at all. Google looks for full sentences and paragraphs. Keywords just lying around orphaned on the page are not worth as much as when they are used in a sentence.