Google promoting more services through their homepage
Google has been very aggressively using their homepage to promote their products and services. Right now they are promoting a link to New Gadgets on Google.com which points to a landing page showcasing products like: Google Search service Google Plus…
Google has a special decoration for Christmas just like Hanukkah
We have already seen the special decoration on Google search result pages for keywords related to Hanukkah. Google incidentally has similar decorations on their search result pages for keywords related to Christmas. Here is a screenshot:
Google Search to remain default search engine in Firefox for another three years
Google and Mozilla have finally renewed their search deal. Google would remain the default search engine in Mozilla Firefox browser for another three years. The deal between the two companies had ended last month and the delay in the renewal…
Google also has an Easter egg celebrating Hanukkah!
More and more Easter eggs are being discovered on the Google search engine. The latest one is Hanukkah. Just search for Hanukkah on Google search and you would see a special header with decorations. Here is a screenshot:
Google has a new Easter egg for you this Christmas ‘Let it snow’
Google has a new Easter egg for all of us this Christmas. You can check it out by searching for ‘Let it snow’. The search result page would appear. Virtual snow would be dropping from the top. And the page…
Googlebot-Mobile is now smarter with better user agents
Google has announced improvements to their mobile edition of Google Bot which crawls the mobile optimized web pages on the web. The company is now using user agents with device information included in them to access the web pages properly….
Blocked Sites feature on Google Search is still buggy
Blocked Sites was one of the coolest features Google added to their search engine platform. Users got the ability to completely remove domains that consistently gave them bad results. They could add as many as 500 domains to their own…
Google Mobile Search on WebKit browsers updated with larger font size
Google has updated their mobile search results on webkit browsers. The text size has been increased. Snippets are now smaller than before. The end result is visually pleasing as the search results are more legible but you get very less…
Google Search Settings page gets updated
Google continues to update their network with their new user interface guidelines. Google Search Settings page is the latest to get updated. It now features the new design. Users get multiple options to configure. Though these are saved in cookies…