Search, that is. For us, search has always been our focus. And, starting today, you'll notice on our homepage and on our search results pages, our search box is growing in size. Although this is a very simple idea and an even simpler change, we're excited about it — because it symbolizes our focus on search and because it makes our clean, minimalist homepage even easier and more fun to use. The new, larger Google search box features larger text when you type so you can see your query more clearly. It also uses a larger text size for the suggestions below the search box, making it easier to select one of the possible refinements. Over the past 11 years, we've made a number of changes to our homepage. Some are small and some are large. In this case, it's a small change that makes search more prominent.

Google has always been first and foremost about search, and we're committed to building and powering the best search on the web — now available through a supersized search box.

Google, the name which in the recent past has substituted the word search, has a lot of services beside google. oops search engine.

Gmail
Google Calendar
Google Talk
Google Docs List
Google Documents
Google Spreadsheets
Google Presentations
Google Sites
Google Video for business
Admin control panel

Phew!! and the list goes on and on and on....... k I should stop!! :)

Anyways, it happens such that Google has become an part of our daily life. Starting from its search engine to its latest products which are still under lab test, every internet user on earth is somehow related to atleast one of them.



Now how does it feel when this page shows up.

To make sure google is really down and why.. just go to Google Apps Status Dashboard.
Google updates the site to every progress they make or will be making. Now notices of future down times are also put up for referral.

So next time any google page doesn't open feel free to visit the website . And you will be reported of the situation.

I was trying to find some gadgets for my blog recently, but nothing hit me hard. Then I remembered some sites having a gadget "Google bot crawled the site on". Now I went ahead and googled for the gadget. But then, it struck me when I read in some websites that google bots crawl the whole of web. So in other words it will take weeks for a bot to return to the blog for the second time. OMG! Just then my lady luck understanding my frustration gave a quick reply...

Everyone loves to get their web pages indexed by Google as soon as they write them. If you can guide the GoogleBot to crawl your site easily it will index your pages much faster than your expectations.

BOTTOMLINE :Help Google Bot to crawl your website effectively...

• Submit a Sitemap file to Google Webmaster Tools

• Now add your blog link as for mine it is http://nothingsupheregetdowninthesite.blogspot.com/
• Next you get to a page where google asks you to add a 'meta tag' or a 'HTML file' to your website.
  

• Ok. That being said, follow the help which google gives just below the Meta tag. And as for HTML file, just create a blog with the topic name as the HTML code given by google.
• Verify the link and there you go...you just helped google and yourself.
  

Well many a times I needed some help with word meaning and it became quite hectic to search each word on google (which I mostly did.). But then I came across this website. Loads up fast, great interface, an interactive one. Has word games. I would recomend this site to all those who want to work on there english (well of course, beside reading stuffs).

Moreover it has a great database in different languages too. So if you are trying to learn some language by yourself, this site can help you in that.
Spanish Dictionary
German Dictionary
French Dictionary
Italian Dictionary
Arabic Dictionary
Chinese Dictionary (S)
Polish Dictionary
Portuguese Dictionary
Dutch Dictionary
Norwegian Dictionary
Greek Dictionary
Russian Dictionary
Turkish Dictionary