Google UK on Fire Today

Reports were coming in from a professional journalist on Twitter, Jon Swaine which says that Google UK Headquarters in London are currently on Fire.

You can watch clear picture of fire on the roof of Google UK’s office on Buckingham Palace Road below.



Update:
The Telegraph writes that the building was evacuated now and thankfully no one got hurt. A big Sigh of Relief. it is also told that the outcome fire was the result of a tree catching flames during a rooftop terrace BBQ above one of the three floors Google occupies in the building.
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Google's print mistake

Well Google needs to focus itself on Search/Online marketing rather than Print. Why? because seems like they forgot their print fonts here ;)



Credit to Search Cow boys
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Google Office Inside Photos

Google - This is the name which comes out from the mouth of everyone when asked what is yours favorite company to work for. Google has won the "Best Employer" many times over the years and its a dream to work in this Search Giant for everyone. Don't Agree with this?. You got to check these inside photos of Google office before saying so ;).

Decompression (stress) capsule that is impermeable to sound and light:


Moving around inside Google office: A slide connecting different floors allows quick access. There are also poles available which are similar to the ones used in fire stations.


Food Section. Employees can eat all they love to eat from variety choices of food and drink.


Google Work Station: Each employee has at least two large screens. There are about 4-6 'Zooglers' per office .


Google INOVATION Rooms: Large boards are available just about everywere because ideas don’t always come when seated in the office says one of Googles managers.


LEISURE Time at Google. Video games, Pool tables, etc. are available in many areas.


Communication Rooms: For every floor, there are private cabin areas where employees can attend to personal affairs.


Technical Support at Google: Problem with your computer ? Nothing to worry. Bring it to this area where drinks are available while it is being fixed.


Health Cabins inside Google: Professional masseurs (eusses) available.


REST rooms at Google: These rooms provides massage chairs that you control while you view relaxing aquariums.


Ambiance at Google: There are many books in this library even some about programming !!


Now aren't you impressed with this lovely work culture inside Google?
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Analytics and AdSense, Together - Rolled out for everyone

Finally good news has come up for the Analytics and Adsense users of Google. After a couple on months Integration of Analytics and Adsense accounts is rolled out for everyone. Earlier this feature was made available to only selected users by Google. Now this feature is made available for everyone. To integrate your Adsense account to Analytics account just login to your Adsense account and Click on the link which says "Integrate your AdSense account with Google Analytics" on the Reports > Overview tab. Follow the on screen instructions then. Thats it. You are done !.
Linking Adsense to Analytics :


If you are also interested in understanding about how to read the reports check out this video too.
How to Read the Reports :


Under the new "AdSense Revenue" tab You can compare how much of your AdSense revenue is coming from new visitors Vs existing ones, and also can view the revenue based on user language.
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Google is Giving Away 2,50,000 Google Profile Business Cards

Google teams up with iPrint.com to offer free Google profile Business Cards to the first 10,000 people. Each person can avail a set of 25 cards that shows the Google.com home page with their Google Profile URL underneath it in green. Google said that the cards will arrive in 10-12 days. You need to create an account on iPrint.com to place the order, or login to an existing account with them if you have already have one.

If you are logged in to your account you can see that offer available on the top of your profile. Alternatively you can also access it here http://www.google.com/profiles/me/bizcards

Note: The offer is currently available only to the continental US users.

So if you are in the US what are you looking for go and grab one Google Business Card for you ;)
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Google launches - Google for Advertisers website

For all those who are looking to accelerate their business through various Google advertising solutions, Google has come up with an all new website called Google for advertisers which aims to help the advertisers by bringing all the marketing solutions of google and how best one can use with various tools provided by them. Users can discover the right combination of various tools which best match their requirements from this new website.

The Google for Advertisers website gives you:
1) A neat description of each of googles platforms along with the tools supporting them.
2) How to reach your audience across different locations and languages.
3) ways to explore marketing examples which describes how google tools can solve a particular goal.

For more information visit Google for Advertisers
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View PowerPoint and TIFF in Gmail as Inline

Seems Google is not going to sit quite. Just few months ago Google introduced faster viewing of online PDF's in browsers. Now they have come up with another new features added into the Gmail which supports viewing of TIFF and Microsoft Powerpoint formats too. Earlier there is a "view as Slideshow" option for all the Ppts but now, with the inclusion of these cool features users no longer have to save the files into their computer nor they have to buy and install any software to do so. Just they can directly view them in the browser itself.

Also, users are relieved from the hassles of installing a Flash plugin on their browser. Some additional features like:
1) zoom in and out
2) Select text to copy and paste
3) Print the presentation to a PDF doc

are also included in the roll out of these new features.
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Upcoming Change to Google.com search referral url

Google has announced that it is bringing up some change in its Google search url's which you may see soon this week. However they said that this is not going to have any affect on the Google Analytics results.

So soon we are going to see a new referral URL format for the visitors who are going to come from the Google Search results pages. Until now we could see that search on Google for the term "flowers" would be looking something like this:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=flowers&btnG=Google+Search

But, due to this new change you are going to see a string something like this:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=7&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2Fmypage.htm&ei=0SjdSa-1N5O8M_qW8dQN&rct=j&q=flowers&usg=AFQjCNHJXSUh7Vw7oubPaO3tZOzz-F-u_w&sig2=X8uCFh6IoPtnwmvGMULQfw

The notable difference among these two url structures is that instead of "/search?" the URL contains a "/url?".

This new change will occur only in a small percentage of searches initially. But, it is expected that we can see the old and new forms of the URLs as this change gradually rolls out.

Note: If you are using UTM-based tracking with Urchin Software, you need to stay tuned for a software update that Google will be making available soon. However, if you are using IP-Useragent based tracking with Urchin you are not going to be affected since this form of tracking can effectively process both current and new referral strings.
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What if i'm hacked or penalized? - Matt cutts answers

If your worried that yours or your client site is being penalized by Google and you sent an reconsideration request. But never heard back from Google team. Here is a nice video post from Matt cutts which explains what you need to do primarily from your side before submitting a reconsideration request.

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Google rolls out local search results for better results

In order to make the search as easy as possible Google has announced a worldwide rollout of local search results on a map, which will come along even when you don't type in a location name. When you search in Google for generic terms like "restaurents" or "doctors" they will guess the location where you are based on the IP address and show the results near to you. Click the image below


They are also providing the "Change Location" option which will help the users to specify their likely location.

You can also search for specific stores or street addresses near you. For example like [cornelia st cafe] in New York.

Or [111 8th ave] in New York.

With the roll out of these new cool feature Google makes the search a bit easier for its users.

Note: The results are displayed w.r.t to the IP and Location. Here the results images are accordint to the US location.
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Google Chrome market share continues to rise

Within few months of the launch of the Browser chrome by Google seems it is likely ready to capture the Browser market share. I got a sneak peak into the matt cutts post related to his Google Chrome stats for the month of March 2009. The stats suggests that Chrome is 7% of his visitors. Here is the image of the

Matt cutts browser market trends for March 2009:


After reviewing his post i just logged into my Analytics and checked his my browser trends. I can observe that Chrome seems to be rising in my list too. Here is screenshot of My Browser market share


According to the stats released by NetApplications for May, 2008 to March, 2009 Chrome increased its market share from 0% to 1.23% in between the months of Aug, 2008 to March 2009. The interesting stat to note that is in the last 1month Chrome market share went up from 1.15% to 1.23%.
Net Applications showing browser market shares


From Statcounter stats - indicate that Chrome market share increased by 1.75%.
Marketshare of Chrome from Statcounter:


Now clicky another web analytics service provider stats indicate that Google Chrome market share showed an increase of 2.86 %. In the last 60days Chrome market share went up from 2.097% to 2.491%.
Chrome market share from clicky:

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Google announces - Ad Manager Certified Consultants Program

we are all aware of Google Ad manager which serves as an ad serving tool was rolled out last year to take advantage of the Ad management process. Now for those who are interested in Google certification on this Google has announced a Google Ad Manager consultant partnership program, with companies which are interested in providing advanced ad serving support and professional services.

Thought you be a newbie or an experienced IT or sales personnel these certified partners will help you take full advantage of their experience using Google Ad Manager which will allow you to spend more time focusing on what you need to do best, bringing great content, while their partners can help you manage the rest.



Google Ad Serving Certified Consultants can assist you with services such as:
1) Ad Trafficking
2) Consultation
3) Training
4) Advanced Support

As of now four companies which include Acceleration, EpikOne, Outsourced Ad Ops and Vanguardistas are listed as certified partners under this program.

If you are new and interested in setting up an Ad Manager on your blog or site you can go through this tutorial
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Google Analytics Launches Skills Qualification Program

If you have just started working on your Google Analytics and just worried of how to use it in a better way and looking for some skills and expertise in using it more efficiently. Well, there's nothing to worry about this now as Google has got some good news for you. It is offering a free online course in web analytics techniques and Google Analytics implementation, administration, and analysis tools for everyone who is interested. Yes its absolutely Free ! Training program guys.

Google Analytics IQ Certification


In addition to this Google is launching a skills qualification program. The program is called as Google Analytics IQ or Google Analytics Individual Qualification. When you get this Certification it will help you to use Google brand to brand yourself to the clients or raise your reputation to your boss if you are in-house professional.

Google says this test costs 50$ and you must get a score of at least 75% to pass it and receive the certification.

More Details can be found at ConversionUniversity.com.
For FAQ's visit FAQ's
For Google Analytics IQ Test
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Google Enters into Twitter (Google+Twitter)

Google has started a Twitter Account. It may seem to be insane, as it has taken quite a long time for Google to open its account on Twitter which is at twitter.com/Google.


Google + Twitter = Twoogling?

Now there is a buzz around on Twitter is Google+Twitter=Twoogling now. Haha may be its right to say so :). Now you be wondering what might be the first message from Google. Well its a binary message [Check the screen shot above].

“I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010”

Which may be Roughly translated to : I’m F E E L I N G L U C K Y. Ahh thats a google sign.

Now the interesting things to note here is, Google's entrance into Twitter is warm welcomed by its rivals Yahoo and Live Search. Which in turn is greeted with a thanks. Now how often you find such gestures among your rivals ;).

Yahoo Welcomes Google


Live Search Welcomes Google


Google Thanks Yahoo and Live

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Desktop Reporting for Google Analytics

Desktop Reporting brings Google Analytics to the desktop which isn't released yet but looks very cool for GA users. Desktop Reporting helps you in tracking your visitors, campaigns, viewing your AdWords ROI metrics, referrals, etc. If you are anxious in knowing when this feature will be available to everyone click over to Desktop Reporting and sign up with your name and email to get latest updates and information on this product


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Google Website Optimizer Channel Launched on YouTube

Google has launched the Google Website Optimizer channel on Youtube where you can find useful videos like Always Be Testing webinar series with Bryan Eisenberg as well as some simple instructional videos like Setting up an A/B Experiment in 5 minutes.

If you are keen to keep up with all updates of the new videos you can subscribe to the Website Optimizer Channel or add an iGoogle gadget to your homepage.


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Some alternatives to Google to search the Web

If you searching the with Google and obsessed for not finding the right information you are searching for there. What you gotta do next. Well relax ! nothing to worry, there are some alternatives too which helps you in finding the right information on web apart from the mighty Google.

Mahalo.com a human search engine helps you by providing reviews and comments on Web sites thereby bringing up more relevant results. Mahalo means which means "thank you" in Hawaiian employs human editors to review websites and write search engine results pages that include text listings, as well as other media, such as photos and video into its directory. Mahalo's aims at improving its search quality by eliminating search spam from low-quality websites, such as those that have excessive advertising, distribute malware, or engage in phishing scams. For More information visit Mahalo



Pipl.com. If you are using a search engine such as Google or Yahoo to search for people it may work in some cases and in some cases it won't. Here pipl.com, The most comprehensive people search on the web helps you in finding yours lost relative, an old flame, a classmate or a business contact. Pipl's query-engine helps to find deeper web pages that cannot be found with regular search engines. If you are not convinced yet you may give it a try to know it better.



snooth.com a search engine and community site for wine lovers helps to find deeper content by using topic specific search engines which are known as vertical-interest sites.



SeamlessWeb is the fastest, easiest, and smartest way to order food online. It includes menus and restaurant reviews and help to Order food online from thousands of restaurants on your own personal account.


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Search engine ad revenues in China reaches $743 mln in 2008

Data Center of the China Internet (DCCI) on Feb 5 announced that advertising revenue through Search engines generated a high total of RMB 5.08 billion ($743.01 million) in China in 2008 which is up 86.2% YOY. The knock-on effect on the advertising market and the increase in search volumes is mainly boosted by the hosting of large events like Beijing Olympics.



However the predictions for 2009 by DCCI is forecasted at RMB 8.49 billion ($1.24 billion) an increase of 67% while the figure for 2011 is at RMB 24.82 billion ($3.63 billion).
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Google Analytics details on your iPhone

Google Analytics on your iphone. Now you might be wondering Google might have launched this application. Hold on for a min Guys, its not Google. AnalyticsApp.com has launched an this application which helps to track yours Google Analytics details on yours iphone. The Analytics App is available on the iPhone AppStore for $5.99. But i am hopeful that Google may come up with Analytics App free which is it probably know for, launch of free products. This application gives access to yours Analytics data anytime. And now if you are looking buy this application click this link App Store.

Whether you are in a meeting or sitting on a throne this app gives you a quick and easy access to yours google analytics data at your fingertips. This is Cool isn't ?.









Some of its cool Features include:
1) Quick overview of its data
2) Detailed reports for more deeper analysis
3) Multiple login and Multiple accounts support
4) Custom Reporting and Goals

In addition to these it has 29 Overview reports like Overview Reports, Visitors Reports, Traffic Reports, Content Reports, Event Tracking Reports, Custom Reports, etc
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Explore the Internet World with Google Bus India

Google which is primarily popular in the Internet arena for its Search and also other Products like Orkut, Gmail, Maps, Youtube, Blogger, etc had come up with an Internet Bus Project which is an attempt to educate people about what the Internet is, through a custom-made Internet-enabled bus, which will travel across several towns and cities in India and explaining them how Internet may be beneficial to their lives.

Google Internet Bus in India










The bus which started its journey from Chennai on 03 Feb is expected to travel across different places in Tamilnadu before reaching to Tiruvannamalai on 13 Mar.

If you are looking to follow the latest Updates on the Google Internet Bus you can visit at google internet bus

Find more Google bus pics on Picasa

If you are excited to watch the bus in videos visit Youtube

If you are into Orkut you can visit the Orkut community

You can also visit Blogger for more information on Google Bus
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