Google Chrome New Logo
Google Chrome has started using the new logo. New Chrome web browser logo is 2D with less shining as compare to previous one which was 3D with glow.
Google’s Chrome web browser get popularity quickly due to its speed and making visitors web experience clutter free.
Whats your opinion about new look? Waiting your comments.
Google Comes First AdWords API Lauch Of 2011
Today, Google has annouched the lauched of Adword 
API with features like the ability to run reports across clients, better filtering, improved geo-targeting, and the ability to deploy and measure “experiments,” or A/B split testing.
A complete list of changes is available in the v201101 release notes.
Google’s New Navigation Bar Rolling Out
Today, when I visited Google.com I found new navigation bar on top. In Google India, old navigation bar is still showing. New navigation bar is being rolled out to everyone now so soon it will show in Google India too.
Below is the picture of new navigation of Google Search home page.
Below is the picture of old navigation of Google India Search home page.
This roll out I have been seen in Gmail and Google Images but not for others yet.
Google Penalizes Forbes.com
Few hours back Forbes.com’s Denis Pinsky, the Digital Marketing Manager, posted a Google Webmaster Help thread where he get the notification warning from Google about penalizing the Forbes’s site. Denis Pinsky asked, “Can someone help figure out what Links are in violation?”
Here is full message:
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Dear site owner or webmaster of http://www.forbes.com/,
We’ve detected that some or all of your pages are using techniques that are outside our quality guidelines, which are available here:http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769&hl=en.
Specifically, look for possibly artificial or unnatural links on your site pointing to other sites that could be intended to manipulate PageRank. For more information about our linking guidelines, visit
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66356&hl=en.
We encourage you to make changes to your site so that it meets our quality guidelines. Once you’ve made these changes, please visit https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/reconsideration?hl=en to submit your site for reconsideration in Google’s search results.
If you have any questions about how to resolve this issue, please see our Webmaster Help Forum for support: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en.
Google clearly told that Forbes have “artificial or unnatural links on your site pointing to other sites that could be intended to manipulate PageRank” on their web site. In other words, they are selling links, which is against Google’s guidelines.
Free Offline Blog Editors
Today, I was searching free offline blog editors even though I am a fan of BlogDesk. I have also tried few offline blog editors in the past including wblogger, Windows Live Writer and Zoundry Raven.
Apart from other offline blog editor, BlogDesk is my favorite, hands down. Best part I like about BlogDesk is its interface which is easy to understand with a WYSIWIG editor and icons that will be recognizable by any bloggers.
For those who are looking best free offline blogging software programs, here you can find your offline blogging software:-
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BlogDesk – BlogDesk is a free Windows offline blogging WYSIWIG editor optimized for WordPress, Movable Type, Drupal etc. With BlogDesk you can change the date stamp for your posts, so you can schedule when they will go live. You can even edit posts that you already published through BlogDesk.
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Windows Live Writer – Windows Live Writer is a free offline blogging software that help you to manage and also create your posts offline and manually post to the WordPress editor. Best thing about Windows Live Writer is that there’s growing number of plugins available that help you to suits your bloggin needs.
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wblogger – Really cool because it can also ran on a flash drive, perfect solutions for folks have using a small hard drive.
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ScribeFire – Perfect blog editors for those who don’t want to install any blog software or for newbie. ScribeFire is a simple, but feature rich Firefox addon. ScribeFire is integrates with your FireFox browser and give you ability to post to your blog.
There are other blog editors: Qumana, Zoundry Raven, Post2Blog and Flock’s built-in blog editor are examples.
BTW what’s your favorite free offline blog editor?
New Year 2011 Wishes
I wish everyone the success they deserve in 2010.
I hope that your dreams come true for you and yours.
Happy New Year 2011 to everyone 
December 2009 U.S. Search Engine Rankings
On 15th January, comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) announced the December 2009 search numbers of the U.S. search marketplace.
Google is still leading US search market with 65.7%. Ask is down slightly, so are AOL and Yahoo. Google and Bing are up.
| comScore Core Search Report* December 2009 vs. November 2009 Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations Source: comScore qSearch |
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| Core Search Entity | Share of Searches (%) | ||
| Nov-09 | Dec-09 | Point Change Dec-09 vs. Nov-09 | |
| Total Core Search | 100.0% | 100.0% | N/A |
| Google Sites | 65.6% | 65.7% | 0.1 |
| Yahoo! Sites | 17.5% | 17.3% | -0.2 |
| Microsoft Sites | 10.3% | 10.7% | 0.4 |
| Ask Network | 3.8% | 3.7% | -0.1 |
| AOL LLC Network | 2.8% | 2.6% | -0.2 |
Google Nexus One Phone
Today Google has just announced (and released) the Nexus One Phone.
You can buy it for $529 (or $179 with a two year T-Mobile contract). Nexus One represents Google’s vision of what an Android phone should be. Mike Arrington has reviewed of the Nexus One phone.
“I’ve been using the Nexus One with TMobile since mid-December as my primary mobile phone. This is the best Android powered phone to date. It’s also the fastest and most elegant smartphone on the market today, solidly beating the iPhone in most ways.“
According to Business Insider :
“Google’s biggest, most important announcement today isn’t the Nexus One smartphone’s feature set, specifications, or which carrier networks it will work on. It’s Google’s business model that matters.
Specifically, it’s that Google — not your local phone store — is going to be the place you buy the phone from.”
By contrast ZDNet says that selling direct is no big deal, Amazon does it, Apple does it and so do others:
“Apple sells its own phones. Unlocked phones are also sold by Nokia and Palm. What’s the big deal?”
As the smartphone wars continue to heat up the Nexus One is entering a marketplace that is currently dominated by the iPhone 3GS with and gaining popularity of the Droid by Verizon Wireless.
Currently it is not available in India so we have to wait. 
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Seesmic Acquired Ping.fm
Yesterday Seesmic announced that it has acquired Ping.fm. This service has more than half a million active users who post daily from various devices just by sending an email, a text message or chat. A list of apps that support Ping.fm can be found here.
Seesmic says that Seesmic applications on Blackberry, Android, Web, Windows and OSX via Air will all have advanced Ping.fm integration “very shortly,” and will instantly support 50 social networks. Users will be able to update not only with the apps they are used to, but also with Ping.fm’s email, sms and chat gateways, the company says.
“Ping.fm is compatible with every single Internet device in the world, which why it has become so successful among thousands of users,” says Seesmic. “Try using chat to update Twitter, and you’ll find it direct and seamless as you can post updates from gtalk, aim or skype through Ping.fm. It’s so simple and amazing, and it’s always on.”
Caffeine – Google’s New Version of Google Search
Google has just unveiled a “secret project” of the next generation of Google Search. I don’t think it is a minor upgrade but a fully new search infrastructure of Google search.
This new architecture appears to include crawling, indexing, and ranking changes. This time Google is replacing these changes in existing infrastructure. This project is still under construct and it has a developer preview. Here you can get a preview of how the search results will change over the next few weeks and months. Right now this preview isn’t up for mobile version or an international version. Visitors have to search on Google.com to see the result.
Based on the blog post, Google’s goal for the new version of Google Search is to improve its indexing speed, accuracy, size, and comprehensiveness. Here’s what they wrote:
For the last several months, a large team of Googlers has been working on a secret project: a next-generation architecture for Google’s web search. It’s the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions. The new infrastructure sits “under the hood” of Google’s search engine, which means that most users won’t notice a difference in search results. But web developers and power searchers might notice a few differences, so we’re opening up a web developer preview to collect feedback.
Undoubtedly, Google Caffeine is not only faster, but it seems more capable of producing real-time results.