Google Birthday Story and logos
September 29, 2008
Google is celebrating its 10th birthday, not actually a day as Google itself isn’t sure about the exact day of its launch.In fact, knowing exactly when Google’s birthday is depends on your point of view. Some milestones to consider below, which make Google as old as 12 and as young as 9. Plus, more special Google birthday logos.
Google The 12 Year Old
January 1996
This is when Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on BackRub, what later become Google. Use this month, and Google is 12 years old.
Google The 10 Year Old
Sept. 15, 1997
This is when Google registered google.com because they both( Larry Page and Sergery Brin) felt that BackRub needs a new name, and Google was derived from Googol which means a mathematical term with 1 followed by 100 zeros(A geeky decision right?)
Google The 9 Year Old
Sept. 7, 1998
This is when Google may have officially incorporated.
Google The 9 Year Old
Sept. 27, 1998 (Current Official Date)
Back in 2005, Google declared that Sept. 27 was its birthday. But wait — what happened with that Sept. 7 date? Well, in 2005, Yahoo came along and freaked Google out by announcing an index that was larger than Google’s. It had been ages since anyone did that.
Things got resolved by Google doing some PR. They announced that for their “birthday,” they’d gotten bigger — but were also dropping the count of pages from the home page, which helped (thankfully) defuse the size wars that often meant nothing about search quality.
It’s Their Party, They’ll Party When They Want To!
Google Birthday Logos
Google’s been putting them up consistently since 2002. The first year, it happened on September 27, then shifted to September 7, then back to September 27 from 2005 onward.
4th Birthday: 2002
Celebrated on September 27th, 2002.
5th Birthday: 2003
Celebrated on September 7th, 2003.
6th Birthday: 2004
Celebrated on September 7th, 2004.
7th Birthday: 2005
Celebrated on September 27th, 2005.
8th Birthday: 2006
Celebrated on September 27th, 2006.
9th Birthday: 2007:
10th Birthday 2008
Google offers $10 Million for world’s best ideas
September 26, 2008
Google is offering $10 million as prize money in a competition aimed at transforming the world’s best ideas into useful products.
The competition is open to anyone. The seven categories include sustainable energy use, environment, health, education, shelter, encouraging communities, and building opportunities to help people better provide for themselves and their families. An eighth category is simply titled “everything else”.
Categories:
- Community: How can we help connect people, build communities and protect unique cultures?
- Opportunity: How can we help people better provide for themselves and their families?
- Energy: How can we help move the world toward safe, clean, inexpensive energy?
- Environment: How can we help promote a cleaner and more sustainable global ecosystem?
- Health: How can we help individuals lead longer, healthier lives?
- Education: How can we help more people get more access to better education?
- Shelter: How can we help ensure that everyone has a safe place to live?
- Everything else: Sometimes the best ideas don’t fit into any category at all.
Ideas can be submitted through a form available on the Project 10 to the 100th website , which poses questions including, “If your idea were to become a reality, who would benefit the most and how?” and “Describe the optimal outcome should your idea be selected and successfully implemented”.
Members of the public have until 20th October to submit their ideas by completing a simple form and answering a few short questions about their idea. Entrants can also include a link to a 30 second video either demonstrating their idea in action or giving a more detailed explanation.
Entries will be accepted in 25 languages and Google have placed no limit on the number of ideas any one individual can share.
An advisory board will work with Google employees to narrow the entrants down to the top 100, with the results to be announced on 27th January, 2009. It will then be up to the public to vote for their favourites before 2nd February when the top 20 ideas will be passed on to a panel of judges to whittle down.
All the best my friends!! I hope atleast one idea in top 20 from OUR INDIANS
Fault in Hadron Collider delays Big Bang experiment
September 23, 2008
The next stage of the multi-billion dollar ‘Big Bang’ experiment to unearth the secrets of cosmos has been delayed after an overheated magnet caused problems in the Hadron Collier.
The engineers were forced to shut down the machine after a quench forced the temperature of super-cooled magnets to rise up to 100° C late Friday. The scientists had expected to move to the next stage of the experiment, where they collide the beams head on, but moving forward seems difficult for now.
The first experiment of LHC was successful.
Considered one of the most expensive experiments in history, it tries to relive the ‘Big Bang’ that created the universe about 14 billion years ago.
More than 5,000 scientists, engineers and technicians from nearly three dozen countries are working on the ‘Big Bang’ experiment.
Here is an Animation of Big Bang Experiment
Google Updated Chrome version to 0.2.149.30 – Build 2200
September 22, 2008
Google has updated Chrome to version 0.2.149.30 – Build 2200. After its initial release, Google has finally released the next updated version to patch its bugs and security fixes. The previous version of Google Chrome was 0.2.149.29 Build 1798.
Here is how to get the latest update:
- Go to Tools (wrench icon) located at the upper right hand corner of browser.
- Click “About Google Chrome” .
- Click “Update Now”.
- Restart the browser and now it should say 0.2.149.30 Build 2200.
Security Updates
- [r2042] Fix a potential denial of service with very long title attributes on tags. The title attribute sets the tooltip text when you hover the mouse over an element.
Security Rating: Low risk. This can lead to 100% CPU usage or a tab crash.
More information: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30975
Other Changes
- [r1927] Stop adding content from HTTPS sites to the searchable index.
Google Chrome keeps a searchable history of pages you visit. This history is only stored locally on your computer. Previously, this searchable history included the text from secure sites, such as your online bank (any sites using SSL for security). Google Chrome no longer saves text from secure pages in its local history. The address bar and local history search page will no longer find data from secure sites you have visited.If you are concerned about data that might have been indexed for searching before this release, you can follow the Google Chrome Help Center instructions for clearing your browsing history.
- [r1978] Don’t send sensitive URLs to search suggest services. Google Chrome stops sending data to a suggest service if the typed URL:
- contains a username:password field (http://username:password@example.com/)
- has query parameters (the trailing ?param=data following the URL)
- is an https URL with any path component (any part following the hostname, such as /path in https://www.example.com/path)
- [r1859] Fix problems with Flash not playing video if too many connections are opened. For example, using the slider to advance video on YouTube could cause video to stop playing.
- [r1299] JavaScript: Dispatch contextmenu events after mouseup events. This fixes the right-click menu not working on Google Spreadsheets. Fixes bug 745.
- [r1692] Fix crashes with some plugins –3dvia was the most widely reported– when they return an error for NPN_GetValue. Fixes bug 493.
Dec 21st-2012 Whats the hell is going on that day??
September 17, 2008
Dec 21 2012 – Today world is abuzz with talk of the year
What actually Dec 21 2012 event means? Why people are afraid of that particular date ?
The date December 21st, 2012 A.D. (13.0.0.0.0 in the Long Count), represents an 
extremely close conjunction of the Winter Solstice Sun with the crossing point of the Galactic Equator (Equator of the Milky Way) and the Ecliptic (path of the Sun), what that ancient Maya recognized as the Sacred Tree. This is an event that has been coming to
resonance very slowly over thousands and thousands of years. It will come to resolution at exactly 11:11 am GMT
What is Mayan Calendar then?
Among their other accomplishments, the ancient Mayas invented a calendar of remarkable accuracy and complexity. At right is the ancient Mayan Pyramid Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico. The Pyramid of Kukulkan at Chichén Itzá, constructed circa 1050 was built during the late Mayan period, when Toltecs from Tula became politically powerful. The pyramid was used as a calendar: four stairways, each with 91 steps and a platform at the top, making a total of 365, equivalent to the number of days in a calendar year.
The Mayan calendar is divided into Seven Ages of Man. The fourth epoch ended in August 1987. The Mayan calendar comes to an end on Sunday, December 21, 2012. Only a few people will survive the catastrophe that ensues. In the fifth age, humanity will realize its spiritual destiny. In the sixth age, we will realize God within ourselves, and in the seventh age we will become so spiritual that we will be telepathic.
Will that surely happens? According to Astronomer Philip Pliat Mayan calendar does not end in 2012 at all, that it is like the odometer on your car, as each section of the odometer reaches 9 and then clicks over to 0, the next number to it starts a new cycle, so that when all the numbers again reach 0 all the way across the odometer – the last number will change from 1 to 2 and the new cycle starts all over again.
Multiple Google Accounts Simultaneously in Google Chrome
September 9, 2008
Google Chrome’s incognito mode is less sophisticated than IE8’s InPrivate browsing, but it has a feature that will be useful for those who have more than one Google account.
When you open a window in incognito mode (Ctrl+Shift+N), your cookies from the standard session are no longer available and you can easily log in to a new Google account.
Chrome’s help center has more details about this feature. “Webpages that you open and files downloaded while you are incognito won’t be logged in your browsing and download histories; all new cookies are deleted after you close the incognito window. You can browse normally and in incognito mode at the same time by using separate windows.” Michael Jeffrey explains that “incognito mode is a window-level mode – all pages viewed within this window are not persisted to the user’s history, and incognito pages use a temporary cookie store that is blank at the start of the incognito session”.
When you close the incognito window, all the cookies are deleted so you need to log in again the next time you browse in incognito mode. This trick can be used for any other services that allow multiple accounts, but you can only use two accounts at the same time: one in a standard window and the other one in incognito mode.
Waiting for Google browser – Google Chrome
September 2, 2008
May be by tomorrow i.e 2nd of Sept 2008, Google is going to announce its Web browser called as Google Chrome – a direct competitor to Mozilla Firefox. Google Chrome is an open source browser based on 
Webkit and powered by Google Gears. The browser, which should be available for download sometime today night( In India), offers a tab bar above the address bar. It lets you fire up Web apps without the toolbar and menus. And, there are thumbnails that show recently visited sites.The scree shots of Google Chrome are available at blogoscoped. Two of the them are
Features of Google Chrome includes…
- Tabbed browsing where each tab gets its own process, leading to faster and more stable browsing. If one tab crashes, the whole browser doesn’t go down with it
- A distinct user interface that places tabs on top of the browser window instead of right below the address bar
- An “incognito” mode that lets you browse the web in complete privacy because it doesn’t record any of your activity
- A new JavaScript engine built from the ground up for speed
- Malware and phishing lists that automatically update themselves and warn you of bad websites
- A default homepage that displays your most commonly used sites and other personalized information
To know more information about this, Google released a Comicbook.Check it
This shows that Google is serious about dethroning Microsoft for consumer and business productivity.
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Released – Looks more powerfull
September 1, 2008
Microsoft new browser IE 8 Beta 2 version which was released on 27th of August 2008 looks more elegant and easier to use, while adding many of the missing features.
“The brand-new implementation of Standards mode in Internet Explorer 8 offers the best viewing experience of web pages created according to the latest web standards.” That means many of the web pages that include code custom tailored for IE won’t look very good, so you need to enable a compatibility view (for some reason, intranet sites are rendered in the compatibility mode by default). A post from March has more information about Microsoft’s decision to apply the standards mode by default.
IE brings CSS improvements, support for data URIs, AJAX enhancements and support for DOM storage. There’s a new tool for developers that includes a DOM inspector, a JavaScript profiler, a color picker and ruler, options to outline objects, disable CSS and validate web pages.
IE8 adds support for suggestions in the search box and this is not restricted to Live Search. Microsoft lists many search providers that can be added: Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia and others. The new interface makes it easy to switch between search providers by clicking on the icons displayed at the bottom.
New feature that was added to IE7 is Inline search that can search inside a page from an elegant bar similar to the one from Safari.can search inside a page from an elegant bar similar to the one from Safari. IE8 includes a simple text viewer with syntax highlighting to view source.Microsift IE8 has a new feature called “Accelerator” which is similar to “Send to” option from Google toolbar which enables to send the selected to text to google services.”Tired of cutting and pasting information from one website to another for everyday tasks? Now there’s a better way. Accelerators give you ready access to the online services you use everyday—from any page you visit.”
The bookmarks placed in a folder are treated as a group: the advantage is that all the bookmarks can be opened with one click, the tabs have a new color and there’s also an option to close the entire group. IE8 automatically creates groups from links opened in new tabs. It’s easy to duplicate a tab and its history, to reopen recently closed tabs and to reopen the last browsing session.
Overall, this is a highly recommended update for IE7, even though you’ll find some sites aren’t displayed properly.
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