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Disagree with Google’s search results? or you want a page appear on the first result page whenever you search for the same query, You’ll be able to do something about it with a change the company released on Thursday.

Google’s SearchWiki is a feature that lets people elevate, delete, add, and annotate search results. Google remembers the changes a person made to search results, so repeat searches will show the same customizations and notes.

This is a search feature that gets a user more control over their search results,” said Cedric Dupont, Google’s SearchWiki product manager.

There’s also a collaborative element: people can see how many customazation done by others, by clicking a “See all notes for this SearchWiki” link at the bottom of each search results page. That shows notes and how people have promoted or deleted pages in aggregate.

Google will use people’s voting behavior as an input to the regular search algorithm that determines the order of search results. Google already employs human judgment in its algorithm by virtue of its PageRank technique, which judges a Web site’s merit in part on how many other Web sites link to it, but people promoting or deleting specific Web addresses could be another signal.

Today when i open my gmail account i got this message…

New! Colors and themes
Check out the Themes tab in Settings to personalize the look and feel of your inbox or return to the classic look.

November 19, 2008 Gmail launched the themes to personalize your inbox. There are 30 themes launched today. To customize your inbox, go to the Themes tab under Settings. They will be rolling out themes to everyone over the next couple of days, so if you don’t see them yet, check back soon.

In some of the theme gmail modified its logo also to make sync with the theme. Those who doesn’t like the logo can use them.

In honor of our 10th birthday, we’ve brought back our oldest available index. Take a look back at Google in January 2001.

Lets go with google to the year 2001. It is the year when Google has first complete archived index. Search some of the interesting term of the history.

Google, tells in its FAQ section that index is not actually a perfect reproduction of the real 2001 index; it says that it is a pretty good approximation. Some index entries have been removed for various reasons over time. Google’s FAQ also adds that this special search engine won’t be live forever, but just for one month.

Google is dropping an ‘o’ from its logo, while you append &num=100&start=990 at the end of the search url. If you search for a any url like http://www.google.co.in/search?q=site:+knolindia.com&hl=en&filter=0 then at the bottom of the search result google gives the link for other pages. For example if you search using the link

http://www.google.co.in/search?q=site:+knolindia.com&hl=en&filter=0

Result is

Again if you search using the link

http://www.google.co.in/search?q=site:+knolindia.com&hl=en&filter=0&num=100&start=990

then the surprize result comes. Result is a google logo where ‘o’ is dropped.

After doing any kind of search, you can append the “num=100″ parameter to the query string to get 100 results instead of the default 10. Another useful parameter is the “start=990″ that takes you to the last page of the results, without having to click through to the end.

Found at SEOmoz

Today, google is realeasing a new web browser called “Google Chrome” beta.

“Why are we launching Google Chrome? Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web,” Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management, and Linus Upson, Google engineering director, wrote in a blog post.

It is a open source web browser created using WebKit rendering engine. This will warm up the web browser war with IE and Mozilla. Find the list of the feature here.

Screenshot of the google chrome

Google Chrome Service logo

Google Chrome By the Google Chrome team, comics adaptation by Scott McCloud

80% market share… still out of reach by yahoo (12 %)…

Google labs again comes with a new product named lively:google room. Still in the beta version as the others new products of google. Here you can create a virtual room and invite friends to chat and hangout there. The 3D room concept is some thing different from other room chat clients.

Above is a sample room view. You have to install a Lively client in the machine and thats it, go and create avatrs and design the room. Invite the friends and help others to decorate the room. You can personalize your surroundings with catalog of avatars, outfits, furniture and rooms.