As I mentioned before, Google Gaydar was a “feature” that came from the search engine that wasn’t announced, but did catch the attention of many when it was noticed. This feature is part of a new adjustment to Google’s services, called by most: Google Best Guess.
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Yes, that title is correct. Google has not made any announcement that I’ve heard about regarding this, but you can actually type a query into the search engine to find out what Google’s “gaydar” has determined.
Here’s my test of the latest Google Gaydar functionality:
So there you have it. Perhaps it’s accurate, perhaps it’s something one of the developers put in as an easter egg that got discovered, perhaps it’ll be gone tomorrow. But for right now it’s yet another Google tool that can be used freely from your computer.
It’s probably still in beta, though.
So today Google put up a Les Paul theme for their new logo. And it’s interactive! I’m a guitarist, so I played with it a bit and found out this about it. All the “strings” are corded so that the notes go up as you play downwards. The reverse of what a normal guitar tablature does. The actual notes are as follows, going down: C, E on the top of the “G” of “Google”. Then in the middle section, on the left, G, B, G (an octave up), then another B an octave up on the bottom of the “G”. And then on the right, A, D, F#, then another A an octave up.
The button underneath is to record what you might be able to figure out. I noticed that there are some basic chords in place with the strings arranged as they are. Not every note is in place for all these chords, but the rough structure is as follows: a C major (minus the 5th) using the top two strings of the “G” of “Google”, a G major (minus the 5th) for the middle three strings and bottom string of the “G”, and then a D major over A (also known as D/A) for the strings on the right. It’s tricky to play them, but if you can work the mouse well you can play the chords nicely. Here’s a basic composition I put together.
I’m quite pleased with seeing Google put some music on the home page. Hope you have fun with it – if you make any particularly cool compositions, put the link to them in the comments!
So I was up late and had YouTube going. Noticed a funky little button to the bottom right. “1911? What’s that mean?” So I clicked it, of course. And it’s awesome. I highly recommend you try it out. Especially their review on the best viral pictures from 100 years ago.
Just a quick post to give a notice of one of Google’s fun additions to their sites. Aside from their open position for autocompleters, of course.
Today Google’s made a major change in Google Places (known to many as Google Maps). The 7-box is no longer a separate entity, but is now merged with the full organic results. This is a game-changer for SEO.
You may have heard about this, but Bing and Facebook have joined forces, and now Bing is going to start displaying results based on Facebook posts.
This is pretty big news. Google’s just released (on 9/9/10) a new site, called the Google AdWords Small Business Center. This is a site dedicated to helping people learn more about how to use AdWords or how to improve existing accounts.
There are several lessons here, with tips and even a link to the AdWords Beginners’ Guide. It looks to be a good place for people to learn about AdWords, although the site by itself doesn’t appear to be fully comprehensive. However, they do include links to other pages, including a link that allows you to search for an AdWords Pro (such as myself, yes, I am an AdWords Pro) to help take care of all of the work involved in managing your AdWords account.
At any rate – if you’re having trouble with your AdWords account in any way, I recommend checking out Google’s new Small Business Center. It might give you the help you’re looking for.
As most everyone has noticed by this point, Google Instant is now live. Searches provide results real-time, making the things you’re searching for appear more quickly, and in some cases, allowing searchers to find other results they may not otherwise have discovered. There is a lot of speculation out there on how this will affect SEO.
Nothing really new here, but sometimes it’s good to see what the big guns think about search engine optimization. Does Google approve of SEO? Do they have an opinion on it? Good? Bad?
Well, they most certainly have an opinion on it. In fact, they even offer solid advice to anyone interested on the Google SEO page (a page with guidelines, within the Webmaster Tools pages).
One of Google’s new developments is the adding of another search element to their engine. Time. You can now search for a certain “freshness” of content in Google’s cache. Read more
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