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Les PAUL doodle

Who knows Les Paul? I guess today everybody. Google shows an amazing Doodle on the homepage. It is an interactiv guitare doodle. By rolling over you can play music with. If you click on the button (small Google-„g“) you can record your music. Les Paul was an american guitare-legende. The musician developed the electronic guitare and a lot of sound effects. He was born 96 years ago, on June 9, 1915 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA. Read on »

Google Images Germany

I took nearly a year. In Juny 2010 Google has relaunched it’s images search. As usual Google rolled out this new layout step by step all over the world. But not in Germany. May be we are the last country where the old Google image search still works – until today. Three days ago Google presented the new feature „sort by subject“ – and I ask myself, what will happen in Germany. And as we can see now: Google uses the new feature to update the German image-search. Read on »

Funny joke: Google +1

[This story is an april fools joke :-), Do not believe it.] As everey jear Google fools the search world with a funny joke. This year it is really nice: Google launches a „new social media button“ called „+1“. A lot of experts and search-engine optimizers believe in the story and wrote many articles in this new feature. But of course it’s just a joke. Today Google confirms the april fools in the official blog (click for zoom). Read on »

Robert Bunsen 200. birthday

Today ist „Bunsen burner day“. 200 years ago, precisely on 30 March 1811, the later chemist Robert Bunsen was born in Göttingen, Germany. The researcher and professor gets famous with the development of a gas burner called „bunsen-burner“. The gas-powered flame could be controlled selectively. It has become the epitome of a creative chemistry laboratory. Of course Google take the chance to honor Robert Bunsen today with a nice bubbling interactive doodle. Read on »

Harry Houdini Doodle

„The great Houdini“ was born on March 24, 1874. Today is the 174th birthday of the „magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer noted for his sensational escape acts“. Born as Erik Weisz in Budapest his parents emigrates to the USA when Erik was four years old. With 17 years he discoverd his passion for magical tricks. He gaved himself an artist name: „Harry Houdini„. He took the Harry of the magician Harry Kellar, and the lastname  of his idol Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin. A friend told him that the „i“ at the end of Houdini sounds more magically. Read on »

Will Eisner Doodle (Denny Colt)

Today’s Google Homepage shows a Doodle. It honors the legendary comic-artist Will Eisner. The jewish drawer was born on March, 6th in 1917. 1933 he starts to craw comics – and in 1940 he creates Denny Colt. Nearly 12 years every weekend a new episode was published. Will Eisner developed a new kind of story-telling: the graphic novel. He didn’t wrote a concept of a story for a number of pages – he draws the story as it came. Unfortunatly in 1952 Will stops to draw comics. It took 20 years before he restarts his machine again. His style of drawing and story-tellings has a deeply influence in modern comics. Read on »

Using tinEye example

The following article is extremly important for optimizing images for Google’s image-search. I would say it is a point on an „i“. Usually images are optimized onpage (for this see: „Image Seo basics: optimizing images for Google-imageSearch„). But on some keywords you can implement all optimization tipps – the images won’t rank on the first pages. Why? This article gives an answer. Notice: all of the following pictures are shown if you search with the „safeSearch filter: moderate“. Surprizing… Read on »

Thomas Edison Doodle

[Actual: „Google honors Louis Daguerre with nice doodle„] … „Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.“ To perspire means sweating, and the man who said this was Thomas Edison. Today the large, sweaty american inventor would have turned 164 years old. Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847. In that time there was no electricity, no telephone, no recordings or other products, it was a completely different way of life. Thomas Edison patented 2,000 inventions. Many of them are related with consumer products that make life easier. He has electrified New York and co-founded a company, that grows to a global corporation: General Electric. Read on »

Twitter spam-girl

Twitter spam sucks. Unbelievable how clumbsy it is. When I open twitter in the morning I feel happy about 30 new follower. Not only today but nearly everyday. And I wonder why most times nice looking girls follow me… No, of course I do not wonder anymore. Every day a legion of good looking girls with nice private avatar-pictures waits for me in the follower list. And they look at me and say: „Follow me, baby!“ Each one seems to be unique and single. But if you look on their profiles it’s allways the same: the have about 20-50 followers, and they follow about 500 – 800 other people. And: until now they haven’t said anything… Read on »

hiybbprqag

Hiybbprqag? Google developers have coded a tricky search engine language. Hiybbprqag means „I kick you in the …„! They call their new code synthetic search. It’s for checking Bings search results. Nice idea! Does bing steal results from Googles search engine? On the right a real photo of Mr. Hiybbprqag Ballmer himself. Look at him and hear how the hiybbprqag says „Bing decides to search with Google“.

Read the full story on SearchEngineLand: „Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results“ by Danny Sullivan. Update: here is the official Google posting: „Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results—and denies it„. Read on »