Youtube.com the famous video site which was over taken by Google sometime back has now risen above Google itseld in terms of its traffic rankings given by Alexa.

Yahoo.com is leading No.1 Position while YouTube is at second position,MSN Live.com is @ 3rd postion while Google.com is on 4th position.(according to ALEXA traffic ranking)

While according to compete.com Google.com and Yahoo.com are far above the reach of Youtube.com traffic, we must also take into account that compete takes only US visitors into account.

Does the Traffic spike for Youtube signify the time is ripe enough for Video Search Marketing rather than conventional searching techniques with a simple clean home page???

Gmail has some unusual program policies which are infact in place so as to counteract and fight spam.

Sending limits

In an effort to fight spam and prevent abuse, Google will temporarily disable your account if you send a message to more than 500 recipients or if you send a large number of undeliverable messages. If you use a POP or IMAP client (Microsoft Outlook or Apple Mail, e.g.), you may only send a message to 100 people at a time. Your account should be re-enabled within 24 hours.Causes error(Gmail Lockdown in Secton 4)

POP or SMTP Users

Those who use POP or SMTP cant send a mail to more than 100 people at once, Failing this will cause Google to Block your Mail for 1 Day(550 5.4.5 Daily sending quota exceeded)

Broken Mail Addresses

Sendng a mail to a large number of wrong of non existent mail address will cause google  to disable your acount.

Account Inactivity

Google will terminate your account in accordance with Section 9 of the Terms of Use if you fail to login to your account for a period of nine months

Source : Labnol , Gmail Sending Limit , Gmail Program Policies

The Google Logo which is Welcoming the New Year has some hidden East Eggs hidden inside it.

Lets see them

Shown Below is the Google Logo that was displayed on the 1st of Jan

Happy New Year & 25 Years of TCP/IP are the two hidden meaning in the Google Logo displayed on January 1, 2008.

Above Shows the 2008 correctly

ABove image shows the SYN SYN/ACK ACK at the bottom of the coloured logos.

SYN SYN/ACK ACK is a “Three Way Handshake.”

Image Courtesy : Digital Passion

Does anyone know what is the most expensive part of the google homepage.

Its that I’m Feeling Lucky button, which sits on the google homepage , though half the users do not know why exactly its there.

firstly lets know what exactly the button does,

On Clicking the I’m Feeling Lucky button , one is transferred to the first result of the search by passing all the ads which appear from the search.

It costs the company around $110 million in annual revenue, according to Rapt’s Tom Chavez.

Google exec Marissa Mayer”It’s possible to become too dry, too corporate, too much about making money. I think what’s delightful about ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ is that it reminds you there are real people here,”

Source : Valleywag

Whatsopen.com the people who held Segey Brins attention might be the first one to release an application based on the recently released Android

They are most likely developing a Web application which shows users nearby stores and their operating hours .

More screens can be seen at valley wag.

Source: Valley Wag

Google is releasing Android which is the OS of its gPhone.This is supposedly             ” a complete mobile-phone software stack ” . A complete SDK is expected to be launched somewhere soon in the Future.

Its unclear when a gPhone or a Google Phone is expected to be released but its said that we cant expect anything like that in the near future.

Big players involved in the whole stuff include Japanese wireless carriers KDDI and NTT DoCoMo in what will be called the Open Handset Alliance. The rest of the more than 30 other companies involved reads like a who’s-who list of the mobile-computing industry, including Qualcomm, Broadcom, HTC, Intel, Samsung, Motorola, Sprint, and Texas Instruments.

Source Cnet News