Seven things you ought to know about Google

1. 32.03 acres - thats the size of Googleplex (Google headquarters).

2. All employees are entitled to free organic foods from Google's own restaurant.

3. Google understands the needs and desires of its employees, and therefore permits them to take the leverage of one day a week to work as per their wish, which can also include putting effort on their own website promotion.

4. Keeping in mind the millions of online users they have the provisions for 200,000 computers for providing the requisite support.

5. It was in November 1998 that Google had its a webpage recorded and that too without a logo.

6. In 2004, Google gave AOL a convincing offer thereby taking over the European Market even though Yahoo was already involved in an unsigned deal with AOL.

7. Around 15 million library books have been digitized and published on Google.

5 Most Unusual Photos from Google Earth

Guitar-Shaped Mansion 

Osmington White Horse

The Osmington White Horse, outside Sutton Poyntz, UK. This prehistoric figure is carved into the white chalk of the hillside - such horse carved shapes are called “Leucippotomy”.

Google Escher Effect pic from Houston

Here’s another weird satellite pic from Google Maps of some downtown Houston kyscrapers. This effect has become known as the “Escher Effect”, or the “Google Escher Effect”.

 

Terrain Face in Google Maps

The terrain in Alberta, Canada accidentally forms what looks like a human face when viewed from the air or when viewing the satellite pic in Google Maps.

The Palm Islands of Dubai

The Palm Islands are artificial islands in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on which major commercial and residential infrastructure will be constructed. They are being constructed by Nakheel Properties, a property developer in the United Arab Emirates, who hired Belgian and Dutch dredging and marine contractor Jan De Nul and Van Oord, some of the world’s specialists in land reclamation. The islands are the Palm Jumeirah, the Palm Jebel Ali and the Palm Deira.

How Does Google Work?

We always search over Google and it shows some related results in accordance to our search query. Have you ever thought, How Google works when you type a query into its search box?

Here is a great information that I have collected from SEOBOOK.com. Let's have a dip into it.

This image might need updated in the years to come, but it does a great job laying out how Google works when you type a query into their search engine. Search is so easy to do that it is hard to appreciate how complex it is unless you take a look under the hood. Which is exactly what this graphic does :D

http://ppcblog.com/how-google-works/

A side benefit of this graphic is that it should help prospective clients realize how complex SEO & PPC campaigns can be. So if anyone is trying to be an el cheapo with their budget you can use this to remind them how complex search is, and thus how time consuming and expensive a proper search marketing campaign is.

Seven things you ought to know about Google.

1. 32.03 acres - thats the size of Googleplex (Google headquarters).

2. All employees are entitled to free organic foods from Google's own restaurant.

3. Google understands the needs and desires of its employees, and therefore permits them to take the leverage of one day a week to work as per their wish, which can also include putting effort on their own website promotion.

4. Keeping in mind the millions of online users they have the provisions for 200,000 computers for providing the requisite support.

5. It was in November 1998 that Google had its a webpage recorded and that too without a logo.

6. In 2004, Google gave AOL a convincing offer thereby taking over the European Market even though Yahoo was already involved in an unsigned deal with AOL.

7. Around 15 million library books have been digitized and published on Google.

Google updated the Real Estate Information presentation in Google Maps.

Recently the Official Google Australia Blog has posted this latest string upgradation that -

Google Builds Out A National Real Estate Search Engine.

It says that there are videos and inspection times also, but Google plans to add the more new information in real estate place page in future.

Property information, photos, map placement, Street View imagery and functionality - all are included in real estate place pages. Not only have these pages included the public transit details, and AdWords functionality. Links for “Directions” and “Search nearby,” are added by Google as well as a “Send” link that opens an outgoing email with the place page link embedded inside.

Before these changes of Google, a home buyer could also get the individual property information for some time. But some old information and also some user-unfriendly info pop-up windows came out. This new changes in real estate place page brings out the most originally information, short and clean links (like this). It's now more user friendly for home buyers that they can easily pass around.

With out paying get your website above the results on Google

I am telling about a one of the trick that will help your website getting top on Google search.

Google says:

We like to make search as easy as we can, so we've just finished the worldwide rollout of local search results on a map, which will now appear even when you don't type in a location. When you search on Google, we will guess where you are and show results near you.

So for getting this top position on Google search every website should be listed in Google Maps also. It’s very important for many businessmen when their site offers a service or a product and that to be relevant to a specific area. If the website is not listed in Google Maps, the webmaster might miss many visitors.

Visitors get the detail information about your business

Google search shows the local results above the first regular result on the result pages. People can see the exact location of your business if your website is listed in Google Local. They can access your company details. If visitors search with your particular business name (for example "Auroin SEO") your business will come on the top of the search results, than all other results.

How to get listed on Google Maps

Simply go to Google Map "Google Local Business Center". Login to your Google account and click "add new listing". Then step by step put your business information as follows there.

How to optimize your Google Maps listing

As you all businessmen are listing there business in Google Map. So getting a better listing on Google Map you have to optimize your Google maps listing. I have some tips that you may be like to follows.

- When you are putting your detail information into Google Maps, try to give as much true information as possible about your company with choosing a best category for your company. Don't forget to add the opening and closing time/day, payment types etc. It will impress to visitors also.

- Try to add videos and images that relevant to your company.

- When you are addressing to your company, then it will be better if its location or address is belonging to central name of the town. To get top of the list, it is a one of the step.

- A good position in other online directories or yellow pages it affects to your top listing in Google Map also. Its why because Google Maps compiles its local results by crawling and parsing data from other online directories and databases. So you need to submit your site in several local online yellow pages or in directories.

The more information you provide the better. List your website to more local directories, get more benefits.

One more important thing I forgot to write here. Don't put any duplicate information in your company information. Use also some keywords in your company descriptions but not do more that would like spam. Keep spam free to Google Map.

Google doesn’t use the keywords meta tag in web search

Do you know that Google doesn't follow the meta keywords for web search in search engine? I have been giving important on the meta keywords for a better ranking, before read this topic from Matt Cutts blog. I always consider that its one of the most important step to get search engine ranking.

According to Matt Cutts in two hundred signals the keywords meta tag is not a signal that Google uses in it's web search rankings. And it won't be in future.

This video clarifies that the keywords meta tag is not something that you need to worry about, or at least not in Google.

Yes one more thing that I would like to write here. You should keep analyze and give important on your keyword meta tag because it helps in your Custom Search Engine solution and/or site-specific searches. And its a wrong massage that no major search engines use the keyword meta tag.