The Google India Code Jam 2005 – google plans to hire top minds of india through a code jam contest,

Google bangalore office has planned to organize a contest to select employees, Google code jam a famous google contest is now organize india only,

Google says the following on the organizer page ( topcoder.com )

“Do you have exceptional programming skills? Can you make computers perform like silicon puppets with cleverly crafted code? Are you at ease when faced with a hard deadline and a group of peers scrutinizing your work? Here’s your opportunity to demonstrate the art of Computer Science in a reward-rich environment. Google is looking for engineers with the programming skill to rewrite the world’s information infrastructure. The Google India Code Jam 2005 is one way we hope to find them. While we don’t impose arbitrary deadlines on our engineers, we do put a premium on well-implemented code. And we appreciate the thought process required to create it. In fact, we appreciate clear thinking in all its forms, from puzzle solving to chess mastery (one of our engineers is an International Grand Master). “

Google maps http://maps.google.com an ultimate product from google

Google has introduced a new product from google labs, Its google maps, google maps shows map of US cities, states etc, its a great free resource to see your way through the cities,

Have a look yourself, http://maps.google.com/

Google image index have more than 1 billion images now

First yahoo images reached the 1 billion mark now google image search has crossed 1 billion images, Google now has more than 1,187,630,000 images in their index,

Google blog says ” If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Google Image Search is now worth 1 trillion, 187 billion, 63 million words. Yes, that’s right, math majors; we’ve updated our image index, and now offer users precisely 1.18763 billion newly updated images”

Is Gmail About to go public – will it be available freely to register by everyone

Google has recently given out 50 invitations to most of its gmail Users, Rarely anyone will use 50 accounts so google should be ready for the official launch of the gmail,

Gmail is still in beta version,

Google Local search link now on homepage – Bound to attract more users to google local search

Google’s local search is a great improvement from google, It is an excellent product to find a particular information in a local area,

Before this google’s local link was not there on their homepage, it was there on a subpage which was connected to the google.com homepage, Now the local search link is directly on the homepage,

This is what google says about their local search link on their homepage,

There’s been such great demand for Local search results that we’ve added a Local link on the Google homepage so you can find nearby businesses around the U.S. and Canada even faster than before. Try it out and tell us how it’s working for you. We suggest keeping an eye on Local, too – you’ll soon see even more features. Whether you’re at home or traveling, you’re now one click closer to whetting your appetite.

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is there really a Google Update – webmasterworld guys report update

Webmasterworld.com guys are reporting a possible algorithm update in google, But we havent noticed anything like that if you are interested in whining like the newbies in this thread Please pay a visit and share your feelings,

Update Allegra – Google Update thread http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/27801-1-10.htm

Also some people are reporting google backlink update in this datacenter,

216.239.39.104

Google’s new referral program – Pay’s out 20$ per referral

Google has introduced a new referral program which pays out 20$ per referral, Criteria for earning 20$ google says this on their site,

How you get paid

One of your visitors clicks on the graphic or link and is taken to a Google sign-up page.

That person signs up for an AdWords account or applies to become an AdSense publisher.

Advertisers qualify as completed referrals after they spend $20 with AdWords. Publishers qualify after they earn $75 in AdSense revenue.

Every month, Google calculates the number of completed referrals you have directed to Google.

Once you accrue $100 (five completed referrals) or more, you will receive a check. Google only issues checks once a month (for details, see the FAQ).

More information here: http://www.google.com/referral/

Google Images search Updated, Google updated its image search

Google has updated its image search, Google has previously agreed that they update their image search only once in 2 years, Now it seems google images has been updated,

Anyone willing to check whether their images are included into google images check it out,

http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en

Google Now caching more than 101 kb limit,

Google which used to index only 101 kb of html of a web page seem to have dropped that limit now, they now index more than that size,

Some pages on our site are more than 101 kb and they are fully cached,

For example this page size is more than 200 kb and when the cache of google is checked it shows the whole page being cached http://www.searchenginegenie.com/google-pagerankexplained.htm,

66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:jHNYpRA2zIoJ:www.searchenginegenie.com/google-pagerankexplained.htm+google+pagerank+genie+explained&hl=en

Finally we can have big pages, Also some good information pages will be cached to its fully length, So what is the new google limit, Anyone aware of it,

Google is now a ICANN credited domain registration company

Google Inc has been included in the Icann credited domain registration list,

google is listed number 895

Check this page for more information,

www.iana.org/assignments/registrar-ids