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Google has added Sunrise and Sunset search features. These features allow you to know when the best time to view the perfect moment is. You will see a special box on top of the search result if you type in the key word of “Sunset Auckland” or “sunrise Auckland”.

Google says that this features works for almost any location. The new added search features are actually is not base on any weather forecast but they are using the latitude, longitude and the current time for a particular location. Base on their statement, the accuracy of the calculation is just about single minutes of different.

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Search engine gaint – Google has roll out their secure search engine which encrypted with the https.

Google search engine with https is the application that allow user to search the data in the “secure channel”. This is the application that come with the HTTPS secure channel after the gmail.

Google has also unveiled a new logo with a padlock image to differentiate the secure version of the site.

With the https://www.google.com, that mean all the communication before your web browser and google are ecrypted, hence this can help to protect your serch terms and your search results page from being intercepted by a thirst party on your network.

The new beta Google Secure seach have the disadvantages of may slow if compare to the traditional way of searching, but you will always get th sames grate result from Google.

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Google launch their new search page design some days ago as well as redesign on their brand logo. The new logo is lighter, brighter and simpler. The whole design is base on the concept of personality and playfulness and distilled them.

The logo was the foundation for new icons and hundreds of tiny alterations designed to accommodate and seamlessly integrate the expanded functionality of the left-hand panel.

Google old logo

Google new logo, the logo look less 3D feel and the color are more brighter, besides that, the TM already removed from the top right of the logo

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Google Music China now allow the user from China to listen and download the song from Internet for free. Google Music is the join venture product by Google and Top100 (www.top100.cn). Top100 is a company that provide service to Google including all the singer profile, album detail, song, lyrics, and also the music related news.

Google Music now include more then 100,000 music from difference country including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Euro, Japan, Korea and more. Besides that, Google Music also contacted with more then 140 music producer company including Warner Music Group, Vivendi’s Universal Music, EMI Group, Sony’s Music Entertainment to include their music in the list to allow the user search, listen and download the music from Google.

You may face a problem where can’t get the song from Google Music search, base on the statement from Google Music this is because of the the particular song will under the contract issue, once the contract issue solve, you will get the song at Google Music Search.

Currently this service is only open to the user in China only. But don’t worry, you may still get to listen it by changing the proxy for your browser and try to access the web site again.

Click here to go to Google Music China
Click here to go to Top100.cn

Top100 music web site hope page

Google Music Home page

Google Music Player

Song search result page

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Searches for Michael Jackson surged a little before 3 p.m. PDT Thursday.

Google has confirmed that the surge of Micheal Jackson-related searched on Google News Thursday was first interpreted as an ttack on its service.

Google News was inaccessible for some people Thursday afternoon right as rumors of Jackson’s death began to circulate, replaced by an error message reading “We’re sorry, but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can’t process your request right now.”

Of course, those queries were quite legitimate, as millions around the world searched for accurate information regarding Jackson following reports that he had suffered cardiac arrest. The spike in queries began at about 2:45 p.m. PDT Thursday, and Google thought the traffic was an attack for about 25 minutes before realizing what was going on.

Google also noted that it saw a huge spike in mobile searches. Yahoo’s data backed up Google’s; it set a record for unique visitors in a single day with 16.4 million visitors, and its lead story on Jackson’s death was the most highly-visited story in its history.

Google error page when unaccessible by certain people

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After few years of search engine being monopoly by Google, Microsoft has announced their new counter weapons toward Google – called Bing.com

This is just a begining for the search engine war. Now come to another part of the new search engine where all the webmaster or the blog owner should do – get your site to index by the new search engine and gain the traffic from Bing

Click here to submit your website to Bing and get’s index by Bing, so that your website can be found.

Besides that, Bing also has the webmaster tools like the Google webmaster tools. Click here to create a web master center account to submit your site and get index and explore to the search engine faster

Bing home page

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