Google Search has begun its countdown to New year 2010.

You can see the countdown by clicking on the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button. The time displayed is in seconds.
-NKJ

Today, there is new logo from the Google’s kitty.

Its Holidays wishes from Google to all its users.
I wish everyone Happy Holidays too. My first Christmas in US.
-NKJ

According to Wikipedia, a doodle is:

a type of sketch, an unfocused drawing made while a person’s attention is otherwise occupied. Doodles are simple drawings that can have concrete representational meaning or may just be abstract shapes.

An example is:

Google Doodles are the logos / icons that Google displays on its home page and change them on regular basis. They are designed  in order to celebrate any particular event or a holiday.
The first Google Doodle was to celebrate the Burning Man Festival of 1998. The doodle was designed by Larry Page and …

I know almost every blogger spends a lot of time on some or the other RSS feeds aggregators to read what others are writing and to share good posts, articles with others. I am pretty sure majority uses Google Reader.
I have found an interesting feature in Google Reader which eases sharing articles from the web.
It’s called Note in Reader.
Note in Reader is actually a bookmarklet which you can add in any of your browser and while browsing if you find something worth sharing, you would simply need to click on …

Today morning Google Notebook was not working for almost an hour. I know it is very rare that any Google service goes down but today is that rare of rarest day.
See following image, I was constantly getting the following error

“Server Error. The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request. Please try again in 30 seconds”

Even the Google Bookmarks were not getting displayed which is obvious due to the fact the bookmarks are stored in Google notebook. The outage started at around 11AM EST (when I noticed …

Yet another product from Google. It is Google Dictionary.
I am not sure whether anything other than Google would exist in WWW for long. Google is coming up with its product after product every now and then they all are almost perfect. I say almost because most them are still in their beta, so best is yet to come from Google.
Let’s talk about Google Dictionary.
Google Translate and Web Definitions are the two services that have been integrated into Google Dictionary. This means that Google Dictionary offers dictionaries in dozens of languages …

After giving away Google Wave invites, we are now giving away Google Voice invites.

If you haven’t already heard about it, Google Voice is a service that makes using your phone much better!
You can either use Google Voice with your existing mobile phone number and get:

Voicemail like email, with automatic transcriptions sent via email and SMS
Low cost international calls to the entire world
Custom voicemail greetings based on who is calling

OR choose a new Google phone number to get these additional features:

One phone number that rings all your …

I know you must have heard of Google Wave.

According to Google,

Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

It later adds,

A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any …