We all know that the quality of Google search results is deteriorating day by day. Many smart guys have conquered the Google page ranking algorithm to get their low-content or spam websites listed on the front page of the search results. They benefit by routing more traffic to their sites and thus more advertising revenue.

The rising complaints about the bad quality of the results has given rise to many debates about the fall of Google in the search engine space. Under deep pressure from all quarters, Google has to counter content-farms and spam-rich article submission websites which throw up random and unrelated posts from their domains for any keywords in your search.

Now , Google is ready to crack the whip on those websites. In the process, Google can’t help but take the help of ‘US’, the users.So, you can help Google in the mission by installing few extensions in your chrome browser. Let me tell you in brief about those 2 extensions(note that these extensions are meant for Google Chrome web-browser only).

Google homepage was adored on Friday by a strange and equally stimulating logo shown below.

As you should see, the doodle depicts that an ‘O’ is being taken away by an unidentified flying object(UFO). The logo image is fittingly named “Unexplained phenomenon”. Clicking the image will take you to a list of Google web results on ‘Unexplained phenomenon”.

There’s a funny bit of creativity attached to the logo as well as it’s URL has a missing ‘O’ as well. Here’s the url of the image: “http://www.google.com/logos/go_gle.gif”.

Google in it’s bid to provide quality search results to it’s users has developed a new search engine algorithm and has opened it for public. Such an update is pending from Google until now as Microsoft’s Bing is posing a far-away threat to the Google’s search engine business.

The new system being called Google Caffeine by the excited bloggers around the World is available for a try at http://www2.sandbox.google.com/. Everything remains the same as the parent Google homepage but the change is to be noticed in the search results you are shown for your queries.

I played around for quite a while with Caffeine and noticed the following:
1. Importance for social web like Twitter
2. Indexing of Twitter updates faster for live web results

Since traffic from Google search engine makes majority portion of income for bloggers and web developers,you should better decode how this new system is working to optimize your blogs for Caffeine.

It’s another page rank update from Google and it’s good news again for Web Buzz.

In the first Google page rank update this year,Web Buzz rose from PR2 to PR3.The last page rank update happened in December 2008.

Quality content has been the key in achieving this and nothing could have been possible without the encouagement from the readers.So, here’s a “THANK YOU“for all that you have done and would continue to do.

Go check whether your site/blog fared well in this first of the year pagerank update at www.checkpagerank.net !!.

Google , the World’s most used search engine is set to become the site that receives the heaviest traffic,according to Alexa.

Alexa, the Web Information Company, announced on it’s blog that Yahoo’s till to date dominant position at the top would soon be in danger.

Google crossed Yahoo for the first time on January 5th but couldn’t maintain the lead.This could be because of the indifferent volumes of searches happening on Google,varying throughout the week.

But since 19th January,Google maintained the top position and if it continues to do so for another 80 days,it would takeover the 3-month average rank of #1.

Google changed it favicon once again which makes it a second one in 7 months.The last time Google updated it’s favicon was in June,2008.

Since rolling out that simple purple ‘g’ed favicon last year,Google has received tremendous response in terms of Favicon designs.The new design is inspired by designs submitted by André Resende,Hadi Onur Demirsoy, Lucian E. Marin and Yusuf Sevgen.

The new favicon retains the small g which is painted white on a multi-color background.The background is filled with colors Blue,Green,Red and Yellow which are the colors you see on the regular Google logo.

Google employees must have got inspired to U.S President’s ‘change’ message !!….:)

It’s New Year eve and Google has updated the page ranks of sites on the websphere.This is the fourth such update in this year with the last one taking place in September.

It is also good news here at Web Buzz as we improved our pagerank to 2 from a 1.This would certainly help me get into the new year with lots of good spirit and confidence.Thanks Google and readers of this blog for helping me achieve this…..:)

Go check whether your site/blog fared well in this year-end pagerank update  at www.checkpagerank.net !!.

The Halloween logo of Google got more creative this time and here is the logo for you in case you missed it.

It’s been a sweet long wait since Beijing Olympics ’08 for a new design of the Google logo.

Well,Diwali popularly called the ‘Festival of Lights‘ brought the occasion once again and what you see below is the Google logo for Diwali 2008.

As you should know,Google redesigns it’s famous logo on special occasions as this to celebrate them along with the masses that made it such a successful brand name.

And finally,here are the Happy Diwali wishes from Web Buzz.Have a happy and safe Diwali.Make less sound but be more happy……:)

Google,in an unusual way,has updated pageranks of websites twice in two months.The last PR update was in mid july,so one really expected the next update this early.

This seems to put an end to people’s perception about period between PR updates.Google needed to break the jinx as a fixed frequency of updates allowed page rank pirates to build links just before an update.This in turn,affected the quality of search engine results driving Googlers to spam sites.Now,Google can curb these activities with a change in frequency of their updates.

In addition to that,Google also rectified mistakes during the last update when they failed to discover some backlinks.I was a victim of their mistake but,at present everything is perfect.Now Sitegorge,on it’s new domain enjoys a PR-1 !!.