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Search on 2020

An interesting video about the advanced technology implementation on Google Search. That includes hum to search on Google app.

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Google Doodle: Indonesia National Batik Day 2019

Today, Google search page for users in Indonesia has a doodle to celebrate National Batik Day 2019. Quoted from Google Doodle’s page:

Today’s Doodle celebrates and was made using Batik, a technique for decorating fabric using wax and pigment to create complex, colorful patterns. Batik artisans cover fabric with a wax design, add dye, and finally remove the wax to reveal the pattern underneath. Repeating the process with different colored dyes can create intricate, multi-layered designs to adorn textiles and clothing.

Indonesia has been known for its Batik since the 4th or 5th century, and it has been said that Indonesian batik dye techniques and designs are as numerous as its islands. The designs and colors vary in accordance with the villages and ethnic groups that have spread out in different islands.

Happy National Batik Day! Let’s wear batik today!

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Twitter Search Results on Google Search

I have Greasemonkey installed on my Firefox browser. After I heard the news about inserting Twitter real-time search directly on Google search page, I gave it a try. Visit userscripts.org to get the Greasemonkey script.
What about the results? It seems that this script is useful. Having search results from two different sources: Google and Twitter. Twitter is known for its social search because people really involved in giving answers, solution and other info.
On the other hand, Google has numerous search results — of cours, it’s the search engine. But, who gives the most relevant results? Is it Google, or Twitter? Well, both will give search results only if they find the matching keywords/phrases. Twitter might be more updated because our search is pulled out from its database. Google might not give the best search query results, but it offers more data.
Google might win, Twitter too. Who’s the winner? We decide.

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Euro 2008 in Google

It’s a nice situation when big service always provide a service related to current happenings. Let’s take a look at Google, related to Euro 2008. We can use Google search engine service to get the information about match schedules and match results from certain countries. Anyway, search results depends on the localized Google sites from the participating countries. So, if you search from google.com or google.co.id, the results will be different.
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The above pictures shows search result from http://www.google.es/search?q=euro+2008&hl=en. We can see the upcoming matches.
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If we add a participating country, we will see its match result and upcoming schedule.

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When Googlebot comes

Does Googlebot come to your site? What is Googlebot? Googlebot is Google’s web-crawling robot. It collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google search engine. (as quoted from http://www.google.com/bot.html.
A nice post at scriptygoddess about Get an email when Google visits written by Jayant Kumar Gandhi – http://wirez.f2o.org/coffee-house/. If you’re interested, why don’t you continue reading?
Updated July 18,2003:
Well, it works! Googlebot crawled my site.