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Google honors Bob Moog with amazing synthesizer Doodle
Published on 2012-05-23 03:35:18
Google honors again a pioneer of electronic music: Robert Moog was born on May 23, 1934 (78th birthday). He invented the Moog synthesizer. For Moog it was a machine, but for musicians it’s an instrument. “Bob Moog’s innovative electronic design is employed in numerous synthesizers including the Minimoog Model D, Minimoog Voyager, Little Phatty, Moog [...] > read more
Mother’s Day Google Doodle 2012
Published on 2012-05-12 16:58:14
Google wishes Happy Mother’s Day with a lovely Doodle. Two o-childs gives her g-mother a flower-gift. Nice. If you are a man, or without children you fail today. But, of course: you have a mother too. So take your chance a do something good – for the industries :-) As Valentine’s Day a strong campaign [...] > read more
Timer test: youTube Video Preview thumbnail
Published on 2012-05-09 12:05:24
How does the selection of the youTube video thumbnails work? Is it by random? Can you change the preview image that is displayed on youTube lists? Two years ago I described a method of how it worked (at that time). Therefore you could use a timer. Included to the video you could read the frame-timecode [...] > read more
Google honors Howard Carter with tomb-doodle
Published on 2012-05-09 04:17:18
Google honors Howard Carter with a nice “tomb-doodle” (May 9th, 2012). Howard Carter was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist. He discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun. Howard Carter was born in London, 138 years ago. As a talented artist he was sent out to Egypt to assist in the excavation of Middle Kingdom tombs. On [...] > read more
Google Image Search Experiment (indexing and order)
Published on 2012-05-05 16:45:12
The Australian Seo Dan Petrovic has done an interesting experiment on Google’s Image Search. He has placed 100 pictures with numbers from 1 to 100 as the filename on a website. How does Google index it? How long does it take to get the images are indexed? In what order the images are crawled and [...] > read more
Amazing Doodle for Keith Haring
Published on 2012-05-03 13:29:41
Google honors the amarican artist Keith Haring with an amazing doodle. It show some typical Haring figures. Keith Haring was born 1958 in Pennsylvania. Aged 19 he moved to New York where he was faszinated by the streetart and graphity artists. After he met Andy Warhol he started to paint on canvas. His works became [...] > read more
Funny zipper Doodle for Gideon Sundback
Published on 2012-04-23 18:59:10
Today the Google homepage shows a really funny doodle. It is an interactive zipper. The user can pull it down to see the Result page behind it. Google celebrates the 132nd birthday of the swedish inventor Gideon Sundback. He was Born on April 24th 1880. After school he went to Germany to study engineering. In [...] > read more
Google honors Robert Doisneau (french photographer)
Published on 2012-04-13 13:50:23
The french photographer Robert Doisneau was born on April 14th 1912 – 100 years ago. Google honors this pioneer of photojounalism with a nice doodle. The doodle shows 4 photographies by Doisneau: “The tugboat”, “The three children”, “Dog on wheels” and “The kiss”. A famous cite of Robert Doisneau is: “The marvels of daily life [...] > read more
For Eadweard Muybridge: galopping horse doodle
Published on 2012-04-09 05:04:35
Easter Monday 9the April 2012 – Google honors the pioneer of photography Eadweard James Muybridge with a nice doodle. It is an animation and you have to start it by clicking on the “Play” Button in the center. It shows a “Galloping horse” set to motion using single photos. 21 horses, some are colored like [...] > read more
Google launches Google dating – “Love makes the world better”
Published on 2012-03-31 17:22:06
Google is expert in search. But usually they concentrate on “abstract” and “unemotinal” searches. Yesterday Google changes this concept – love and search, search for love. As you can read in the official Google-Blog they now want to help people find their “love for the life”. Here is what Google announced: “Google offers many services. [...] > read more
Nice Doodle for Juan Gris
Published on 2012-03-22 18:04:14
The spanish artist Juan Gris was born 125 years ago. Google honors Gris with a nice artistic doodle. It seems to be a cubistic artwork like Juan Gris paintings. Born as José Victoriano Carmelo Carlos González-Pérez in Madrid the 19 year old Juan leave Spain and went to Paris. In the beginning of the 20 [...] > read more
Google celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with celtic Doodle
Published on 2012-03-16 15:11:04
March 17th is traditionally St. Patrick’s Day. Nearly every year since 2000 Google celebrates this day with a doodle on the search-engine-homepage. This year the doodle designers decided to draw the doodle in a “celtic style”. Nice in my eyes. And of xourse the main color is green. Green as the wide irish grasslands. As [...] > read more
Nice Origami-doodle to honor Akira Yoshizawa
Published on 2012-03-13 11:59:22
Akira Yoshizawa was born an March 14th, 1911. He is called the “grandmaster” of origami. Google honors Akira Yoshizawa with an amazing doodle on the homepage. The Doodle was created by the Origami-Artist Robert Lang because Yoshizawa who died in 2005 never thought to build a Google-Origami. Origami (from ori meaning “folding”, and kami meaning [...] > read more
Google celebrates International Women’s Day with nice Doodle
Published on 2012-03-07 17:49:36
International Women’s Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women’s Day, is marked on March 8 every year. Google celebrates this with a really nice doodle on the homepage – clean and simple, but full of live. The Google blue changes into a “female purple”. The first “G” shows the female symbol – and the second [...] > read more
Funny frog-Doodle honors Gioachino Rossini
Published on 2012-02-28 10:31:21
Google honors the italian composer Gioachino Rossini with a funny frog-doodle. Rossini was born 220 years ago, on 29th february 1792. This year is a leap year. And because frog leap Google used to show frogs to symbolize the leap year. So the Google designers decide to celbrate both. And the combine the frogs with [...] > read more
Google: youTube-Search replaces Video-Search
Published on 2012-02-24 08:38:50
Some days ago Google has launched a fundamental change in the Websearch. Besides the websearch Google offers some special seraches, called “verticals”, like Image-Search, News or Video-Search. If you search for something you can move into these verticals by using the meta-navigation. But now Google decided to replace the video-search in the main-Navigation with the [...] > read more
Google images ranking factors (infographic)
Published on 2012-02-23 05:18:50
Some days ago I published an infografic about the Google ranking factors for the “Websearch”. This time I did this for the Google image-search. What are the important ranking factors? The infographic shows the main signals. So if you want to optimize your website-images: print it out for free and think about it – just [...] > read more
Google Search Ranking Factors 2012 ( infographic )
Published on 2012-02-14 11:48:05
There is a lot of discussion around about Google’s search ranking factors. Sometimes these factors are described as a list. They try to rank the factors by importance. In my eyes this doesn’t make sense. The Google algorithm gets more and more complicated. The main question is not: which signals are ranking-factors. But it is: [...] > read more
Amazing Google doodle for Nicolas Steno
Published on 2012-01-10 17:09:30
Google honors Nicolas Steno with an amazing doodle. Nicolas Steno was a Danish pioneer in both anatomy and geology. He was born 1638 as Niels Stensen in Copenhagen (374 years ago). By 1659 he had decided not to accept anything simply written in a book, resolving instead to do research himself. The doodle shows a [...] > read more
How to create an amazing youTube Channel Design (Tutorial)
Published on 2012-01-09 17:57:10
I have published a small tutorial : how to make an extraordinary youTube Channel design. Something unusual. The following method is especially for brands a good way to promote their image. It is – in principle – quit easy. The idea is to set the borders and boxes to invisible (that is “transparency = 100%). [...] > read more
Morbide Charles Addams Google doodle
Published on 2012-01-06 16:20:50
Google honors the American cartoonist Charles Addams with a “horror” doodle. Charles Addams was known for his black humor and macabre characters. Since 1932 his Cartoons regularly appeared in The New Yorker, a famous american magazin. In 1938 his first “Addams family” chacters were published, but without any names. Charles Addams was born 1912 in [...] > read more
Happy New Year 2012 & the best Google Doodles 2011
Published on 2011-12-30 13:50:56
Google celebrates New Year’s Eve and / or New Year’s Day with a nice doodle (the Google logo as a funny story-telling image). It seems that the characters are individuals and have a nice party. It is a static doodle without animation. But I have done a Video out of this where I animated roughly [...] > read more
Microchip doodle for Robert Noyce
Published on 2011-12-11 14:54:54
Today Google honors Robert Noyce, “the Mayor of Silicon Valley”. He was born 1927 (84 years ago) in Burlington, Iowa. Robert Noyce is credited (along with Jack Kilby) with the invention of the integrated circuit. 1957 Noyce co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor. 1968 he co-founded Intel. Robert Noyce was granted 16 patents. He was also a mentor [...] > read more
Mural doodle for Diego Rivera
Published on 2011-12-07 14:49:22
Google honors the great Mexican painter Diego Rivera. He was born 125 years ago. The doodle shows a mural (wall painting) of the Google logo. Diego Rivera was born in 1886 to a well-to-do family. From the age of ten, Rivera studied art at the Academy of San Carlos. From 1907 to 1921 Rivera lived [...] > read more
Mark Twain Google doodle with Tom Sawyer
Published on 2011-11-29 17:44:47
Today Google honors the American author and humorist Mark Twain with a doodle on the homepage. Mark Twain was born in 1835 in Missouri, USA – 167 years ago. When he was four, his family moved to a port town on the Mississippi River.Mark Twain was a restless artist with many interests and ideas. The [...] > read more
Amazing Stanislaw Lem Google Doodle
Published on 2011-11-22 19:12:02
60 years ago one of the first books of Stanislaw Lem was published: “the Arstonauts”. Google honors the Polish godfather of science fiction and future philosophy with an amazing Doodle. It is an intactive animation. You have to solve some problems before you get the solution keys. With these keys a “Universal Machine” could be [...] > read more
2 hours to reach Google images-onebox (universal-search)
Published on 2011-11-18 14:10:48
This is amzing: today i noticed for the first time that an actual indexed image is shown in the images-onebox on the Google result page. Usually it took about 24 – 96 hours until new images are indexed by Google – this depends on the crawling rate of the images bot. But today I saw [...] > read more
Amazing guitare-doodle for LES PAUL
Published on 2011-06-09 06:30:31
Who knows Les Paul? I guess today everybody. Google shows an amazing Doodle on the homepage. It is an interactiv guitare doodle. By rolling over you can play music with. If you click on the button (small Google-”g”) you can record your mu > read more
“New” google image-search rolled out in germany
Published on 2011-05-12 17:14:25
I took nearly a year. In Juny 2010 Google has relaunched it’s images search. As usual Google rolled out this new layout step by step all over the world. But not in Germany. May be we are the last country where the old Google image search still > read more
April, 1st joke: Google fools the search-world with +1 button
Published on 2011-03-31 19:10:42
As everey jear Google fools the search world with a funny joke. This year it is really nice: Google launches a “new social media button” called “+1″. A lot of experts and search-engine optimizers believe in the story and wrote > read more
Google honors Robert Bunsen with bubbling burner-doodle
Published on 2011-03-30 18:22:49
Today ist “Bunsen burner day”. 200 years ago, precisely on 30 March 1811, the later chemist Robert Bunsen was born in Gttingen, Germany. The researcher and professor gets famous with the development of a gas burner called “bun > read more
Google honors Harry Houdini with Doodle
Published on 2011-03-24 05:13:46
“The great Houdini” was born on March 24, 1874. Today is the 174th birthday of the “magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer noted for his sensational escape acts”. Born as Erik Weisz in Budapest his > read more
Will Eisner Doodle – Denny Colt in Google-City
Published on 2011-03-05 19:08:08
Today’s Google Homepage shows a Doodle. It honors the legendary comic-artist Will Eisner. The jewish drawer was born on March, 6th in 1917. 1933 he starts to craw comics – and in 1940 he creates Denny Colt. Nearly 12 years every weekend a > read more
Using tinEye to understand Google’s image search
Published on 2011-02-16 05:41:10
The following article is extremly important for optimizing images for Google’s image-search. I would say it is a point on an “i”. Usually images are optimized onpage (for this see: “Image Seo basics: optimizing images for Goog > read more
Lights on! Thomas Edison doodle-animation
Published on 2011-02-11 04:10:59
“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.” To perspire means sweating, and the man who said this was Thomas Edison. Today the large, sweaty american inventor would have turned 164 years old. Thomas Alva Edison > read more
The nice-girls-problem : Twitter-spam and short-term SEO
Published on 2011-02-10 04:46:15
Twitter spam sucks. Unbelievable how clumbsy it is. When I open twitter in the morning I feel happy about 30 new follower. Not only today but nearly everyday. And I wonder why most times nice looking girls follow me… No, of course I do not wond > read more
hiybbprqag – oh my god!
Published on 2011-02-01 08:50:12
Hiybbprqag? Google developers have coded a tricky search engine language. Hiybbprqag means “I kick you in the …“! They call their new code synthetic search. It’s for checking Bings search results. Nice idea! Does bing steal re > read more
Inofficial Google Doodles (never shown!)
Published on 2011-01-31 14:17:02
I love Google’s doodles – mostly. But sometimes I ask myself: why did he or she paints it this way? I could image other versions. Unfortunately Google is allways political correct. Of course they are. But what if not? Wouldn’t it be > read more
Matt Cutts wants german link-buying blogs
Published on 2011-01-28 06:26:24
Maybe someone read yesterday this twitter message by Matt Cutts: “@sascha_p Would you mind if someone on the webspam team reached out to talk more about this? Okay to DM me your email address?” But most of non german speaking Seos would n > read more
German SEOs as Simpsons
Published on 2011-01-24 15:29:25
Painting international SEOs as Simpsons was not a new idea. I thought about it since months. So when I started this Blog in the beginning of 2011 I remember that. The first idea of Seo-Simpsons is 1 and a half year old. I painted some german SEOs as > read more
Google redesigns the fight against web-spam
Published on 2011-01-21 12:21:42
Google rules the news. Eric Schmidt steps down and Larry Page took the future in his hands, then the pageRank update was rolled out, and now this: Google announced a new round in the fight agains webspam. As Matt Cutts says in the offical Googleblog > read more
How fresh is the current toolbar pageRank?
Published on 2011-01-21 09:19:10
The Google pageRank Update January 2011 has passed. Ok, pageRank isn’t important for seo. But for “normal” users it is an intersting visual signal. Usually people think that the pageRank shows how “serious” a page is. Wh > read more
It’s still struggling: Google pageRank update Jan. 2011
Published on 2011-01-20 12:11:21
Surprise surprise, it’s still struggling. Seems that Google rolled out a toolbar pageRank Update. Seotainment pure… As Barry wrotes there is a lot of trouble in some forums. I can not see anything on my sites – but they are hosted i > read more
Google honors Paul Cézanne with art-doodle
Published on 2011-01-19 03:35:21
Today is the 172nd birthday of Paul Cézanne. Google honors the famous french painter with a really nice artistic doodle. I am an ardent admirer of Cézanne and his paintings. Paul Cézanne has liberated the painting – his paintings. By doing s > read more
SEOs as Simpsons
Published on 2011-01-18 15:54:12
I paint a poster: international SEOs as Simpsons. Thanks to @mediadonis for his suggestions who could be part of it :-). I started this english tagSeoBlog three weeks ago, and I am still not familiar with the international seosphere. Most seos I have > read more
Invisible Martin Luther King, Jr. Google doodle
Published on 2011-01-17 14:12:45
When I started this blog two weeks ago I planed to write about international Google-Doodles. Usually I can see them when I open the international www.google.com. Today I read via twitter that there should be a doodle. But unfortunately I don’ > read more
Image-search News [2]: fast indexation, hotlinking, details…
Published on 2011-01-16 15:46:36
What’s up with Google Image Search? In short, new images are indexed still fast, but it looses a little bit of speed. The German image search shows still the old interface – why? I noticed a small but fine detail in the english Google ima > read more
Anti-satellite SEO – effective webmaster-tools seo-strategy
Published on 2011-01-13 08:09:43
Building satellite-domains is a well known seo-strategy to help main websites. The idea is to build simple, quick and dirty websites. They are not made for users but for crawlers. They core is one or some links to the main webpage. It is clear and si > read more
My Top 10 speedpainting videos
Published on 2011-01-11 17:36:37
As I wrote here I am ( in real life ) artist. Since 4 years me and my wacom graphic-tablet paint also digital pictures – usually with Adobe Photoshop. In May 2007 I did the first “speedpainting”. This is a video that shows the proce > read more
Google streetview: 2 min holiday in Paris
Published on 2011-01-10 11:54:09
I did this half a jear ago, but I could show this here again: a 2 min. fullspeed drive through Paris, France. We had a big discussion in Germany about the pro’s and contra’s of Google Streetview. Many people fear that their privacy gets d > read more
New Bing image-search starts in Germany
Published on 2011-01-10 11:33:09
Just a short news: today Bing launches it’s new image-search also in Germany. The english version is online since mid of december (see: “Bing image-search relaunch – Dec 2010“). Ok, it’s not the full truth: Bing changes > read more
Extreme high-formats in Google’s image-search results
Published on 2011-01-07 14:34:08
Since mid-December I found some extreme high-formats in the Google image search. And not only in the inage-search but also in the results of universal search on the main Google result-page. I suspect that it is a test. However, this test took quite > read more
The relationship between search ranking-factors
Published on 2011-01-06 16:24:35
Search-ranking factors are hip these days! SEOmoz has just called to nominate the 200 leading SEO experts worldwide to create the “overall ranking factors 2011″ list. The german “Seonaut” thinks about absolute unknown ranking- > read more
How to analyse a logfile (eg. check crawling-rate of images)
Published on 2011-01-05 17:53:46
As mentioned in this article I have checked my server-logfiles. I want to know how often the googlebot and the google-imagesbot visit my sites per day. The question ist “How often does Google crawl my sites?” – “What is my dai > read more
What is hotlinking? How to find and protect hotlinks…
Published on 2011-01-05 10:18:48
First of all: one year ago hotlinking was a big problem. But Google learns a lot from spammers. Today I don’t see hotlinking as an actual problem. Ok, what is hotlinking? Lets say you have a website. On your websites are images. Your photos > read more
Matt Cutts speedpainting – Googles man against spam
Published on 2011-01-04 17:17:10
Ok, ist an old one, but the english version of this blog is new and for that I want to show some “highlights”. One is the speedpainting of Matt Cutts that I painted about one year ago. It was my new-year-greeting to the german seosphere i > read more
Google indexes new images very fast (thanks Googlebot)
Published on 2011-01-04 13:24:58
Currently Google indexes new images very fast. My new images could be found in Googles image search after 24 hours. Absolute record time – the image search was never faster. Maybe the reason is a changed distribution of tasks between the Google > read more