Google to Present at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (February 16, 2010) Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that Nikesh Arora, President, Global Sales Operations and Business Development, will participate in a question-and-answer session at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco. The session is scheduled for 8:20 p.m. Eastern Time / 5:20 p.m. Pacific Time on Tuesday, February 23, 2010.

To access the live audio webcast of the session, please visit http://investor.google.com/webcast.html.

About Google Inc.

Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google's targeted advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.google.com.

Announcing Third Annual US Doodle 4 Google Competition

Today, Google is kicking off the third annual Doodle 4 Google competition.  Doodle 4 Google is a competition open to K-12 students in U.S. schools who are invited to create their own Google doodle inspired by the theme, "If I Could Do Anything, I Would . . ." A "doodle" is the logo design that appears on the Google homepage periodically to celebrate special events, holidays, or the lives of artists and inventors.

New to this year's competition is the addition of expert jurors such as Eric Carle, the creator of the "Very Hungry Caterpillar," who will help determine the top 40 Regional Finalists. Other expert jurors include well known illustrators, cartoonists and animators like Dr. Seuss Enterprises, The Sesame Workshop, DC Comics (creators of Wonder Woman, Batman, and Superman), King Features: Popeye and Betty Boop, Charles Schulz's PEANUTS, Paul Frank Industries, Barbie-Mattel and Pixar Animation Studios who are the creators of Toy Story 3.

All schools in the U.S. (including private schools and homeschools) that register will have the chance to participate.  Students' doodles will be judged on artistic merit, creativity, representation of the theme, and other criteria. A panel of Google employees will select the 400 State Finalists, and the Expert Jurors will select the top 40 Regional Finalists. Finally, the public will help select the four national finalists. The one National Winner will be selected by Google executives and will be announced at an event held in the Google New York office on May 26, 2010. More information can be found on the Doodle 4 Google website:

This year's winner will receive:

• $15,000 college scholarship
• $25,000 technology grant to the champion doodler's school
• a chance for his/her doodle to appear on the Google.com homepage on May 27, 2010 
• a laptop computer 
• a Wacom digital design tablet
• a t-shirt with his/her doodle printed on it 

For the first time in the history of the competition, Google will be giving out eight (8) Extra Credit: Technology Booster awards in the form of netbook computers for schools that submit the maximum number of doodles by March 10, 2010 and have students that are selected to be a 400 State Finalist. 

For the second year in a row, Google is partnering with the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum to showcase the 40 Regional Finalists' artwork in a public art exhibition from May 27 to July 8, 2010 in New York city. The 40 Regional Finalists along with a parent will be flown to an awards event at the Google office in New York City on May 26. Doodle 4 Google is the celebration of the intersection of art, design and technology, so joining forces with Cooper-Hewitt – a leader in encouraging the next generation of designers and advancing public understanding of design – is a natural fit.

Only students from registered schools can enter the contest. Teachers should go to www.google.com/doodle4google to register their school by 11:59:59 P.M. Pacific Time (PT) on March 17, 2010. Parents and children interested in participating should pass this link on to their teachers. Teachers must sign up on behalf of their students and submit their students' doodles and completed entry forms by March 31, 2010 11:59:59 P.M. Pacific Time (PT).

For more information, have a look at our Official Google Blog post.

SEO Friendly Technique of Creating a Website

SEO is just like a live wire to the survival of websites created for profit reasons. This is because there would not be any relevant activity in any website that doesn’t attract traffic. Though attracting traffic isn’t ultimate because if such traffic isn’t targeted, it would be very useful to the site and the webmaster. The best way of attracting relevant and targeted traffic to any website is by the proper application of search engine optimization tricks and tips. This is because the website visitors that will come from these search engines are actually those that are searching for your kind of product or services. It is always a very good start for any webmaster that will be SEO conscious even from the moment he or she decides to register a new domain name for another website.

Keywords are the most potent tiny tools that will derive lots of traffic to your site if they are well used and appropriately positioned. While you can do a good guess work and come up with keywords you think may be popular, it is best for you to invest in some simply keywords research tools online. These keywords research tools will eliminate any form of guess work whatever from you keywords picks. They will provide you with the exact keywords that are being used by those who are looking for what you will be offering on your site.

These keyword research tools aren’t quite expensive and most of them attract only a one time payment but it will be worth every dollar you spent on it. Another dimension to it is that there are currently some keywords research tools such as Google Keyword Research Tools that are absolutely free. Their performance and the results they show have been reported to be extremely effective in tracking the relevant keywords in any particular niche.

We dwelled so much on the keywords for some serious reasons. These keywords when properly sprinkled within the articles and write up you publish in your website will go a long way in attracting search engines to scan through you site. The effect of this can not be underestimated.

The next important step to be taken while creating an SEO friendly website is to have a well crafted sitemap on the homepage of your site. This will help the search engines to easily access the pages of your site through the homepage. When many pages in you site are indexed, crawled and ranked by several search engines, the result will positively reflect on the rank your site will enjoy in these search engines. This simple but potent SEO friendly step is noticeably ignored by many webmaster.

Another point worth mentioning here is that some webmasters learn few SEO tricks and stay with them whether they are getting the right results or not. You have to be flexible in your SEO friendly approach. Be dynamic while creating your site and don’t hesitate to learn and apply newer tips because a simple SEO change you make may just be all you site needs to explode.

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You Tube Video Technology

Playback

Viewing YouTube videos on a personal computer requires the Adobe Flash Player plug-in to be installed in the browser. The Adobe Flash Player plug-in is one of the most common pieces of software installed on personal computers and accounts for almost 75% of online video material.

Uploading

Videos uploaded to YouTube by standard account holders are limited to ten minutes in length and a file size of 2 GB. When YouTube was launched in 2005 it was possible to upload longer videos, but a ten minute limit was introduced in March 2006 after YouTube found that the majority of videos exceeding this length were unauthorized uploads of television shows and films. Partner accounts are permitted to upload videos longer than ten minutes, subject to acceptance by YouTube.
YouTube accepts videos uploaded in most container formats, including .AVI, .MKV, .MOV, .MP4, DivX, .FLV, and .OGG. These include video codecs such as MPEG-4, MPEG, and .WMV. It also supports 3GP, allowing videos to be uploaded from legacy mobile phones.

Quality and codecs

YouTube originally offered videos at only one quality level, but now has a range of quality levels as well as a format for viewing on mobile phones. The original format displayed videos at a resolution of 320x240 pixels using the H.263 Sorenson Spark codec, with mono MP3 audio.
Since March 2008, YouTube videos have been available in a range of quality levels, with the higher quality levels offering improved picture definition. In November 2008 720p HD support was added.^[71] At the same time, the YouTube player was changed from a 4:3 aspect ratio to a widescreen 16:9. In November 2009, 1080p HD support was added. YouTube videos currently use the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec, with stereo AAC audio.

3D videos

In a video posted on July 21, 2009, YouTube software engineer Peter Bradshaw announced that YouTube users can now upload 3D videos. The videos can be viewed in several different ways, including the common anaglyph (cyan/red lens) method which utilizes glasses worn by the viewer to achieve the 3D effect.

HTML5 video playback

YouTube is currently testing HTML5 technology, which allows videos to be viewed without requiring Adobe Flash Player or any other plug-in to be installed. The YouTube site has a page which allows supported browsers to opt in to the HTML5 trial. Only browsers that support the h.264 video codec can play the videos.

You Tube

YouTube is a video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005. In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google. The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS, the BBC, UMG and other organizations offer some of their material via the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program.
Unregistered users can watch the videos, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos that are considered to contain potentially offensive content are available only to registered users over the age of 18. The uploading of videos containing defamation, pornography, copyright violations, and material encouraging criminal conduct is prohibited by YouTube's terms of service. The account profiles of registered users are referred to as "channels".


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