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Shobhit Prabhakar’s weblog on Technology, Web designing, Programming, Photography and other stuff.


Today while I was doing some weired experiemts on a site I found that in Chrome pasting a special ASCII character [ALT+0173] twice in any text box instantly crashes that browser instance as well as its parent tab(if you’ve opened that new page by clicking on a link on another page then its parent would [...]

Everything was working fine, but just few minutes ago I noticed something really strange with google search. I tried many keywords and tried to visit many links on the result page but some how Google thinks every site listed on the result page is infected with malware and it is giving a warning that
“visiting this [...]

 Google is conducting comprehensive(online and offline) market research. Virtually every net user uses Google services daily, And Google has major impact on today’s Internet trends and online user experience. Google would pay the participants money for their time and valuable remarks. You can read more and join Google User Experience Research at: https://survey.google.com/wix/p0822776.aspx
And you can read [...]

Today I noticed that Google’s old(Capitol letter G with colored border) favicon has been replaced with a new simple lowercase ‘g’  in blue color with some gray gradiant.
 Google has recently updated its Google Reader favicon, and now its turn for its main favicon.
  It looks like Google is doing a whole brand identity update.

Exactly One year after introducing TiSP : The Free Fast wireless broadband service, Google has once again come-up with a unique idea of back-dated e-mail(Gmail Custom Time™); Making time travelling possible for e-mails atleast.

I am kindda obssesed with the technological gifts by Google, So I tend to look for new features announcements in upper right corner [...]

There have been some reports that Google bouncing new pages in search results. You can read one such story at DigitalPoint[ http://snipurl.com/geeklord200801 ]. Also, there are articles about that Google Search Algorithm Update [ http://snipurl.com/geeklord200802 ] and [ http://snipurl.com/geeklord200803 ]
If that is true then certainly the PR would matter less in SEO techniques. Also, it [...]

Today, On this special occasion Google once again come-up with one fantastic gift for all Googlers.
TiSP: the ultimate wireless broadband service which is completely free for all the Google users. It uses the an established infrastructure to provide you the ultimate experience.

Sick of paying for broadband that you have to, well, pay for?
Introducing Google TiSP [...]

Unusual Google.com access points.

As I’m a big fan of Google.com and its services. I usually spend a lot of time daily on Google. So, here are some of the strange pages on Google.com site:
A google.com page with colored background: 
As we all know Google pages have simple layouts and color settings. All the Google pages I know have same [...]