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Did you notice the all new Google favicon ! It appears in the address bar everytime you visit a google site like google.com or gmail.com . The logo looks pretty cool and a lot better than the plain old logo that google previously had.

-pic courtesy google blog

Marissa Mayer(VP,Search Products,Google) has this to say on Google’s official blog

The reason is that we wanted to develop a set of icons that would scale better to some new platforms like the iPhone and other mobile devices.

She also goes on to add that this isn’t the final favicon (the google obsession of having everything beta). And as always, she invites users to send in their version of the google favicons. So if you think you have a better design send it to them.. chances are it might be viewed by millions everyday!!

If you’re like me.. always curious to know where a site ranks among the millions (if not billions) of websites out there then Alexa is the site for you. All you need to do is enter the name of the site and see its worldwide rankings as well as country wise rankings.

Website: www.alexa.com

For the curious you

Ever thought to yourself that if this product had been a bit different or if it had this particular feature then it would be awesome?

Now you can do just that. Voice your opinions and you may even be rewarded for it! This isn’t the usual survey site which promises you paltry sum of money which you would never be able to encash. This site has a kind of a lucky draw where you could end up winning a few thousand rupees!!

Website: www.getcounted.net

Alexa Ranking :

World: 69,286

India: 2,967

Alright, I’m at it again! But then you can call this video a kind of a documentary from Google itself. So its kinda official video!! Now why shouldn’t I be mentioning it on my blog ;o)

There’s this beautiful lady who’s been with google for like four years and know what..she’s part of the gmail team.. the mail service from google that took the world of reading and writing emails to a different level. When you see such products you’ll be like…google must be filled with nerds to get such great products out in the market but hey… the googlers are anything but nerds!!

This video also mentions about the 20% rule at google.. Engineers here get to work on their own projects(It can be anything they want) 20% of the time!! Now ain’t that awesome?

There’s this lady who was in the team that developed the google movies concept and she says it was a result of the 20% thing!!

And hey…. Don’t you forget to check out the last person to speak about how it is to work for google… I wont tell you who the person is.. check it out yourself

Pssssttt…. What do you think about the shoes?

The moment I lay my eyes on this video showing some of the googlers talk about their company, I knew it had to appear here on my blog.

In this video you get to see the FREE FOOD that Google’s known for..and boy… is it YUMMY!!!

There’s nothing thats not available inside the Googleplex. There’s pool tables, a mini kitchen, pets are allowed, gymnasiums you name it you have it!