Google Panda Update or Just Call It Google Panda Subdomain(Blogspot) Preferences Update

After one week of  the last Google Panda Update the results just I saw were astonishing. Google search results for Everything looks like that I am searching for Blogs. Even this results that I saw was on the last page when 100 results were selected for a keyphrase SEO COMPANY INDIA. There are 20 blogspot hosted blogs in the last page of the Google Search.

On the 9th page there is still the dominance of Blogpot blogs, but with a combination of other sub-domains including sub-domains websites, wordpress blogs, webs.com blogs etc. some are:
indiaesolutions.blogs4us.com
business.ezinemark.com
biz.prlog.org
seoindia.softsolutionsindia.net
seocompanyindelhi.weebly.com
mdimran1.wordpress.com
archos.kewego.com
rohit21sharma.articlealley.com
seo-gym.tumlr.com
webwizard-in.yolasite.com
seoserviceindia.webs.com
softwaredevelopmentcompanybis.webpaint.com
webdesignitinformation.wordpress.com
aftereffects.corank.com
seoonlinenews.wordpress.com
www.professionala-seo.webs.com
bptpl.wordpress.com

After 860 position there was the complete list of blogspot blogs till the end(920) and no any other website in between.

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Google is Redirecting to accounts.youtube.com when I log out from Google Account.

A sample URL that generate while logging out is:
http://accounts.youtube.com/accounts/Logout2?ilo=1&ils=s.youtube&ilc=1&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&zx=-xxxxxxx

I just notice it today due to some problem in my home Internet connection. Due to slow Internet speed, while signing out, I noticed that Google was redirecting to first Google.co.in then accounts.youtube.com.

A thread for this issue has been raised in the Google Help forum for Gmail:
google redirects to youtube upon log out

Across the world this will create a problem in many users' PC who are using Google account services through office network. As, video websites like Youtube and many social networking sites like Orkut and Facebook are in the blocked list of Office Firewall Software. If a user is redirected to http://accounts.youtube.com/, the firewall will stop the further redirects and Signing Out might not work properly.

Till the time of posting non from the Google Employee or Moderator of the forum has replied to the issue raised in the above forum.

Update: Google top contributor TITO DUTTA referred to another thread http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?hl=en&tid=6f8a66404ae30d1d, where Sarah, a Google Employee replied with the possible solution

Hi everyone,

Sorry for the confusion. When you sign out of your Google Account, we want to make sure we sign you out of all your Google services. We are now checking to make sure you get signed out of YouTube.

Your domain admin can whitelist accounts.youtube.com, which will stop you from seeing the error while allowing your network to continue blocking videos.

Best,
Sarah

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Google has made live it's new layout and look for Google.com home page across the world and has also updated the new look and layout for the Search Result Pages.

Google who has favoured white background for last many years has introduced black top bar while replacing the old white background.

Also, removed Advanced Search and Language tool from the Google Search's home page, which used to be near the search box. In the new Google Layout, they are now placed on the top right hand side, under the Options menu, just near the Sign in link.

The new Google SERP's layout has removed "Similar pages" option that used to be on the right of "Cached" link on Search Result pages. The URLs are moved beneath the title/headline for each search result in the search snippet. Also, the left panel has been changed with introduction of new colors and replacing the old blue color.

They have moved the links on the homepage to the top and bottom of the browser screen which according to Google is making the homepage more cleaner.

According to Google their new design is based on the following three design principles:
Focus
Elasticity
Effortlessness

With this new layout and look, Google is hopping that as a user we will get what we want whether we are using mobile devices, tablets, high-resolution monitors and TVs with the use of latest technologies like HTML5, WebGL and the latest browsers.

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Google Art Project is a collaboration between 17 of the world’s most renowned art museums and Google. Art Project site enable people to explore museums through Google's Street View Technology and view more than thousand of artworks at an extraordinary high resolution.

At present Google has partner with 17 museums and following are the list of museums included in the Google Art Project:

* Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin - Germany
* Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, Washington DC - USA
* The Frick Collection, NYC - USA
* Gemäldegalerie, Berlin - Germany
* The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC - USA
* MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC - USA
* Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid - Spain
* Museo Thyssen - Bornemisza, Madrid - Spain
* Museum Kampa, Prague - Czech Republic
* National Gallery, London - UK
* Palace of Versailles - France
* Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam - The Netherlands
* The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg - Russia
* State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow - Russia
* Tate Britain, London - UK
* Uffizi Gallery, Florence - Italy
* Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam - The Netherlands

All the images of the artworks shown in the Google Art Project site are owned by the museums and protected by copyright. Hence, should not be copied from Google Art Project.

You can watch videos related to Google Art Project on its YouTube Channel.

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A news off topic to this blog. Soon after Nehra hitting the winning shot, Earthquake of 7.4 magnitudes on Richter scale shatters Northern India around 2.00 am Jan 19, 2011. The epicenter of the earthquake was 65 kilometer North West of the Kharan, Balochistan. Balochistan is in the South Western part of Pakistan. Back in India, those who were awake and/or were watching India-South Africa one day match,including me left their buildings and run for a safer ground. Rajasthan's Jaisalmer had the most of the share of the quake as it share its border with South West Pakistan. People started Twitting and Google is showing their recent tweets regarding the quake in its realtime search results. Hopes so there are no loss to lives either in India or Pakistan.

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