Google Honors Lesbian and Gay Pride Month with Rainbow Around Search Box

June is declared as "Lesbian and Gay Pride month" in USA by The then President Bill Clinton in June 2000, and the last sunday of June is celebrated as Gay Pride Day.

Google in its initiative to honor Lesbian and Gay Pride month has added rainbow with its search box for Gay related keywords.


Google has done this in 2008, 2009 and 2010 as well.

Search by Image - New Google Image Feature

An image is worth 1000 words so why to search only for a text in Google? The concept is known as reverse image search. The concept which implies that you need not input keywords every time to find a relevant page on the web, it require you to upload an image or paste the URL of the image and the search engine will try to find out most relevant results in context of the image.

So for example if you want to search for information about Taj Mahal you need not put in keyword as a search query instead you can use image of Taj Mahal from your desktop or URL of that image. The search engine will look for where this image locate on websites on internet.

I would mention two image search engines which work on the concept of reverse image search.

Google Images:
1. Go to http://images.google.com/ and click on the Camera icon in the search pane.

2. After clicking on the camera icon you will find three options:

Copy and paste the image URL from a website and search engine will find results with reference to the image.
You can upload the image from your local machine and search engine will find results with reference to the image.
You can even drag and drop the image to carry out the search.

Check out this video for more details on Search by Image feature of Google Images:




2. TinEye claims to be the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks.

Check out the video to understand how this works.

Online Reputation Management Tool Launched by Google

Are you worried about your online reputation? Are you interested to know what others think and express about you on the web? If your answer is YES then you must be happy to know that Google has launched a new tool to manage your online reputation.

Me on the Web - An ORM tool by Google - Google has launched this tool to help you manage search results for your name. The tool Me on the Web is available on the Google Dashboard.

The tool helps you set alerts for the data which you have included in your Google Profile. So you can set alerts for your Name, E-mail ID

So what are you waiting for? Create a Google Profile and start tracking what is being mentioned about you on the web.