“Gmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their inboxes for a while, but up ’til now themes haven’t been an integral part of Gmail,” said Gmail engineer Annie Chen in a blog post. “We wanted to go beyond simple color customization, so out of the 30 odd themes we’re launching today, there’s a shiny theme with chrome styling, another one that turns your in-box into a retro notepad, nature themes that change scenery over time, weather driven themes that can rain on your mailbox, and fun characters to keep you in good company.”

For those of you that are lucky enough to be a part of the initial roll out you can customize your inbox by going to the Themes tab under Settings. Google has said they’ll be rolling out themes to everyone over the next couple of days, so if like me you don’t see them yet, check back soon.

Just last month, Google launched seven features for Gmail: Gmail Gadgets, emoticons for messages, Gmail for mobile version 2.0, Canned Responses, contact manager improvements, advanced IMAP controls, and Mail Goggles.

Wishing you ALL Happy and Prosperous Deepavali/Diwali celebrations and festivities of the season!

Cheers!

Frankly, Google Chrome load very quickly as compare to Firefox and Internet Explorer. The interface look is very clean and simplified and no status bar. It automatically generated page with tumbnails of your most frequently visited sites. But I’m also going to miss my Firefox extensions.

In above video Sergey Brin put his views on why Google’s launching a browser.

As far as I know Windows Vista users will have to find the uninstaller for beta 1 and it is located under: Control Panel, Programs & Features and in the left menu: “Installed Updates” under the listing Windows Internet Explorer 8. You will then be required to restart your system before beta 2 can be installed.

In new IE 8 they have enhanced tabbed browsing, good looking address bar, Inprivate browsing, undo closed tabs. Even you can reopen last browsing session.

Flyerguy a memebr of Webmaster World has also confirmed in his post that German users are also redirecting to Yahoo! German domain.

According to Barry Schwartz this has to do with Yahoo Now Showing Geo-Location Under Search Ads. Yahoo has told him that they rolled out that feature last “week with the roll out of a new “geo labels” feature.” He feels that same geo-technology was applied to this.

But in India I am still reaching www.yahoo.com domain instead of http://in.yahoo.com but last few days it is showing two search options Search Web and Search India. That wasn’t before.

If you seach with any of the option, Yahoo shows &fp_ip=IN in its search result URL. In India, www.yahoo.com is not redirecting yet but search results are fetching from Indian IP addresses.

1. Arabic
2. Hebrew
3. Hindi
4. Thai

The already available 22 languages of Google Webmaster Tools are British English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, and US English.

I didn’t find any updates from Yahoo! officials. Is Yahoo dropping Search Marketing completely? or they are dissolving the Ambassador program? or is for the time being? All speculations are moving around.

Forum members say they can still log in and see their reports. What’s going on, Yahoo?

In preparation for that launch, Google has started showing advertisers their metrics for the landing page load time for each keyword’s landing page.

Gopal Krishna, Head of Audience, Yahoo! India said:

Searching on Glue Pages Beta will result in an experience that promises more than just web links. Users will receive more relevant, visually appealing search results from across the Web in one topical page. The new Glue Pages Beta feature for Yahoo! India Search supports our strategy to make Yahoo! the starting point on the Internet and demonstrates our commitment to provide a compelling online search experience.