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Google doodle took five artists six months to create

Before most of us were even thinking about Christmas, a team at Google was working on the unique doodle that appeared on the search engine’s front page for just over two days from December 23.

Google chief doodler – that’s his actual title – Micheal Lopez spoke to the Wall Street Journal about the extraordinary amount of work that went into this year’s holiday doodle. In previous years, Google’s festive logo has been a single image, but in 2010 Mr Lopez, who took on his role about 18 months ago, wanted to ”end the year with a bang”.

Facebook passes Yahoo, becomes world’s third largest website

It was only a matter of time, and now it’s finally happened. Facebook has passed Yahoo in traffic to become the third largest website in the world, according to recent numbers from Comscore. Facebook only just surpassed Yahoo, grabbing 648 million visitors compared to 630 million for Yahoo in November 2010, but the overall trend is the impressive part.

The Top 5 Most Used Browsers – Quick Review

Firefox:

Firefox 3.6 has a tabbed interface , pop-up blocker/built-in multiple search tools and built-in RSS reader, it handles nicely and it’s always stable. The spellcheck for text boxes uses the familiar dotted colored lines under words although the others also have this feature. If you need an extension for something, the Firefox extension capabilities are powerful and easy to use. It also offers many themes.

Google Chrome 10.0.612.3 Dev for Windows

How to get the new version?

1. If you don’t have Google Chrome, install it from google.com/chrome
2. Subscribe to the developer preview channel. This is required even if you’ve previously subscribed to the channel.
3. Wait until the new version is downloaded (you may force the updatie by opening the “About Google Chrome” dialog).