Google Gothic
Google made his boom, everyone is almost using it and year by year the power of this new search engine goes beyond the network. but that common white new page is somewhat boring sometimes. And this not because appear simply too white for goths or because is bad, but due to the taste some of us have, looking the way of customizing what surrounds us. This is already happening for Google and in the direction of this phenomenon the first (unofficial of course) Google's brother that shows up is named Gothicengine.com. This Google gothic has a dark style and offers nothing special out of a relaxing dark homepage in which the usual google results appear. The dark home page shows the suggestive image of a dark moon with some bats, really simple stuff that doesn't pretend to be somehow cool or whatever. There were some version of this search engine, we liked the first that was themed trough the well known castle in Transilvania: Bran's Castle, ancient home of the king of vampires, Dracula. Google’s features seem to be the same even including the button "I'm Feeling Lucky" that somebody translated into a funny "I'm Feeling Sick". It seems to work like the original one. The web site has a multilingual interface that allows to research in different languages always using Google’s algorithms and output style. But the most interesting thing is perhaps that the results are send from the nearest Google’s servers to your house and trough this occurs the same delays as the original. So, is this the beginning of a trend or just another wisp of the web ? Time will tell us the true, but in the meaning this dark goth version of Google, that is available also in Spanish, seems to be popular and has risen to a point of having a pretty good fan base against the actual competitors that show old graphics, full of advertising…definitely not in the flavour of the the pure simplicity of the people that chosen Google as search engine. |
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Goothic changed design, and google gothic turned more goth than before.
As you can see we decided to change the design into a more classic style. Yes, we will miss Bran's Castle, it was pretty Goth actually but was slowing down the speed of people used to google and actually not everyone could appreciate it because of resolution problems... this mean if you were using a crappy monitor now this google gothic is mutch mutch better.
The new graphic is really easy, just two pics and the same form but we managed to keep the weigth of the page under 100k and this means you will surf mutch more faster than before.
For any Goth advices on our google gothic feel free to write in our facebook page! |
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Goothic moved to America...
90% of our traffic comes from America and in order
1) California (guys don't you have the sun out there?)
2) New York
3) Texas
then we have a really cool group of Italians and Spanish. Other countries are not soooo present.
So where we decided to move our server? Linode, a powerful start-up of vps in America with a huge capacity of bandwidth!
Costs? We don't give a f***, enjoy.
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Google Gothic (Goothic) traffic doubled |
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Hey there,
we just notice that in the last 2 days we litterally doubled our traffic and the people using our service are rising...
I don't know if I have to be happy about that because many of them are between 15-18
Ok there are some real goth between us but... but ? What the hell to realize how many real goths are using our service is not so easy.
We decided to investigate... If turns out that all this traffic comes from teenager who simply missed the way to home we are going to close our website volks, and sorry for the few who really believed (somehow) in this little project but...we'd like to keep it simple and small so yeah probably we will open this service again but with another name...untill google discovers google gothic again. |
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Gothic Art on Google Gothic (Goothic) |
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Ok volks, let say there is almost nothing out there.
Very few of us like this kind of Art. Most of the Goths out there just wear black stuff to pretend something but what about the ways you could find to express the way you like to be?
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