Google Data Centers List for SEO HERE is a list of about 122 currently active server clusters(?) at 40 Google Data Centers (C-blocks). Since the active servers do not update in any predictable way, it can be helpful for SEO to observe various individual active servers for search engine optimization purposes. Top generic search position is valuable. To check your position on a particular data center server, click on the server link below, and search normally. Read the forums, follow the SEO guidelines, and keep your hat white. (all tests done in California) BLUE = Currently Active, but there are frequent changes (click to check if available) BLACK = They were here and now they are gone (click to check if they returned). gfe centers in VIOLET, Yellow rows were added on July 14, 2006 Updated July 15, 2006, Dead links dropped Aug. 20, 2009.
Scribble is a word game for all ages. Scribble is a word game for kids, adults, families, and classrooms. The goal is to create as many words as you can using the ten letters that are randomly generated in the box below. Just scribble down the words on a piece of paper as fast as you can think of them. You can even make it into a contest with your family, classmates or friends. Make up your own rules! Football Vocabulary: 23 Essential Words and Phrases This is part three of a series on football vocabulary in English. If you want more, check out How to Say Football Scores in English and 9 People in Football (And What They Do). Well, we’ve made it this far! It’s almost the end of a rather exciting World Cup. I’m actually one of those people who usually run to the hills while football mania is going on. But this year has been really rather interesting. And I’ve realised that football is quite a complex sport. I’ve also realised something else: it’s sometimes good fun to talk about football. And, as we come to the final match, now is one of those times! Parts of the Football Stadium When you’re talking about football, it’s important to know the different parts of the stadium and the pitch. Rules in Football But what about the actual game itself? We sometimes want to be able to describe what happened in the match, right? Football, like most sports, has a lot of rules and procedures. The Different Stages of the Match First half / Second half Half-time
Expand your vocabulary! Stop Forum Spam Ten fun exercises to improve your memory Our brain is one lazy mechanism that just loves doing nothing and taking days off whenever it can. That’s why we should always force it to do certain things. To train your gray matter, we offer you a few interesting brain exercises from Angels Navarro’s book ’El libro de la memoria’ (’The book of Memory’). Exercise 1 Difficulty level: Medium Look carefully for 1 minute at the dots and lines in the upper section. Exercise 2 Difficulty level: Easy Try to come up with some visual and verbal associations for the following numbers based on their forms and how they look. Answer the following questions: 1. Exercise 3 Look at the geometrical shapes on the left for 20 seconds. Exercise 4 Look at the shopping list below. Exercise 5 Difficulty level: Hard Look at these animals for 1 minute. Now look away from the picture and try to name all those animals in alphabetical order. Exercise 6 Study all the words in the two columns. Now look at the columns below and say out loud which words are missing. Exercise 7
The Big, Fat English Tenses Overview (With PDF) Would you prefer to read this post as a PDF? Click here. Also, check out the Ultimate Guide to Numbers in English. First, take a look at this image. It shows all of the tenses in English. Want a closer look? OK. Yes, it’s a little confusing at first, but don’t panic! Let’s start with the past… The past tenses in English What’s going on here? OK, so as you can see, we have three main tenses going on. When we talk about the present, we’re just looking at what’s happening now and reporting it. When we talk about the future, we’re making plans and predictions. But when we talk about the past, we’re actually telling a story. If we go outside this story time frame, it’s important that we show it so that our story is clear and we understand what happened first and what happened second and, most importantly, what happened outside the story time frame. 1. Why do we use it? We use the past simple if we want to express a single action that happened in the past: …or a state in the past: How do we use it? 2.
Corpus-based word frequency lists, collocates, and n-grams Flippity.net: Easily Turn Google Spreadsheets into Flashcards and Other Cool Stuff 11 Drawings to Remember English Rules Forever This blog post was so popular that I turned it into a book: 102 Little Drawings That Will Help You Remember English Rules FOREVER (Probably). It’s available as an eBook and paperback. Click here to get your copy. Have you ever had a problem that you just couldn’t solve for ages? Then suddenly someone says one word, or just shows you one simple picture, and you get that “aha” moment — you suddenly understand everything? Well, over the many, many years I’ve been teaching English, I’ve found that some simple images can help explain rules in English that cause so many problems for people. Hopefully, they’ll help you, too. So here are some of my most effective little pictures to help you remember English rules. Forever! Maybe. In, on or at for place? I’ve actually talked about this in a previous post, but it’s good to see it in a different way. Usually (but not always), we use: “In” when it’s 3-dimensional I’m in this really dark room, and I can’t get out. “On” when it’s a straight line A or the? OK. OK.
Most Common Female First Names in the United States [rank 2001-3000] How many girls / women are named . . . in the United States? The following tables include the most common female first names in the US population during the 1990 census. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division, Population Analysis & Evaluation Staff.