How to create emo hairstyle by yourself?

It depends on the style that you want. Basically, Emo hairstyle are unconstructed and unblended look showing lots of texture. If you do a search for Emo Hairstyles, you'll find a ton of pictures to choose your look from. Once you have the cut, blow dry with some gel or a mousse, and then a pomade will give you that broken up grunge look that many of the Emo style have.

Red Highlight

Long black hair with splurges of bright red highlight. You can also try blond streaks at the front if you don't like red. Layers would be good to achieve this hairstyle.

Calling all Aussie filmmakers (and lovers of Gmail)

Posted by Julian Sonego, Consumer Marketing Manager

The internet has made it simple to connect with people from around the world through email, however what if that process was more complex, like a Rube Goldberg machine, but instead of gears and levers, there'd be people on everything from bicycles to submarines delivering a message from one place to another?

Well, the Gmail team has come up with an idea to stitch together a bunch of video clips from around the world that all share one element: someone hands the Gmail M-velope in from the left of the screen, and hands it off to the right. Put them all together, and they form one long chain of hand-offs.

A collaborative video depicting just that (well, without the submarines), has been created to kick off the process and now it's time to let everyone in on the action. I can just see the M-velope being handed off in the surf, from a rugby pass, wrapped around an AFL footy and booted to a friend across the road. Learn more on the new Official Gmail Blog, or go directly here where you'll find directions on how to submit your clip. We're looking forward to Australian users continuing our proud filmmaking tradition. Baz Luhrmann and Peter Weir - look out!

Cute Emo boy Tom Falcone

The guy with the lip ring.
Cute Is What We Aim For drummer.
The cutest emo boy! :)

Get Doodling, Australia!

Posted by Ashley Gorringe, Doodle 4 Google team

We're excited this week to be launching 'Doodle 4 Google My Australia', which offers Australian school students the chance to have their artwork viewed by millions of people online.

As you may know, we periodically publish a quirkily decorated Google home page logo to celebrate the birthday of someone famous or to mark a significant historical anniversary or day such as Australia Day. These doodles have almost always been designed for Google.com.au by our original doodler, Dennis Hwang. Until now. Because now we're looking for the doodle that best represents Australia and what it means to be Australian.

We're inviting all Australian schools to participate in the initiative, open to students from Years 1 to 10. An expert panel, including leading educational expert Michael Grose and art and culture expert, Dare Jennings, who cofounded Mambo Surfwear, will pick finalists from each state and territory. We'll then display the top 32 doodles online and invite the Australian public to vote for their favourites later in the year.

Finalists will win prizes for themselves and their schools, including an interactive whiteboard for the national Year Group winners' schools and $10,000 of technology related equipment for the overall winner's school. The winning design will take pride of place on the Google Australia home page on Australia Day 2008.

All the details of the initiative can be found here, including the information pack that has been sent to every school in Australia. Check with your local school to see if they're taking part (we're thrilled that there's been a huge response already!) and let them know they can register online. We're looking forward to seeing young Australians' most creative doodles.

Top gaining queries in June

Posted by Alex Heat, Account Associate

The month of June witnessed another mixed bag of weird and wonderful search terms gaining ground on the Google Australia Zeitgeist.

It seems Australian Google users had a great love for heavy metal music this month. Punk rockers were among the fastest growing search terms including local band I Killed the Prom Queen falling in at number one, followed by My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy and German industrial metal band Rammstein.

And what do we like to do whilst listening to our heavy metal, well.... eat of course! This month's top gainers highlight how we Aussies are certainly food lovers of all varieties. Sweet tooths had a passion for Krispy Kreme doughnuts, while the naked chef himself, Jamie Oliver cooked his way into our hearts after becoming part of our regular TV viewing.

Teen queen Sophia Bush from T.V. show One Tree Hill showed us where her three teen choice award nominations came from and American actress Emma Roberts' portrayal of fictional heroine Nancy Drew got our search fingers twitching. Locally based singer Amy Pearson has been in our thoughts following the release of her debut album, coming in at number twelve.

A mixed bag of Pirates, spiders and Spartans appear to be quite the favourite. Johnny Depp's Pirates of the Caribbean proved that sequels are just as good making the journey from our cinema screens to our searches, while heartthrob James Franco from the Spiderman series was also much admired. The 300 movie proved that Spartans with spears are very engaging.

Now it's not all fun and games, some serious online shoppers investigated the best place to buy handbags and some eager mums wanted to know how to cash in their Baby bonus.

In the end, people just want to be entertained. Cirque Du Soleil's hit show Varekai is currently touring Australia.

For breaking news and obscure information alike, Australians are searching on Google. What follows is a summary of Google Australia Zeitgeist results for the top gainers on Google.com.au.

For more information, visit the Google Zeitgeist and Google Trends.

Top Gainers for June:

1. I Killed the Prom Queen
2. Krispy Kreme
3. My Chemical Romance
4. Sophia Bush
5. Cirque du Soleil
6. Emma Roberts
7. Jamie Oliver
8. Fall Out Boy
9. Handbags
10. Pirates of the Caribbean
11. James Franco
12. Amy Pearson
13. Rammstein
14. 300 movie
15. Baby bonus

Emo Music

Emo music is the boat that brought the term “emo” down the river. Emo music is a type of hardcore punk music. They type of music has slowly evolved over the years. This typic of music is very melodramatic and filled with lyrics of a depressing state. Emo music is said to have began with DC bands like Embrace and Rites of Spring but is in not limited to them, in 1985. Basically, the sound involved a slower and emotional (therefore the name "emo") version of hardcore music. The vocals are generally sung in a whiny sounding voice, or with screams that leave the lyrics indistinguishable.

Emo music today has created many opposite and contradicting combinations that all proclaim to be emo, rendering it somewhat useless. Here are some examples: there's political, scream-and-flail-on-the-floor, emo like Frail, Swing Kids, Impetus Inter, and a slew of San Diego based bands; there's the really slow, discordant, artsy emo like Cap'n Jazz, Joan d'Arc, Evergreen, etc.; then we have the more popular melody/pop-oriented bands like Texas is the Reason, Sensefield, Mineral, Promise Ring, Split Lip (now Chamberlain), etc.; and last but not least we have the slow, stop-and-go, melody-thrash alternating groups like Amber Inn, Still Life, and others I can't think of right now.

"Scientific" analysis of Australian Googlers

Posted by Kate Conroy, Account Associate

It can come as a surprise to find out it takes more than 12 000 'Googlers' worldwide (and hiring) to bring you the 117 versions of that search box every day (my personal favourite, after Google.com.au, is the Elmer Fudd interface with the 'I'm Feewing Wucky' button).

In Australia, we get a lot of questions about who we are and what we're like. I decided to dig a bit deeper into the Aussie Googler profile and share a little about ourselves. Some serious in-depth research was required (OK it was more of a quick and dirty office poll but shhhh...don't tell) but we now have a guide to your Googler Downunder.

Although the majority of us were born in Oz, more than 40% hail from other parts of the globe and about half are happy striking up a conversation in another language - 18 languages all together. Our average age indicates fond childhood memories of watching Inspector Gadget and probably some embarrassing baby photos featuring 70's infant's wear.

We have way too many iPods, with one third of us having 2 or more. Maybe it's so we can listen to them on long haul flights - 97% of us went overseas in the past year even though that requires a scary number of hours with *no internet connection* (gasp!). Our favourite Google product is still Search, but we've got some big fans of Maps and Earth, which is something the Engineering team here spends a lot of time on. It might be worth going back to the baby photos to see if at least some Aussie Googlers were born with an ethernet cable for an umbilical cord.

But all that is hardly surprising for an Internet company. Let's get to the good stuff and delve deeper into our formative years and lifetime achievements.

As little tackers, 25% of us dreamed of being astronauts and super heroes, with a smaller minority (21%) aiming for careers as ballerinas, vets, nurses, doctors and world leaders. The rest of us had an eclectic set of aspirations ranging from princesses to postmen, fishmongers, rappers, dolphin trainers, diplomats, magicians and park rangers.

Among us we have a pilot trainee and others who have flown helicopters and 747 simulators (still aiming for that childhood dream). We've also got someone who beat out Pat Rafter for High School Sportsperson of the Year, former contestants on Sale of the Century and Family Feud, descendants of Little Jack Horner and Jane Austen, an ex-Canterbury Bulldogs cheerleader, someone who's been lost on horseback in the Egyptian desert at night and someone else who's collected dinosaur bones in the Gobi desert.

Between us, we've written spell-checkers for Aboriginal languages, built a half million volt tesla coil, appeared in operas, played cricket for Germany, been hit by a bus, starred in Home & Away, collected stamps and train tickets and been part of a world record attempt to have the most people playing the Irish drum. One of us has three kidneys, another has climbed the Sydney Harbour Bridge (back when you weren't supposed to) and we are very proud to employ both the formerchairman of the National Rube Goldberg Machine contest and the 2nd place getter in the primary school 'Stop-Drop-and Roll' fire safety sign design contest.

So next time you're on Google.com.au, you can be confident there's an eclectic bunch of Australians helping to make sure that Australia is involved in anything preceded by a www.

Hosted site searches for Australian businesses

Posted by Deepak Ramanathan, Marketing Manager

Australian businesses, like their global counterparts, spend a lot of effort and energy creating and promoting great websites for their products and services, but quality search is often missing. As a result, businesspeople often ask us why they can't use Google to power search on their sites.

Today we've released Custom Search Business Edition (CSBE) to do just that. CSBE is a hosted site search solution that provides Google-quality results for your website. It's fast, relevant, reliable, and flexible, so that users can quickly find what they're looking for through search results customised and integrated into your business website.

CSBE builds on the Google Custom Search Engine, a hosted search solution we introduced last October that allows organisations to create a search engine and search results that are tailored to their point of view. This is all well and good, but businesses have asked us for greater flexibility and support - and we're addressing these needs through CSBE.

Businesses that want further control over results presentation and integration with their website can obtain results through XML. Now those of you with business sites have the option to turn off ads and have further control over branding. In addition, CSBE provides options for email and phone support. The pricing starts at US$100 per year for searching up to 5,000 pages.

This offering should be a great help to all the Australian businesses that have a web presence but don't offer users any way to search the site. Instead of being left on their own to navigate content, visitors to CSBE-enabled sites will be able to navigate through search results without ever leaving the site. We hope an improved customer search experience will translate into more referrals, more opportunities for e-commerce, and more satisfied online customers for these Australian businesses. Here's more about CSBE.

Get your ad on the map....literally

Posted by Jeremy Wood, Advertising Product Specialist

Australian advertisers and users alike know that AdWords ads are a great way to find relevant information. But sometimes you wonder where the businesses that you see advertising online are actually located. Well, we’ve just announced a new ad format in Australia - the local business ad - which ties targeted ads into Google Maps.

Google Maps is a key information source for Australians when shopping locally for products and services. With local business ads, Australian businesses can promote location-based products and services to users at the precise moment when they seek information.



Users searching for your products or services will be able to clearly see how close they are from your business' physical location. In addition to your ad text, you can also include a phone number or add an image of your company logo or one of the products you carry. Whether it’s a hotel or flowers, art galleries or rugby league jerseys, you can get key information about your business in front of potential customers as they browse or shop locally online.

If your business has multiple locations, you can promote them all within the same Ad Group or campaign using the same keyword lists -- your ads will appear whenever someone is searching for those keywords near any one of your locations.

You can learn more about Local Business Ads here.

Emo Love

Google and the ACCC

Posted by Rob Shilkin, Head of Corporate Communications & Public Affairs

You may have read that the ACCC recently filed a lawsuit against Google concerning the text ads that appear under the heading "Sponsored Links" on our results page. As these are now formal proceedings, any legal discussion or comment must be pursued in court - we can't discuss any specifics. Nevertheless, we thought you might be interested in some general comments.

This case raises important issues for all search engines, plus the Australian businesses that use them to connect with customers throughout the world. In our view, the ACCC's claims are without merit. Accordingly, we will be vigorously defending against these claims in court.

We will continue our focus on providing Australian businesses, of all sizes, with an affordable and highly effective advertising platform. Search marketing is a particularly important tool for thousands of small businesses. It is lower cost than other advertising platforms and enables them to precisely target to local and overseas customers.

Search marketing is helping small Australian businesses - often geographically isolated and with limited marketing resources - to leverage the power of the Internet to grow their operations and stand out in competitive markets. At Google Australia, we're excited to be a part of this.

As this case moves forward, we will update you with any important developments.

Emo Band: Cute is What We Aim For

The band Cute is What We Aim For was created in Buffalo, NY in 2005. This pop rock band began with four members but currently has three. The members include Shaant Hacikyan on vocals, Jeff Czum on guitar and piano, and Tom Falcone on drums. When the original members decided to take Cute Is What We Aim For to a new level, each had a difficult parting of ways with their other bands. The band got out to a rough start, having negative vibes from their other bands and even accusations of plagiarism. They also had issues with their debut album, The Same Old Blood Rush with a New Touch, when the founder of Absolutepunk.net charged them with using auto pitch/tone correcting software. Nevertheless, the release of their debut album in 2006 debuted at number 75 on the Billboard 200.

Blue Emo Hair

by Inyo
For a portion of the summer, I had the opportunity to dye my hair blue. Having blue hair is an enjoyable experience I'd suggest to anyone, it certainly makes life interesting. It helped get through a summer in a very boring town. But I sure did get a lot of weird comments. They ranged as anything from 'is that natural?' to 'did you spill paint on your hair?' Probably the most common questions I got from old people was 'It's just for the summer right?' or 'does it wash out?' Also common was 'Why?'. (it's something you cant really explain to a redneck in a convenience store in Nevada). Most younger people asked me 'whoa, how'd you get that color?' or 'what type of dye did you use?' When my parents saw it they simply said 'Whoa.. it IS blue'. I guess they didnt believe me.

All kinds of other interesting things happened to me when my hair was blue. When I was in the desert visiting Bodie, someone recognized me who had seen me at Rock Creek over 100 miles away. Having blue hair isnt good if you desire anonymity... don't yell things at people out of cars if you have blue hair. Also, part of my tub is now stained blue. Some idiot smacked me over the head randomly with a beer bottle at a show in San Jose and the beer in my hair turned blue and dribbled down on me, turning most of my shirt blue. Throughout the few months I had blue hair, I had to touch it up a lot. If you want to dye your hair use Special Effects brand.. don't use Manic Panic.

Anyway... if you have a job which will allow it, and you get bored, you can always give it a try. It sure did get a lot of girls to come up and talk to me, which is a good thing. It got me funny looks from middle aged people but who really cares what they think anyway? If you live in the boonies you might get pulled over by a cop or something. Also I literally had some cars almost crash when driving by me... which I thought was pretty funny because where I come from, dyed hair is no big thing. But... I would say that everyone should dye their hair while in college.

Pete Wentz Owns 730 Hoodies

According to the August issue of J-14, America's no. 1 emo boy Pete Wentz owns 730 hoodies.

I have two year' worth of hoodies, wearing a different one every day. A lot of people in the hardcore scene used to wear them. It's also like a comfort blanket. Long after I started wearing them, my manager told me that Bob Dylan would wear hoodies on tour. And when the hoodie was up, you couldn't talk to him. I was like, "That's amazing!"

Emo Girls Long Hairstyle Gallery

Here is a gallery of long emo hairstyles for girls. There are 105 pictures overall. May you find the style your looking for.

Emo boy Shaant Hacikyan

What can you say about Shaants' hair? This is the perfect example of a shaggy emo hair that hangs over the side of one's face, covering your desired eye in a side bang type fashion. Shaants' hair is long and partially hide his face, sometimes covering his eyes.

Achieving this is very simple. Just grow your hair long enough and employ a hair gel or a wax to keep your bangs right where you want it. A medium hold gel would be the best option to achieve this hairstyle.

More about Shaant
Lead vocalist of Cute Is What We Aim For
His name is pronounced Shawnt
He is turkish from his dad
Last name is haw-sik-ean
He used to smoke but he quit
He used to be an alcoholic
Lives in the BIG Apple
He is 20 something
Single - might be taken by now
HOT

Google Australia celebrates NAIDOC Week

Posted by Julian Sonego, Consumer Marketing Manager and Rob Shilkin, Head of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs

You have undoubtedly noticed today's Google doodle on the Google Australian homepage. It's in recognition of NAIDOC Week which is an annual celebration of the continuation of Australia's ancient Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and the contribution made by Indigenous people to Australia. NAIDOC stands for "National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee". Historically, there was only the one day of celebration. Now a whole week is set aside to celebrate our Indigenous cultures (you may see the Australian Aboriginal Flag and the Torres Strait Islander Flag on Government buildings).

Google's doodles celebrate worldwide events and holidays. These have included Anzac Day, Australia Day, Melbourne Cup Day, and the Sydney Olympics. Doodles have also marked the birthdays of famous artists and thinkers, including Van Gogh, da Vinci, Mozart, Einstein, Michelangelo, Picasso, Andy Warhol and Alfred Hitchcock.

We're delighted to add to this list another distinctly Australian design for NAIDOC Week, an event that is supported by all sides of politics. NAIDOC Week can give us reason to reflect on indigenous achievements and offers us a chance to work towards a more positive future.

For further information on NAIDOC Week activities in your area, please contact your local Indigenous Coordination Centre on 1800 079 098 (in Nhulunbuy area call 1800 089 148, Kalgoorlie area call 1800 193 357 and in Kununurra please call 1800 193 348).

Weekly Emo Roundup

13 Emo Tattoo Photos from EmoStuff.
Shakespeare Hates Your Emo Poems T-shirt from Threadless.

Emo Videos
How Indie Are You Emo? - sort of funny. "It's a word document! ha ha ha.
Investigators: EMO Music - some sort of documentary. I don't know if you'll like it or not.

Pon and Zi

Watch this video of Pon and Zi. They are the two cute little emo cartoon characters created by Azuzephre. Very adorable. Too bad they dont sport any emo hair style. They dont have hairs!

Old school social networking

Posted by Will Blott, University Programs Manager

Despite plateauing university enrollments in Computer Science in recent years, the passion and enthusiasm for ICT, emerging technologies and the strong career prospects open to graduates continues unabated.

We found this out last week when two Australian universities' Computer Science /IT departments – UNSW and University of Queensland - held their first ever alumni reunions and generously invited Google to co-host the evenings.

UNSW event

UNSW alumni met at Google’s Darling Harbour offices whilst the UQ faithful returned to St Lucia for a night of discussion, refreshments and old-school social networking. One alumnus, in true Google fashion, even brought his dogs!

From questions on how to launch your own start up, to the future of broadband in Australia, to Google’s plans for Australia and New Zealand, to career opportunities in the industry, much was learned by the more than two hundred who attended. With both venues full, a big thank you to all involved.

As both schools are planning future events it is never too late to become reunited - click here:

• UNSW
• UQ

Your So Emo.....

Sure, we have all seen the people with the jet black hair, the extremely small, tight-fitting, shirts, and the kids with the cut-up wrists. But do we know who they are exactly? Most people would generally refer to them as “emo” but, what really is emo?

Emo is a slang term derived from the word “emotional”. Emo is also a term for emotionally-charged punk rock. The word can be used to describe the emotional state of a teenage (usually a depressed state), the person in general, or the emotionally-charged type of music.

More often than not, emo is seen as a degrading term, inferring that the person being called emo is depressed, a whiner, and one who cuts their wrist for the heck of it. Wikipedia describes as a style of fashion or music; or a general state of unhappiness or melancholy (as in "to feel emo”) Those stereotyped of emo are often unhappy, think they are misunderstood, and may have mild paranoia. Emo kids or emo boys are often found to be the rejects of society.

In my experience I have heard people use the word emo to describe a variety of things from clothing to music to a way a person is feeling. Some art nowadays is even being referred to as emo! Emo is a new way of life, a way of living, a way to express yourself through music, art, design, style, life. It is a statement, an expression, it’s emotional.