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Something Different – Access Google caffeine by IP Address

SEO guru and Google guy Matt Cutts recently told us that we should be expecting the new and improved google caffeine after the holidays – so we can probably expect the roll out somewhere in January.

For now we are able to access caffeine by IP 209.85.225.103

Seems a lot faster than the current google for some results and slower for others. Matt says it will be released in phases, will be fun to see the finished product huh?

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Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Coffee

Facts about Coffee

By Gabriel Adams
Having become a regular part of our daily life, coffee has not been given much thought except for people wondering every now and then about the health benefits that it has on them. But there’s more to just the great taste and the caffeine rush we get with every cup of our favorite coffee.

Here are some interesting facts about coffee that you probably did not know:

Coffee is . . .

  • The second most widely used product in the world next to oil
  • The second most popular drink next to water
  • Grown in 65 countries around the world
  • The means of living for 25 million families around the world
  • Consumed at the rate of 1.4 million cups every day
  • Produced largely in Brazil, Indonesia, Columbia, India, Mexico, Vietnam, Uganda
  • Consumed largely in the US, Brazil, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom

Coffee was . . .

  • First discovered by a young goat herd in the highlands of Ethiopia in the ninth century
  • Originally used by the Arabs as a form of medicine and for religious purposes
  • Forbidden in Rome when a priest prohibited the people to drink the beverage because it was believed to be the drink of the devil
  • First commercially harvested in the fourteenth century from the Arabian Peninsula
  • First imported on a large scale by the Dutch
  • First known as “Arabian wine” when it was introduced in Europe
  • First mass-produced by George Constant Washington, an English chemist in 1906

Coffee . . .

  • Beans are actually berries, which contain two beans known as “pips”
  • Farmers get a mere 4 cents for every pound of coffee that they pick by hand
  • Is celebrated in Japan every first of October, which they have officially marked as Coffee Day for the entire country
  • With flavor originated in the 1970s in America
  • Ships are used to transport beans around the world (approximately 2,500 ships every year)
  • Plants can produce coffee beans up to 30 years under proper care and good conditions
  • The “coffee belt” refers to the regions in the equator where most coffee trees are grown
  • Is not produced in the United States of America (not counting Hawaii and Puerto Rico)

The first . . .

  • Coffee berries were boiled before they were marketed because the Arabs did not want the plants cultivated outside their territories
  • Coffee houses were called ?penny universities? as every cup of coffee would only cost you a penny
  • Coffee-serving caf? (Le Procope) opened in Paris in 1968 and is still in business today
  • Instant coffee was invented by Satori Kato, a Japanese-American chemist in 1901
  • Freeze-dried coffee Nescafe was invented by a Nestl? company in Switzerland in 1938
  • Coffee filter was invented by a housewife from Germany, Melitta Bentz

From its origin to production and to the many changes that it has undergone up to this date, coffee continues to remain a significant part of our everyday living. That shouldn?t come as a surprise, not with the great stories that come with every cup we have. Coffee is an integral part of many societies and economies around the world.

So, have you learned anything about coffee?

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Facts that the Free Library doesn’t know about coffee…

By Cupofgooglecaffeine.info

  • Coffee is grown in Zimbabwe in the eastern highlands

  • The Zulus used to eat a mix of Coffee and other herbs before going into battle

  • A Coffee shop in Amsterdam does not necessarily sell coffee…

Other Coffee topics

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Review on Too Much Coffee Blog

http://toomuchcoffee.co.za

A Blog like no other written by an ex-restaurant owner with topics including:

Service, Politics, Restaurants, Brain Teasers, Taxi Drivers and MyTube videos.

Winning awards including, South African Weblog of the Year, Most Humorous South African Blog & Best SA Blog about Politics. Read it here…

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Cup of Google Caffeine asks How much caffeine is in a starbucks tall cup of decaf?

Referring to http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=562508 on google answers about a cup of starbucks. One wonders, how much caffeine is in a starbucks tall cup of decaf? Click the above and find out from google answers.

Other Answers:

http://www.chacha.com/question/how-much-caffeine-is-in-a-starbucks-tall-french-pressed-coffee

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/396366

Interesting, think about your next cup of decaffeinated caffeine.

That link again from google answers concerning Starbucks tall cup of decaf: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=562508

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Battle of the Search Engines Battle of the Search Engines More Than 600 Bugs in Google/Google Caffeine, Bing

Utest

Final Bug Battle Results:

Google
–130 bugs reported
–8 percent classified as “showstoppers”

–28 percent were Technical, 46 percent were Functional, and 26 percent were GUI

Bing
–321 bugs reported
–14 percent classified as “showstoppers”
–29 percent were Technical, 46 percent were Functional, and 25 percent  were GUI

Yahoo
–70 bugs reported
–10 percent classified as “showstoppers” and 50 percent as “high severity”
–28 percent were Technical, 57 percent were Functional, and 15 percent were GUI

Detailed results of this study are available at http://www.utest.com/bugbattle/q309/results.

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