Sexy Filipino Actress Iwa Moto

Aileen Quimapo Iwamoto or better known as Iwa Moto was born on 29 August 1988 in Las Pinas City, Philippines. This elegant Japanese-Filipino beauty is an actress in the Phillipines.

She was one of the final four of popular Phillipines reality TV show StarStruck Batch 3. She lives at Las Piñas.

She is currently seen on several shows of GMA Network. She lost the Ultimate Female Survivor title to Jackie Rice. She was top 20 in Hi Magazine's most beautiful faces in showbiz and number 16 in FHM's Top 100 sexiest women in the world.

Teen Filipino Actress Maja Salvador

Maja Salvador or Maja Ross Andres Salvador was born on 5 October 1988 in Phillipines. This 4' 3" beauty is currently one of the most famous teen stars in the Philippines. She's young and talented.

Besides her hectic showbiz life, she enjoys playing volleyball and badminton. Also, she loves hanging out in the mall and loves watching TV, texting and chatting.

To-date, she's got a fair number of TV serials to her name since 2001. Watch out for this hottie!

Staying informed with Google News search

Posted by T.V Raman, Research Scientist

From time to time, our own T.V. Raman shares his tips on how to use Google from his perspective as a technologist who cannot see -- tips that sighted people, among others, may also find useful. - Ed.

In the information age, currency of information has high value. As someone who cannot see, I find having to skim many different news sites to stay caught up even more difficult than the average web user. As in most things, off-loading some of this work to the machine is the answer, and what better machine to offload the work to than Google News.

In addition, finding relevant news stories through Google News helps me navigate directly to the news story on the originating site. Even if the originating news site is itself visually complex, Google has done most of the hard work of surfing that site and getting me to the content I need to read. Combined with Google News finding and grouping related stories on a given topic, this is an especially effective way of staying informed.

Here are some of the ways I use Google News: For topics I regularly search for, I create Atom feeds that search topics on Google News and subscribe to them via my blog reader (Google Reader). Here is the Atom feed for locating news articles on XForms. For topics on my watch list I create Google News alerts. In addition, Google News provides feeds (RSS or Atom) for popular groupings of articles. I subscribe to the feeds for Business and Technology using Google Reader.

Together, all of the above provide an effective means for me to stay caught up -- I'm usually done with all my news reading during my 40-minute daily commute to work on the Google shuttle. In addition, note that Google News also provides a Mobile version that is very speech-friendly. For the most part I use the main Google News site, primarily because news stories of interest are mostly textual, but if some of the stories come from visually complex news sites, I often hand those off to the Google wireless transcoder so that it can present me the story in a form that is more amenable to being spoken out aloud.

Teach for America and Google join forces

Posted by Victoria Grand, Corporate Communications Manager

Like many college seniors, I spent the fall of my senior year in somewhat of a tailspin trying to figure out what to do next. My friends and I considered the usual options: grad school, i-banking, gigs with tech companies and consulting firms. And then there was Teach for America (TFA), an organization dedicated to eradicating educational inequity by enlisting thousands of elite college grads to teach in under-resourced schools. I joined TFA in 1995 and went from college student to inner-city first grade teacher (of 36 students!) practically overnight. Teaching was, without a doubt, the most challenging and the most rewarding job I have ever had.

TFA continues to be a popular destination for college grads today. Since the mid-90s, its enrollment has more than tripled and its applicant pool has quadrupled. As a Googler and former TFA'er, I was thrilled to hear that Google is partnering with TFA to provide two-year deferrals for students who receive offers from both institutions. Now bright, idealistic college grads don't have to choose between two exciting and worthwhile career opportunities. Our partnership enables college grads to get real-world experience and to bring the insight and experience they gain in the classroom to bear in their work at Google. By joining forces, Google and TFA will be able to attract individuals who are capable of the hard work, commitment, and creativity it takes to teach and to be a Googler.

Visit www.google.com/jobs/teachforamerica to find out more about this great program.

Update: Corrected author attribution.

Sexy Singer Tata Young in the news

If you haven't heard of Tata Young, you are definitely missing out on something. We've featured her a couple of months ago... She is that sexy pop princess from Thailand who's been named one of the 25 most influential trend-makers in Asia by TIME.

Not only that, she has sold in the millions, received awards, made it to the front-page of TIME Magazine and was selected as one of the world’s sexiest women by the magazine FHM.

She also sang the theme song of an Indian film, holds sell-out concerts not only in her home country Thailand but also in the Philippines and Indonesia.

She has recently completed her showcase of her new album in South East Asia.

Weekend Babe: Hot Japanese Idol Sora Aoi

Can you believe it guys?! It's December already! 2007 is just round the corner... sweet!

Our weekend babe for the week is the hot Japanese Idol Sora Aoi. We will feature more of this beauty in the coming weeks.

Stay tune and have a GREAT weekend.

Seeing RED

Posted by Sheryl Sandberg, VP

You might have noticed from our homepage that today is World AIDS Day. We want to remember all those who have suffered from HIV/AIDS in the 25 years since it was first identified, and we want to support everyone working to eradicate this scourge: Today, there are about 40 million people living with HIV worldwide, and it is increasing in every region in the world. In Africa, it is the leading cause of death -- 5,500 Africans die each day from this insidious disease.

One effort that is making a difference is (RED), a company founded this year by Bono and Bobby Shriver. A percentage of the profits from each (RED) product sold is given to The Global Fund. We are supporting the (RED) effort by offering promotional support to (RED) and (RED) products on Google properties throughout the holiday season.

We hope you choose to support them with your purchases. Companies offering (RED) products have committed to contribute a portion of profits from the sales of that product into Global Fund-financed AIDS programmes in Africa.

Together, let's make a big difference. Read more at JoinRED.com or visit the (RED) blog.