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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Facebook Overtakes Google Search
Hitwise, a web analysis business, said on its Analyst Weblog that Facebook was the most visited site last week, overtaking Google Search for the first time. Hitwise suggests that Google Search accounted for 7.03% of US Internet visits last week, c ... (more...)
Monday, March 8, 2010
Variable Speed for YouTube Videos
If you've opted in to YouTube's HTML5 experiment, the videos will play in your own browser's player, instead of in an Adobe Flash player. This was discussed in the Forum a few weeks ago. YouTube can serve HTML5 videos if you have an HTML5-capable ... (more...)
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Knol: The State of Play
Knol is a Google service that allows anyone to publish an article about almost anything. When Google's VP of Engineering, Udi Manber, announced Knol in December 2007 it was widely regarded as a "Wikipedia killer". If Knol's users could replica ... (more...)
Friday, February 12, 2010
New: Google Maps Labs
When Google wants to test new features, they call them Lab experiments, and make them opt-in. Now, following many other services, Google Maps received a Lab icon. Click the green flask at the top of Google Maps and you get a chance to enable feat ... (more...)
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Google Buzz Released (Think Friendfeed In Gmail)
Recently we mentioned here how the word "buzz" turns out to be a reserved label in Gmail. Now, Gmail is rolling out a service by that name -- Buzz -- announced by Google some hours ago via video, blog post and help page. Buzz is meant to let you ... (more...)
Sunday, January 10, 2010
German Spiegel on Google Goggles' Face Recognition and More
German Spiegel ("mirror") has a relatively good cover story about Google out for tomorrow's issue, perhaps more balanced than some of the magazine's online articles. There's a broad overview of Google's recent and older products and what privacy ... (more...)
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Google Award to Honor Freedom of Expression
Google with partnering organizations has set up an award called Breaking Borders to recognize "outstanding webprojects by individuals or groups who have shown courage, energy and resourcefulness in using the internet to promote freedom of express ... (more...)
Friday, December 18, 2009
Google Guru?
Chris writes in to say he's spotted a new service on his Google account services page: "Google Guru", which points towards guru.google.com/guru/ ... which is non-existent at the moment. The account page reads, "Guru ... Ask questions and get answ ... (more...)
Monday, December 14, 2009
A Google Phone Called Nexus One?
According to several sources, Google has given a new Google phone to its employees. It's apparently called Nexus One, Android 2.1-based, looks like this and this, has a touch screen, and is built by Taiwan's HTC but with no HTC branding and full ... (more...)
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Google's "Living Stories" News Experiment
Google has partnered with the New York Times and the Washington Post news organizations to create an experimental type of news page they call "living story". In a blog post announcing this move, Google says that Living Stories try a non-tradition ... (more...)
Google Chrome for Linux & Mac, Chrome Extensions (and a Promo Site With Privacy Hole)
Chrome for Linux and Mac The Google Chrome browser is now also available for Mac (see screenshot above) and Linux. Google in an email some of you received said that there were "73,804 lines of Mac-specific code written". If you run Mac or Linu ... (more...)
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Google Goggles: Take Photos of Things Around You to Search for Them
Google launched Goggles, an Android phones application which lets you snap a photo somewhere, to then get more information about the contents of the photo. ("Reverse image search" engines like TinEye.com turn out to be very useful at certain time ... (more...)
Google Real-Time Search Results
Google has released real-time results integrated into their main web search results. Now, when you enter a query like obama, google and many others, somewhere in the page you might be seeing a dynamically self-updating, scrollable section of bits ... (more...)
Friday, November 20, 2009
Google to Test New, More Colorful (and Permanent) Sidebar
Google is rolling out a design prototype to some users which will have a permanent new pane to the left hand side. Within that pane, as the screenshot by Search Engine Land (with more coverage) shows, there will be sections such as "Everything", ... (more...)
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Go, a Programming Language by Google
Google has released a new programming language called Go. Google wants to offer a couple of benefits from their language: fast compilation, easy analyzing of dependencies, static types that nevertheless feel more lightweight compared to some othe ... (more...)
Friday, November 6, 2009
Dan Siroker: CarrotSticks, Google Chrome, and Obama
Dan Siroker is the founder of kid's learning games site CarrotSticks.com. Before that, he was involved with the Obama campaign transition as deputy new media director; prior to that, Dan was a product manager for Google Chrome. This email inte ... (more...)
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Google Social Search Live
Google now lets you opt in to the Social Search feature they recently announced. Google explains, "If there's relevant web content written by people in your social circle, it will automatically show up at the bottom of your search results under a ... (more...)
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
New: Google Sidewiki
Google Sidewiki is an app you can install for Firefox and Internet Explorer as part of the Google Toolbar. It lets you discuss any webpage out there with others -- by adding messages in a side bar displayed on a given page. If you're not a toolbar fa ... (more...)
Google Chrome Frame: A Canvas (and More) Plugin for Internet Explorer
Oh sweet: Google released a plug-in for Internet Explorer which brings Canvas and a couple of other things (like Chrome's fast JavaScript engine) to Internet Explorer. It's named Google Chrome Frame, and the "couple of other things" could act lik ... (more...)
Friday, September 18, 2009
When Google Gets Musical
Here in China I'm amazed by the Google Music site... I can search for all kinds of bands and musicians and get their albums, with songs fully playable in an easy interface (songs playable in China only, that is!). The scope of featured artists doesn' ... (more...)
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Google Acquires reCAPTCHA
Google has just announced that it's acquired reCAPTCHA, the company that not only helps to reduce spam, but also helps to digitize books by improving Optical Character Recognition technology through the use of CAPTCHAs. As Wikipedia explains, ... (more...)
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Google's Data Liberation Site
Google is emphasizing their proclaimed goal to let you easily import and export your Google data when moving services via a new site -- DataLiberation.org*. The mission statement from the Data Liberation Front -- named after a Monty Python skit a ... (more...)
Google Fast Flip Lets You Quickly Browse News Pages
Google's latest Labs experiment is called Fast Flip. Opening the site you'll be presented with snapshot images of articles from lots of different news sites. You can then scroll through these snapshots or click on any snapshot to be taken to a la ... (more...)
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Google Promoting Social iGoogle Gadgets
Google is currently pushing social gadgets via a link from their homepage. The promo reads "New! Post updates and play games with friends on iGoogle", and points to a special page listing gadgets with social features -- like multiplayer games or ... (more...)
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Ron Talks About Building a Video Site for Kids... and Clashing With the Laws of YouTube
Ron is the creator of Totlol.com, a site for kids and their parents which uses the YouTube API. When he sent me the pointer I blogged about it, and his approach inspired a site of mine, and Ron and I had been periodically emailing since then. On ... (more...)
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Google Lets You Preview Their Search Infrastructure Update
Google announced that they're opening up a new results infrastructure for testing. You can view it at www2.sandbox.google.com, and give feedback on differences to normal web search by clicking the "Dissatisfied" link at the bottom (you are supposed t ... (more...)
Friday, July 24, 2009
Not All Of Google May Be Available In Your Country
The name is "world wide web", but it's not always. What are some of Google's services that will only work in one country, or a limited set of countries? (Unless perhaps you route around the block -- geolocation by IP, as it's often implemented, i ... (more...)
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Google Korea With Dropdown Search Menu
The Google Korea homepage, already different from Google.com for some time, is now showing a dropdown search navigation menu to the left of the search box. Translated it reads All Search - Image - News - Map - Dictionary - Blog - Shopping - Video ... (more...)
Monday, July 13, 2009
Microsoft Announcing Web-Based Office
A web-based Word As rumored before, details are now surfacing that Microsoft is planning to release a suite of web based office tools for MS Office 2010 (the thing they probably should have done with "Windows Live" some years ago). For instance, ... (more...)
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Google Announced Their Operating System: Chrome OS
Google announced an open source OS called Google Chrome Operating System. Google's aim seems to make this a lightweight operating system that has a browser running web apps at its core. Many web apps being Google's of course, or at least, that's ... (more...)
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