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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...)

Facebook Overtakes Google Search  | By Roger Browne | Comments

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...)

Variable Speed for YouTube Videos  | By Roger Browne | Comments

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...)

Knol: The State of Play  | By Roger Browne | Comments

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...)

New: Google Maps Labs  | By Philipp Lenssen | Comments

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...)

Google Buzz Released (Think Friendfeed In Gmail)  | By Philipp Lenssen | Comments

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...)

German Spiegel on Google Goggles' Face Recognition and More  | By Philipp Lenssen | Comments

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...)

Google Award to Honor Freedom of Expression  | By Philipp Lenssen | Comments

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...)

Google Guru?  | By Philipp Lenssen | Comments

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...)

A Google Phone Called Nexus One?  | By Philipp Lenssen | Comments

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's "Living Stories" News Experiment  | By Philipp Lenssen | Comments

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...)

Google Chrome for Linux & Mac, Chrome Extensions (and a Promo Site With Privacy Hole)  | By Philipp Lenssen | Comments

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 Goggles: Take Photos of Things Around You to Search for Them  | By Philipp Lenssen | Comments

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...)

Google Real-Time Search Results  | By Philipp Lenssen | Comments

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...)

Google to Test New, More Colorful (and Permanent) Sidebar  | By Philipp Lenssen | Comments

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...)

Go, a Programming Language by Google  | By Philipp Lenssen | Comments

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...)

Dan Siroker: CarrotSticks, Google Chrome, and Obama  | By Philipp Lenssen | Comments

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...)

Google Social Search Live  | By Philipp Lenssen | Comments

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...)

New: Google Sidewiki  | By Philipp Lenssen | Comments

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...)

Google Chrome Frame: A Canvas (and More) Plugin for Internet Explorer  | By Philipp Lenssen | Comments

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...)

When Google Gets Musical  | By Michael Liang Zhang | Comments

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...)

Google Acquires reCAPTCHA  | By Tony Ruscoe | Comments

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's Data Liberation Site  | By Philipp Lenssen | Comments

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...)

Google Fast Flip Lets You Quickly Browse News Pages  | By Philipp Lenssen | Comments

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...)

Google Promoting Social iGoogle Gadgets  | By Philipp Lenssen | Comments

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...)

Ron Talks About Building a Video Site for Kids... and Clashing With the Laws of YouTube  | By Philipp Lenssen | Comments

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...)

Google Lets You Preview Their Search Infrastructure Update  | By Philipp Lenssen | Comments

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...)

Not All Of Google May Be Available In Your Country  | By Tony Ruscoe & Philipp Lenssen | Comments

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...)

Google Korea With Dropdown Search Menu  | By Philipp Lenssen | Comments

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...)

Microsoft Announcing Web-Based Office  | By Philipp Lenssen | Comments

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...)

Google Announced Their Operating System: Chrome OS  | By Philipp Lenssen | Comments

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