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Google launches Code University

2009-04-01T04:17:00.000-07:00

Well perhaps it is not so much a launch as a re-launch. Mid 2007 Google launched an educational program. At the time it was called ‘Google Code for Educators’. Google has now re-designed the site and re-launched as the Google Code University. The site is aimed at helping educators and students alike become more familiar with the technology behind Google and the internet in general. It is a repository of computer science educational material including tutorials, lecture slides, and videos.

The Google Code University Course Materials

Most of the course materials are Creative Commons licensed, The Google Code University encourages educators and students to reuse and build upon them. The courses are divided in to the following sections AJAX Programming, Distributed Systems, Web Security and Languages. The site covers various topics from ‘What is mySQL’ to ‘Concurrency Management’.

Many of the somewhat aloof concepts associated with key backend functionality found behind many of Googles products, are carefully explained. The sites provides code samples, Linux commands, diagrams etc to help explain these concepts.

CS Departments Search

The Google Code University provides a facility for searching teaching materials that have been published to the web by faculty from CS (Computer Science) departments around the world. You can refine your search to display just lectures, assignments or reference materials for a set of courses.

Looking back at my education in computer science, The Google Code University covers many important aspects of web development and administration that are often neglected my main stream educational institutes. All in all I think this is a fantastic offering.

The Future of Gmail

2009-02-26T07:31:00.000-08:00

When you spending so much time on the web, it is more than likely that you'll develop a sixth sense of what's missing from services that you're using on a daily basis. I often find myself thinking about new features that in my opinion should have been integrated a long time ago (or at least it feels like they should).

My most used service is email. In my case it's Gmail, so this whole post is about my point view on that. However, you could apply it to any other web-based mail platform I guess.

For some reason, we all think about our email as a temple of top secret information, and the common assumption is that email is confidential and not shared (although we actually do it all the time, by forwarding emails, for example). But what if Google gave us the tools to share and publish pictures & files right from within the email itself, and on to public services and social networks? What if I got a great post from one of the blogs that I subscribed to by email and want to share it trough Twitter, Facebook etc..?

Here's what I think the Gmail email should look like in the year of 2009:

File Viewer:

This should be the easy part for Google - Making the right connections with their own services: Picasa and Youtube. It's so crucial that Picasa hosts my email pictures automatically, like they're doing with their Blogger platform for a year or so now (don't worry, it is saved to a private folder). Also a must-have would be the ability to finally watch a Youtube video from within an email - how hard is it to enable that?

Shared Labels:

This might make you a little nervous, but try to keep an open mind about this one: I truly believe that this could be a very helpful tool for groups. If I'm working with someone on a project, and open a label where I'm gathering all the correspondence between us, I think it's only logical to allow this person access (partial or full) to those emails. I'd love to have the option to share a label with the contacts I choose, so they'll be able to review the content and conversations whenever they need to for our shared project.

Shared Files:

As mentioned above, I think this is the core of this post: a more social email is needed.
Instead of downloading then uploading a file somewhere else to be able to share it, a much more useful way would exist if Gmail uploads all the images to Picasa and allows the users to share them from the email, and even create a short URL to make it available to services like chat, microblogs, social networks and so on.
For video files, some suggestions:

1. Ability to privately upload any video file to youtube as well.
2. A nicer way to watch video file from the email - like the MP3 player but for videos.
3. If someone sent me a Youtube link by email, ability to watch it right from there - and also share it externally.

RSS Reader Gadget:

If you enabled Gmail lab, you probably saw the Googledocs and Google Calendar gadgets. I think the Calendar gadget is more useful because it can really give you a glimpse on events and occurrences that you might have forgotten. There's definitely a place for a dynamic Google Reader Gadget, I don't even think I need to explain why...

Speaking on Gmail Lab..

As you probably noticed, the list of tools in the lab is getting longer, and it's getting harder to follow all the new releases. I think Google should create a better index of those tools, make it searchable, divide it to categories, and allow other people besides them to write the applications.

Bring back the Web Search!

I seriously can't understand why Google is taking off the one thing they do best - Search. For years, I have been searching on the web from my Gmail account. They could at least explain to me (and other users) why they took this feature down, leaving us to find and get used to another less convenient arrangement. What I had liked about it so much was that it simply opened another tab (or window) and it was the easiest way to search for something especially for people who practically exist within their email account. But here's a compromise: Why not enable users to get this feature back from the Lab?

I guess I can go on like this forever, but those are the most important features that I'd like to see in my future Gmail account.

Can Google Latitude get my stolen phone back?

2009-02-26T06:31:00.000-08:00

Not yet – but with a bit of inspired app design, it could help.

We all know how annoying it is to lose your mobile phone, especially if you never did get round to backing up those valuable contacts. But with location-based services becoming ubiquitous, isn't there a way to track down your lost or stolen handset?

That was exactly what San Francisco-based Nick Strada thought when he realised he left his Nokia E71 in the back of a cab: he'd activatedGoogle's Latitude location service a few days earlier, so surely he could track down the culprit?

When he logged into Latitude online, he was surprised to see his phone floating around a good 3,000 miles away – in central Boston. When phoning and texting his own number failed, Strada realised the phone's keypad had probably locked, and eventually the phone's battery died, taking its location with it. Surely there's some interesting potential here to help retrieve, or at least protect, a stolen handset?

Thousands of application developers have begun to flex their creative muscles, and some have already started to address the problem.

Apple's App Store offers Password Trap, which tries to identify a thief's location while luring them with false personal data; the optimistic Owner Information, which is supposed to makes it easy for whoever finds you phone to return it to you; and GPS Thief Tracker, which, if the thief happens to open it, will send a discreet email with the phone's location.

On Google's Android platform, meanwhile, there's plenty of inspiration for a stolen phone tracker that could be "plugged in" to Latitude.

Textecution is designed to stop drivers texting, and so disables the phone if it moves faster than 10mph. Could a new app disable the whole phone if it is taken more than five miles from your home location? Or maybe Latitude's regular security alert messages could be reconfigured remotely so that your thief is bombarded by infuriating alerts every 15 seconds? Or how about a simple remote lock, that makes the phone unusable?

The more severe the repercussion, the more you'd have to trust the application. Strada's fantasy about a remote mobile detonator may be taking things a bit far, but this is a fascinating creative challenge and, for the developer that cracks it, could be a lucrative business.

And however you find out where your phone is, you will still end up with a more practical problem: how do you confront the thief? We don't know how seriously the police would take GPS "evidence", so you may just have to borrow some muscle.

Google plans to make PCs history

2009-02-26T06:09:00.000-08:00

Google is to launch a service that would enable users to access their personal computer from any internet connection, according to industry reports. But campaigners warn that it would give the online behemoth unprecedented control over individuals' personal data.

The Google Drive, or "GDrive", could kill off the desktop computer, which relies on a powerful hard drive. Instead a user's personal files and operating system could be stored on Google's own servers and accessed via the internet.

The long-rumoured GDrive is expected to be launched this year, according to the technology news website TG Daily, which described it as "the most anticipated Google product so far". It is seen as a paradigm shift away from Microsoft's Windows operating system, which runs inside most of the world's computers, in favour of "cloud computing", where the processing and storage is done thousands of miles away in remote data centres.

Home and business users are increasingly turning to web-based services, usually free, ranging from email (such as Hotmail and Gmail) and digital photo storage (such as Flickr and Picasa) to more applications for documents and spreadsheets (such as Google Apps). The loss of a laptop or crash of a hard drive does not jeopardise the data because it is regularly saved in "the cloud" and can be accessed via the web from any machine.

The GDrive would follow this logic to its conclusion by shifting the contents of a user's hard drive to the Google servers. The PC would be a simpler, cheaper device acting as a portal to the web, perhaps via an adaptation of Google's operating system for mobile phones, Android. Users would think of their computer as software rather than hardware.

It is this prospect that alarms critics of Google's ambitions. Peter Brown, executive director of the Free Software Foundation, a charity defending computer users' liberties, did not dispute the convenience offered, but said: "It's a little bit like saying, 'we're in a dictatorship, the trains are running on time.' But does it matter to you that someone can see everything on your computer? Does it matter that Google can be subpoenaed at any time to hand over all your data to the American government?"

Google refused to confirm the GDrive, but acknowledged the growing demand for cloud computing. Dave Armstrong, head of product and marketing for Google Enterprise, said: "There's a clear direction ... away from people thinking, 'This is my PC, this is my hard drive,' to 'This is how I interact with information, this is how I interact with the web.'"

Google's PowerMeter to let users track electricity usage

2009-02-15T11:40:00.000-08:00

The New York Times is reporting Google will announce a free web service tomorrow called PowerMeter that'll let users track energy consumption in their homes or business, provided there's a means to upload the data. That part of the equation's gonna be up to other companies to create compatible devices, and while no manufacturing partners have been named, we'd suspect strange bedfellow GE will probably jump aboard pretty quickly. The service is expected to roll out in the next few months. Ready to give the boys in Mountain View even more access to your life?

Update: The official site has launched. According to the FAQ, PowerMeter is currently in closed beta. There's also a video about the program, which you can peep after the break.

AdSense launches AdSense for Mobile Search

2009-02-15T11:24:00.000-08:00

If you have a site with a lot of mobile traffic, you might want to check out the latest addition to the AdSense family, AdSense for Mobile Search. Instead of using your own mobile search tool on your site, you can instead use the Google Mobile Search tool, and share in any generated revenue when your visitors click an ad in those mobile search results.

From Google’s Mobile Blog:

Today, we’re happy to announce a new AdSense product for both mobile network operators and mobile website owners across the globe. AdSense for mobile search is a quick and easy way for carriers and mobile publishers to embed a Google search box on their mobile portals and web sites. Whether they are day-dreaming of Hawaii or trying to find the perfect Valentine’s day gift, mobile phone users will get instant access to Google search including comprehensive web search, local, image, and news results — all formatted for their phones. Mobile operators and website owners share in the ad revenue generated by searches originating from their sites.
AdSense for mobile search is a Google-hosted solution, which means users will experience the same speed, reliability, and innovation that they’ve come to expect from Google. And even though the results pages are served by Google, the pages can be cobranded with publishers’ logos and linked back to their sites.

Here are some screenshots from the blog:

The program is in beta right now, but you can apply here.

Reading Gmail Offline

2009-02-14T08:57:00.000-08:00

Web-based mail is great — until you don’t have an Internet connection. To ease the separation anxiety, Google recently introduced a feature called Offline Gmail, which downloads a copy of your mailbox and all the recent messages when you do have Internet access, and then keeps it all available in your Web browser for when you don’t.

To turn it on, log into your Gmail account on the Web, click the Settings tab and then, in many browsers, the Labs tab. Click the Enable button for Offline Gmail and then the Save Changes button.

To start downloading your mailbox, click the new Offline line on the mailbox page. Google has more information and a video about Offline Gmail at snipurl.com/bdil0.

Google Error Sends Warning Worldwide

2009-02-14T08:55:00.000-08:00

Google’s Internet search service malfunctioned for nearly 55 minutes Saturday morning, upending users around the world with search results that carried false safety warnings and Web links that did not work.

The company acknowledged Saturday that all searches produced links with the same warning message: “This site may harm your computer.” Clicking on any of the links led to an error message stating that the desired site could not be reached.

“What happened?” Google explained in its blog. “Very simply, human error.”

Google said it periodically updates its list of sites suspected of carrying dangerous software that could harm computers, and that Saturday morning a Google employee mistyped a Web address for one such site, causing all sites to be flagged harmful.

There was some momentary tension when Google seemed to imply that the glitch was caused by StopBadware.org, the company that helps Google determine which sites are unsafe. Google later posted a statement that took the blame for the error.

“We have a good ongoing relationship with StopBadware.org,” a Google spokesman, Gabriel Stricker, said in a telephone interview. “In our post, we tried to clarify our role in this error.”

Google is not known for glitches, but there have been other recent ones. Google Maps had a software glitch last month that sent drivers trying to get to different points within Staten Island, specifically zip codes 10302 and 10308, on a 176-mile detour to Schenectady instead.

The glitches in Google Maps and Google search were unrelated, Mr. Stricker said. As for Saturday’s search engine failure, he added: “Our Web search is extremely reliable, and that’s why when an interruption occurs, even if it’s for a matter of minutes, for a Saturday morning, people notice it.”

Now you can buy Youtube videos

2009-02-14T08:20:00.000-08:00

YouTube includes a new section for "My Videos": a list of purchased videos. A YouTube help page has more details about the new feature:

You have the option of downloading and storing your favorite Partner videos and watching these videos even without an internet connection. To download Partner video:

1. Find the video you'd like to download.

2. Below the video's play bar in the lower left hand corner, you'll see a 'Download' button.

3. Click the 'Download' button to indicate that you'd like to download the video.

Videos are available to download in the MP4 format and some of them can be downloaded for free and they're even licensed as Public Domain or Creative Commons. An example of channel that offers Creative Commons-licensed video downloads isStanford University. If the download requires payment, you'll be directed to a Google Checkout page where you'll find the price of the video.

Multiple Views in Your Gmail Inbox

2009-02-14T08:18:00.000-08:00

Gmail released another Labs experiment and this one converts your Gmail inbox to a structured dashboard that shows multiple views. The improperly-named "Multiple inboxes" lets you add up to 5 lists of search results next to your Gmail inbox: in the right side of the inbox, below or above the inbox.

Use the advanced search operators to build searches like label:name-of-label,subject:linux or is:unread -in:inbox. If you were expecting to actually see the inboxes of multiple email accounts, you can achieve this by using Gmail's mail fetcher, which automatically labels the messages fetched from other accounts and archives them. You can then create panes that have the following format: label:myotheraccount@gmail.comor to:myotheraccount.com.

"After you turn on Multiple Inboxes from the Labs tab under Settings, you can configure what you want to see, as well as set the number of messages displayed and the positioning of your panels from the Multiple Inboxes section under Settings," explains Octavian Costache, who created this feature.

"Multiple inboxes" works especially well if you have a high resolution monitor and if you use filters that automatically archive some classes of messages.

YouTube Feed View

2009-02-14T08:13:00.000-08:00

There's a new option to customize YouTube's homepage when you are logged in: the feed view. YouTube orders chronologically the videos from all the other sections you've selected: featured videos, promoted videos (which can't be disabled), videos from your subscriptions, recommendations, friend activity.

Unfortunately, YouTube's promoted videos can't be filtered, recommended videos constantly change and there's no actual feed generated by YouTube. You can obtain a feed that aggregates the latest videos from your subscriptions using a Yahoo Pipe.

YouTube shows a similar recent activity view in your channel, but you need to explicitly make it public. The activity view can show your latest ratings, recent comments, video uploads and subscriptions.

Google Latitude Tracks Your Friends in Real Time

2009-02-04T10:11:00.000-08:00

Google Latitude is a new service which promises to find where your friends are and what they’re up to? Latitude will let you see your friends’ locations on a map, and also be in touch directly via SMS, Google Talk, Gmail, or by updating your status message.

Google Latitude is a new feature for Google Maps which is available on your mobile device and also an iGoogle gadget for on your computer. On your mobile phone - visit google.com/latitude from your phone’s mobile browser to download Google Maps for mobile with Latitude. They support most popular smartphone platforms like Android, Blackberry, Symbian S60, and Windows Mobile. On your computer - visit http://google.com/latitudefrom your browser and add the Latitude gadget to your iGoogle homepage.

Privacy issues have been taken care off well and you control exactly who gets to see your location, and also what location that they see. This video shows you tips on how to adjust your privacy settings in Latitude.

By tracking your friends in real time, Google Latitude brings in a new level of social interaction like never before. It is now available in 27 countries and 42 languages!

Google Earth 5 : Explore the Oceans

2009-02-04T10:02:00.000-08:00

The latest version of Google Earth 5.0 is released and promises to provide breathtaking views beneath the seas and oceans of the world.Download Google Earth and check out where the deep oceans lead to.

Google Earth provides amazing satellite imagery, maps, terrain, and 3D buildings. From galaxies in outer space, now you can dive beneath the surface and visit the deepest part of the ocean till the Mariana Trench, goexploring the ocean with top marine experts including National Geographic and BBC, learn about ocean observations, climate change, and endangered species and discover new places including surf, dive, and travel hot spots and shipwrecks.

The new Google Earth 5 also features historical imagery from around the globe, which lets you move back and forth in time to reveal imagery from years and even decades past, revealing changes over time. Its also allows simplified touring with audio and voice recording. Here is an introductory video.

Download Google Earth and start by opening the “Ocean” folder in the Layers panel to explore the 20 content layers from over 100 partners. Double click on the “Explore the Ocean” layer and it will fly you to my Ocean Overview video and ten focus areas with National Geographic video clips.

Google Internet Bus Project ( India )

2009-02-04T09:55:00.000-08:00

The Google Internet bus is visiting a city near you to spread awareness about the Internet. The Google Internet Bus Project aims to educate people about the Internet and how it can help people improve their life style.

Flagged off from Chennai on 3 February 2009, the customised Internet-enabled bus is currently travelling across Tamilnadu, India, to spread awareness about the internet and its use in daily life.

The bus is designed to make a simple introduction to the Internet for a new user. With a focus on the four themes of education, information, communication, and entertainment, the Internet Bus will be loaded with useful and informative content in English and Tamil. We’ll showcase how the Internet can make everyday life simple through services like search, email, social networking, maps and others. We strongly believe the Internet is a great equalizing force, and this project represents another way Google is directly engaging with people in India.

Create Additional Revenue From Google Adsense

2009-01-14T04:08:00.000-08:00

Google Adsense is a unique program that can produce a lot of revenues over time if you are patient. Here is an overview of the basics of Google Adsense.

The Basics of Google Adsense

To understand the basics of Google Adsense, you first have to understand Google Adwords. Adwords is a program where people can bid per click to buy space on platforms Google supports with advertisements. This includes the ads you see on the top and down the right column of results when you search on Google.

Adsense is the result of a crafty little idea wherein Google essentially wanted to maximize distribution of Adwords. With Adsense, Google took the unique approach of letting independent sites place certain types of Adwords advertisements on their pages .For more details visit to www.adsense-dollar-factory.com. This type of advertising is known within the Adwords platform as contextual advertising and advertisers can opt out of it. Most do not.

The one particularly handy money-making feature that is available with Adsense now is the ability to filter out up to 200 urls. These gives webmasters the option to block out low value offers from their pages as well as competitors to their websites. Talk about taking only those that are advantageous and discarding the ones that seem “useless”.

The beauty of Google Adsense is it creates additional revenue sources for sites. For instance, lets assume someone bids 60 cents in Adwords for the placement of their ads. A site then shows those ads through the Adsense program. When an ad is clicked by a person on that site, Google charges the advertiser and splits the money with the site in question. The exact amount of the split is not provided by Google, but is known to reflect the quality of traffic, click through rates and other aspects.

The Google Adsense program is incredibly simple to use. You sign up through Google and, once approved, are able to select the format of ads you want to list on the pages of your site. Google then immediately generates a java script, which you copy and paste into the html of your pages. For more information logon to www.instant-adsense-dollars.com .You cannot change the code, but you can select any old location on your page you want.

Once you have inserted the code and republished your site, it is time to sit back and watch. Google provides stats within your account area. You can see basic click and revenue information as well as monthly totals. Once you reach a total of $100 in revenues, Google will kick out a check to you. The check is issued more or less at the end of the month following the one in which you hit the magic $100 amount.
Obviously, there is more to Google Adsense if you want to make a full business out of it, but this provides the basics of the game. You will be tempted to click the links on your page. Don’t! Google will ban you from the program.

Six ways to Dominate Google Ranking

2009-01-14T04:01:00.000-08:00

Getting your blog ranked high on Google is a fantastic way to attract potential clients. Here's how it's done.

1. Select Your Keywords and Keyword Phrases
Choose the keywords and keyword phrases you want your blog post to rank high for on the Google search engine results page. For example, I want my blog post to rank high for the term, "blog ranked high on Google." Currently there are approximately 286,000 pages using this term so I'll have to do everything in my power to compete with these web pages to get my blog post on the first page of the Google results page for that term.

My keyword phrase also includes other keyword phrases like, "ranked high on Google" with about 310,000 competing pages and "high on Google" with over 71 million competing pages. Getting to the first page for these terms would be a bonus.

2. Use Your Keywords in Your Blog Title
Google pays very close attention to the words and phrases you use in your blog title. Notice how I used the term, "blog ranked high on Google" in the title of this article. It's important to use your keyword phrase in your blog title if you want to rank high for that phrase on the Google results page.

Another reason you want to use your keyword phrase in your blog title is to give your reader an immediate understanding as to what your blog post is about. If your blog is listed at the top of the search engine results page for your keyword phrase but no one reads it, it's of no value. Use a title that will cause people to click through to your blog post.

The New York Times creates two different titles for their articles. They use a catchy, creative or humorous title for their newspaper, and a keyword specific title for the articles and blogs they post to the Internet. They do this because people looking for jokes about the eating habits of nuns generally go to a search engine and type, "jokes about the eating habits of nuns," not "Nuns, Buns and Puns."

3. Use Your Keywords in Your Blog Text
Notice how the keyword phrase, "blog ranked high on Google," is used throughout this blog post. Google pays attention to the text on a blog in order to understand what the blog post is about. Once Google comprehends the content of the blog post, it will categorize the blog based on that information. By using your keyword phrase in your text, both Google and your readers can quickly understand what your blog post is about, allowing Google to accurately categorize your blog making it easy for your clients to find.

In the past, search engine consultants encouraged writers to use their keyword phrase in the first 25 words of their text and again in the last sentence. Today, the search engines don't seem to pay as much attention to word placement, but reader's do.

If your article is about your keyword phrase, it's a good idea to use it in the first and last sentence because it helps your reader quickly know what your blog post is about. It's also a good idea to use your keyword phrase in the first sentence because that is the text that is most likely to show in the description text on the search results page.

4. Link To Your Blog With Keyword Rich Anchor Text
Get as many one-way links leading back to your blog post as possible from as many quality blogs and websites as you can. Do your best to insure that the text people click on to get back to your site includes your keywords and keyword phrases. This is known in Internet marketing circles as anchor text.

In this example I want the anchor text leading back to my blog post to have the keyword phrase, "blog ranked high on Google," as the clickable text. The clickable text is the means by which all of those other web sites and blogs tell Google what your blog post is about.

Google provides far more weight to the theme of your blog post based on the quality and size of the sites linking back to your blog than the text on your blog. For example, if you do a Google search for the term, "click here," you will be taken to the Adobe Reader download web page. It's interesting to note the term "click here" doesn't appear anywhere on that page. The reason the Adobe Reader download page comes up first for this term is because there are millions of other sites that use the anchor text, "click here," to direct people to the Adobe Reader download page.

There are two wonderful ways to get keyword rich anchor text directing people back to your blog post. The first is to write and submit an article about your blog post to other web site and blog owners who will upload your article to their site. In return those web site and blog owners will provide you with a keyword rich anchor text link from your article back to your blog. They get great content for their web site and you get a valuable one-way link back to your blog post.

The second way is to encourage other blog owners to write about your blog post. In doing so, they are very likely to use your blog title as the anchor text leading readers back to your post. This is another reason why it's so important to use your keyword phrase in your blog title.

5. Ask Your Readers To Digg Your Blog Post
Ask your readers to tell the rest of the world about your blog post by submitting it to one of the social bookmarking sites. They include DIGG, Stumble, Blink and many others. If the title of your blog post includes your keyword phrase, it is likely that this is how your readers will describe your blog post to the social bookmarking sites. This helps Google decide where to rank your site on the search results page.

6. Blog On A Community Site
Recognized Expert, Active Rain, and Christian Blog are all examples of niche community blog sites. Recognized Expert is a site for marketing experts, Active Rain is for real estate professionals and the Christian blog is for, you guessed it, Christians. These niche sites have tons of traffic along with the undivided attention of Google and the other search engines.

If you're a marketing expert for example, blogging on a site like Recognized Expert will push your blog post to the top of the search results page in a matter of hours. That's a huge reason to blog on a community site. If you wrote the same content on your own blog, it may take months to be seen by Google, and you may never get close to the first page for your keyword phrase.

Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL and the other search engines explore busy community sites for new content every few minutes. On the other hand, they visit newer and smaller sites every few months. If you're serious about generating business from blogging, consider blogging on a topic specific community site.

Apply these six steps to every blog post you write, and you will quickly create a huge following of clients and potential clients. This is how the pro bloggers get their blogs ranked high on Google.

Google Phone G1

2009-01-14T03:56:00.001-08:00

Search engine giant Google has entered in mobile cellular phone industry with third generation ultra modern latest technology enriched mobile phone G1. When Black berry and iPhone ware dominating the 3G world at that hot period the right appearance of proper competitor has really satisfied the cell phone users all over the world. Now consumer can enjoy the games of three player's mobile phone game in cellular phone field with more pleasantly.

Invention of 3g mobile, network and technology has advanced the world one more step to enjoy the telecommunication i.e, communication facilities and advantages. By using 3G technology in mobile phone people are benefiting from different sites. By using this technology people has come more closer with each other.

Under 3g network you can share document, picture, text file, video file, clip file, contacts, phone book, statistical report e.g, with others mobile or computer at the same way you can receive the same documents from others to your phone or PC. HSPA, HSDPA, GPRS, GPS, W-CDMA TD-CDMA HSUPA are the major keywords of 3G technology. However, the summary of those technoloy is high speed datad ownloading and uploading. GoogleI.">, iphone, blackbery, HTC, are contributing a lot to growing up this technology by presenting the new models phone to the consumers.

Google phone looks like iPhone but there are many differences between this two phone. Google phone is heavier than iPhone, it cheaper than iPhone. Though its memory is shorter than iphone but it has extra slot to add new sd or memory card in the future. Many characteristic and comparison with iPhone has explained in review page of G1.

Google Sitemaps - How important are they?

2009-01-14T03:50:00.000-08:00

There is no denying that Google is the king of the hill when it comes to search engines. A fairly decent page ranking in Google is worth so much more than a better showing in other less prominent search engines. The reason for this is the overwhelming popularity of Google. A vast majority of internet users use Google's services in looking for quality content on the internet. With the large number of people using it, a high page rank acts a great advertising opportunity for your website.

Because of the astounding amount of websites that submit their web pages to Google, the think tanks at Google decided to come out with Google Sitemaps. This service, which was started in June 2005, makes web page submissions to Google much easier but with the added bonus of getting detailed reports regarding the submitted page's visibility in Google. With Google Sitemaps webmasters can continually inform Google about their web pages as well as any changes that they make to help improve their standing in Google. This program serves as complementary service to Google's regular crawl, although it is considered that using Google Sitemaps can do a better job than the regular crawl.

Google decided to come out with the Google Sitemaps program as a way for the search engine to offer better search results to its users. With the current limitations of web crawling, usually not all pages are discovered. It is also difficult to determine if a page has changed. With so many uncontrollable variables, crawlers sometimes just make guesses. With Google Sitemaps it becomes easier to get a better picture of all the possible URLs in a website as well as the frequency of the changes that are made. Knowing these variables makes searching in Google a more robust and fruitful experience because users are assured that they always get a fresh index of web pages.

To take advantage of the Google Sitemap program, webmasters only need to download a free open-source tool called Sitemap Generator that helps in creating a Sitemap using the Sitemap protocol. Google hopes that webservers will eventually support the protocol so that webmasters will not take any other extra steps to in order to join the program.

Google Sitemaps also freely accepts codes taken from or generated by third party providers and even lists down all of the available third party software within the Google Sitemap pages.

XML-Sitemaps.com is one such provider that provides a free Google sitemaps generator for webmasters which will also produce a HTML site map.

Google's software and service developers are continually tweaking and improving the Google Sitemap program to better address the needs of webmasters. Because of this, new features are continually added to the Sitemap program.

Some of the new features that have been incorporated now revolve around the reporting aspect of Google Sitemap.

When a site has been verified, Google can show webmasters the statistics and errors about the website as well as the web pages. Among the information that would be included are:

The URLs that Google had trouble crawling including the reason why. Also included are the top queries that resulted in returns from their websites as well as those that brought traffic to their sites.
The web page's PageRank distribution
The common text in external anchors that other websites used to link to their websites.

These new features, as well as others that are still being developed, brings tremendous advantages for webmasters because it makes the task of running a website so much easier. It also simplifies certain tasks that webmasters need to do to better manage their website's page ranking. Ultimately, it gives their websites better exposure as well as the inclusion of more of their web pages in Google's index.

Hidden Secrets On Getting Free Google Traffic

2009-01-14T03:39:00.001-08:00

Traffic is the life and blood of every internet website. Creating a website is only the beginning. You can get instant templates at www.templates-source.com to get started, but what do you do when you have completed the website. Search engines are fine, but it is a painstakingly tedious process to submit to the search engines. Therefore, you want to find a faster way to get traffic and the answer is google.

Google has paid advertising like adsense or adwords, but there are a few other ways to utilize google to add traffic to your website and these methods are free.

Google news is one of the ways that you can benefit from free google traffic. If you go to http://news.google.com and recommend your website as a newsworthy website and it may be approved by google, but you must keep it updated every 30 days. Another way is submit a press release to www.prweb.com and your site will get listed in google because all press releases from www.prweb.com are listed in google.

http://images.google.com is another free method to use google. If you have existing pictures on your website you can optimize them for google image search. Google describes each image with text and list the source website that carries each image. The key is to use relevant text to describe your images. For example, if you have a cat page and a picture of a cat, you could label it, "free cat pictures" and google will grab this description and your web address and add it to google image.

Having google sitemaps set up will let google know about all your websites from you site and get them fully indexed. It will also help you to know what is happening with your website as it pertains to google sitemap at http://sitemap.google.com. You will need a google account to set up this feature. You will get detailed reports about the visibility of your website and all your pages. Once you verify that you are the site owner, google will provide statistics, analysis and reports about your site. You will verify your main page by adding meta tags that google will provide after you register. This will help you to stay connected to google site map.

Google base is where you can submit content and have it show up on google. If you go to http://base.google.com you can add all types of content with specific keywords and this will generate lots of free traffic for you. Make sure you pick the right keyword and include it in your title, so people who see the title will click on it to go to your content. You can also add pictures to draw attention to your content. You are also allowed to add your web URL to lead traffic to you. You can also add keywords in your description and in your content.

You can also add google book search to your arsenal of free traffic at http://books.google.com. Even though google carries the entire book, you are also allowed to submit pages of your books or ebooks. Make sure your book has your niche keywords that will get your targeted audience to purchase the entire book. Your book will contain your website address. You can get private label content or your own written content to create an electronic book and submit it to google books. You will need an ISBN number to get the book listed with google books. You can also list the book at http://froogle.google.com as well.

Google Analytics for Blogger in Private Beta

2009-01-14T03:01:00.000-08:00

Although Google Analytics is already available to everyone, as a blog writer it's nice to have easy access to metrics that are tailored to your specific needs. Google seems to be addressing these needs with a new Google Analytics integration designed specifically for Blogger users.

According to Jeff Veen, Measure Map will be available 'as an integrated feature of both Google Analytics and Blogger'. That sounds pretty exciting to those of us that are obsessed with our blog statistics. And if the integration is being designed by the same folks that brought us the new Google Analytics interface, that means it should be simple to navigate and extremely useful.

This new interface is now in private beta (which means you probably won't notice it yet), but it looks like Google has plans to migrate all existing Measure Map users over to the new Google Analytics system. That means it could be a few months or even a year before it's rolled out to everyone - there's really no way to know at this stage. Since it's in beta, there's a good chance there will be some kinks to iron out.

So if you use Blogger for your blog, be sure to stay on the lookout for this neat new feature!

How Google Earth Works ?

2009-01-13T09:34:00.000-08:00

Most of us have been using one online mapping program or another for years now. They're a godsend for those of us who get lost within a 3-mile radius of our homes, and they're just plain fun for people who enjoy figuring out where stuff is.

With this in mind, imagine how amazing Google Earth must be for it to elicit awe from the online community and cause South Korea to demand changes to the program.

Google Earth is no ordinary mapping application. Type "Denver, CO" into the Google Earth search box, and yes, you can learn where Denver, Colo. is in relation to Grand Junction, Colo. and how to get from your address to 1600 Curtis St. in downtown Denver. In the same search, though, you can also learn that 1600 Curtis St. is in the 80202 zip code and that there are 12 Starbucks Coffee shops within a half-mile radius of that address; you can zoom out from 1600 Curtis St. and watch it disappear into a satellite view of the Earth and then zoom back in as if you were falling onto 1600 Curtis St. from space; and if you click on "Forbidden City" in the "Sightseeing" column, you can see what it would look like to fly Superman-style from 1600 Curtis St. in Denver to the Forbidden Palace in Beijing, China.

And you thought the world was small before.

The ap plication is fairly easy to use, but there are a lot of functions to try out. See how Google Earth gets images and data and learn how you can get started with Google Earth so you can explore some of the features and customization options.

Why is the Google algorithm so important?

2009-01-13T09:28:00.000-08:00

Finding useful information on the World Wide Web is something many of us take for granted. According to the Internet research firm Netcraft, there are nearly 150,000,000 active Web sites on the Internet today [source: Netcraft]. The task of sifting through all those sites to find helpful information is monumental. That's why search engines use complex algorithms -- mathematical instructions that tell computers how to complete assigned tasks.

Google's algorithm does the work for you by searching out Web pages that contain the keywords you used to search, then assigning a rank to each page based several factors, including how many times the keywords appear on the page. Higher ranked pages appear further up in Google's search engine results page (SERP), meaning that the best links relating to your search query are theoretically the first ones Google lists.

For Web page administrators, being listed prominently on Google can result in a big boost in site traffic and visibility. In 2007, Google surpassed Microsoft as the most visited site on the Web [source: The San Francisco Chronicle]. With that much traffic, getting a good spot on a Google SERP could mean a huge boost in the number of site visitors.

Google's keyword search function is similar to other search engines. Automated programs called spiders or crawlers travel the Web, moving from link to link and building up an index page that includes certain keywords. Google references this index when a user enters a search query. The search engine lists the pages that contain the same keywords that were in the user's search terms. Google's spiders may also have some more advanced functions, such as being able to determine the difference between Web pages with actual content and redirect sites -- pages that exist only to redirect traffic to a different Web page.

Keyword placement plays a part in how Google finds sites. Google looks for keywords throughout each Web page, but some sections are more important than others. Including the keyword in the Web page's title is a good idea, for example. Google also searches for keywords in headings. Headings come in a range of sizes, and keywords in larger headings are more valuable than if they are in smaller headings. Keyword dispersal is also important. Webmasters should avoid overusing keywords, but many people recommend using them regularly throughout a page.

Shortcuts in Google Search

2009-01-13T09:10:00.001-08:00

Have you ever wondered how to search Google for terms inside a specific website? Or find how many sites link to yours? Below is a list of common advanced search techniques with descriptions and examples:

Search for an exact phrase
"exact phrase to search"
Will return only results with the exact phrase.

Search within one website
site:www.website.com "search phrase"
This example searches through www.website.com for the phrase “search phrase”.

Search for link to a specific website
link:www.website.com
Will return all the websites that have a link to www.website.com.

Exclude words or phrases from search results
search phrase -excluded
Searches for the phrase but will only return results excluding the text after the minus sign.

View a cached version of a web page
cache:www.website.com
View a cached version of www.website.com

Search for a specific type of file
google ebook filetype:pdf
Searches for only PDF files containing ‘google ebook’

Search for phrase only in websites’ title tag
allintitle:"google articles"
Searches for web pages with “google articles” in the title tag.

Search for keyword only in website’s URL
inurl:googlearticles
Searches for pages with ‘googlearticles’ in the URL, including the domain name and subdomain or page names.

These are a great way to quickly search from Google’s home page, without having to click over to the advanced search.

Life of a Google Query

2009-01-13T08:50:00.000-08:00

The life span of a Google query normally lasts less than half a second, yet involves a number of different steps that must be completed before results can be delivered to a person seeking information.

Google PageRank Defined

2009-01-13T08:27:00.000-08:00

PageRank is Google’s primary method of ranking web pages in their index. PageRank refers to a hidden value (presumably between 1 and 10) that ranks a page based on importance.

Web pages with higher PageRank (PR for short) are thought (by Google) to be more important, and thus get ranked higher than pages with lower PR.

When one web page links to another web page, they give that page some of their PageRank. This concept is what gives PageRank its power. The theory behind it is this: Let’s say a large, popular website (let’s say CNN.com) links to your web page. The page on their site would likely have a high PR. Google looks at this link to you and gives you a higher PR because they trust CNN.com.

When Google indexes your website, they search for links to your pages, which are called backlinks. The number and quality of backlinks to your website’s pages have a major impact on your PageRank.

Simply put, the more quality links you can get to your website, the higher your website will rank in Google Search.

According to Google, PageRank is:

PageRank reflects our view of the importance of web pages by considering more than 500 million variables and 2 billion terms. Pages that we believe are important pages receive a higher PageRank and are more likely to appear at the top of the search results.
PageRank also considers the importance of each page that casts a vote, as votes from some pages are considered to have greater value, thus giving the linked page greater value. We have always taken a pragmatic approach to help improve search quality and create useful products, and our technology uses the collective intelligence of the web to determine a page’s importance.

Google Opens its Online Encyclopedia

2009-01-13T08:15:00.000-08:00

Google’s answer to the Wikipedia encyclopedia, Google Knol (short for Knowledge), launched recently.

"At the discretion of the author, a knol may include ads," according to the official Google blog. "If an author chooses to include ads, Google will provide the author with substantial revenue share from the proceeds of those ads."

The key idea behind the knol project is to highlight authors (either singularly or in groups) willing to put their names behind their content on a wide of range of topics, "from scientific concepts, to medical information, from geographical and historical, to entertainment, from product information, to how-to-fix-it instructions." Google will not edit the content in any way, but, like Wikipedia, readers will have access to community tools that will allow them to submit comments, questions, edits, and additional content -- in addition to being able to rate or write a review of a knol.

Ten Tips For Google Image Search

2009-01-13T08:03:00.000-08:00

Google Image Search could be used in many ways.

1. If you want to know if a person is a man or a woman and the name doesn't help, do a search for the name.

2. If you don't know the meaning of a word, the pictures may help you.

3. A better search for Flickr. Google uses information from other sites that link to Flickr photos, so you may find Google search better.

4. Find what's interesting about a site, by looking at the pictures included. For example:cricinfo.com

5. Find a new wallpaper for your desktop by restricting your search to large images. You can automate this using an application.

6. Find random personal pictures, using standard file names from digital cameras.

7. Type the name of a painter and you can take an art class.

8. Install a Greasemonkey script so you can view the original version of the image directly by clicking on the thumbnail.

9. Find the color of a word. "Word Color is a windows program that uses Google Image Search to determine the color of a word or string of words. It goes out there, retrieves the top 9 images and loops through all pixels, calculating the average hue, which is later converted to a color."

10. If you want to grab search results, GoogleGrab is a tool that downloads images from Google Image Search. It even supports batch search.

Google Knol

2009-01-13T07:39:00.000-08:00

“Knol”, is a currently private, invitation-only knowledge sharing service (update July 2008: it’s live now at knol.google.com). Google says that a Knol is a “unit of knowledge,"* and in the style of the old-school About.com website, experts are invited to the service to write an introductory article on a subject of their expertise. Google wants to provide all the tools to write this, and host the content and so on, so that experts can focus just on the content. Then, ad revenues those pages generate can be shared.

Knol pages will be made available for indexing by search engines, Google announced, including appearing in Google search itself. Google’s Udi Manber says, “Our job in Search Quality will be to rank the knols appropriately when they appear in Google search results.” (It’s not 100% clear from that statement if Google will treat Knol pages as just another organic web source, or give them some kind of special onebox, or special organic result formatting.)

Also, Knols can be released under a Creative Commons license, if the screenshot** is right. It’s good to see Google finally starting to utilize this type of licensing (as many of their services still lack it).

One key aspect of Knol, according to Google’s Udi Manber, is that the authors of articles will be prominently displayed.

Google's Dodgeball

2009-01-13T07:29:00.002-08:00

Dodgeball is a networking service for coordinating location-based social interactions between mobile users.

http://dodgeball.com

Google Mobile

2009-01-13T07:29:00.001-08:00

Google mobile products are built specifically for mobile devices, placing the information you need in the palm of your hand. Find what you need at any time, and from anywhere, using these Google mobile products:

Search: Get exactly the information you need, with an absolute minimum of effort and distraction.
Maps: Get draggable maps, directions, local listings, satellite imagery, and live traffic info, all on your mobile device. Available on hundreds of devices, in a wide variety of countries. Google Maps for mobile Reviewer's Guide (PDF - 2.1MB)
Gmail: The fastest way to access Gmail when you're on the go. Or just access Gmail through your mobile phone's browser.
SMS: Use text messaging to get quick info from Google, including local listings, sports scores, weather conditions, real-time flight info, and much more.
Google SMS Reviewer's Guide (PDF - 361KB)
YouTube: Watch, upload, and share favorite videos — YouTube is available on your mobile device wherever you are.
Calendar: Check your Google Calendar from anywhere on your mobile device.
News: Stay informed of global and local events at all times by accessing top headlines and searching for articles.
Google News for mobile devices Reviewer's Guide (PDF - 786KB)
Blogger: Snap a picture, write a message, and post to your blog, all from your mobile device.
Picasa Web Albums: View your photo albums on your mobile device.
Checkout: Shop quickly and securely on mobile-friendly merchant sites.

http://mobile.google.com

Google SketchUp Pro

2009-01-13T07:27:00.000-08:00

SketchUp Pro is a powerful 3D modeling tool with a robust feature set that empowers users to create, view and modify 3D ideas. With SketchUp Pro, you can explore and communicate complex concepts, import and export a host of file formats, and place your models in Google Earth. LayOut, a feature of SketchUp Pro, lets you place, arrange, title and annotate SketchUp models, photos and other design elements to create compelling interactive presentations and print high-resolution documents. Combining the elegance and spontaneity of pencil sketching with the speed and flexibility of today's digital media, Google SketchUp provides a powerful yet easy-to-learn tool for creating and modifying 3D models. By inserting their models into Google Earth, design professionals and hobbyists alike can share their creations with the world. Architects, interior designers, landscape architects, art directors, game developers, city planners, and other creative professionals rely on SketchUp to help make their design ideas come to life.

http://sketchup.google.com/product_sup.html

Google Search Appliance

2009-01-13T07:26:00.002-08:00

This integrated hardware and software product is designed to give businesses the productivity-enhancing power of Google search. Through a simple, intuitive interface, the Google Search Appliance offers employees instant, real-time, secure access to all the information and knowledge across their enterprise, including web servers, file servers, content management systems, relational databases and business applications in more than 220 different file formats, and more than 109 languages. The security features ensure that users can only access the information that they have permission to view. The Search Appliance comes in several versions, with search capacity ranging from 500,000 documents to more than 30 million.

http://google.com/enterprise/gsa

Google Mini

2009-01-13T07:26:00.001-08:00

The Google Mini offers the simplicity and power of Google enterprise search technology to small and medium-sized businesses, so that employees can access relevant and secure search across intranets, file servers, and business applications. Capable of working with over 220 different file formats, the Google Mini also offers integration with existing security systems ensuring that employees can only access information they are supposed to view. The Mini comes in multiple versions. The most affordable Mini searches up to 50,000 documents, including all hardware, software and a year of support. Additional versions search up to 100,000, 200,000 or 300,000 documents. Since upgrading is easy, the Mini is great for growing organizations.

http://google.com/enterprise/mini

Google Maps for Enterprise

2009-01-13T07:25:00.001-08:00

Google Maps for Enterprise and Google Maps Pro offer the power and functionality of Google's web-based mapping technologies to internal websites and critical applications. Organizations of all types can integrate data and seamlessly create a high performance web-based mapping experience. Ideal for applications such as workforce management, operations/logistics and CRM, these applications provide enterprise-grade support and service. Users benefit from ease of use that people love about the consumer Google Maps offering.

http://google.com/enterprise/maps

Google Earth Enterprise

2009-01-13T07:23:00.000-08:00

Google Earth Enterprise and Google Earth Pro enable businesses and organizations to harness the power of the Google Earth platform to integrate, organize and publish their organization's location data, and/or support strategic decision-making based on locational datasets. Google Earth provides a powerful, intuitive platform for supporting government agencies and empowering citizens in sharing and accessing geographic information for critical needs such as disaster relief and emergency assistance.

http://earth.google.com/earth_enterprise.html

Google's Youtube

2009-01-11T23:47:00.000-08:00

Founded in February 2005, YouTube is the leader in online video entertainment, and the premier Internet destination for watching and sharing original videos worldwide. YouTube enables people to easily upload and share video clips on www.youtube.com or one of Google's localized sites, or elsewhere online through websites, mobile devices, blogs, and email.

http://youtube.com

Google Webmaster Tools

2009-01-11T23:45:00.000-08:00

Google's free webmaster tools help to make websites more Google-friendly. Easy-to-use tools enable webmasters to see how their site performs, diagnose problems, and share information with Google in order to improve their visibility in Google search results. Within this suite of tools, Google offer's Sitemaps to help site owners submit a list of URLs for Google to crawl, and useful forms to report spam in Google's index, report paid links, or submit a re-inclusion request.

http://google.com/webmasters/sitemaps

Google Video

2009-01-11T23:44:00.002-08:00

Search and browse all kinds of videos, regardless of where they are hosted. Aside from finding videos from Google and YouTube, Google Video now offers videos crawled across the web, including those from sites such as MySpace, GoFish, Vimeo, MySpace, Biku, and Yahoo Video. This is in keeping with our overall goal to give you the highest quality and most comprehensive search results possible.

http://video.google.com

Google Translate

2009-01-11T23:44:00.001-08:00

Google Translate enables users to automatically translate text and web pages from one language to another and search for content across languages using machine translation software. Currently, 12 language pairs are supported: English to/from Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, and Portuguese; German to and from French; and Chinese (Simplifeid) to/from Chinese (Traditional).

http://google.com/translate_t

Google Talk ( GTalk)

2009-01-11T23:43:00.000-08:00

Google's instant communications service offers different ways to integrate real-time communications into your online experience. The downloadable Google Talk client provides a free and easy way to make voice calls and send instant messages. All you need is an Internet connection, a microphone and a speaker (built in to many laptops today). After a quick download, sign in with your Gmail account and talk for free. You can also chat with your Google Talk friends inside Gmail using Gmail Chat, and Gmail archives all of your Google Talk chats and makes them searchable. And the free Google Talk Gadget lets you see who's online and send instant messages from your own webpage or personalized iGoogle page without installing any software. Using the Google Talk Gadget you can also preview YouTube videos and Picasa Web Albums inside your chat window, or initiate a Group Chat for talking with several friends simultaneously.

http://google.com/talk

Google Reader

2009-01-11T23:42:00.001-08:00

Our web-based feed reader makes it easy to find and subscribe to online feeds. With Google Reader, users can organize and stay current with the ever-increasing amount of web information they consume every day. Google Reader features a clean, easy-to-use interface and includes a comprehensive feed finder, multimedia feed displays, and algorithms that can assist users by automatically prioritizing content according to their interests. Google Reader also has easy sharing capabilities with email and "blog this" features, and through the Google Gears browser plug-in, Google Reader also enables you to read your feeds offline.

http://www.google.com/reader

Google's Picasa Web Albums

2009-01-11T23:41:00.000-08:00

Picasa Web Albums is a fast and easy way to put your photos online so you can share them. Use it with Google's Picasa software to upload entire albums of your photos in a click of the software's "Web Album" button, or use your web browser to add photos. There is no more need to attach photos one at a time to email, as you can send a link to a photo, an album or even your entire online gallery, without leaving the Picasa Web Albums site. Each account gets 1GB of free storage -- enough to post and share around 4,000 standard resolution photos. You and your friends can download your photos at the same high quality to print and share online.

http://picasaweb.google.com

Google's Picasa

2009-01-11T23:40:00.000-08:00

Picasa is free downloadable software from Google that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Each time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visually organized albums. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups of photos. Picasa makes sure your pictures are always organized, and advanced editing is simple with easy to use one-click fixes and powerful effects. It's easy to share your pictures, allowing you to print, email, or upload photos to Picasa Web Albums with just a click.

http://picasa.google.com/index.html

Google Pack

2009-01-11T23:39:00.000-08:00

This is a free collection of essential software to help users browse the web faster, remove spyware and viruses, organize photos, and more with useful programs from Google and other companies like Adobe and Symantec. You can download and install the entire Google Pack in just a few clicks, and the included Google Updater helps you discover new programs and keep your current software up to date.

http://pack.google.com

Google's Orkut

2009-01-11T23:38:00.000-08:00

This online community makes it fun and easy to find people who share your interests, reconnect with old friends, look for romantic connections, or establish new business contacts. Share scrapbook messages, photos, videos, blogs, and create and join a wide variety of online groups to discuss topics of interest, such as current events, the environment, or favorite recipes. Connecting and communicating on orkut is a great way to socialize.

http://orkut.com

Google Notebook

2009-01-11T23:37:00.000-08:00

A free browser tool that makes web research of all kinds - from planning a vacation to comparison shopping to purchasing a car - easier and more efficient. Collect clips of web content in an online Notebook without ever leaving the web page you're on, and then add notes to your clippings, organize your notebooks into sections, and make them public for other users to view on the Google Notebook search page.

http://google.com/notebook

Google News

2009-01-11T23:36:00.000-08:00

Google News gathers information from nearly 10,000 news sources worldwide and presents news stories in a searchable format within minutes of their online publication. The leading stories are presented as headlines on the Google News home page. These headlines are selected for display entirely by a computer algorithm, without regard to viewpoint or ideology. Google News uses an automated process to pull together related headlines, which enables readers to see many different viewpoints on the same story. Topics are updated continuously throughout the day and you can view new stories by checking the Google News website, subscribing to Google News Alerts via email, or activating a newsfeed. Currently, the Google News service is tailored to 22 international editions.

http://news.google.com

Google Labs

2009-01-11T23:34:00.002-08:00

Google Labs is a playground for Google's engineers and for adventurous Google users. Here Google releases new product prototypes and solicit feedback on how the technology could be used or improved. Google Labs projects include:

Experimental Search - Try out new approaches to search, including timeline and map views, lefthand results, and more.
Google Voice Local Search - Search for a local business by name or category; get connected for free; get the details via SMS on a mobile phone.

http://labs.google.com

Google Groups

2009-01-11T23:34:00.001-08:00

An easy way to create and join public or private discussion groups. Users can choose whether they want to read and post messages online, or use their email accounts to read and respond. A simple page creator makes it easy to create web pages right inside groups, which is ideal for shared documents or anything you want to publish online. Each Google Group has its own Google-fast search, making it easy to locate discussions in the archive. Google Groups is also home to the entire Usenet archive (dating back to 1981), so users can search, read and browse 845 million posted messages on virtually any topic. You can bookmark topics you're interested in, and have new replies to that topic delivered to your inbox.

http://groups.google.com

Google Mail ( Gmail )

2009-01-11T23:32:00.000-08:00

This free webmail service keeps your inbox organized, displays messages in order as conversations, and helps you find any message quickly and easily with built-in Google search technology. Gmail's powerful spam filtering and virus protection also keeps your inbox clean. Gmail is fast and accessible on mobile phones and devices, on desktop clients via free POP access, and via automatic forwarding. It includes integrated Gmail Chat so you can see when your friends are online, start a real-time chat in reply to an email, and view and search your chats in-line with your email conversations. Anyone can sign up for a free account, which includes more than 2,800 megabytes (increasing every day) of free storage. Gmail is currently available in more than 40 languages.

http://mail.google.com

Google Docs & Spreadsheets

2009-01-11T23:31:00.000-08:00

Google Docs & Spreadsheets is a free web-based word processing and spreadsheet program that allows you to create and edit documents from anywhere and collaborate with multiple people at the same time. You can take advantage of Google Docs & Spreadsheets to coordinate your student group's homework assignments, access your family to-do list from work or home, or work with remote colleagues on a new business plan. Import existing documents and spreadsheets, or create new ones from scratch. To invite people to view or edit a document, simply add their email addresses to the list of viewers or collaborators. Take a peak at how a document is shaping up, or contribute your thoughts to a draft in progress. Keep track of multiple versions in one place--with an easy drop-down menu that shows who changed what, and when. If you would like to keep a copy on your hard drive, you can export to a number of popular formats (DOC, XLS, ODT, ODS, HTML, PDF, etc.). Or, easily publish your work to a web page or blog for the world to see.

http://docs.google.com

Google Code

2009-01-11T23:29:00.000-08:00

Google's website for the developer community offers news, downloads, tutorials, demos and documentation on Google's APIs and developer products, plus extensive resources for anyone who wants to integrate Google services or build next-generation web applications. Google Code also serves as home base for Google's open source initiatives, including Google's free open source Project Hosting service and Google Summer of Code, program for involving university students in open source software development.

http://code.google.com

Google Checkout

2009-01-11T23:28:00.000-08:00

Google Checkout makes shopping online faster and more secure by enabling buyers to make purchases from stores all across the web with just a single Google sign-in. It also helps make our search and ads products more effective for online merchants. By having the Google Checkout badge on AdWords ads and Product Search results, buyers can purchase more quickly, and merchants can drive more leads, increase conversion, and reduce costs via the AdWords pricing model (merchants can process 10 times their monthly AdWords buy in Checkout transactions for free).

http://google.com/checkout

Google Calendar

2009-01-11T23:27:00.000-08:00

This is a free web-based calendar service that makes it easier to keep all the calendar information important to you in one place, including calendars shared by friends and groups. Adding your own events is easy, and you can also import them from other applications you use. Handy event reminders, including text messages sent to your phone, help you keep track of everything that's on your agenda. Google Calendar also enables you share your calendar information with others, whether you want to send party invitations to friends, or publicize events from your website. The Google Calendar Gallery lets you add TV listings and public events from sources like the New York Times, the NBA, Orbitz, and Netflix to your personal calendar. And Google Calendar uses open standards like iCal and XML, so it plays nicely with many other calendar formats.

http://calendar.google.com

Google Blogger

2009-01-11T23:25:00.000-08:00

This leading web-based free publishing tool gives people the ability to publish to the web instantly via weblogs, or "blogs" -- web pages comprised of short, informal, frequently updated posts that are arranged chronologically. Blogs can facilitate communications among small groups or to a worldwide audience in a way that is simpler and easier to follow than traditional email or discussion forums. With Blogger, you control who can read and write to your blog, whether you limit it to a few friends or let the entire world see what you have to say.

http://blogger.com

Google Analytics

2009-01-11T10:30:00.001-08:00

Free to all advertisers, publishers, and site owners, Google Analytics helps you identify the keywords, ads, referrals, and campaigns that contribute the most to your bottom line. Recently redesigned, the program can reveal even more about where visitors come from and how they interact with your site. Using Google Analytics can lead to better ads, strengthened marketing initiatives, and websites that convert more effectively.

http://www.google.com/analytics

Google AdWords

2009-01-11T10:23:00.000-08:00

Google AdWords is a global advertising program that enables advertisers to reach the people who are interested in their products or services. Advertisers use google automated tools, to create ads, place bids to serve their ads, select the types of sites where they'd like their ads to appear, and set daily spending budgets. AdWords features an automated, low-cost online signup process that enables advertisers to implement campaigns that can go live in 15 minutes or less.

AdWords ranks ads for display in one of two ways: either by CPM (cost per thousand) or a by combination of the maximum cost per click (CPC), which is set by the advertiser, together with clickthrough rates and other factors used to determine the relevance of the ads. This process favors the ads that are most relevant to users, improving the experience for both the person looking for information and the advertiser looking for interested customers. AdWords has many features that make it easy to set up and manage ad campaigns for maximum efficiency and effectiveness:

Campaign management. Advertisers can target multiple ads to a given keyword or content site and easily track the performance of individual ads to see which ones are the most effective. The campaign management tools built into AdWords enable advertisers to quickly shift their budgets to ads that deliver the best results.
Geographic and language targeting. Advertisers can target their ads by country, region or by a radius around an area they choose. Ads can also be targeted to the language of the prospective customer.
Keyword targeting. Advertisers can deliver targeted ads based on specific search terms (keywords) entered by users or found in the content on a web page. AdWords also offer tools to help advertisers consider synonyms and useful phrases to use as keywords or ad text. By choosing relevant keywords advertisers can improve ad clickthrough rates and the likelihood that a user will become a customer.
Site targeting. Advertisers can specify which content sites they would like their ads to run on. As with keyword targeting, AdWords offer tools that enable advertisers to target their ads to the right audience based on information related to a specific topic or theme.
Traffic Estimator. This tool estimates the number of searches and potential costs related to advertising on a particular keyword or set of keywords. And in turn these estimates can help advertisers optimize their keyword-targeted campaigns.
Budgeted delivery. Advertisers can set daily budgets for their campaigns and control the timing for delivery of their ads.
Performance reports. Provides timely and continuous reporting on the effectiveness of each ad campaign
Multiple payment options. Accepts credit and debit cards and, for selected advertisers, also offers several options for credit terms and monthly invoicing. Advertisers can make payments in 48 currencies.
AdWords Discounter. This feature gives advertisers the freedom to increase their maximum bids (CPM or CPC) because it automatically adjusts pricing so that they never pay more than one cent over the next highest bid.
Conversion tracking. Advertisers can assess the effectiveness of their AdWords campaigns using this tool, which tracks conversion (to a sale, registration or other action) by identifying which ads and keywords are performing best. Advertisers can then make smarter online advertising decisions and better measure their overall return on investment (ROI) for their AdWords campaign.
Budget Optimizer. This tool enables AdWords advertisers to manage their campaigns simply by setting a monthly budget and a list of keywords. The tool then works to maximize the number of clicks for a specific campaign.
AdWords API. Developers use Google's AdWords API service to create computer applications that interact directly with the AdWords server. Advertisers and third parties can manage large AdWords accounts and campaigns more efficiently and creatively with these applications.

For larger advertisers, AdWords offer additional services that help to maximize returns on their Internet marketing investments and improve their ability to run large, dynamic campaigns. These include:

Creative optimization. AdWords specialists help advertisers select relevant keywords and create more effective ads. This can improve advertisers' ability to target customers and to increase the click-through rates and conversion rates for their ads.
Vertical market experts. Specialists with experience in particular industries offer guidance on how to most effectively target potential customers.
AdWords Editor. This account management application assists advertisers and agencies in launching, managing and making changes to large ad campaigns with hundreds or even thousands of ads and keywords.
Dedicated client service representatives. These staff members continuously look for ways to better structure their clients' campaigns and to address the challenges large advertisers face.

http://adwords.google.com

Google AdSense

2009-01-11T10:17:00.000-08:00

The Google AdSense program enables websites in the Google Network of content sites to automatically serve text and image ads that are precisely targeted to site content - so well-matched, in fact, that readers actually find them useful. Targeting can be based on search results or on web content. Google share's most of the revenue generated from these ads with their partner publishers.

Most of the websites that make up the Google Network sign up online, and also sell direct to sites with significant traffic, under agreements that vary in duration.

Offer's to Google network members :

AdSense for search. This enables websites of any size to generate additional revenue by serving relevant AdWords ads targeted to search results. Because google also offer to license our web search technology along with Google AdSense for search, companies without their own search service can offer Google Web Search to improve their sites' usefulness while increasing their revenue.
AdSense for content. This program enables website publishers to generate revenue from advertising by serving relevant AdWords ads targeted to web content. Google's automated technology analyzes the meaning of web content and serves relevant advertising. AdSense for content can help websites offset publishing costs or even become a primary revenue stream. There is no charge for websites to participate in this program. Using google's automated sign-up process, web sites can quickly display AdWords ads on their sites. Google shares the majority of the revenues generated from clickthroughs on these ads with Google Network members that display the ads. For websites with more than 20 million page views per month, google offers customized services.

http://adsense.google.com

Google Web Search

2009-01-11T10:13:00.002-08:00

In addition to providing easy access to billions of web pages, Google have integrated special features into Google web search to help people find exactly what they are looking for on the web. The Google search experience also includes these features (you’ll find the full list here).

Advanced search functionality - construct more complex queries, for example by using Boolean logic or restricting results to languages, countries or web sites.
Spell checker - suggests alternate search terms when a search appears to contain misspellings or typing errors.
Web page translation - automatically translates web pages published in French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish into English, or vice versa.
Stock quotes - provides links to stock and mutual fund information.
Street maps - provides links to street maps and directions.
Calculator - solves math problems involving basic arithmetic, complicated math or physical constants and converts between units of measure.
Definitions - provides definitions for words or phrases based on content we have indexed.
Phone book - provides U.S. street addresses and phone numbers for U.S. businesses and residences.
Search by number - conduct quick searches by entering FedEx, UPS and USPS package tracking numbers, vehicle ID numbers, product codes, telephone area codes, patent numbers, FAA airplane registration numbers and FCC equipment ID numbers.
Travel information - check the status of U.S. airline flights and see delays and weather conditions at U.S. airports.
Cached links - snapshots of web pages taken when the pages were indexed, enabling you to view pages that are no longer available.

Google.com interfaces are available in more than 100 languages and more than 150 country domains. You may also chose to receive search results in only your native language as Google.com now supports localized searches in more than 40 languages.

List of Google Domains

Google Web Accelerator

2009-01-11T10:13:00.001-08:00

Google Web Accelerator is an application that uses the power of Google's global computer network to make web pages load faster. Google Web Accelerator is easy to use; all you have to do is download and install it, and from then on many web pages will automatically load faster than before.

http://webaccelerator.google.com

Google Toolbar

2009-01-11T10:11:00.000-08:00

The Google Toolbar is a free download that adds a Google search box to your web browser (Firefox or Internet Explorer). The Toolbar also includes innovative features that make browsing more efficient, such as a web form filler, spellchecker, word translator, and pop-up blocker (for IE).

With the Google Toolbar, you can make your Toolbar as unique as you are. You can add buttons and bookmarks, get instant search suggestions, and share web pages with friends via email, blog, or SMS.

Google Toolbar

Google SketchUp

2009-01-11T10:10:00.000-08:00

Combining the elegance and spontaneity of pencil sketching with the speed and flexibility of today's digital media, Google SketchUp provides a powerful yet easy-to-learn tool for creating and modifying 3D models. By inserting their models into Google Earth, design professionals and hobbyists alike can share their creations with the world.

http://sketchup.google.com

Google Scholar

2009-01-11T10:09:00.000-08:00

Fnd scholarly literature (peer-reviewed papers, theses, preprints, abstracts, technical reports) from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities and across the web. As with Google Web Search, Google Scholar presents search results in order of relevance to your query, so the most useful references should appear at the top of the page. This relevance ranking takes into account the full text of each article as well as the article's author, the publication in which the article appeared and how often it has been cited in scholarly literature. Google Scholar also automatically analyzes and extracts citations and presents them as separate results, even if the documents they refer to are not online, so search results may include citations of older works and seminal articles that appear only in books or other offline publications.

http://scholar.google.com

Google Product Search

2009-01-11T10:07:00.000-08:00

Google's shopping search engine uses the power of Google search technology to help shoppers find the items you want, both online and in nearby stores. Product Search users can sort results by price or store location, see product and merchant reviews, specify a desired price range, and view photos. Product Search accepts data feeds directly from merchants to ensure that product information is accurate and up to date. Because we do not charge merchants for inclusion in Product Search, shoppers can browse categories or conduct searches with confidence that the results provided are relevant and unbiased. As with many Google products, Product Search displays relevant advertising separately from search results.

http://www.google.com/products

Google Personalized Search

2009-01-11T10:06:00.000-08:00

Personalized Search ranks Google search results based on what's most relevant to an individual user. The Web History feature of Personalized Search enables users to view and manage all of their web activity. Over time, this information personalizes future searches by bringing results closer to the top when it's clear they are the most relevant to a searcher.

http://www.google.com/psearch

Google Maps

2009-01-11T10:05:00.000-08:00

Google Maps offers powerful, user-friendly mapping technology and local business information with click-to-call functionality, satellite imagery, and a rich collection of user-generated maps and content. Our dynamic, interactive maps are draggable (no waiting for graphics to reload when viewing an adjacent area). Use your mouse or the directional arrows to pan in any direction to see areas off screen. Type in the name of a region or neighborhood to see any part of it as easily as you do with a standard street map. At the top right corner of the Google Maps page, a Satellite View option is available for seeing satellite and aerial images of your location. In this view you can also zoom in, out, or pan in any direction with no long reload times when you drag images. Click Traffic View to see live traffic information for over 30 major U.S. cities, or check out Street View to virtually explore a number of cities by navigating through 360-degree street-level imagery. Click the My Maps tab to create a custom map for personal use or sharing, or add a business review to anything you find in Maps search.

http://maps.google.com

Google Language Tools

2009-01-11T10:02:00.000-08:00

Search for web content in any of more than 40 languages, or by country domain (157 at last count). You can also translate text to and from several languages or translate a web page by submitting a URL. Google also provides links to Google.com in more than 100 languages and links to all of the current country domains they offer.

http://www.google.com/language_tools

Google Images

2009-01-11T10:01:00.002-08:00

Google's searchable index of billions of images found across the web. Includes advanced features such as search by image size, format and coloration and restricting searches to specific web sites or domains.

http://images.google.com

Google Gears

2009-01-11T10:01:00.001-08:00

An open source browser extension that enables developers to build web applications that run offline. With its local database, local server and multi-threading features, it can also improve application performance, especially with slow or unreliable Internet connections. Google Gears works across all major browsers and platforms and is currently available for beta testing and developer feedback.

http://gears.google.com

Google Finance

2009-01-11T10:00:00.000-08:00

Google Finance offers quick and easy access to business and financial information about mutual funds and public and private companies. Features include interactive charts with corresponding news stories; company search by name or ticker symbol; stories from Google News grouped by topic; blog posts from across the web via Google Blog Search; on-topic discussion groups; and easy-to-use portfolios to track your financial information.

http://finance.google.com

Google Earth

2009-01-11T09:51:00.000-08:00

Google Earth combines the power of Google search with satellite imagery, 3D mapping technology, and search to make geographic information easily accessible, understandable, and useful. It is the only program that can deliver a 3D digital model of the entire earth via the Internet. Its groundbreaking EarthStream™ technology partners advanced 3D graphics with network streaming innovations in a high performance system that runs on standard PCs and commodity servers.

Creating layers on Google Earth is free and requires no advanced technical skills, and these KML files created can be viewed in Google Earth or Google Maps and retrieved via KML search. Through these layers, users can share information, videos, and photos on the map. User-created layers can be viewed in Google Earth or Google Maps and retrieved through geosearch.

Intuitive to use, Google Earth solutions enable anyone to manipulate a rich map of the earth composed of imagery and feature information.

http://earth.google.com

Google Web Directory

2009-01-11T09:49:00.000-08:00

Google Web Directory enables people to browse and search through websites that have been organized into categories. Our directory combines Google search technology with the categorization developed by the Open Directory Project; it is available in 75 languages.

http://google.com/dirhp

Google Desktop

2009-01-11T09:48:00.000-08:00

This is a free client application that provides full text search over email, files, music, photos, chats, web pages that you've viewed, and more. By making your computers searchable, Google Desktop puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files. Google Desktop for Windows also helps you gather new information from the web with gadgets and sidebar. (Google Gadgets are visually appealing mini-applications that can display anything from your new email to the local weather forecast to personalized news.)

http://desktop.google.com

Google Custom Search Engine

2009-01-11T09:45:00.000-08:00

Built with Google's core search technology, the Custom Search Engine prioritizes or restricts search results based on websites and pages that users specify, and can be tailored to reflect a point of view or area of expertise. Creators of a Custom Search Engine can make it look and feel like their website or blog; generate revenue from their Custom Search Engine by participating in the Google AdSense program; and collaborate with others to include more sites in their search index.

http://google.com/coop/cse

Google Catalogs

2009-01-11T09:43:00.000-08:00

Access to the full content of more than 6,600 mail order catalogs, many of which were previously unavailable online.

http://catalogs.google.com

Google Book Search

2009-01-11T09:41:00.000-08:00

Google Book Search is an index of book content that makes it easy to find books that interest you. Like a card catalog, it helps you learn where to get the full book from a bookstore or a library. Use the Google Book Search homepage to get only book results, or Google.com to see book results as part of your regular search results. Google Book Search makes the full text of millions of books (including out of print and public domain books) instantly searchable, and makes those books discoverable. For authors and publishers, it means that millions of booksare instantly discoverable - and able to be purchased. Google Book Search acts as a free marketing program that protects copyright while dramatically expanding the potential audience for, in theory, every book in the world.

http://books.google.com

Google Blog Search

2009-01-11T09:33:00.000-08:00

Google Blog Search is the easiest way to search for blog content on the web. Using the same technology that powers Google's web search, Google Blog Search provides fresh, relevant search results from millions of feed-enabled blogs. Users can search for blog posts, blog names, authors, or a specific date range. Google Blog Search also features Google's SafeSearch technology, giving users control over the content of their search results.

http://google.com/blogsearch

Google Alerts

2009-01-11T09:31:00.000-08:00

Get email automatically when there are new Google results for your search terms. We currently offer three types of alerts: News, Web, and News & Web.

News Alert: email notification about new articles that appear in the top 10 results of your Google News search.
Web Alert: email notification for new web pages that appear in the top 20 results for your Google web search.
News & Web Alert: email notification when new articles related to your search term make it into the top 10 results for a Google News search, or the top 20 results for a Google web search.

Use Alerts to monitor a developing news story, keep current on an industry or a competitor, track medical advances, sports teams, or celebrities. The frequency you select (daily, weekly, or as it happens) for your Alerts determines how often Google checks for new results, not necessarily how often you'll receive alerts. If you select "once a day," we'll check for new results once a day, which means you'll get a maximum of one email per day. If you choose the "as it happens," we'll check for new results continuously and send you an alert whenever we find a new result.

http://google.com/alerts