Internet giant Google unveiled its "Fast Flip" online news reader on Monday, featuring stories from major media outlets, including the BBC, The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Google, which launched Fast Flip at the TechCrunch50 technology conference in San Francisco, compared using the quick-loading product to flipping through the pages of a magazine "really fast without unnatural delays."
Fast Flip allows users to quickly browse through news stories from the websites of Google's three dozen partners.
A Web surfer can quickly jump from one article to the next using large arrows at speeds significantly faster than the time it usually takes to load a Web page.
"As the name suggests, flipping through content is very fast, so you can quickly look through a lot of pages until you find something interesting," Fast Flip developer Krishna Bharat, a Google engineer, said in a blog post.
Other companies supplying content include magazines such as the Atlantic, BusinessWeek, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Marie Claire, Newsweek and Popular Mechanics, as well as online news sites TechCrunch, Salon and Slate.
The Mountain View, California-based Google has had a strained relationship with some US publishers and Bharat said the Internet company would share advertising revenue from Fast Flip with its media partners.
The firm's popular news aggregator website Google News has drawn fire from a number of US newspaper owners for linking to their articles without payment.
The Internet search and advertising heavyweight has dismissed the criticism and countered that it is providing newspapers a free service by driving traffic to their websites.
"Partners will share the revenue earned from contextually relevant ads" on Fast Flip, Bharat said. "This gives publishers an opportunity to introduce new readers to their content."
The new feature, the Google engineer argued, will allow readers to scan articles faster, thus reading more of them and bringing more ad revenue to publishers.
"The publishing industry faces many challenges today, and there is no magic bullet," he continued. "However, we believe that encouraging readers to read more news is a necessary part of the solution."
With print advertising revenue and circulation declining, US newspaper publishers have been actively searching for ways to earn more money from the Web, including possibly charging for content online.
Fast Flip allows readers to browse stories by topic, by publication or by "most viewed," "most popular" or even "recommended."
It shows only the first page of a story and users who want to read more have to click through to the website of the host publication.
Through the feature, users can share content with friends or members of a social network and Google said it is offering a mobile version.
For the moment, Fast Flip is considered an experimental "Google Labs" product. It is accessible at fastflip.googlelabs.com
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Bing the In thing!
Microsoft has finally unveiled its new search engine, dubbed ‘Bing’.
Formally code-named "Kumo," the new search tool will replace Microsoft's Live Search. It will eventually roll out over the next few days as a beta in the UK, and go worldwide by 3 June, Microsoft said.
Microsoft is the latest to attempt to innovate in the search market, following the launch of Wolfram Alpha last week. The launch of Bing will likely lead pundits to ponder if Bing will be the one to knock Google off its perch, but Microsoft has said it's actually gunning for second place - the spot currently held by former acquisition target Yahoo.
Microsoft noted its latest weapon in the battle with Google wasn’t a fully featured release, but just a beta. It said the “full proposition” would continue to be developed over the next six to 12 months in London, at Microsoft’s new Search Technology Centre which employs about 60 people.
Paul Stoddart, UK search lead at Microsoft, said in a statement: “Many people believe Search today is a great tool, but as the internet continues to develop and grow then the search category requires constant innovation to allow consumers to make sense of the web.”
That said, Bing does of course offer new features above Live Search. Bing includes more relevant information on the search results page itself, and sorts them into categories. It also includes partnerships with shopping and travel sites, including recent acquisition comparison site Ciao, Microsoft said.
The main page is the very opposite of Google’s stark search engine. Bing features massive photo backdrops targeted by geography and even the latest news.
In what could be seen as a dig at leading rival Google, Stoddart said: “The major search engines were developed over a decade ago and we believe the category is still in its infancy."
"In 1997, there were only 100,000 websites compared with over 160 million worldwide today, so it’s important to challenge and evolve the search market and to make it as easy and relevant as possible for today’s consumers," he added. "There is much more that people can and should expect from their search service.”
Speaking at a conference in California, Microsoft's chief executive Steve Ballmer said: "We want to do better."
Ballmer went on to explain why the odd name Bing was chosen. "The name is short, it's easy to say, it works globally."
Google Search
In honor of our 10th birthday, we've brought back our oldest available index. Take a look back at Google in January 2001.
http://www.google.com/search2001.html
LINK
Look for youtube and you will not find it. :)
http://www.google.com/search2001.html
LINK
Look for youtube and you will not find it. :)
20 things you need to know about Google Chrome
20 things you need to know about Google Chrome
Google took the unusual step of announcing its new browser via an online comic. We've had a read through and pulled out the things you need to know about Google's new browser.
2. Google Chrome is beta, and currently only available for Windows. Mac and Linux versions are being produced.
3. Google Chrome promises to be more stable - each browser tab will run in its own process so a buggy web page won't take down the entire browser..
4. The tabs will be the key part of the interface - tabs will be located at the top of the window rather than under the address bar.
5. When you open a new tab, you'll see thumbnails of your nine most visited pages and search boxes for the sites you search most on.
6. You'll be able to 'tear off' tabbed windows and move them elsewhere onto the desktop, creating separate windows or adding them to existing windows.
7. When a tab crashes you'll get a sad face icon in the tab - called a 'sad tab'.
8. Each tab will have its own controls and its own URL bar, which Google's developers are calling the 'Omnibox'.
9. The Omnibox isn't just somewhere to type web addresses - it will also suggest pages you've visited before, and popular pages you haven't visited, based on the keywords you type into the box.
10. You'll be able to search your browser history from the Omnibox to return to pages you visited previously but didn't bookmark.
11. Autocomplete will only autocomplete to an address you have manually typed before - Google's example is that typing C and hitting return might take you to cnn..com but never to a previously clicked link such as cnn.com/2008/ politics/ 07/27/campaign. wrap/index. html.
12. Once you've performed a search on sites such as Wikipedia or Google, you'll then be able to search those sites later straight from your address bar by typing the site's name and then pressing the Tab key.
13. Google Chrome has a private browsing mode - if you create what it calls an "incognito window" then pages won't be saved in your history and when you close the window, any related cookies will be deleted.
14. Google Chrome promises to be faster - because each tab runs in a separate process, that process is killed when a tab is closed, and so your PC gets the memory back.
15. Google Chrome will feature a new JavaScript virtual machine. Google says this will be more efficient at running JavaScript-heavy apps such as Gmail, and allow smoother drag-and-drops.
16. Google Chrome comes with a Task Manager that lets you see which sites are using the most memory on your PC - and just like with the Windows Task manager, you'll be able end processes that are sucking up memory.
17. Google Chrome promises to be more secure - processes won't be able to write to your hard drive or read documents, for example.
18. Google Chrome will be constantly updated with information on phishing and malware sites and warn you if you attempt to visit one.
19. Google Chrome is being tested against millions of web pages - and Google is using its Page Rank system to ensure the browser is first tested against the web's most popular pages.
20. Google Chrome will be fully open source, so everyone will be able to contribute - and examine the code, which should allay any privacy fears.
Chrome Grabs 1% in One Day!
Google Chrome went live today. I had a chance to play around with it a bit and like what I see. This qualifies as one of those products that is best experimented with as opposed to read about, so head on over to http://www.google.com/chrome and download it for your self. At worst you will have wasted five minutes of your time. Alternatively, you may have found a nice back up web browser, or even your new main web browser.
I am sticking with Fire Fox as my main web browser for now, but as I continue to experiment with Chrome, who knows?
Download the Chrome from here http://www.google.com/chrome
Check the Press conference http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9858
Also dont forget to check a book on Chrome .. http://books.google.com/books?id=8UsqHohwwVYC
And Add to this...
I am sticking with Fire Fox as my main web browser for now, but as I continue to experiment with Chrome, who knows?
Download the Chrome from here http://www.google.com/chrome
Check the Press conference http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9858
Also dont forget to check a book on Chrome .. http://books.google.com/books?id=8UsqHohwwVYC
And Add to this...
According to research conducted StatCounter, Google’s new browser, Chrome, has taken 1% of the global browser market within a day of launch.
Google’s unusual step of publicising the Chrome browser on its notoriously clutter-free homepage is an indication of the plans that Google has for this browser…
“This is a phenomenal performance,” commented Aodhan Cullen, “this is war on Microsoft but the big loser could be Firefox.”
While Google may have the Internet Explorer market share in its sights, the fact that many Firefox users are more “mobile” as far as browser use is concerned, may impact on the current Firefox market share.
Google Knol is Live
So Google has officially opened up Knol to the public. FYI, Knol is G’s next attempt to take over the world (or at least its information) by building a community-driven, open-source encyclopedia similar to Wikipedia.
Google gives us all the goods on its Googleblog, so I’ll let you do the reading yourself. Do note, though, that they are encouraging people to use their real names on this. Google argues that the authority we find in Knol will be vested in the authors and the author communities. Whereas Bearcat258, Hellfire23f, or some other alias was once our authority for everything we needed to know from Wikipedia’s entry on X, the end-user will now hopefully be able to cross-reference the names of Knol’s authors against other pieces of information (ostenbsibly on Knol profile pages or by way of a google-search) to determine the article’s own veracity and quality.
Fair enough. Google is correct in this regard. Information and authority is all relative anyway. Both are fairly dependent on identity. We generally differentiate between truth and rumour when we can (1) verify the content of the statement, and (2) find the source of the knowledge. I still find Google and Knol’s demands for open identity troubling, though. I think the likes of Facebook and Google has destroyed anonymity on the internet, and I’m not always certain if that’s a good thing. Google really does have the goods on us, and I wonder if I want this mega-corp being able to draw a character sketch of my person. I’m still unsure what the implications would be if I were to merge my internet and IRL personas into one name/user.
Knol will be a success, truly, but I wonder what the wider implications of such ‘non-anonymous’ projects are..
Anyway.
Just Enjoy Googles next inovation
Cuil --- New Generation Search
I knew we will have somebody soon trying to compete with the mighty Google in the web search market and here they are - CUIL - meaning Knowledge . They opened their service today with some claims “Cuil searches more pages on the Web than anyone else—three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft.” . This means they have more pages indexed in the server to look into. I think the number of pages indexes doesn’t matter but it really matters how intelligently you use an algorithm to bring out the best results out of the pages you have indexed.
Some insights on what I felt when I tried some fast tests on the new search engine. I was not at all impressed by the results I got for some typical keywords that anybody can look on the internet. I searched for ‘order food online’ , the keywords that someone search for finding take away food in their country .The first four results were fine and a bit related, but not the best ones in the market right now. I was also given some blog posts which had the keywords in their content. And that was never expected too.
Other changes that can be seen are the three column page layout when the results are shown . I really don’t think the we are unhappy with the current simple and straight layout from Google .Also I didn’t find the page to include some thing new or innovative in their idea .Google have always tried to make things simple and they were successful in fulfilling the users requirements.
I really think if any company wants to compete with Google their first and last improvement must be in Search quality. As a frequent reader of Google research blog, I am pretty sure that they are well ahead in future ideas and are going to come with something new for the semantic web or the future Web 3.0.
It didn’t look good to me when a start up come in public hinting at competing with the big players before proving their quality in search. I feel ‘Cuil’ needs to improve a lot in their search quality and need to compete with the smaller players before aiming to the top.
When Google is Evil....
Some serious aligations against Google...
Give me your views....
- Google's immortal cookie:Google was the first search engine to use a cookie that expires in 2038. This was at a time when federal websites were prohibited from using persistent cookies altogether. Now it's years later, and immortal cookies are commonplace among search engines; Google set the standard because no one bothered to challenge them. This cookie places a unique ID number on your hard disk. Anytime you land on a Google page, you get a Google cookie if you don't already have one. If you have one, they read and record your unique ID number.
- Google records everything they can:For all searches they record the cookie ID, your Internet IP address, the time and date, your search terms, and your browser configuration. Increasingly, Google is customizing results based on your IP number. This is referred to in the industry as "IP delivery based on geolocation."
- Google retains all data indefinitely:Google has no data retention policies. There is evidence that they are able to easily access all the user information they collect and save.
- Google won't say why they need this data:Inquiries to Google about their privacy policies are ignored. When the New York Times (2002-11-28) asked Sergey Brin about whether Google ever gets subpoenaed for this information, he had no comment.
- Google hires spooks:Matt Cutts, a key Google engineer, used to work for the National Security Agency. Google wants to hire more people with security clearances, so that they can peddle their corporate assets to the spooks in Washington.
- Google's toolbar is spyware:With the advanced features enabled, Google's free toolbar for Explorer phones home with every page you surf, and yes, it reads your cookie too. Their privacy policy confesses this, but that's only because Alexa lost a class-action lawsuit when their toolbar did the same thing, and their privacy policy failed to explain this. Worse yet, Google's toolbar updates to new versions quietly, and without asking. This means that if you have the toolbar installed, Google essentially has complete access to your hard disk every time you connect to Google (which is many times a day). Most software vendors, and even Microsoft, ask if you'd like an updated version. But not Google. Any software that updates automatically presents a massive security risk.
- Google's cache copy is illegal:Judging from Ninth Circuit precedent on the application of U.S. copyright laws to the Internet, Google's cache copy appears to be illegal. The only way a webmaster can avoid having his site cached on Google is to put a "noarchive" meta in the header of every page on his site. Surfers like the cache, but webmasters don't. Many webmasters have deleted questionable material from their sites, only to discover later that the problem pages live merrily on in Google's cache. The cache copy should be "opt-in" for webmasters, not "opt-out."
- Google is not your friend:By now Google enjoys a 75 percent monopoly for all external referrals to most websites. Webmasters cannot avoid seeking Google's approval these days, assuming they want to increase traffic to their site. If they try to take advantage of some of the known weaknesses in Google's semi-secret algorithms, they may find themselves penalized by Google, and their traffic disappears. There are no detailed, published standards issued by Google, and there is no appeal process for penalized sites. Google is completely unaccountable. Most of the time Google doesn't even answer email from webmasters
- Google is a privacy time bomb:With 200 million searches per day, most from outside the U.S., Google amounts to a privacy disaster waiting to happen. Those newly-commissioned data-mining bureaucrats in Washington can only dream about the sort of slick efficiency that Google has already achieved.
You bet they are serious and we never knew....
For more details refer... http://www.google-watch.org/bigbro.html
Lively from Google
GOOGLE, KNOWN for its plain-Jane approach to Web design, has come up with something much wackier.On Tuesday the company introduced Lively an online tool that allows people to embody a cartoon-ish online avatar and have text-based conversations with friends and other Internet users in virtual chat rooms. The rooms can be added to any blog or Web site.
Google unveiled the new product in a post on its official blog. It can be reached at www.lively.com but is officially part of Google Labs, an area of the company's site where it showcases projects that remain in the beta, or experimental, phase.
Online chat rooms are two-dimensional - they include text, and sometimes voice and video. Lively tries to make that conversation three-dimensional, more interactive and more fun. As if they were playing a game, users choose from a selection of unrealistically handsome or Disneyesque avatars.They can also create their own rooms, which can be posted to a blog or social network profile as easily as a YouTube video.
Up to 20 people can occupy a room and chat with one an-other. Users can design their own virtual environments, hang-ing on the walls videos from YouTube and photos from Picasa,
Google's photo service, as if they were pieces of art.
Inside Google, the product was headed by Niniane Wang, an engineering manager. Students at the University of Arizona have been testing Lively for several months.
I had a very simple idea yesterday to get Gmail to work through IMAP and wanted to share it in case it is of use to anyone else.
Warning: This is clearly not rocket science and I’m positive that thousands of people have already thought of this and are already doing it. It just didn’t occur to me until now.
The problem: I like mail applications better than web-based mail. I am especially not fond of the way Google’s threads work. I understand that this format works for some people… it just feels weird to me though. BUT… a Gmail account is great to have because of its free storage, spam filtering, separation from my own domain, and search capabilities. So very conveniently, Google enabled POP access to Gmail accounts several months ago. That’s great, except I don’t like POP either. It’s fine for people who only use one computer, but the second you begin using a multiple machines, it’s a synching nightmare.
Enter IMAP e-mail. With Dreamhost’s IMAP e-mail setup, I can maintain an unlimited number of e-mail accounts with over 20 gigs of storage space and keep it all automatically synched between as many computers as I want. Awesome.
The only problem is that while Gmail supports retrieving of e-mail via POP, they don’t via IMAP. So what can I do if I want to continue using my Gmail address for filling out forms on the web and benefit from its excellent spam/phishing filters? Easy! Set it to automatically forward to a special IMAP account! Since Gmail’s auto-forwarding feature leaves headers for the most part intact, I can now receive fully synched, fully intact copies of all my Gmail messages to any computer I happen to be on. Here’s how:
Set up a new IMAP mailbox with your mail provider. The address could be “abcdefg@yourdomain.com”… doesn’t matter. It’s not public-facing.
Set your incoming mail server to its normal settings.
Set your outgoing mail server to “smtp.gmail.com”, check “Use SSL”, and use port 465.
Go to Gmail’s POP/Forwarding settings panel.
Turn on forwarding and forward to the special address you’ve set up.
Set Gmail to archive your mail after forwarding.
That’s it. You’re done. Gmail over IMAP. That such an obvious solution has escaped me for this long is evidence of possible senility. Excuse me while I go stir my fiber drink.
Warning: This is clearly not rocket science and I’m positive that thousands of people have already thought of this and are already doing it. It just didn’t occur to me until now.
The problem: I like mail applications better than web-based mail. I am especially not fond of the way Google’s threads work. I understand that this format works for some people… it just feels weird to me though. BUT… a Gmail account is great to have because of its free storage, spam filtering, separation from my own domain, and search capabilities. So very conveniently, Google enabled POP access to Gmail accounts several months ago. That’s great, except I don’t like POP either. It’s fine for people who only use one computer, but the second you begin using a multiple machines, it’s a synching nightmare.
Enter IMAP e-mail. With Dreamhost’s IMAP e-mail setup, I can maintain an unlimited number of e-mail accounts with over 20 gigs of storage space and keep it all automatically synched between as many computers as I want. Awesome.
The only problem is that while Gmail supports retrieving of e-mail via POP, they don’t via IMAP. So what can I do if I want to continue using my Gmail address for filling out forms on the web and benefit from its excellent spam/phishing filters? Easy! Set it to automatically forward to a special IMAP account! Since Gmail’s auto-forwarding feature leaves headers for the most part intact, I can now receive fully synched, fully intact copies of all my Gmail messages to any computer I happen to be on. Here’s how:
Set up a new IMAP mailbox with your mail provider. The address could be “abcdefg@yourdomain.com”… doesn’t matter. It’s not public-facing.
Set your incoming mail server to its normal settings.
Set your outgoing mail server to “smtp.gmail.com”, check “Use SSL”, and use port 465.
Go to Gmail’s POP/Forwarding settings panel.
Turn on forwarding and forward to the special address you’ve set up.
Set Gmail to archive your mail after forwarding.
That’s it. You’re done. Gmail over IMAP. That such an obvious solution has escaped me for this long is evidence of possible senility. Excuse me while I go stir my fiber drink.
Mails and IM at one Place
Sites where one can chat on all messengers at once.
The Messengers like Yahoo,GTalk,MSN,AIM... can be accessed from these sites.
And Many More...
Mails can be checked using this site
The Web Chatting is also Possible if it is not allowed to download Softwares.
They are :
Any Suggestion ? Dont forget to ping, mail, IM or even write a small comment..
The Messengers like Yahoo,GTalk,MSN,AIM... can be accessed from these sites.
And Many More...
Mails can be checked using this site
The Web Chatting is also Possible if it is not allowed to download Softwares.
They are :
- http://webmessenger.msn.com/
- http://messenger.yahoo.com/webmsgr/fmsgr.php
- http://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/popout
Any Suggestion ? Dont forget to ping, mail, IM or even write a small comment..
iGoogle
Finding your ideal job could soon be as simple as asking Google. The search engine plans to collect personal data on users so it can advise them on everything from which position to apply for, to how they should spend their days off. The information they seek and their physical location will be collated and used for lucrative personalised advertising.
The company recently started its information-collecting mission by launching iGoogle, which can be personalised to feature news feeds and local weather. It remembers if a registered user has searched for a particular site such as a cinema in the past, and automatically places that site at the top of search lists.
Chief executive Eric Schmidt said,“The goal is to enable Google users to be able to ask the question such as, ‘What shall I do tomorrow?’ and ‘What job shall I take?’ We cannot even answer the most basic questions because we don’t know enough about you. That is the most important aspect of Google’s expansion.”
The company stresses that its personalisation services are optional at the moment. But concerns have been raised about privacy because of the information Google collects on users. It agreed to discard information about the Internet searches made after two years, following pressure from privacy activists. Google software engineer Sepandar Kamvar said, “The key thing is to get the best search results for our users. We cannot do that if we ignore the user doing the searching.
The company recently started its information-collecting mission by launching iGoogle, which can be personalised to feature news feeds and local weather. It remembers if a registered user has searched for a particular site such as a cinema in the past, and automatically places that site at the top of search lists.
Chief executive Eric Schmidt said,“The goal is to enable Google users to be able to ask the question such as, ‘What shall I do tomorrow?’ and ‘What job shall I take?’ We cannot even answer the most basic questions because we don’t know enough about you. That is the most important aspect of Google’s expansion.”
The company stresses that its personalisation services are optional at the moment. But concerns have been raised about privacy because of the information Google collects on users. It agreed to discard information about the Internet searches made after two years, following pressure from privacy activists. Google software engineer Sepandar Kamvar said, “The key thing is to get the best search results for our users. We cannot do that if we ignore the user doing the searching.
Google lets users create My Maps
Mountain View (CA) - Google has launched a new personalized touch to its online maps tool that allows users to create customized maps with specific locations and pictures.
The idea is to let users pinpoint specific landmarks and attach associated pictures to them. For example, a family could chart their cross-country trip on Google Maps and post an image of each location. Users can choose whether to make their maps public or private.
Maps can be customized by specifying the scale of the map, the order the landmarks appear in the sidebar, and even the design of the landmark icons on the map. Every user-created map can be toggled between map and satellite views.
Other map sites, including Yahoo Maps, have offered similar functionality and until now, was their main feature that differentiated them from Google Maps.
In the past, Google has customized its online maps service by creating specialized maps for events like the 2006 election and the World Cup. My Maps is effectively the same thing, bringing the customization feature to individual users for the first time.
The first official announcement came from Google's Frank Taylor at the official blog of the similar Google Earth service. He wrote, "The end result of this new update is that Google Maps and Google Earth are coming closer together in many respects."
The idea is to let users pinpoint specific landmarks and attach associated pictures to them. For example, a family could chart their cross-country trip on Google Maps and post an image of each location. Users can choose whether to make their maps public or private.
Maps can be customized by specifying the scale of the map, the order the landmarks appear in the sidebar, and even the design of the landmark icons on the map. Every user-created map can be toggled between map and satellite views.
Other map sites, including Yahoo Maps, have offered similar functionality and until now, was their main feature that differentiated them from Google Maps.
In the past, Google has customized its online maps service by creating specialized maps for events like the 2006 election and the World Cup. My Maps is effectively the same thing, bringing the customization feature to individual users for the first time.
The first official announcement came from Google's Frank Taylor at the official blog of the similar Google Earth service. He wrote, "The end result of this new update is that Google Maps and Google Earth are coming closer together in many respects."
Google - Some New Links
I got a email last night from a friend of mine in Georgia. He noted that I have posted a lot of information on my website concerning Google. He stated I might be interested in taking a look at some other Google sites that normally are not posted.
Sure, why not. How secret could this stuff be? Well it’s not earth shattering but it is different and hopefully interesting to those who read my articles. So here are some Google pages to stop by at:
Google has a newsletter called Google Friends Newsletter. You can sign up for free issues sent right to your email account if you wish. Google Friends Newsletter
They also have listed archives of their previous newsletters. And my friend was correct. I was not aware that Google produced a newsletter.
Have a domain parked somewhere on the Internet? You can have Google Ads displayed while the page is sitting idle. This is kind of a unique offering, also one that I was not aware of. Google Domain.
One of the features of Google Search is that it offers stock information right from the search engine, by merely typing in the stock symbol. This link explains how. Get Google Stock Quotes I don’t think the second one is working. :-(
And last but not least, everything you really wanted to know about Google but was afraid to ask. Google Sets. If you see a use for this, congratulations. Maybe you can leave me a comment and explain it to me. :-)
No offense to anyone, but I didn’t bookmark any of these links, but I did sign up for the Google newsletter.
Sure, why not. How secret could this stuff be? Well it’s not earth shattering but it is different and hopefully interesting to those who read my articles. So here are some Google pages to stop by at:
Google has a newsletter called Google Friends Newsletter. You can sign up for free issues sent right to your email account if you wish. Google Friends Newsletter
They also have listed archives of their previous newsletters. And my friend was correct. I was not aware that Google produced a newsletter.
Have a domain parked somewhere on the Internet? You can have Google Ads displayed while the page is sitting idle. This is kind of a unique offering, also one that I was not aware of. Google Domain.
One of the features of Google Search is that it offers stock information right from the search engine, by merely typing in the stock symbol. This link explains how. Get Google Stock Quotes I don’t think the second one is working. :-(
And last but not least, everything you really wanted to know about Google but was afraid to ask. Google Sets. If you see a use for this, congratulations. Maybe you can leave me a comment and explain it to me. :-)
No offense to anyone, but I didn’t bookmark any of these links, but I did sign up for the Google newsletter.
Google TV
A heavily produced YouTube video from Mark Erickson at “Infinite Solutions” shows users how to get in on the super-secret (and non existent) Google TV beta. It involves sending yourself an email and then logging in and out of Gmail multiple times until a tv icon appears in the Gmail logo. In the comments to the video, some users have tried logging in and out of Gmail hundreds of times without it working.
This is almost certainly a fake, as Google Blogoscoped reports. Erickson then posted a second video to prove the authenticity and saying that Google had increased the login requirements “substantially”. A+ for effort and originality. Both videos are below.
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