Google Unveils Chrome OS
A direct challenge to
Microsoft,
Google today
announced a new project that’s an extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s an attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year they will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.
Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. The OS will be designed to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as they did for the Google Chrome browser, Google is going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates.
Google Chrome OS is a new project, separate from Android. Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips. Google said it still had work to do to develop Chrome into a full-fledged operating system.
Stay tuned for more updates on the Google Chrome OS.
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I’m seeing a new feature today ‘Promote and Remove button’ next to Google search results. Note: These buttons only appear when you are logged in and only affect the results that you see.
Log in to your account, promote a page and up it comes, then logout and you will see it drop back. Login again and there it is back at the top.
Here’s how it looks:
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Google dropped out of the top 20 of an annual survey ranking of companies most trusted on privacy by consumers.
Some of the companines in the top 20 were:
American Express
eBay Inc.
Apple Inc.
Yahoo Inc.
Facebook Inc.
IBM Corp.
Hewlett-Packard Co.
Intuit Corp.
Source: bizjournals.com
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Google has set up a countdown page where you can see how many days, hours, minutes and seconds are left for New Year. Find out each day how to count down the holidays with Google. The calendar also presents a new item each day for users. Yesterday was “Get gift ideas and holiday savings”, and the calender contained a link to top searches on Google Product Search. Create, collaborate, and celebrate with Google Docs & Countdown to 2009.
Google Countdown 2009
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Web giants Facebook and Google unveil new features to promote the social web. A services that let users take their existing log-ins and deploy them across a number of sites.
Google’s Friend Connect, out now in beta, is pitched at webmasters who want to add social networking tools to their web sites. The search giant said in a blog posting that this is as simple as “cutting and pasting a bit of code”, and requires no advanced coding or technical ability.
“The goal is to facilitate an open social web,” said Google product manager Mussie Shore in the blog post. “Using open standards like OpenID and OAuth, Friend Connect makes it simple for people to instantly interact with one another on the sites that they already love to visit.
Facebook Connect, meanwhile, which was announced this Summer, has also been updated, according to a blog posting on its web site. However, as might be expected with a social networking site, Facebook is asking its users to create momentum.
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg claimed that Facebook will add sites to the service where there is user demand, and asked subscribers to get in contact with the firms in question to request a connection.
Source: vnunet.com
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The much talked about Yahoo – Google Deal has finally collapsed. Jerry Yang, Yahoo’s chief executive says he felt let down by Google’s decision to pull out of a advertising agreement between the two internet rivals.
Yahoo’s lack of growth is the main reason behind all this. By next year, the company will have been through four consecutive years with virtually no increase in its cashflow, estimated Mark Mahaney, internet analyst at Citigroup. That is in spite of having one of the biggest global online audiences at a time when advertisers are making a historic shift to the internet, and is a clear sign that it needs to find a new strategic direction, he added.
The $800m deal – which would have enabled Google to sell advertising on some parts of Yahoo’s search engine listings – had been subject to a formal investigation by the US Department of Justice over potential antitrust concerns.
With Yahoo’s other options seemingly closed off, it is little surprise that all eyes yesterday turned back to Microsoft. But talking to an audience of internet entrepreneurs and investors, Yang said the collapse of takeover talks was “not personal” and that he harboured no ill will towards Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer.
“People who know me will know that I don’t have an ego about remaining independent,” he said. “I have a lot of respect for Steve and we’d had a lot of good conversations. From my perspective, it’s not personal.”
Source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology…6/yahoo-google
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/86e31826-a…077b07658.html
http://forums.webicy.com/showthread.php?t=7468
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Google has announced that its spiders will now begin including scanned documents in its search results. In the past, scanned documents were rarely included in search results. Google said they are now able to perform OCR on any scanned documents that they find stored in Adobe’s PDF format. This Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology lets them convert a picture (of a thousand words) into a thousand words — words that can be searched and indexed, so that these valuable documents are more easily found.
In the past Google has indexed documents saved as PDF’s but scanned documents are a lot more difficult for a computer to read. From now on Google searches will include the text within these scanned images in normal search results. When you encounter a scanned document you’ll be able to view it in its original form as a PDF, or as a converted text file (click “View As HTML”).
To see the new system at work, click on search queries below. Note the document excerpt in the search results, along with the full text presented after the ‘View as HTML’ link:
[repairing aluminum wiring]
[spin lock performance]
[Mumps and Severe Neutropenia]
[Steady success in a volatile world]
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Google can be your phone book.
Type a person’s name, city, and state directly into the search box, and Google will deliver phone and address listings at the top of the results. The feature works for business listings too.
Google can be your calculator.
Type a math problem into the search box and Google will compute it. You can spell out the equation in words (two plus two, twelve divided by three), use numbers and symbols (2+2, 12/3), or type in a combination of both (ten million) *pi, 15% of six).
Longer is better, but shorter is ok.
Google is designed to return high-quality results even for one- or two-word queries, so you can keep your searches short. But adding a few more words often yields better results.
Use quotation marks when precision matters.
Typing “the search is over” into Google will return web pages about the rock song by Survivor – but leaving off the quotes will produce an assortment of unrelated pages. The reason: adding quote marks phrase as it was typed. That makes quote marks especially helpful when searching for song lyrics, people’s names, or expressions such as “to be or not to be” that include very common words. (more…)
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Google has been tweaking its search algorithm of late and within a few days all AdWords advertisers will begin to see a change in their Quality Score.
Google Adwords
The new features include real-time evaluation of search results, the elimination of “inactive for search” keywords, and the replacement of minimum bids for priority placement with “first page bid estimates.”
Source: bizreport.com
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