Articles written in ‘Google’

On the 2nd Annual Academy Awards, some people watched the show for the movies, some watched for gambling and Google made it easier than ever.
As you may know that the show was very long, one way to get into it was to participate in Oscar poo, where every one votes who they think will win in each category. Google had setup a special Google Docs Template, that allows you to easily create a pool and then send it to your friends. [More]
Posted in Google, Internet, Social Networking

Topeka is a small City. The small city with a big dream changed its name from Topeka to Google to show its enthusiasm for Google’s Experimental Fiber For Communities Program. Kansas is the Capital City of Fiber Optics . Its population is just 122,642. [More]
Posted in General, Google, Internet

A good news for Android phone users that Google has recently released Gesture search software for Android Phones. In fact it frees you from typing your search items. The Gesture Search Helps you to draw alphabet gestures on your Android phones home screen. You just have to draw the alphabet gesture you want to search then your required result will be on the phone screen. [More]
Posted in Google, Internet, Mobile OS

Google’s instant messenger is known as GTalk which is gaining popularity day by day due to its lightweight, less resource killer and stunning voice chat quality but Google’s IM team missed an important and most often used feature which is Conference Calling. Yahoo and Msn messengers are widely used due to free conference calling. [More]
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Facebook user base is exponentially growing. For the month of May, Compete (www.compete.com), a web analytics company, produced data that shows the number of people visiting facebook from US has tremendously increased to 82.9 million. On top of it, 65 million unique visitors were generated by services or websites running on a platform which is known as Facebook Connect. This brings the total to 113 million facebook user visits from US alone. The traffic on MySpace is on the decline and surprisingly the growth of twitter has come to a halt. [More]
Posted in Facebook, Google, Yahoo

After launching their own open source browser Chrome in last week, Google is doing rapid development of this beta software and sending nightly builds to production so rapidly. These builds have nothing to do with GUI or iterface as it’s already designed very well, but it includes some major bug fixing and other vulnerabilities which were detected by the experts. So it’s very important to get updated version to use the bug free Google Chrome. [More]
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Google Map Maker is a tool which is based on Google Maps. With the help Google Map Maker, you can easily add or edit places, road, hospitals, businesses, parks, schools, community centers and even your home sweet home.
Google Maps does not have street level information about landmarks of many countries like Vietnam, Cyprus, Iceland and Pakistan, so they launched Map Maker to get street level information from above listed countries. Information posted on Map Maker is viewable and editable by other viewers as well. [More]
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Most of the YouTube Users, even some computer geeks think that youtube videos are low quality. I also think they are not up to the mark but I was wrong. As you know YouTube is owned by Google and how is it possible that Google provides you low quality videos? They are providing low quality videos just because there are users who didn’t have good internet and tons of bandwidth. [More]
Posted in Google, Youtube

Google is not just a search engine anymore, it’s your complete online platform through which you can do anything. I think we must say that “Google is a verb”, because people are treating Google as a verb.
Today! Google announced & revealed their upcoming web application related to ads management. It’s called Google Ad Manager and it allows you to manage ads on your website and make better use of your advertising inventory. Basically Ad Manger will help publishers and bloggers to manage their advertising solutions under one roof.

Google Ad Manager is in it’s private beta phase and there are few companies/websites which are using it on test basis. Google Ad Manager is just like the Open source ad server OpenAds through which you publishers can add their banners in one place and can use those banners on multiple sites using javascript code.
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Google Apps is combination of state of the art & innovative technologies by the Google Team of professionals. At the end of January, I wrote a post about the “Reasons to migrate your domain Email to Google Apps” and promised to write a post on how the migrate your custom domain email to Google.
The first thing you should do is to create an account on Google Apps. The Google Apps registration process is really quick and simple, and the actual migration part is just a handful of MX Record changes. I did all this in few minutes to my domain (including DNS change).
So here’s how you can migrate your domain email to Google’s innovative Technologies. [More]
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