When you make any search on the net, usually you see the top search results returned. You still have to go through each of them and choose what you really prefer.
Google social lets you review the top expert results as well as your friend’s and family’s choices. So, when you search on Google social you will have reviews from your social network and the experts on the net. Its so easy to choose results from our social network.
Google voice has released this service at m.google.com/voice. It works on Palm’s Pre and Pixi handsets as well the iphone. You can download all the contacts from google account and call or sms any of your contacts.
When you make calls using it, the person who answers sees your Google Voice number, not the “real” one associated with your phone: Google makes an outgoing call from the iPhone, then reroutes it over a line of its own.
Here’s a video Google produced about the new version – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neiOa38DuqI&feature=player_embedded
Local, in particular, is hugely important to Google, according to Jonathan Rosenberg, Google’s senior vice president of product management. On its earnings conference call, he told investors that local is going to be much more important in the “not too distant future,” because Google is seeing more people shopping offline starting online and many still don’t have access to the inventory information of the local stores.
“The whole mobile strategy is built on building and accelerating an ecosystem,” added Patrick Pichette , Google’s Chief Financial Officer, referring to Google’s Android strategy.
He said that while Google has its own teams developing cool mobile apps, it is all about promoting innovation. By being open source, Pichette said Google gets better apps to users at a faster speed, and consumers end up using Android devices 30 times more than a typical handset.
“In consequence they do a lot more searching and there is a lot more advertising opportunities,” he said. “So pushing that ecosystem is so critical because that is where the world is going.”
Google’s founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin plan to sell 5 million Google shares each over the next five years, in a trading plan disclosed Friday in a regulatory filing.
The sales, if completed, would provide each of the founders $2.25 billion based on Friday’s closing price of $550.01.
The sales would bring the founders’ combined voting rights to just below 50 percent, 48 percent to be precise. -But for all practical purposes, Mr. Page and Mr. Brin would continue to have effective control of the company. What’s more, Eric E. Schmidt, the chief executive, has an additional 10 percent of Google’s voting rights, giving the triumvirate absolute control over Google’s fate as long as they remain united.
THE official Google blog did not pull any punches. ”In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google.”
The blog said Google had evidence that a goal of the attackers was to compromise the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists and of activists in the United States and Europe with a specific interest in China.
It also noted that at least 20 other large companies – from the internet, finance, technology, media and chemical sectors – were targeted at the same time as Google.
Most of us are not familiar with DNS because its automatically handled by the ISP (Internet Service Provider). However, when we are surfing the web we end up looking hundreds of DNS everyday. This slows down the browsing speed.
If speed matters to you then you might want to check out the Google code clog for a faster browsing experience – http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/12/introducing-google-public-dns-new-dns.html.
We’re happy to announce that over the next few weeks we will be rolling out the ability to upload, store and organize any type of file in Google Docs. With this change, you’ll be able to upload and access your files from any computer — all you need is an Internet connection.
Instead of emailing files to yourself, which is particularly difficult with large files, you can upload to Google Docs any file up to 250 MB. You’ll have 1 GB of free storage for files you don’t convert into one of the Google Docs formats (i.e. Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentations), and if you need more space, you can buy additional storage for $0.25 per GB per year. This makes it easy to backup more of your key files online, from large graphics and raw photos to unedited home videos taken on your smartphone. You might even be able to replace the USB drive you reserved for those files that are too big to send over email.
Combined with shared folders, you can store, organize, and collaborate on files more easily using Google Docs. For example, if you are in a club or PTA working on large graphic files for posters or a newsletter, you can upload them to a shared folder for collaborators to view, download, and print.
You can also search for document files you’ve uploaded or that have been shared with you just like you do with your Google documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and PDFs. And you’ll be able to view many common document file types with the Google Docs viewer.
To learn how businesses can take advantage of this new functionality, check out the post on the Enterprise Blog.
As always, we’d love your feedback and if you have any questions, please check out our help page. This feature will be enabled for your account over the next couple of weeks — look for the bubble notification when you sign in to Google Docs.
Google confirmed that it had ditched upgrade pricing for its Nexus Onesmartphone and will issue $100 refunds to those T-Mobile customers who paid more.Customers have the option to purchase a Nexus One with a two-year T-Mobile contract for $279 or without a contract for $529. Existing T-Mobile customers who opted to upgrade to a Nexus One, however, were originally charged $379 to make the change.
“We worked with T-Mobile and are now able to offer the higher upgrade discount to all existing fully eligible T-Mobile subscribers,” Google said in a statement. “This price is now $279. Refunds will be granted to all eligible subscribers who previously purchased the Nexus One at $379. This doesn’t affect any eligible customers who bought the phone for $279.”
