Archive | September, 2009
Finding friends more easy on Orkut now

Finding friends more easy on Orkut now

    If you’re as much of an orkut addict as I am, you probably spend a decent amount of time visiting friends’ profiles and seeing what they’re up to. While browsing, I’m often surprised to find people that I know (friends of friends), who I didn’t even realize had orkut profiles. While I often use [...]

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Google health results prominent for health related queries

Google health results prominent for health related queries

Google health results show up prominently on the Google search. For example, when you’re searching for anything related to your health, the Google search results first point to Google health and then to the other sources of information. Google Blogoscoped has some images and more information on this.

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Google Earth 5.1 is now more faster

Google Earth 5.1 is now more faster

Earlier this year, released Google, the fifth version of Google Earth. New features were, for example, Google Ocean, the integration of Mars and older satellite images. Only a little over two months, Google sun has been integrated. Yesterday evening was to release the next version of Google Earth, which brings no new features, but should [...]

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How to do a realtime Google search?

How to do a realtime Google search?

With a small change in the address you can get results in real time. To reach this search to be extended, so far not available, the address on “& tbs = QDR: n30″. The option “n30″ shows all the results with your keyword which were found within the last 30min. If you want to know, [...]

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Another new feature in Blogger – Read more link insertion to posts

Another new feature in Blogger – Read more link insertion to posts

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Blogger several new features were rolled out. The Blogger team has one more new feature now available and that is, the ability insert a  “read more” link into a blog post. So when you’re on the homepage of your blog a short intro text places interrupted by a “Read [...]

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Chrome to be sold bundled with sony pc’s

Chrome to be sold bundled with sony pc’s

Google’s Chrome exited beta last December, well ahead of when you might normally expect a Google product to do so. It wasn’t, however, because the browser was necessarily ready for prime time; it was because OEMs would not pre-install a beta product on their computers, and Google longed for those deals. It’s finally managed to [...]

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Google Doodle: Doraemon

Google Doodle: Doraemon

Doraemon is a Japanese manga series created by Fujiko F. Fujio (the pen name of Hiroshi Fujimoto) and Fujiko A. Fujio (the pen name of Mot? Abiko) which later became an anime series and Asian franchise. The series is about a robotic cat named Doraemon, who travels back in time from the 22nd century to [...]

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World’s simplest homepage, patented to Google

World’s simplest homepage, patented to Google

After a five and a half year fight, Google and its attorneys have managed to convince federal bureaucrats to bestow a patent on the company’s iconic home page. We always thought the page was brain-dead simple, but apparently it’s an innovative “graphical user interface (GUI).”.. While other search engines turned into portals (for example altavista), [...]

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Happy birthday, Chrome!

Happy birthday, Chrome!

Google’s pet project, Google chrome turns 1 year old. We would like to wish the chrome team congrats and chrome a very happy birthday! Here are some of the achievements & useful info, till date: – 51 developer releases, 21 beta releases or updates, and 15 stable releases or updates – Over 20,600 bugs filed [...]

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Google Doodle: The Unexplained  Mysterious Phenomenon

Google Doodle: The Unexplained Mysterious Phenomenon

The Google doodle on Saturday, September 5th, has a weird flying saucer, UFO of some kind. It links to a search result for unexplained phenomenon and no one really knows what it is about. Most of the doodles were previously either to people, national holidays, special events or other holidays. In the past it has [...]

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