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Seeing the Bigger Picture – A New Theme

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:52:49 +0000

Hi.

As you all might have already noticed, we’re happy to rollout our new theme. We have made the content area much bigger for users to see and read content much freely… We hope you like this change!

You feedback’s are always welcome!!

Thanks
Admin – IGW
www.igooglewatch.com

Hidden easter egg, Ascii styled Google logo

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:02:27 +0000

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This is interesting…. Hidden Easter egg, on the Google search results page. Try searching for ascii art on the Google search page and you would see a hidden ascii art styled Google logo instead of the normal logo.

Google News also gets a touch of auto suggest

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:38:48 +0000

Google auto Suggest has been available from a very long time in the Google web search, image search, and is the video search and now its available on the Google News search page too.

In the image I tried to search for ‘technology’ and it shows some prominent results about what I was looking for right in the search bar. Try it out yourself at the Google news site.

I’m back!!

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:08:48 +0000

I was on a week’s vacation with no internet access for the week. Now that i’m back, posts should start flowing as usual.. Stay tuned!

thanks for all the support folks!

Sharath

Smart links in mobile version of Gmail

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:36:45 +0000

Google now automatically uses shortened links in the mobile version of Gmail. Longer links are now automatically reduced and converted to readable links, which Google called Smart Links. Thus, for example, a link to Google Maps into a link with the actual address as under the permalink in the screenshot. The link still takes you to the same page, however this is a lot shorter, useful on a mobile phone and the information is immediately visible.

Here’s a list of links Google currently support:

Google Maps address queries
Google Maps directional queries (with one destination)
Google Sites webpages
YouTube videos

In the future, more services could be added; such as Google Docs.

Michael Jackson (1958-2009) – RestInPeace

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:07:41 +0000

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American recording artist, entertainer, philanthropist and businessman.

The iGoogle Watch team was deeply saddened to learn of the sudden death of Michael Jackson. We would like to offer our heartfelt condolences to the families and friends.

Spyware Malware top 10 sites – BEWARE, published by Google

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:43:24 +0000

Google has a list of the top 10 malware pages published. So the website gumblar.cn distribute malware to almost 60,000 Websever . googleanalytlcs.net (not to be confused with the Google service) has 20,000 servers. Google currently monitors 4,000 Web sites spreading malware, only 1400 are from China.

Google recently posted Most popular malware sites in the last two months, which includes:

38zu.cn
94.247.2.195
d99q.cn
googleadsense.biz
Googleanalytics.net
gumbiar.cn
martruz.cn
orgsite.info
qwerz.cn
tousecn.cn

Most of the sites end with .CN which means that they are coming from China. Below id the graph that shows top-10 malware sites as counted by the number of compromised web sites that referenced it. All domains on the top-10 list are suspected to have compromised more than 10,000 web sites on the Internet.

To help make the Internet a safer place, please use the Google Safe Browsing API which is freely available and is being used by browsers such as Firefox and Chrome to protect users on the web. Also, you can checkout the Google pack which has antivirus to protect your computer from malwaresspywares.

Stay safe…!!

New and fresh look at Google logos.

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Sat, 23 May 2009 12:08:34 +0000

Google announces the future of Google Logos would be uniform for all Google products. Google Code, Google Labs and Google Moderator already changed the logo, in a few weeks Google Docs, Google Maps, Google News and a few others will surely follow this new style of logos.

Here are some localized logos for Google Maps, Google News and Google Docs.

Google comes up with a consistent design pattern for its logos! In the new design of Google logos, all the logos would have blue lowercase Product Name, which actually looks pretty cool

April fools joke: Mobile Brain Search

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:39:37 +0000

Google Brain Search uses CADIE technology to index your brain, thus improving the speed and accuracy of memory retrieval.

New! Google Brain Search uses CADIE technology to index your brain, thus improving the speed and accuracy of memory retrieval.

Features:

Faster and more accurate memory retrieval
Brainwave detection: put the phone to your forehead and think your query
Eliminate “tip of the tongue” syndrome

Instructions:

Put phone to forehead for brain indexing.
Think your query.

*Please do not use Brain Search on others without their permission.

[Wanna try?? Click here]

April fools joke: Gmail autopilot

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:22:31 +0000

Who does not know it: Every day “thousands” of emails and it’s all too much work to read and respond. So here is someting new to all of you! Gmail autopilot. analyzes all mail and automatically writes the correct answer the email that you have got .