Google didn’t put up a new doodle this diwali but orkut didn’t forget to post one!!! Diwali or D?p?vali is a significant festival in Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism, and an official holiday in India. Adherents of these religions celebrate Diwali as the Festival of Lights. They light diyas—cotton string wicks inserted in small clay [...]
FYI – These ads are by Google
Google has a new icon in the rich media ads by Google, A symbol is being displayed for every Internet user, For example, Flash ‘ads from Google’ was identified with Google ads just like text ads for many years. Down in the right corner of the display will display a small (i). If you move [...]
Google Editions: An online bookstore near you – coming soon
According to Cnet, Google plans to launch Google Editions, a new online bookstore. The release is expected at the beginning of the next year. Google is going to open it for big businesses with about half a million titles. A new bookstore has nothing to do with Google Book Search, that is based on scanning [...]
Google chrome download page in brazil has an orkut screenshot
Google Chrome‘s homepage for Brazil has a screenshot that shows a new orkut interface. Google decided to use some ideas from services like Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook and make it easy to post messages and to see the messages posted by your friends. Here is the screenshot: I wonder if this is because most of the [...]
How to: Upload documents from your desktop to Google Docs
Google released a basic application for Windows that lets you upload files to Google Docs by using drag and drop. The application is more like a sample of what you can do with a Google Docs API, but it’s pretty useful if you want to upload a lot of documents. There’s also an option to [...]
Google Doodle: Teacher’s day – Poland
Day of Education – Polish holiday industry and higher education is celebrated on 14 October. The anniversary of the National Education Commission, created at the initiative of King Stanislaw August by Partition Sejm resolution of 14 October 1773. Popularly known as the Teachers Day.
Google Docs: Upload multiple files, fast!
Google announced, just like the gmail uploader now Google docs also comes with a flash uploader, which helps you to upload your files fast! Google released an application for Windows that lets you upload files to Google Docs by using drag and drop. The application is more like a sample for Google Docs API, but [...]
Google tips and tricks: Using both XML and HTML sitemaps is Good
Always wondered which sitemap to use? XML or HTML? Well, here is a video of Matt Cutts (head of Google webspam) answered a question about HTML and XML sitemaps and what is preferred. If you use HTML sitemap, Google will find your pages more quickly and this maybe a useful addition for visitors too. And [...]
Quick View PDF’s, right from the Google search results
Google has added a new link to “Quick View” PDF documents in your browser itself with the formatting intact on the Google search results page. The new links are based on the same technology that’s available in Google Docs and Gmail. Google had rolled this technology out to the search results page since July, and [...]
Youtube is now testing a new type of video player
Currently, YouTube is testing a new feature that allows you to find details about a video. In addition to the original resolution, bit rate and file size, the streaming speed, number of frames and some other info will be displayed. You can find all this When you right click on the video, and you would [...]
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