by Admin on January 7, 2010
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Google launched Nexus One on January 5. Google will initially ship Nexus to US, UK, Singapore and Hong Kong. However, it’s expected that Google will ship the phone to other countries later this year.
People in these 4 countries can have the phone ordered by courier with around $30 shipping charges. Note that Nexus One is a GSM phone, and so, obviously in the US, it won’t support Verizon Wireless’ CDMA service nor AT & T’s 3G network; however HTC is expected to release Verizon compatible version later this year.
Currently, an unlocked Nexus One is available for nearly $530 with added cost of a country-specific AC adapter and shipping charges. The subsidized version of the phone is available only in US under a 2-year T-Mobile contract, priced at $180 (plus some additional). Outside US, customers still have to go for a full $530 unlocked Nexus One. The wait for European customers however, ends in spring, when the subsidized Nexus One would hit Vodafone Europe.
The Nexus One uses Android open source mobile operating system.
You can check the technical specs of the phone here.
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by Admin on September 27, 2009
It’s Google’s 11th Birthday, today, 27th September. To celebrate, Google has changed the logo with double “l”
Originally the search engine used the Stanford website with the domain google.stanford.edu. The domain google.com was registered on September 15, 1997. They formally incorporated their company, Google Inc., on September 4, 1998 at a friend’s garage in Menlo Park, California.
You can check more about Google’s history here.
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by Admin on September 4, 2009
Google.com’s social networking site Orkut has a new favicon!
I don’t use Orkut much, but when I logged in today I found out that its favicon has been updated.
The new favicon is more glossy and brighter than the earlier one. So go on and check it out : 
Happy Social Networking.
-Mahesh.
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Microsoft Corp’s new Bing search engine gained U.S. market share in its first month in operation but still trails dominant rival Google Inc, according to data released on Wednesday.
Bing, launched on June 3 but available to some users a few days earlier, took 8.23 percent of U.S. Web searches in June, up from 7.81 percent for Microsoft search just prior to its rollout and 7.21 percent in April, said Internet data firm StatCounter.
Google lost share slightly, dipping to 78.48 percent from 78.72 percent before Bing. Yahoo Inc, the perennial No. 2 in the market, rose to 11.04 percent from 10.99 percent.
Bing’s share peaked in the first week of June at 9.21 percent, falling away in the middle two weeks before coming back at 8.45 percent in the last week of June.
The results may give heart to Microsoft, which is investing heavily in its loss-making online services business and is refusing to cede the market to Google.
“At first sight, a 1 percent increase in market share does not appear to be a huge return on the investment Microsoft has made in Bing but the underlying trend appears positive,” StatCounter Chief Executive Adohan Cullen said in a statement.
The world’s largest software company may yet strike an online search partnership with Yahoo to make itself a credible competitor, but talk of such a deal has quietened down.
StatCounter, based in Dublin, says its data are based on 4 billion pageloads per month monitored through a network of websites. Other data research firms such as comScore are not expected to release figures on Bing’s share until mid-July.
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Google updated Page Ranks on May 28th. Earlier my blog had page rank 1. And now it’s been updated to 3. :p
Cool! I’m happy about that as I worked hard on Link Building.
You can check if your site’s Page Rank has updated here!
Check out my posts on improving Page Rank and building backlinks:
Comment below to let us know whether you also benefited from Google’s Page Rank Update!
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Google is about to add more features to its already dominant Internet search engine — and some of the changes could give Web surfers less reason to click through to other sites. That scenario might upset the creators of the material highlighted in Google’s results.
For instance, one of Google’s new tools will assemble the work of other Web sites into a spreadsheet-style format.
Unlike Google’s traditional search results, the spreadsheet experiment, called “Google Squared,” doesn’t simply show a set of Web links related to a search request. Instead, it fishes through Google’s massive database to organize pertinent facts and other content in rows and columns.
In a Tuesday demonstration that was webcast, Google showed how a search request made about small dogs through the Squared tool will display pictures next to extensive descriptions about different breeds, on Google’s own site. The content was imported from other Internet destinations.
The Squared results show where the information originated, so people can still quickly go to the original source, said Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of search products. She emphasized Google is trying to keep its millions of users happy by helping them make more “informed clicks.”
Google already is under attack by newspaper publishers who contend the company unfairly profits by showing headlines and story snippets pulled from their sites. Mountain View, Calif.-based Google maintains that its practices adhere to copyright laws and that it provides ways for newspapers to block their content from being indexed by its search engine.
Other revisions coming to Google will include more details, or “snippets,” posted under Web links in the search results. And there will be new options that will enable users to confine the results to a specific time period or category, such as product reviews.
The changes are expected to roll out in phases during the next few weeks.
Although Google sells ads all over the Web, the company rakes in its largest profits when people click on the marketing messages that appear alongside its search results. That is one reason Google is still trying to widen its lead in Internet search, even though it already processes nearly two-thirds of all U.S. queries, according to comScore Inc.
Even as it has laid off workers, cut back perquisites and closed unpopular services to help boost its profits during the recession, Google has vowed to keep investing in research and development.
“We are always striving for the ideal or perfect search engine,” Mayer said. She believes Google is about 90 percent toward its objective, but expects the final 10 percent to be the most difficult.
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Google Disables Uploads, Comments on YouTube Korea
by Admin on April 13, 2009
Google has disabled user uploads and comments on the Korean version of its YouTube video portal in reaction to a new law that requires the real name of a contributor be listed along each contribution they make.
The rules, part of a Cyber Defamation Law, came into effect on April 1 for all sites with over 100,000 unique visitors per day. It requires that users provide their real name and national ID card number.
In response to the requirements Google has stopped users from uploading via its Korean portal rather than start a new registration system.
“We have a bias in favor of freedom of expression and are committed to openness,” said Lucinda Barlow, a spokeswoman for YouTube in Asia. “It’s very important that if users want to be anonymous that they have that chance.”
But while the move obeys the letter of the law it skirts around the spirit of it by allowing users based in South Korea to continue uploading and commenting on YouTube by switching their preference setting to a country other than Korea.
YouTube noted this work-around on its Korean Web site and any videos and comments contributed this way will still be seen by Internet users in the country.
The decision was taken after close consultation and debate between Google Korea and its headquarters, Barlow said.
The new law was rushed into force after the suicide of a popular actress in October focused attention on the problem of online bullying in the highly-connected country.
Choi Jin Sil was apparently driven to suicide after a series of online rumors had her pressuring a fellow actor to repay a loan she had made to him. The actor, Ahn Jae Hwan, had killed himself a month earlier.
The suicide was the latest in a string of so-called cyber-bullying incidents in the country and helped generate support for the stricter law.
The first high-profile case occurred in 2005 and involved a woman who quickly became known as “dog poop girl.” After her dog defecated on the Seoul subway and she failed to clean it up, a fellow traveller posted a picture of her online with an account of the incident. The story spread fast and within days a campaign had identified her, where she lived, and the university she attended. In the end, she reportedly dropped out of school and fled her home because of the controversy.
Already many major Korean portals and Web sites require users to provide their national ID card number when registering accounts but Google, which has a much smaller profile in South Korea than it enjoys in the west, does not ask for this information so the law would have also required it to build a new verification system.
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