Google is doing all that it can to sell its Android. With very less takers in the mobile market, it surely needs some apps that are impressive to beat its giant competitors like Symbian and Windows Mobile. The recent Google Earth for Android 2.1 on Nexus One is just what Google wanted.
The new Nexus One is a power packed beauty with 1GHz processor, Android 2.1 and advanced 3D graphics card. The Nexus is also thin and user friendly comparing other android mobile models.
Google claims that its Google Earth for Android is the fastest mobile version of Google Earth with an 800 x 480 screen. Google Earth for Android would contain road layers, road labels on top of satellite imagery very much like the desktop version of Google Earth.
Voice Recognition
Google have also integrated the Android voice recognition feature into Google Earth so you can get the location of a prominent place by just speaking to the mobile. Isn’t that a cool feature? But is it as simple as it sounds? One has to check it out first hand to comment on this.
Other common features on Google Earth are browsing photos, places and local businesses. Clicking on an icon can let you see videos, photos and info about places around the world.
Google Earth will also be available to all other devices using Android 2.1 or later.
This is considered as one of the largest sophisticated cyber attacks ever. Over 75,000 computers in 2,500 companies all around the world has been attacked. It is believed that the attack was started as early as 2008.
The hack targeted credit-card transaction details, emails, corporate data and information in companies who are into health care and information technology industry. Even computer networks at Google were not spared in this attack. Companies in 196 countries were hacked during the last 1 year. The criminal groups involved in this attack are now targeting countries like China and Russia. Read the full story
Many Gmail users were concerned to see the “Auto Follow” feature on its new Google Buzz. Well, how did Google ever think or have the guts to think that all Gmail users will want to reveal who they follow and their list of followers to the world?
With a huge number of Gmail users getting annoyed out of this bold authoritative decision over the common man, Google will now be removing the auto follow option. Well, Google did not give a straight apology but wanted to also backup their thoughts to it. Todd Jackson, Product Manger of Google Buzz states, “With Google Buzz, we wanted to make the getting started experience as quick and easy as possible, so that you wouldn’t have to manually peck out your social network from scratch.”
Todd also added, “Many people just wanted to check out Buzz and see if it would be useful to them, and were not happy that they were already set up to follow people. This created a great deal of concern and led people to think that Buzz had automatically displayed the people they were following to the world before they created a profile.”
The latest update from Google states that it will make “auto-follow” feature into “auto-suggest”. Guess that looks and sounds more safer.
Looks like Google is not satisfied with all its kills. Yes, it does get hungry often. With Google Buzz, it’s all against Facebook now.
With the recent Google Buzz, now Google allows you to automatically follow people you email or chat with. You can also share your ideas to the internet world or share only with your closest friends. Buzz also allows you to keep your comments in your inbox so you can keep the conversation going.
Google Buzz also allows you to import your profiles, photos, friends and network from other Google sites like Twitter, Flickr, Google Reader and Picasa.
With so much to offer and Gmail as a huge advantage, Google is all set to take on Facebook headon. Facebook on the other hand is still struggling on finding a clear business model. With its many recent updates claiming better features and user friendliness, the user experience has just gone from bad to worse. None better! But then on the other hand, not all products of Google have clicked. Anyone uses Google Wave or Orkut still? Well, most would have not even heard of Google Wave.
Many Facebook addicts are seriously concerned about Google Buzz. Google as you know is a money making machine and can make money out of any object that it steps on; even without the objects notice. Facebook users are posting messages asking Facebook to take some immediate steps:
Stop any synchronization with Google or its products
Do not allow Google to post any updates or info on any Facebook channel
Do not allow Google to crawl Facebook or gather any info on Facebook to publish on Google’s channels
Start a free web mail service like Google for Facebook users.
And many more..
Google’s Buzz has become a thing of hatred to Facebook lovers more than for Facebook itself. On the other hand, Google Buzz does not seem to be that much interesting to Gmail users. Just a interesting icon on their left hand gmail menu. Lets wait to see how much interesting this Google Buzz is to the social media world.
With all the Google buzz in promoting the “Page Speed” Firefox plugin to enhance speed of websites and also its campaign to have a faster internet and faster websites, one would wonder if Google’s next target to optimize its search results would be page speed.
Though page speed does have certain value while ranking pages, most search engine optimizers would not accept it to be one of the top factors. This is just because, Google and webmasters know that most of the sites on internet is either not well optimized to be faster or has huge applications running that will definitely make it slower. Also, a site speed does not depend solely on programming factors. It can depend on the media each page caries, graphics, server speed, traffic at the point of time and many more.
However, Matt Cutts has now clarified on this misconception. To a question if Google would consider Page Speed as much as relevancy by WebProNews, Matt Cutts answer was, relevancy by WebProNews, Matt Cutts answer was, “No. Relevancy is the most important. If you have two sites that are equally relevant (same backlinks…everything else is the same), you’d probably prefer the one that’s a little bit faster, so page speed can be an interesting theory to try out for a factor in scoring different websites. But absolutely, relevance is the primary component, and we have over 200 signals in our scoring to try to return the most relevant, the most useful, the most accurate search result that we can find. That’s not going to change.”
Matt Cutts also added, “If you can speed your site up, it’s really good for users, as well as potentially down the road, being good for search engines,” he says. “So it’s something that people within Google have thought about.”
This may not be good news to newspaper publishing companies if we are to believe the recent report from Outsell. Outsell recently conducted its third annual News Users research which brought to light steep decline in newspaper circulation as readers are becoming increasingly tech savvy and now wish to read news online.
Outsell forecasted that there was a 3.5 percent annual decline in both daily and Sunday circulation. This lead to a huge decrease of newspaper readers and only 43 million would read Sunday newspaper by 2012, compared to more than 62 million in the early 1990s.
The research also unveiled the serious effect news aggregators like Google and Yahoo had on online and print industry. Around 31% of visitors prefer an aggregator while only 8% prefer a newspaper site and 18% prefer other websites.
Outsell analyst Ken Doctor mentions, “Among the aggregators, Google’s effect on the newspaper industry is particularly striking,. He also mentioned that, “Though Google is driving some traffic to newspapers; it’s also taking a significant share away. A full 44 percent of visitors to Google News scan headlines without accessing newspapers’ individual sites.”
This survey was conducted on 2,787 U.S. news customers about their various online and offline preferences. Google with its strategy of earning through another mans hard work may not last longer if all the news industry join hands and come up with stringent guidelines.
According to comScore, global search market increased by 46% in the last year alone with U.S. remaining the largest search market worldwide.
There were more than 131 billion searches done from different places and by different age ranges. This would mean 4 billion searches per day, 175 million per hour and 29 million per minute. Google sites still rule and dominate the market and had a 58% increase in searches followed distantly by Yahoo! with 13% growth. Read the full story
Google has now released its stable version of Google Chrome with the much awaited features: extensions and bookmarking. There are a whole lot of extensions added to the extension gallery. Google, with this release has made sure that some of the most adequate and top requested features are added up to this browser.
Bookmark Sync on Google Chrome is different than the regular bookmark feature we find on IE or Firefox.. Google Chrome bookmark sync helps you synchronize all your bookmarks on all of your computers so that when you create a Chrome bookmark on one computer, it’s automatically added across all the computers you sign in and browse. This helps you from manually recreate the bookmark on each system each time you switch computers.
There are over 1500 extensions lined up in the gallery most of them being contributed by developers all over the world. Some of the most popular include ebay and digg extensions and info plugins for time.com and NPR.
Most of you should be aware of what an sitemap index file does. It just lists out the list of all the sitemaps for a particular website. This sitemap index file had a Google limit of 1000 links. Anyone who exceeds this index limit would get a warning in your Google Webmaster account that, “The list of Sitemaps in your Sitemap index exceeds the maximum allowed. A Sitemap index can contain no more than 50,000 Sitemaps. Split your Sitemap index into multiple Sitemap index files and ensure that each contains no more than 50,000 Sitemaps. Then, resubmit your Sitemap index files individually.”
It now appears that Google has increased this limit of 1,000 sitemap files to 50,000 sitemap files. This is a substantial increase in Google’s indexing capacity. Now, webmasters would be able to submit 2.5 billion URLs to Google to crawl. Isn’t that amazing?
Most of you should be aware of what an sitemap index file does. It just lists out the list of all the sitemaps for a particular website. This sitemap index file had a Google limit of 1000 links. Anyone who exceeds this index limit would get a warning in your Google Webmaster account that, “The list of Sitemaps in your Sitemap index exceeds the maximum allowed. A Sitemap index can contain no more than 50,000 Sitemaps. Split your Sitemap index into multiple Sitemap index files and ensure that each contains no more than 50,000 Sitemaps. Then, resubmit your Sitemap index files individually.”
It now appears that Google has increased this limit of 1,000 sitemap files to 50,000 sitemap files. This is a substantial increase in Google’s indexing capacity. Now, webmasters would be able to submit 2.5 billion URLs to Google to crawl. Isn’t that amazing?
Google is doing all that it can to sell its Android. With very less takers in the mobile market, it surely needs some apps that are impressive to beat its giant competitors like Symbian and Windows Mobile. The recent Google Earth for Android 2.1 on Nexus One is just what Google wanted.
