Google Launches Google Dashboard
November 7, 2009
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Google have released Google Dashboard in an effort to help users get a overall view of all the notifications/updates from all the different Google products such as Gmail, YouTube, WebHistory plus more.
SEARCH ENGINE Google has announced a new Dashboard service that shows you all the information about yourself on your Google account.
It’s fully customizable and is actually pretty useful.
According to Google official blog:
“In an effort to provide you with greater transparency and control over their own data, we’ve built the Google Dashboard. Designed to be simple and useful, the Dashboard summarizes data for each product that you use (when signed in to your account) and provides you direct links to control your personal settings. Today, the Dashboard covers more than 20 products and services, including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Web History, Orkut, YouTube, Picasa, Talk, Reader, Alerts, Latitude and many more.”
Watch Google Dashboard Video
Personally, I don’t think search engine are so useful anymore. Nowadays we have Twitter as most of Internet users are concerned with breaking news and everyone is using the micro-blogging service to tell the world what has happened. I’m not saying that Google is not useful anymore, all I’m saying is that the search engine was more useful a couple of years ago. However, we need both of them. How about searching something and seeing the search results of both Google and Twitter? Well, here is Twoogle.
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Google Offers Optimized Search for Mobile Phones
July 4, 2009
One of our top goals on the mobile search team is to bring you the comprehensiveness of Google’s web search while optimizing the search experience for your mobile device and in your language. Here is an update on our progress.
After launching new optimized search results pages last December for iPhone and Android-powered devices in the US, our team has been working hard to bring universal search results to more devices in more countries. In March, we expanded the availability of the new iPhone and Android format to over 20 countries. Since then, we’ve also launched the new experience for feature phones in the US and in Japan. Today, we’re happy to announce that the new format is available on all device models in over 60 countries and 38 languages.
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This summer’s smartphone smackdown started up in earnest Saturday with the launch of the Palm Pre. The new handset managed to gather lines — just not iPhone-caliber lines. Apple didn’t let Palm have too much fun; it wasted no time showing off the next version of the iPhone, the 3GS. The real loser, though, might be AT&T, which admitted it won’t support some new iPhone features for weeks.
Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) doesn’t want you to use Bing to search the Web, and it would much rather see you using Gmail and Google Docs than Hotmail and MS Word. But if you want to use Google’s Chrome browser, you have to run Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) 
Windows operating system. Does the irony just kill you? Don’t worry — it’s all temporary. Google has released versions of Chrome for the Mac and Linux platforms.
Don’t get too excited, though; from a general-user point of view, both versions suck. They crash, they behave unpredictably, and they don’t even support Google’s own YouTube videos. And that’s not me being a critic — that’s Google’s own people talking. These are more like public alpha releases; anyone can have them, but they’re really meant for developers.
Once they’re more fully baked, though, it looks like Google will open doors to a growing legion of Mac users. Linux users will be able to get into it too, but the Linux side of this development might be most valuable to Google in terms of the netbook possibilities it opens. Netbook manufacturers are starting to warm up to the idea of installing the Android operating system — rather than Windows — onto small notebooks. And a Google-backed browser would probably mesh really well with a Google-backed OS.
Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009
June 13, 2009
Check out the developer preview at Google I/O
Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year. Watch the demo video below, sign up for updates and learn more about how to develop with Google Wave.
Learn
Google Wave can make you more productive even when you’re having fun.
Take a sneak peek.
Develop
Learn how to put waves in your site and build wave extensions with the Google Wave APIs.
Visit code.google.com/apis/wave.
Build
Google Wave uses an open protocol, so anyone can build their own wave system.
Learn more at www.waveprotocol.org.
Google has launched Alpha version of Chrome for Linux and Mac operating systems. As Chrome is popular internet web browser in Windows users because of its fast rendering speed, so Mac and Linux users are also expecting the same product.
The launched Alpha version of Chrome is for developers and according to the Google’s spokesman it is unstable, if a normal user is ready to handle crashes and other problems then they can also download it as a test application, but product will evolve with the time. This Alpha has has some bugs, and isn’t capable to support plug-ins, Flash, print option, and even for some web pages and requires some fixing.
We hope after this first footstep company goes for Beta release but still its a good news for Linux and Mac users that their long awaiting browser is just coming near to release process.
