Google News Updates

A Dell engineer has released a tweaked version of Google's prototype Chrome operating system that runs on the company's Mini 10v netbook. Announced previous this month, Google Chrome OS is a web-centric operating system that's likely to be made available on mini laptops towards the end of 2010. However, Google has previously released the code to the open source community to support developers to write applications for the platform.

Dell engineer 'Dell-Doug A' revealed his preliminary conclusions about Chrome OS on the Direct2Dell blog and has made a report of the software available as a USB key image file. It's intended to work on the Dell Mini 10v, although the Dell engineer admits "it's not perfect."

"It will take more than 5-10 minutes for the network association manager to 'see' the access points and allow you to select and connect - be patient. Use this image at your own risk - it comes to you completely unsupported and very minimally tested," he warns.

However, Dell-Doug A praised Google's netbook operating system: "The browser is exceptionally fast and makes for a great web-centric browsing experience. Boot time appears quick too - about 12 seconds from striking the power button."

As we all know, a beta of Google Chrome for Mac is supposed to be released in December. But it is now confirmed that it may be even closer than that. We do know that the beta is still on track, as Mike Pinkerton, the Technical Lead of the Google Chrome for Mac team, sent out the following tweet:

Google seems to be getting on the nerves of GPS manufacturers with their latest novelty. Recently in news, Google launched their GPS product as part of the Motorola Droid handset which is now being sold by Verizon Wireless. For now just in USA, but what if they happen to commence it globally to take on all the global GPS players? That would change the entire market for them, wouldn’t it?

For present the enhancement to the Android mobile operating system will include a full GPS navigation solution. Every single GPS device manufacturer will be disappointed with Google for this disturbance. Year 2009 has already been a pleasing year for the Google operating system product, with tons of introductions just in the last few months which WATBlog has nearly covered.

On top of that, the Droid has a 5 mega-pixel camera, and access to the Android Market with over 15,000 apps presently. Overall, the Droid is a pleasant, powerful phone and is very customizable.

By the way, the Droid also offers a full QWERTY keyboard. I've also found an fascinating app that lets you control your laptop mouse by using the touch screen on the Droid itself!

If you're surfing for more information, you can head over to DroidDoes.com.

Rumours of a new Google design boasting a revamped logo and three-pane search page have proved to be factual.The new design features a striking logo with less shadowing, bright blue buttons, and most notably, an enduring pane on the left containing the search options menu.

The search options which currently have to be toggled on physically make use of colourful icons alongside tabbed categories such as news, images, blogs and video.


Also new to the layout is a "see also" section signifying related search terms, and the lower half of the sidebar displaying filters tailored to the sort of content selected.

"Like the Google Wave-inspired interface for Gmail, the latest user interface is cleaner and bolder than the present version, offering more options to the user ... it's excellent to see some changes after several years of same all same all."

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Hit return, and if required refresh the page. You should then see the new homepage. (You may have to click 'Google Home' or 'Go to Google.com' if you get a search error.) You can also sign back in while still using the new search page.

The digitally changed image had appeared as the top search result when the words “Michelle Obama” were put into the Google Images search engine, and was posted on a blog hosted by the Google-owned blog service, Blogger.

Yesterday, the blog’s owner detached the image and displayed an apology in Chinese with a very loose English translation.Google had refused to remove the picture from its picture search listings, despite complaints that it was racist, instead opting to run an ad next to it explaining its strategy on how search engine results work. In a statement in the advert, the company said its results “can contain disturbing content, even from inoffensive queries”.

“We apologize if you’ve had a hurtful experience using Google,” it said. “Google views the honesty of our search results as an exceptionally important priority. Accordingly, we do not remove a page from our search results simply because its content is unpopular or because we receive complaints concerning it.”

Offensive Image Of Michelle Obama

A spokesman for Google said the blog and picture might still appear in Google Images searches, but it was coming out of the search engine’s indexing system. Google warned the image could easily reappear in its listings if another blog posted it. It is not the initial time Google has published explanation ads against search queries. In 2004, when the word “Jew” returned anti-Semitic results, Google responded the same way.

"None of this is being used to truly target an individual," explains Google spokesperson Eric Obenzinger. "It's more about delivering more precise reporting back to advertisers so they can inform their future budgeting decisions."

"When we say that this is all anonymous data, we mean that it is exactly anonymous in the strictest definition of the term," says Todd Juenger, vice president & general manager of TiVo Audience Research & Measurement. "We don't gather anything about where it came from."

What TiVo does collect is a log of what commercials you watched and what commercials you skipped. It's like a sophisticated ratings system, taking TiVo's DVR functionality into account.

"We know that some set-top box out there pressed play on a certain system at a certain time then we know they hit fast-forward, hit pause, and hit play," Juenger says. "You do that across a million and a half set-top boxes, and you get a combined picture of what percentages of people were watching a certain commercial at a given time."

Work By Google An Example

Google's history of Ad Acquisitions

The Teracent acquisition comes just two weeks after Google announced it was AdMob. AdMob focuses primarily on display ads and mobile application ads. Previous to AdMob, Google's ad-related acquisitions had revolved around the Web and even the airwaves.

DoubleClick :

Bought for $3.1 billion in 2007, DoubleClick delivered a enormous network of advertisers into Google's already-strong advertising system. You can thank DoubleClick for all the Google-run display and rich-media ads about the Net.

AdScape :

In-game advertising firm AdScape entered the Google domain in March of 2007, drawing speculation of immense Google-led virtual worlds on the way.

dMarc :

Broadcasting: Even further down on the list of not-quite-so-victorious ad attempts is dMarc Broadcasting, bought by Google in January of 2006. The company was meant to assist Google get into radio advertising, and it did for a short while.

Applied Semantics :

Google grabbed Applied Semantics in 2003, marking the beginning of the AdSense agenda and Google's status as a serious advertising player. We know that all those little text ads that pop up on Google searches and on countless other Web sites? You can thank Applied Semantics for getting that ball rolling and providing the base for the various Google ads we see today.

The Next Steps in Google Acquisitions

So the next Google's acquisition Possibly may be Microsoft or Digg. In reality, though, the one safe calculation to make is that we'll see bounty more Google purchases soon, and odds are, it won't be long before one of them brings another new twist to the company's immense ad network.

Microsoft has also talked with other online publishers regarding removing their sites from Google, according to the Financial Times, which initially reported the development.

Google and other Web portals say they are within their legal rights to post scraps of news stories, which help point traffic to news sites.

Gabriel Stricker, a Google spokesman, said Google has a "clear policy of respecting the wish of content owners" by allowing them to avoid their material from showing up in Google search results, though he declined to mention directly on the talks between Microsoft and News Corp.

"We believe search engines are of genuine benefit to newspapers, driving precious traffic to their Web sites and connecting them with new readers around the world," Mr. Stricker said.

Microsoft and Yahoo Inc. in July announced a search-engine partnership that is meant to offer a superior competitor to Google in the search market. Under the agreement, Yahoo would set Microsoft’s new Bing search engine on its Web sites and split the associated advertising revenue.

The talks between the parties have built-in a possible plan to "delist" News Corp. stories from Google's immense search index, which means they wouldn't appear in search results on Google's site. Any Web site can stop Google from indexing their site by including special commands in their Web pages.

Way more motivating are the rumors we’ve been hearing for months about a pure Google-branded phone. Most of our sources have unofficial information, which we explain below. But there are a few things we have completely confirmed: Google is building their individual branded phone that they’ll sell directly and through retailers. They were long scheduling to have the phone to be available by the holidays, but it has now passed to early 2010. The phone will be produced by a major phone company but will only have Google branding.

There won’t be any compromise over the phone’s design of features – Google is dictating every last piece of it. No splintering of the Android OS that makes some applications ineffectual. Like the iPhone for Apple, this phone will be Google’s clean vision of what a phone should be.

HTC T-Mobile myTouch 3G

We have news that HTC, a Taiwanese company, is building the new Google phone, but we think that information is incorrect. We have some reasonably good information that suggests Google is working with a Korean phone manufacturer on the Google phone – LG or Samsung. Samsung has numerous parts in the iPhone and could be pressured by Apple not to work with Google, which suggests LG is the most likely partner for Google. So rumors like this one may be much more significant than they first appear. But either way, the greatest information we have right now points directly at Korea as the birthplace of the Google Phone.

We’ve also heard from a good source that Google is scheduling a big advertising push around the device early next year – like January.

While the technology can include captions only on English-language speech, Google is giving users the choice of using its automatic translation system to understand the captions in 51 languages. That could widen the appeal of YouTube videos to millions of other people who do not speak English but could use the captioning technology to read subtitles in their native language.

The speech identification technology that Google uses to turn speech into text is not new; Google presently uses it to transcribe voice mail messages for users of its Google Voice service. But Ken Harrenstien, a deaf engineer who helped develop the automatic captioning system, said the technology had never been practical on such a large scale.

YouTube already has numerous hundred thousand videos that have closed captions, which normally come from broadcast networks that include them in their programs. Some other online video sites like Hulu and AOL also have some professionally produced videos with closed captioning.

But Mr. Harrenstien said an immense majority of clips on YouTube did not have captions and the new Google technology would create them automatically. YouTube is primarily applying the captioning technology only to a few channels, most of them specializing in educational content. They comprise channels from universities like Stanford, Yale, Duke, Columbia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PBS and National Geographic, and Google itself — its corporate videos will be captioned. The company plans to steadily expand the number of channels that work with the automatic captioning technology.

Google also introduced a associated service to give anyone who uploads a video to YouTube the option of uploading as well a text file of the words spoken in the video. Google will change the text file into captions, automatically matching the spoken words with the files.

The technology, which Google calls “auto-timing,” will make it simple for anyone to add captions to their videos. It will be accessible to YouTube users worldwide, and Google said it would be mainly useful for videographers who shoot from a script, since they already have a file of the text spoken in the video.

In addition to serving people who are deaf or do not speak English, the captions will make it easier for anyone to search text inside videos and find specific snippets within a video.

Google announced the innovative features on Thursday at an event in Washington. The company said they would be accessible by the end of the week.

Google is on the verge of introducing a Web site to showcase its extensions to modify what its browser can do.
The company's newest developer preview edition, Chrome 4.0.249.0, promotes the feature on its opening screen and its new-tab page. "New! Google Chrome currently has extensions and bookmark sync," the page reads, offering a link to a site that's not public yet, chrome.google.com/extensions.

Extensions and support for Mac OS X and Linux are the banner features of Chrome 4.0. It's existing as a beta for Windows, with Mac OS X and Linux beta availability expected in early December. According to the Chromium development calendar, the beta is intended for December 8 release and the steady release of Chrome 4.0 is due January 12.

A number of third-party galleries for Chrome extensions already are obtainable, but programmers for the project have said on mailing lists that a Google site is planned. Previously this year, Google shipped a version of Chrome that pointed to a collection of visual themes prior to the Chrome themes gallery was actually live to the public.

Google has announced the addition of templates to its Google Sites, an application used to generate hosted Web sites and part of the Google Apps suite.

Accessible to both free and paid users, the templates include complete collaborative workspaces, employee intranets, project tracking sites, team sites, and employee profile pages. Numerous dozen templates are available, with more being added.

Personal templates are also presented, including family sites, neighborhood associations, clubs, charitable causes, weddings and other interests, said Scott Johnston, Google Sites product manager.

Each template is made up of 15 to 20 pre-populated pages, including sample content, page layouts, embedded gadget, navigation links, and themes. The templates can be customized, up to a point, using Google Sites' built-in editing tools.

The objective of the new site templates are to help Google Apps users get collaborative sites up-and-running quickly, particularly for projects and intranets that are a good match for a templated approach.

Google Sites templates will appeal to companies and users who want to get up-and-running quickly and economically, and who value ease-of-use more than an overload of enterprise features that often get in the way.

Google Sites is a straight competitor to Microsoft's SharePoint service that relatively helps users do the same things as Sites does. While there are major differences in the method SharePoint and Google Sites function. SharePoint is a Microsoft association technology that has been criticized as too cumbersome for the needs of many potential customers.

Google and Microsoft both suggest cloud-based applications, seen as a key battleground between the two. Microsoft newly lowered the prices of its online applications to better match Google's pricing for its paid Google Applications Premier Editor.

Google's Chromium group has announced an effort to restore the traditional Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) web browser language with a new protocol that supposedly boosts Internet browsing by up to 55 percent. HTTP presently is the protocol used by all web servers and browsers, hence the "http" in front of web addresses. But, as noted by Ars Technica, HTTP becomes ineffective when transferring many small files on many modern websites.

By contrast, Google's smartly named SPDY protocol can reduce and handle the individual requests through one connection that's SSL-encrypted. That allows higher-priority files to slide through immediately without becoming backed up behind large files.SPDY has revealed up to 55 percent web page loading when tested under lab conditions, and the Google team has published their source code for public feedback.

But Ars Technica raises some points of carefulness about the mandatory SSL encryption requiring more processing power from small devices and computers alike. Requiring SSL could also worsen the problem where server operators ignore SSL encryption and inadvertently encourage people to ignore warnings about unsecured websites.

Google launched a flu shot finder with the goal of helping people find where they can get their fall flu shots. At the moment they created data for shot locations in 20 states. They will be increasing their coverage to all 50 states. They are just getting started with this project, so stay tuned for improvements.

To Read more about Google's Flu shot finder , Visit:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/finding-flu-vaccine-information-in-one.html

You can find flu shots at www.google.com/flushot.

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