Posts Tagged ‘Google’
Google is expected to release video calling feature via Gmail and Google talk for Gingerbread Android 2.3.4, very soon in upcoming month. It is speculated the decision is pending until the occasion of Google I/O conference. Google I/O is an annual conference organized by Google at San Francisco, California where developers meet to discuss the development of web, mobile and enterprise applications with Google and open source technologies like Android. Therefore Google is waiting till this conference to make the final announcement.
Google Blogger
2010 was very successful year for the blogger and blog posts. The most eminent name among them is the Google; it proved itself as the leading blogging podium. As said by Alexa, it’s among the World’s prevalent website that comes at number 6. Globally up-to 4 million users comprehend round about ½ billion blog posts, which were published by the blogger clients. Above all Google was marked as the most trustworthy provider of blogging service.
2010- Year of Google Blogger (A Review)
- 7 years ago there were 250,000 active readers, now readers have exceeded up-to 400 millions.
- Google blogger is available in 50 languages.
- Over half a trillion words have been written on blogger, which are more than 5.3 million novels.
- Google introduced Template Designer, Web Fonts, Real Time Stats and Spam Filtering.
- Template Designer: “Easily customize the look of your blog without knowing any HTML or CSS” Technorati.
- Web Fonts: “This great new feature gives you the option to use stylish fonts on your blog with just a click of your mouse” Spice up your blog.
- Real Time Stats: “Just one more reason to consider it above word press for blog hosting” SocialMatica.
- Improved Spam Filtering: “This move by Google should enable users to have a completely open commenting system” ThinkDigit.
What’s New for 2011…
It is expected that 2011 is going to be more important for bloggers. Google has also updated its user interface. Apart from being up-to date and neat, new design utilizes Google Web Toolkit, which will be a landmark in web technology. In addition Google has planned to launch its new content discovery attribute that will help the reader to explore the additional content related to the topic of the blog. Isn’t it great? Yes, because now readers will be able to enhance their knowledge with click on click.
This just a snapshot, Google has planned to reveal other exiting new features in 2011.
Search Engine Wars
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Yahoo and Microsoft have being the rivals of each other for the couple of years and there were no signs on the international levels which can give this signal of both the company’s collaboration but some behind the scene mishaps have lead the old rivals to get together with each other and compete against the internet giant Google which has a very strong reputation of blowing away its competitors in the search engine’s war.
Application Store
It has been reported on the Wall Street Journal that Google is planning to bring a new application store for the businesses in which it will sell the third party business software to Google application customers.
According to the report the Google Store could arrive as early as March, it has been seen that one such kind of stores has been running from the Google’s side and it is named as ‘Google Solutions Marketplace’ and it contains lists and reviews of third party software for the Google Applications and enterprise search but the main limitation of the application was that users were unable to buy those software directly from there and now with the new store Google has provided the facility to buy the enlisted software for the applications as well.
Social Search
On the web 2.0 summit the whole world have seen a very exciting new product announced by Google’s Vice-President of Search Marissa Mayer and this is the new social search product of Google Labs which is called the Social Search which allows the users to link their Google profile with various profiles which they have on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
Photo by Doctor Brand
This new feature is designed to help you to discover and search the content that is produced by those from your social circle, but it is necessary that everybody in the social circle buys that program.
The types of contents which you might discover from the members of your social circle are: websites, blogs, and other information related to their Google profiles, the status updates like tweets can also be searched and the images posted publically from your social circles can be previewed.
