Posts Tagged ‘Google’
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.
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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.
Google is not only getting the position of an internet giant and getting the profit from its fantastic applications but it is also giving some very good benefits to its employees and some others.
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After the release of Nexus one it has been seen that few of the Google officials were provided by this new ultimately strong and powerful mobile phone but the benefits of Google didn’t ended here it had been that the company is offering its benefits to almost 600 schools and each has been provided 5 laptops from Google. The selection of schools was made among the 1000 top-rated high schools of the country.
This is thus a very bold step by Google to spread the message of technological advancements for the high school students, the official letter provided for those schools says that “In what has been a tumultuous year, you and other members of the academic community have distinguished yourselves through your passion, your compassion, and your desire to change the world.
Nexus One
One of most rumored Smartphone of the world ‘the Google Nexus one’ has now been released a week ago and the whole world has seen the true glimpse of this power technical giant now everyone is looking forward towards the launch of this Smartphone and according to the developers the UK market will be the first one for the testing of this Smartphone and the other markets will get this phone later in 2010.
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Now the latest about this news showed up by Vodafone who have said that the Google Nexus one is expected to come in few short weeks, the exact wording of Vodafone representative were “the Nexus One phone was landing first in the UK in just a ‘few short weeks.’ Fellow European countries such as France and Germany would then get their hands on the Nexus One later in the year”.
