Posted by Nirajan on May 7, 2010 ·
Google rolled out a new search interface Thursday, which its office described as “intelligent,” as part of its efforts to optimize the relevance of online queries. After more than 6 months of testing, Google’s new interface is finally available to everyone. The new UI is gradually rolled out today and the changes are noticeable. Google’s logo has vibrant colors, the search [...]
Posted by Nirajan on February 15, 2010 ·
Google recently released Buzz, the company’s foray into the social networking world of microblogging. The service competes with other social sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Upon release, Buzz has been getting some criticism over its default privacy settings. Google launched Buzz last Tuesday to the public after its announcement. The new service piggybacks off Gmail automatically so users do not [...]
Posted by Nirajan on January 31, 2010 ·
The war against IE6 continues. Effective March 1, 2010, Google will begin phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 in Google Docs and Google Sites. Google has just announced the news that it’s joining the long list of companies that will no longer support IE6. Once Google begins phasing out support for the archaic browser, Google Docs and Google Sites will be the first to go, but we should expect [...]
Posted by Nirajan on January 28, 2010 ·
First a disclaimer: Apple’s new iPad didn’t meet expectations, either mine, or the folks who I’ve been talking with on Twitter. If my friends who work with or for Apple and in the press hadn’t built it up as mind blowing it wouldn’t have been disappointing, but this was a case where expectations got too big and what showed up didn’t meet them. Come on, no radically new way to interact? [...]
Posted by Nirajan on January 14, 2010 ·
In the immediate aftermath of a 7.0 earthquake that caused an unbelievable amount of destruction to Haiti’s capital, Google has been asked by relief organizations and users to show images of what’s actually happening on the ground. In partnership with geospatial imagery company GeoEye , Google has just released a new layer for Google Earth showing post-earthquake devastationIn the [...]
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TechPosted by Nirajan on January 13, 2010 ·
What Is TweetRL? TweetRl, is a 100% revenue sharing social Media website that will automatically send your links to twitter and stumbleupon and that will be reviewed by all and will be relocated in twitter, based on Number of tweet, to the main page. When a user submits a news article it will be relocated in stumbleupon and twitter of that user and be placed in the upcoming area until it gains sufficient [...]
Posted by Nirajan on January 13, 2010 ·
Google’s been taking bad press about Chinese search result filtering for years, and now it looks like the company simply fed up: it’s going to stop filtering Google.cn and it may pull of out the country entirely. The move comes on the heels of coordinated attacks on Gmail, which Google says were aimed at accessing the accounts of prominent human rights activists — and Google also [...]