Google Video recently added a brand new option in their advanced search page: Video searchers can now filter videos that weren’t uploaded to video sharing sites. If the search results include many videos that have one of these formats: ASF, AVI, FLV, M4V, MPV, MP4, MPG or WMV. A user can easily exclude them by [...]

Google has recently released different interfaces optimized for iPhone, Android and WebKit-based browsers, and I must say that they look extremely well and they have more features than the standard mobile versions of the same pages. For example, Google’s homepage for Iphone shows suggestions and has customizable navigation links, iGoogle shows all your feeds and [...]

Street View, the panorama photos of Google Maps, now have an expanded US coverage. Google say they doubled the amount of US data. “This will bring Street View to some new cities, like Memphis, Birmingham, and Charleston (SC), and also to a few states for the first time, like Maine, West Virginia, North Dakota, and [...]

Have you been Youtube playlists? The option to find playlists is back at YouTube. Playlists are a great way to group related videos togather which can be later played one after another in a serial.
YouTube shows three popular videos from each playlist and it lets you restrict the results to any certain category, for example [...]

Google recently announced that Google Book Search now also includes scans from magazines such as Ebony, New York Magazine, Men’s Health, Popular Science and Popular Mechanics.
If you want to try it out, you can do this sample search, and you can view the pages of an issue of Ebony from 1973, including the now [...]

Google Analytics tracking is now available for Flash as well. “This feature is a translation of the current Google Analytics tracking code into the ActionScript 3 programming language,” the Google Analytics blog says, adding that this is a “joint collaboration” with Adobe.

Google’s Webmaster Central blog recently released a PDF titled “Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide” which includes basic tips for making sites more accessible to search engines. This 22 page document focuses on a variety of topics ranging from the creation of unique title elements to more advanced issues like navigation and redirects.
While none of Google’s [...]

According to Hindu.com, “US President-elect Barack Obama has appointed a 17-member high-level team of advisers including billionaire investor Warren Buffett and Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt to guide him in channelising the economy”. Already, Eric Schmidt had endorsed Obama, and also appeared in some of Obama’s campaign commercials.

Sometimes you may want to read certain websites that doesn’t write in English. But because of Google Translate, reading content of another language has been really easy. Now most of the google services has built in Translate support. For example – YouTube has already started to translate search results and captions, Google Talk provides translation [...]

Google (at their philantropic arm Google.org) launched the Flu Trends USA page. Google.org explains:
“We have found a close relationship between how many people search for flu-related topics and how many people actually have flu symptoms. Of course, not every person who searches for “flu” is actually sick, but a pattern emerges when all the flu-related [...]