Archive for December, 2008

Google Friend Connect: Available to Public
Friday, December 12th, 2008

Google Friend Connect, is a brand new service by Google that easily lets you add social features in your website without writing a single line of code. This service is now available to everyone and you can implement it in your site right away. Users don’t need to setup a special account for a new [...]

Google Ads on Parked Domain: Advertisement on Parked Domain
Friday, December 12th, 2008

Google recently announced that they are releasing the Adsense for Domains to public. Google’s Adsense for domains program helps finance people who park domains for cash.
This service is sometimes connected to the more spammy and useless neighborhoods of the web. “AdSense for domains is scalable and easily implemented so that your network of sites [...]

Gmail Gadget: Google Desktop
Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Google Desktop’s integration with Google’s Email service – Gmail has always been very slow and unreliable: Google Desktop could fetch and index the messages from your Gmail account, but it took days if not months to get everything in shape. The new Gmail gadget however doesnt download your messages to the index, but it’s a [...]

Download Google Chrome: Chrome Moves out of Beta
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Google Chrome Help Announcement blog recently announced that they are taking off Google Chrome’s Beta Label after the fifteenth release (which took care of lot of bugs & incompatibilities).
Frankly I could find much differences between the first release of Google Chrome and the version that is being released today: besides some minor bug fixes [...]

Gmail Tasks: Keep track of your Tasks
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

One of the most wanted Google features is adding a simple task management to Gmail or Google Calendar. This feature is now available as part of Gmail Labs and I predict that this will be the most popular experimental feature.

Once a user enables tasks, he can easily access this feature in two ways:simply click on [...]

Gmail SMS: Send Free SMS to United States
Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Google now allows all user og Gmail to send Short Message (SMS) for free to any United States Mobile Phone. You’ll find this option inside Gmail Labs, where it’s called “Text Messaging (SMS) in Chat”.
Once you enable this cool new feature, mouse over a contact from Gmail chat box, click on “Video & more” and [...]

Gmail Themes: is Available
Saturday, December 6th, 2008

Right after Google worked on making themes for Google’s personalized homepage, Gmail added themes. Once this brand new feature is enabled in your account (currently its being slowly rolled out in all accounts), you’ll find a tab named “Themes” in your Gmail settings page and you’ll be able to select a theme from a choice [...]

Google Product Search: Provides Tax and Shipping Information
Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Google Product Search which has been formerly known as Froogle added a brand new option to restrict the results to sellers that offer free shipping. So that means when a shopper enters his location, the service can automatically calculate the tax and shipping charges for any particular product.

Google Base blog recently wrote that sellers can [...]

Live Image Search: Now shows Similar Images
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Microsoft’s image search engine has recently added a cool new feature that can do comprehensive image analysis. For every image that appears in the search results, users can now find similar images without having to refine the search query.
Live Search Blog Explains, “With Live Search, you can now use images, rather than additional keyword [...]

Google Blog Search Ignores Feeds: Indexes Full page
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Vanessa Fox recently reported that Google’s blog search no longer indexes the feeds of the blog posts.
Until now, the blog search was designed in a way to indexed feeds, thus making the results not great for sites that offered partial feeds. Now Google Blog Search has started to provide more comprehensive search by indexing [...]