Google Launches Realtime Search
Google has released Realtime search which allows a user to see up-to-the-second social updates, news articles and blog posts about hot topics around the world. Google search in giving up to date update to conversations much better than Twitter’s own search. The other cool feature is the geographic filtering of status updates. Watch the video for more features.
Check it out at: http://www.google.com/realtime
Make Free Calls From GMail Via Google Voice
Google has begun rolling out Internet phone service built into the interface of its Gmail service letting you make free video and voice calls within the US and Canada for the rest of this year. Call prices for other countries start at $0.02 per minute.
More information about this can be found on the Google blog post:
We’re rolling out this feature to U.S. based Gmail users over the next few days, so you’ll be ready to get started once “Call Phones” shows up in your chat list (you will need to install the voice and video plug-in if you haven’t already). If you’re using Google Apps for your school or business, then you won’t see it quite yet. We’re working on making this available more broadly -- so stay tuned!
Google New Search Feature Deliver Results As You Type
Google is testing a new kind of search capability that delivers the results instantly as you type the letters. Google has confirmed to TechCrunch that the video is not a fake. No news when this feature will be released.
Google Chrome 6 Beta Is Faster And Has Auto Fill
Google has released latest beta of its Chrome Web browser 6 by simplifying its features, autofill, faster page-load speed, and packing it tight with many useful add-ons to enhance your browsing experience.
The new features are: Autofill and it works like other browsers, syncing themes and preferences, streamline toolbar, web timing, and more.
Source: Syncing, simplifying, and speeding up with Chrome’s new beta
Oracle To Sue Google For Patent Infringement
Oracle, alleging that Google’s OS borrows from its Java technology, which Oracle acquired when it purchased Sun Microsystems this year. Oracle alleges that Google is still infringing on its patents even though Google has built Android using Java applications and frameworks that side-step Oracle’s intellectual property.
Isn’t Java supposed to be free and open source?
Google Images Search Gets A Facelift
Google has redesigned the interface to Google Images search page. Now it features an infinite scroll interface that can show up to 1,000 images on a single page. You have seen this kind of interface on Apple’s App Store.
From Google Blog, here are the new features:
- Dense tiled layout designed to make it easy to look at lots of images at once. We want to get the app out of the way so you can find what you’re really looking for.
- Instant scrolling between pages, without letting you get lost in the images. You can now get up to 1,000 images, all in one scrolling page. And we’ll show small, unobtrusive page numbers so you don’t lose track of where you are.
- Larger thumbnail previews on the results page, designed for modern browsers and high-res screens.
- A hover pane that appears when you mouse over a given thumbnail image, giving you a larger preview, more info about the image and other image-specific features such as “Similar images.”
- Once you click on an image, you’re taken to a new landing page that displays a large image in context, with the website it’s hosted on visible right behind it. Click anywhere outside the image, and you’re right in the original page where you can learn more about the source and context.
- Optimized keyboard navigation for faster scrolling through many pages, taking advantage of standard web keyboard shortcuts such as Page Up / Page Down. It’s all about getting you to the info you need quickly, so you can get on with actually building that treehouse or buying those flowers.
Google Acquires Metaweb
Google has purchased Metaweb, a semantic search provider that maintains an open database of things in the world. Metaweb database catalogs 12 million data sets. The technology will boost Google’s ability to produce more relevant answers.
From Google blog:
Google and Metaweb plan to maintain Freebase as a free and open database for the world. Better yet, we plan to contribute to and further develop Freebase and would be delighted if other web companies use and contribute to the data. We believe that by improving Freebase, it will be a tremendous resource to make the web richer for everyone. And to the extent the web becomes a better place, this is good for webmasters and good for users.
Google Web License Renewed In China
Google’s google.cn Web site can stay up in the People’s Republic of China.
China renewed Google’s license to operate the site after Google stopped redirecting all visitors to its domestic google.cn site to its Hong Kong-based google.hk. Goggle stock rose $10.67 to $467.23 at 3:55 p.m. New York time on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
Google Celebrates 4th Of July With Rube Goldberg Doodle
Google celebrated the fourth of July with an animated Rube Goldberg machine on the search page.
Google, YouTube Trump Viacom In Lawsuit
In 2007, Viacom sued Google alleging that YouTube knowingly allowed pirated video to be posted online violating copyright. Viacom sought damages of $1 billion. In March 2010, Viacom managers had still been uploading video to YouTube and some had even tried to hide their tracks.
Now Google has won a landmark ruling as a judge threw out a $1 billion lawsuit brought by Viacom.
