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This must have been a tough one for the search giant to figure out. People read numbers better than they do colors. Google has started to add Approximate word counts on their Adwords keyword tool, along side of their vague colored bar graphs, which used to be the only data they gave. The reason behind these moves by the big G, or small g or whatever they are being called this week, is likely t

After a month of pressure from privacy groups, search engine Google has finally agreed to add a link on its homepage to the company's privacy policy. Google had resisted the addition of a privacy link, saying it did not want to clutter its homepage. "We're making a homepage change by adding a link to our privacy overview and policies," Marissa Mayer, vice president of Search Products &am

Google has added a layer to Google Earth that shows Google News from more than 4,500 news sources, about the area the user is looking at. To activate the Google News layer, users will have to navigate to the "Layers" menu on the left-hand side of Google Earth. Expanding the "Gallery" node in the layers tree will expose the "Google News" layer. Users are then requi

Google has added a layer to Google Earth that shows Google News from more than 4,500 news sources, about the area the user is looking at.To activate the Google News layer, users will have to navigate to the "Layers" menu on the left-hand side of Google Earth. Expanding the "Gallery" node in the layers tree will expose the "Google News" layer. Users are then required to check the box next to the Go

If you run into a problem on a Windows computer, all you have to do is type a little description of the problem and Google takes care of the rest; Mac users, on the other hand, often need to include a little context in their search—instead of typing a query like text editor, you type text editor mac. Google's Mac-specific portal, found at , now includes a Mac-specific search box. It's not groundbreaking, but the guaranteed Mac-specific results could come in handy next time you're looking for a specific application or you're troubleshooting your Mac.

Google announced today that they’ve added a new feature to Google Analytics. If you opt in, you can choose to share your Google Analytics data either just with Google products, or with Google products and their

Late last year, Google introduced terrain maps, which were 3D-looking maps of the earth — kind of a cross between flat maps and satellite imagery. Today they’ve added contour lines to many of the maps around the world, helping to show the elevation changes in even greater detail.  Their explanation is: Contour lines depict elevation change by [...]

Google has released the first version of Gears for mobile platform, only for Windows Mobile 5 and 6 as of now. Gears allows developers to code for the web browser rather than the native OS,this saves the developers a lot of time and headache.Gears installs a SQLite engine on the client device which is used as a cache for storing data while the device is online. When offline, Gears provides the

Google has added six new cities to its Google Maps Street View, as well as the ability to pan to the top of skyscrapers. The new cities with the 360-degree view are: Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland and Tucson. And the images in Phoenix, Tucson and parts of Chicago are in high resolution, like those in [...]

From the Google LatLong blog "Now you can check out 360-degree views of Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland and Tucson. As an added bonus, the images in Phoenix, Tucson and parts of Chicago are all in high resolution. But wait! There's more. Ever wish you could pan up to the very top of a 50-story skyscraper using Street View? Well, prepare yourself for some serious sightseeing

Move over Microsoft. Google is beefing up its outsourced e-mail offering aimed at corporations and universities, adding security features that large companies demand. Three weeks after closing its acquisition of Postini, Google has integrated the company’s security and government regulation services into Google Apps Premier Edition. That suite includes hosted e-mail, calendar, instant messaging, Docs & Spreadsheets [...]

Google's established Analytics service becomes more report-friendly with a recent tweak, while Compete readies its Search Analytics product to complement its Site Analytics offering.Google Analytics made it easier to see and distribute what webmasters and site publishers need to know about their traffic. The Google Analytics blog announced the addition of 'export to PDF' as a choice for reports.

Today's Postini acquisition raises the issue of how serious Google is on its efforts aimed at the enterprise market. I think there is more to come. So far, Google is almost entirely about the consumer market (if consumer and professional users can be separated at all), with advertisers to pay for it. 'Licensing & Other Revenue' was just 1.0% of total revenues in Q1 of 2007. Now, Google appears

Google on Tuesday took the wraps off a new approach to viewing events going on around the world. Instead of clicking on a headline to read articles, Google News Image Version displays photos related to the day's top stories. More...

It looks like Google’s 2006 acquisition of Neven Vision, a company specializing in facial recognition software, is finally starting to pay off. Google Blogoscoped, a blog dedicated to everything related to Google, got a tip from a Google engineer that Google had secretly added some facial recognition abilities to its image search this week.The feature remains unofficial and unannounced, but you can add a small query string to the end of your Google Image search URL to see the facial recognition software in action.For example, do a normal Google image search for “Starbuck Battlestar” and your image results should produce images from the American SciFi TV show Battlestar Galactica. Then try adding “&imgtype=face” to the end of the URL. Your new search results will only contain photos of people and tight shots of their faces. Cool right?Last August, Google Picasa product manager Adrian Graham had this to say about Google’s acquisition of Neven Vision in the official Google

Google yesterday added a new feature to their Toolbar which should interest any fans of StumbleUpon. Unlike the StumbleUpon service, though, Google's service isn't set to be perfectly random. The service, aimed at users of Google's Search History Service, uses old searches to determine what random pages to offer users clicking on the "Picks for You" icon. (more...)

Google Adds New Template Widgets to Blogger - April 1, 2007SummaryGoogle has added two new template widgets to Blogger. The widgets include: Newsreel and Video Bar.DetailsThe Newsreel searches Google News for the users' chosen keywords and displays a list of their search results.The Video Bar searches Google Video and YouTube for the users' chosen keywords and enables them to watch videos, according to Google.Related Link

Soon you will be able to add colours to thepersonalized home pages ..which are till now white and dull .Google is offering 6 themes initially for GPH(Google personalized home), these themes willoccupy the top of the page as given in the screenshot.(Click on Read more to expand)The themes are also dynamic and change according tolocal weather and time of day.Google GPH is around 2 years old now and you cancustomize the GPH with a lot of gadgets and coolnews aggregators and a lot of useful features.By this time the themes are not yet availablelets see when these themes becomes available..

Google's enterprise collaboration suite unveiled last week includes security options that let companies tie it into their existing corporate directories and extend single sign-on to the online provider's hosted applications .The result is that corporations can manage users of hosted applications just like they manage users behind the firewall .Google is teaming with Sxip to provide Sxip Access, an identity-management platform for managing authentication, authorization, single sign-on and provisioning/deprovisioning.Sxip Access, which is priced on a subscription basis, can be run itself as a hosted service or deployed within the corporate network and linked to corporate directories. The hosted version is US$5 per user, per year. The appliance is $5,000, which includes a pair of appliances, plus $5 per user, per year.Google Apps Premier is a suite that includes e-mail, document editor, spreadsheet and other collaboration tools. It is being targeted at corporate users and as an alternat

A new version of Google Maps for Mobile includes bus and train directions for over 40 North American cities. The new version will work with BlackBerries and other Java-based phones. The download is free.