Do a search for the term Google using Yahoo! Search and you’ll see a special search box on top of the results labelled “Search the Web with Yahoo!”. They’re singling out Google for this treatment, as a search for MSN or Altavista will show you.
Google hasn’t returned the favor, which I’m sure they won’t.
[ Edit - The special search box has been removed. Guess they’re friends now. ]
Don’t these guys ever take a break? Now you can search through events that other people have made public on their calendars. Simply put, if I want to find out if there’s anything happening in town over the weekend, chances are I’ll find it one someone’s calendar.
Here’s Google’s explanation.
Google adds historical maps to Google Earth under featured content. Trust me, try this out only when you have a few hours to spare. It’s addictive!
There’s no better survey than Google Trends. A search for Aishwarya Rai tells us this:
Uttar Pradesh has more people than Pakistan, and yet?
Oppressed, they are. Horny, they must be.
Looks like Orkut (and Google accounts) no longer need an invitation. Wonder if that’s a good idea - I already get so much spam in my scrapbook I wish they would integrate Akismet with orkut.
Google has integrated Orkut and Google Talk.
At Google, we like it when people talk with each other. So we figured we should make life a little easier for our friends on orkut, where getting in touch and staying in touch is the name of the game. We noticed that a lot of orkut users have been using a separate instant messaging program to chat, which just seems like unnecessary work — clicking around, keeping separate buddy lists, etc. This is why we’ve built Google Talk into orkut, so you can see your friends’ availability and chat with them more easily. And, as a special Google Talk bonus, if you want to do more than text chat, you can make voice calls, leave voicemail, and transfer files.
We’ve put some orkut features into Google Talk too. In addition to chatting, calling, and sending files to your Google Talk buddies, you can also scrap them, receive instant notice when others scrap you, and quickly jump to any of their orkut profiles.
Google just launched their gmail client for mobile devices. I’ve never been a fan of how Gmail looked on Opera Mini on my motorazr, so I downloaded it as soon as I saw the news. Didn’t find it here though, had to navigate to gmail/app from my mobile to find the link. Opera Mini had to exit to download the application (gmail.jar) and installation took no time at all on my crappy GPRS connection. Loaded pretty quick, here’s how a conversation looks like:
Decent. Interface is quicker with shortcut keys, layout is clean, and they’ve included a whole lot of features that make sense on a tiny mobile screen. If you use Gmail (which you should) and the client is compatible with your phone, this is a must have.
If you use Gmail hosted email, you may have a few problems - I repeatedly got Error 404 and 500 error messages.
After reading this, I wonder if more bloggers are going to shift to Wordpress.com for free blog hosting.
Comparision between the two services here on Jaya Jha’s blog. Personally I prefer Wordpress, but I wonder how it will hold out against the new blogger service, presently in beta.
Please refer to my earlier post, “Google’s plans of world domination“. Then read this.
If you’ve already turned on the guide as a layer in Google Earth, you might already have noticed the patriotic stars now adorning the U.S. map. There’s one for every congressional district. Click on the star and it opens a set of links to useful voter tools. First, you can click to register to vote. I love this because so many people still think that in order to register, you need help from a government employee or political activist. Wrong. You can register yourself to vote by getting your forms online and sending them in by mail. Spread the word!
Second, there are links to news, web and photo searches for candidates for the U.S. House and Senate races on November 7. Now, I think a squirrel could figure out which way to go on our presidential candidates and political parties. But an educated vote does require some Google searching, especially when candidates try so hard to blur the differences.
And we all know what Google thinks of George Bush, although they claim otherwise!
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