Month: November 2006

Google has recently announced that the Google Toolbar 4 for Internet Explorer will be available in Hindi as well. The latest version of the Google toolbar is very much customizable and also incorporates new features, which allow users to personalize their search experience and to browse their favorite content even more efficiently.

The new version of Google Toolbar will allow users to create, label and to manage bookmarks for their favorite sites with a single click. Bookmarks are now saved on to a user’s Google Account will be accessible from any computer. For example, if a user bookmarks an interesting article at work that they may wanted to read later, they could now easily access it from their home computer by simply logging in to their Google Account.

London: Patients are not the only people turning to the Internet for medical information. Searching the World Wide Web with engines such as Google may also help doctors to diagnose perplexing medical conditions, Australian researchers said on Friday.

“Our study suggests that in difficult cases, it is often useful to google for a diagnosis,” said Hangwi Tang, of the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane.

To test how good Google is, Tang and his colleagues selected three to five search terms for 26 difficult-to-diagnose illnesses reported in a medical journal and did a Google search.

After recording the top ranked answers that seemed to fit the symptoms and comparing them with the correct diagnosis, they found the Google searches came up with the right answer in 15 out of the 26 cases – an accuracy rate of 58 per cent.

Cool out more with Google – recently they have rolled out a version of Gmail specifically for mobile phones. Unless you’re a Blackberry user, or might be a Palm user, e-mail access on your cell phones is now a very slow process, but Google plans to change it soon.

Initially, mobile Gmail would be available for use on phones from Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile and with Cingular in the States with more carriers and many countries yet to come.

To get Gmail for your phone, just visit http://gmail.com/app with the help of your Java-enabled phone. Visit that URL with a straight browser to read more about the service.

Orkut (Google’s social networking website) user may notice a new Google Talk integration next they log in.

Now the user will be able to notice the online status of their friends, one can also send scraps to those available friends, which will be displayed in their instant messenger. The Google Talk client can receive scraps and also send them to other Orkut user.

Enabling the integration between Orkut and the Google Talk now opens up a host of new functionality in both products. From Orkut, user will be able to chat or make voice calls, and online status of friends’ would be displayed too.

The Google Blog has recently announced that they have added Google Blog Search email alerts to their Google Alerts system. This will enable you to add alerts for Google News and also for other Google properties. You will also be able to add alerts for Blog Search results. Google has also taken action to enhance Blog Alerts to “show results from multiple sources (including Google News, the web, and blogs).”

You can either conduct a search at Google Blog Search and then can click on the “Blogs Alerts” link on the left hand side of the page to subscribe by email to any news alters. Or you could go to Google Alerts to set them up right there.

Google has recently acquired JotSpot, the wiki software company, however for an undisclosed sum.

The recent blockbuster of Google “YouTube” mainly focused on video search and sharing, JotSpot acquisition puts a focus on another part of Google’s larger strategy: “communication, show and share.” This category have also included tools for blogs, calendaring, photo sharing, document processing G-mail, and many more.

JotSpot is actually a smaller company than YouTube and, although the wiki concept has taken off civility of Wikipedia, it is not very clear whether wiki’s application like JotSpot will succeed free wiki’s as MediaWiki (which powers Wikipedia). When compared YouTube’s video sharing model is proved more demonstrated.