Google seems to have a new focus on improving the image search experience. For example, just last month Google Similar Images, which uses the image recognition technology for filtering search results, graduated from Google Labs and became a default feature of Google Image search.
In an effort to continue down the better image search path, Google has now released a new Labs feature called Google Image Swirl. The new functionality is the result of computer vision research and clusters images into the groups that you can search by way of an experimental new user interface.
With Google Image Swirl, your image search results are joined together in 12 different groupings. Once you identify a particular group, your results will swirl into view, whereby every selection refocuses and swirls the search results in a circular fashion. The experience is evocative of Google's Wonder Wheel, and reminds us of Visual Thesaurus.
Image Swirl expands on technologies developed for Similar Images and Picasa Face Recognition to discern how images should be grouped jointly and build hierarchies out of these groups. Every thumbnail on the initial results page represents an algorithmically-determined representative group of images with similar appearance and meaning. These aren't just the most pertinent images - they are the most relevant groups of images.
Today if you visit www.google.com you will be able to see the logo of Google was changed to bar code. Google was really celebrating the anniversary of the bar code which was patented on 7th of October 1952.
This special date was coincides with the announcement of the combined winners of the Nobel prize for physics, who had contribute in inventing "Charge-coupled devices" to read bar codes. The inventors are Charles Kuan Kao, Willard Boyle and George Smith.
The Charge-coupled devices is a silicon based integrated circuit that converts light energy into an electronic charge. With this technology it has bring digital imaging technology to a higher level. Some of the application that we can see today was in digital cameras, CCTV cameras, endoscopy, desktop videoconferencing, fax machines and lots more.
If you notice, Google had been celebrating some of the world historic day specially those that had change our life a lot such as the bar code invention. With the celebration, we are able to learn a lot of important invention and important dates. I expect Google will show us more of it and I can't wait for the next important dates that Google going to highlight.
If your office provides you a BlackBerry for work purposes, you may soon be accessing Google Apps Gmail, calendar, and contacts through the BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
On Friday, Google announced that some features in Google Apps, its suite of premium enterprise-level applications, will now give company-issued BlackBerrys some push and sync functionality.
The Google Apps connector promises to push Gmail inbox within 60 seconds, and sync in-box actions assigning labels and emails archived. You can also search contacts from the company's global address list, a huge bonus for mobile workers. Synchronization between the Google Calendar and the BlackBerry calendar is one-way in this release, with Google's calendar populating your plan on the phone. Google plans to include two-way calendar syncing in the future.
While the connector opens up syncing to some of the Google Apps, in this iteration it does not sync with Google Docs, the intranet site-hosting application called Google Site, and Google Video. You'll still be able to view content via the mobile browser, however.
The Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server (download) is available at no charge to corporate Google Apps Premier and Education Editions customers, and must be implemented by an IT administrator.
According to news reports, the majority used social network by worldwide monthly active users Facebook.com may become the next super computer OS for communications.
Facebook is making tactical moves to develop itself into something greater. Last week, it has purchased social sharing service FriendFeed. Moreover, it has upgraded its search engine functionality, and urbanized a new aptitude to share status updates with the complete network in real-time. It has also released in Facebook Lite, a trimmed down version of Facebook which is similar to that of Twitter.
All of these moves work to keep Facebook to establish itself as a must-use platform for every-day Internet users. The really fascinating question is what tactical perspective underpins the Facebook acquisition.
Google's page-rank search technology is fine, but it's still cute primitive-- try looking for a hotel in any Iran town. You could say that search is about 5 percent solved. With 95 percent still to do, many people think the next advances will come from adding social or two-way dimensions to pure computational algorithms.
Facebook's purchase of FriendFeed, an obscure social-media platform, is potentially momentous. To understand why, we must understand FriendFeed, a start-up that is ever-present among techies and unknown to everybody else. It's an application that acts as a clearinghouse for all of your social-media behavior.
Google has long tried to get into the social game, and Facebook surely wouldn't mind expanding into some of Google's province. It's as classic an American move violently as Pepsi vs. Coke. Two companies, one market. Despite which side you choose, Facebook will be happy to air your thoughts on the matter. After all, that's why Facebook bought FriendFeed. So it could own you.
A survey conducted by consultancy major Tata Consultancy Services and software services, that School children in Indian cities bank more on Internet search engineGoogle to gather information than on print or television.
According to the survey, (41 per cent) students rely on Google as compared to television (25 per cent) or print (26 per cent).
The survey was conducted in 12 cities, with a sample size of 14,000 students aged between 12 and 18 from English-medium schools. The purpose of the survey was to decipher the minds of the young generation, their preferences and habits. S Ramadorai, CEO & MD of TCS said "One out of 10 people on the world are aged under 25 and living in India. That is the significance of India's next generation and what they and think and aspire will hold insights for all those who aim to connect with this Web 2.0 generation".
From the survey some surprises on social networking trends among the schoolchildren. While in Mumbai (60 per cent) and Ahmedabad (57 per cent) kids read about films and celebrity blogs, Bangalore and Hyderabad students (33 per cent) prefer blogging on studies. Bangalore is 'Blogging capital of India', with 66 per cent student's blogging regularly against the national average of 39 per cent.
Overall 93 per cent of the respondents were alert of social networking, with Orkut rising as the most preferred source for social networking. In India, Mumbai is the only city where rival Facebook is more popular.
Moon in Google Earth was launch recently at the Newseum in Washington D.C. This Moon in Google Earth tool will make it easier for millions of people to learn about space, the moon and some of the most significant and dazzling discoveries humanity has accomplished together. This Moon in Google Earth enables people to explore lunar imagery as well as informational content about the Apollo landing sites, panoramic images shot by the Apollo astronauts, narrated tours and much more. People believe that this educational tool (Moon in Google Earth) is a critical step into the future, a way to both develop the dreams of young people globally, and inspire new audacious goals.
With Google Earth, young explorers around the world can bounce around the galaxy in Sky, fly to Mars and now visit the moon from wherever they may be for the use of Moon in Google Earth tool. To learn more watch the video...
The Google Chrome 3.0.194.3 was released to the Dev channel for Mac and Linux. Windows remains on 3.0.193.1.
Highlights of Google Chrome 3.0.194.3:
* Linux : Restarting the system should no longer lose all session information. * Fix for crash when saving the files. * Fix a crash while dragging and closing a browser tab. * Linux: Chrome Fixes "fonts stop rendering after a few minutes". * Linux: Chrome Fixes the "no pages load on 64-bit" issue.
More details of Google Chrome 3.0.194.3 are available in the release notes.
The Google'sCustom Search Engine team has made it easy to any site to add custom search. Google recently introduced Web Elements; the Web Elements are simple snippets of code you can copy/paste into your site's HTML.
From the Custom Search Element web page, I copied the code. Then in the Word Press control panel under Appearance->Widgets, I clicked to add a new "Text" widget, changed the title to "Search (CSE)" and pasted the code into the box:
Click "Done" and then "Save Changes" and that is it! You no need to register, sign up for anything, get a user ID, or anything like that. You can see the result on the right-hand sidebar of my blog.
