Category: googleblogging

The Internet search company Google plans to put millions of library books
online and make them searchable.This week, Google announced a project with
the New York Public Library and the libraries of four universities. These are
Stanford, Harvard and the University of Michigan in the United States and Oxford
in England.

Stanford University and the University of Michigan have agreed to let Google copy their full collections. Michigan put some of its seven million books on the Web this week. Its full collection is about six years away. The New York Public Library says it will only provide Google with materials no longer under copyright restrictions. Oxford will offer only books published before the twentieth century. And Harvard University will provide just forty
thousand books at first.

Google toolbar updates to a more recent version automatically, Current new version is v. 2.0.114 previous version is v. 2.0.113

Check about toolbar screen shot here,

As Google shares flirt with the $200 mark, investors have to wonder whether many of those buying the stock near that lofty level are money managers who once spurned it at half that price.Google (GOOG) shares have more than doubled since the Web search firm’s Aug. 18 initial public offering, when a modified Dutch auction priced the shares at $85. Google closed up $7.33, or nearly 4 percent, at $193.30 Thursday, after earlier rising to $194.39.]
More news here: —- www.newratings.com/analyst_news/article_576593.html

Google has started putting holiday logos on their homepage, they used to do this every holiday season, they make more than 10 logos for athens olympics, now they have posted the first logo for this holiday season its here,

stay tuned to this posting for more holiday logos, this page will be updated as new logos come out,

Google introduces a new feature named google suggest, google suggest is an unique feature of google which does a drop down suggestion of related queries,
This is what google says about google suggest,

Today we launched Google Suggest, a new Labs project that provides
you with search suggestions, in real time, while you type. We’ve found that
Google Suggest not only makes it easier to type in your favorite searches (let’s
face it — we’re all a little lazy), but also gives you a playground to explore
what others are searching about, and learn about things you haven’t dreamt of.
Go ahead, give it a spin.

Picasa is a recently acquired photo editing tool from google, forums.picasa.com helps people support on queries regarding picasa photo editing software,recently the picasa site was under hacker attack, news here
Google’s Picasa Hacked Via Security Hole Google’s Picasa was allegedgly hacked into over the weekend. Zone-H reports that Picasa was victim to a security hole in its forum. Picasa is a software for managing photos, the company has been acquired by Google earlier this year.

The picasa forum now redirects to google groups beta version, groups-beta.google.com/group/picasa , this hacking was more probable because of the security hole in their forum,A guy named Prieni asks about this in the picasa groups, Hey there,what happened to the Picasa forum? I tried to access it as per normaland got the Picasa homepage. I thought “hmm, server must be down or so”and tried again later. Now I tried it again and clicked on the Forumlink and ended up here. Very confusing. So my question is: Can we stillget into the forum? Or will this Google Group be a replacement? If so,what happens to the knowledge base reflected in the ‘old’ forum?A very confused (where are the emoticons?)Prieni

Answer from google,
Hi Prieni,
We had to take the forums down temporarily, and we wanted to give thenew Groups beta a whirl so people would have a place to go. =) Wemay return to the old forum style, or we might keep up the Group, buteither way the old data and knowledgebase should be back up onlinesoon.
I guess we’re back to retro emoticons now…astro.umd.edu/~marshall/smileys.html- how 1993!
Lorna from google,

Google has recently revamped googlegroups and i like most of the new features in it, if you are interested checkout here, groups.google.com
screenshot of the new google groups site,

The new Google Groups which has been available as a Google Labs test since May, brings the search giant the type of community feature that has been a fixture for such competitors as Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s MSN division.

For its e-mail list service, Google is emphasizing its combination of user-formed groups with Usenet and its search functionality.

MSN has started a blog service similiar to google, Google bought blogger and is going on great, Now MSN seem to have jumped into it, MSN starts its free blog service here,

spaces.msn.com

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Google Guy promises not to take action based on spam reports, I’ll promise that no spam-related action will be taken based on the reports. If months later, the domain comes up for review for an unrelated reason, then that’s a different matter, but I’ll instruct whoever collects the feedback to only use it to check out how we pick canonical pages.