Google launches Movies $ Music

Web giant Google brings out Music beta and movies to millions of its users all around the world.

Google announced a cloud based music service which will allows to pile up songs on the users’ servers and stream it to any computer or smartphones via internet connection from anywhere at any time. Being at the initial stage, this service will be available in US and also via invitation only but rolls out to the rest of the world sooner may be in paid form. Users could store around 20,000 songs with this new service. Another feature along with the music was “Instant Mix” where users could automatically create a playlist of songs which they like. The music service will not be available on Apple’s iPhone ot iPad as it requires Flash Based browsers.

The Music Beta was an addition to the Movie service launched by Google. Google’s You Tube makes it available for the users to add around 3000 movies on via movie rental service.

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Google “search” becomes more personalized

Google is providing you many options as far as its “search results” are concerned. For the improvement of the same Google had introduced Searchwiki, Stars in search and Locations settings where you can prioritize and mark your search results. Now they have added one more efficient feature for its users to blocks sites which they don’t want to see again.

Many of you surely had a bad experience in getting the apt results in Google. You might have visited websites that carry irrelevant and low quality content and hence resent it and would be looking for an option to block particular domains from your search results for ever. Google now brings out this feature letting you block sites. When you click a result and then return to Google, you’ll find a new link next to “Cached” that shows “Block all ———.com results.  If you proceed with the same by clicking the link “Block all ——.com results, you will receive a confirmation message as well as an option to undo your choice. You could view the link irrespective of whether you are signed in or not but the domains you block are connected with your Google Account so you will have to sign in to confirm a blocked site.

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Google’s ‘Recipe View’ helps you to find better search results for Recipes

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Googles’ updated algorithm in effect

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“Google Me” Social Network…a Facebook Contender ?

News that Google is building a Facebook competitor have become more believable due to Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt confirming the launch of the social application ‘Google Me‘ into their products including email, online search, videos and maps.

The proclamation of this launch (in fall this year) comes at a very significant time. With Facebook having suffered badly from recent privacy issues, chances are that Google Me could become an immense concern for Facebook.

Google desires that ‘Google Me’ should  not be just another accumulation to the product catalogue but will target at combining all their previous ‘not so winning’ social networking attempts like Orkut, Buzz and Profiles into a victorious social network.

Google CEO,Eric Schmidt recently stated at the Google Zeitgeist Conference held at Scottsdale, Arizona that “We’re trying to take Google’s core products and add a social component.” He also added “If you think about it, it’s obvious. With your permission, knowing more about who your friends are, we can provide more tailored recommendations. Search quality can get better.”

Well, we also need to wait and watch as to how Google can get such huge Facebook devotees to abandon Facebook and turn towards Google Me instead !

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Google Buzz in the field of SEO

Google Buzz has already created a buzz with its comparison with Facebook and Google. Additionally,it was infamous for its privacy lapse,though Google seems to have sorted it out.However there is another important aspect of Google Buzz which cannot be ignored,which is its importance in the field of seo.Few include:

• Feature of Indexing – The most rational explanation is that Google Buzz can be used for quick indexing of new content. So in order to obtain to get a new page indexed post it on Buzz or better include a buzz button.

• Facility of keyword research – One can use buzzzy.com,which is the third party Google Buzz search engine to find out popular keywords presently. They’re displayed on the homepage itself as “popular searches”.

• Helps in link building – Google Buzz does not use “nofollow” as Google moves away from this option. Twitter included nofollow to all links in tweets as well as its profile pages. Some people include their Twitter feed to Buzz in order to get it rightly indexed and followed.

• Organic Search Results - Google Buzz items presently don’t appear correctly in real time results on Google yet but there is every chance that it will appear soon.It could be one of the major reasons Google introduced Buzz, to contend with Twitter for attention.

• Microblogging Phenomenon- Though majority of people compare Buzz to Twitter and Facebook, in reality it is rather a Tumblr and Posterous rival. It’s quite good for content you just drop quick without much commotion. Tumblr and Posterous are still much superior but Google is bigger. So choose one.

Google Buzz: The New Microblogging and Social Networking Tool

The new tool Google Buzz which is built right into Google’s Gmail allows you to social network and microblog in real-time.Google Buzz is a novel method to share updates, photos, videos and more as well as start conversations about the things you find interesting.Google Buzz is identical to Friendfeed and twitter.

To set up Google Buzz, proceed to www.google.com/buzz.

• Once you have signed-in with your Gmail account / Google account, you are automatically following the people you have earlier emailed and/or generally chatted with through Gmail.
• You have the option to “unfollow” anyone at any time.
• Create/update your personal information via Google Profiles.
• Begin using Google Buzz now.

Pros of Google Buzz:
Google Buzz offers you microblogging in Gmail setting and enables you to:

• Follow others, and/or be followed by other people
• Publish your posts to your friends and obtain comments right to your Gmail inbox in real-time.
• Post messages in either private or public mode.
• Share links, photos as well as videos with others.
• Import stuff from Twitter, Flickr, Picasa as well as Google Reader.
• Maintain all your social networking friends’ conversations in one location.
• Automatically eliminate useless short messages.
• Share from your Andriods or iPhones.

Additionally,Google Buzz also automatically suggests fascinating messages and filters out futile messages that you are likely to skip

Cons of Google Buzz:
The possible issues of Google Buzz include:

• It might take time for existent Gmail users to actively microblog Google Buzz.
• On the other hand, it might take much longer for non-Gmail users to begin with Gmail and then get into Google Buzz.
• It is not possible to export items into Google Buzz from the world’s biggest social networking site Facebook.
• When you post on Google Buzz, your message will not appear on the most trendy micro-blogging service Twitter’s Tweets.