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Google Helps Myanmar Victims by starting Online Donation

2008-05-12T12:52:00.000-07:00

Myanmar was hit by the destructive Cyclone Nargis previous week. Even though, the precise death toll is not yet surface, about one lakh people are predictable to have been killed in the disaster.

Internet giant Google has started an online donation campaign for Myanmar cyclone victims and has decided to provide up to $one million monetary help for the relief works. Google, which will contribute up to one million dollars for the relief works in Myanmar, has stated upon users to contribute efforts to help the cyclone victims.

"Your donation will help survivors and other disaster victims rebuild their communities and their lives. In addition, when you donate on this page, Google donates too. We'll donate up to one million dollars to help organizations provide relief," said a message posted on the webpage (www.Google.Com/myanmarcyclone).

Google + Yahoo = Advertising Powerhouse

2008-05-11T21:44:00.000-07:00

Recently, Google's Co-founder Sergey Brin stated "We have been talking to Yahoo and we are very excited to be working with them." So what are the two giant up to? Well, the tie between two companies could bring up a great advertising powerhouse. Though Microsoft planned to walk away from its decision of acquiring Yahoo, it looks like Yahoo is yet chasing the protective plan of grouping up with Google. The great part for Yahoo is that Google appears to be an eager partner. “We share a lot of values with Yahoo," Stated Brin.

We all know that these two companies are been negotiating the deal but then no clue on how fat the deal is done. The two week testing of advertising program is also been done last month. Google's software did a superior job than Yahoo's at publishing profitable text ads next to search results, and Yahoo is taking into account its options. Using Google's software, other than its own, could boost Yahoo's earnings and fend off another gaining attempt from Microsoft. Actually, part of the cause Microsoft dipped its bid for Yahoo was may be because Yahoo was so fast to edge up to its main contestant and get all cozy.

Google's Translate Application in Hindi Impresses Indians

2008-05-07T21:16:00.000-07:00

Recently in New Delhi Indian users of Google are happy about the newly launched Google translate application in Hindi. They say that this explains that not only Google is concerned towards improving new and newer applications tools but as well offers meaning to Indian market.

Arnab says that he is very happy to see Hindi, our National Language to be implemented in Google-a superb and ultimate search engine.

Shailesh says that it is really a good feature that Google has added. It will definitely help many people in many ways.

Kamalesh Ray adds that "I think this is a very good step taken by Google to implement Google-a superb and ultimate search engine in Hindi.

Manju Nath says that, "I am very happy to learn that Google is first search engine in the world that has given such facility. I would suggest that Google act fast to improve the quality of Hindi translation.

We've withdrawn the offer and moved on - Windows Live General Manager

2008-05-06T21:15:00.000-07:00

On the ground of Microsoft's choice to get the Yahoo offer, executives are now attempting to make the case that Redmond's online work could go it alone. Talking to investors yesterday, Windows Live General Manager Brain Hall attempted to get the focus back to what Microsoft is down by own, other than would could have been.

"We've withdrawn the offer and moved on, and now are focused on how we grow as fast as possible organically," Hall said, speaking at a Merrill Lynch technology conference. Pressed further on the statement, Hall said Yahoo would have helped in the e-mail business worldwide--and in the instant-messaging arena in the United States, in particular.

Microsoft might look for alternate deal

2008-05-04T21:03:00.000-07:00

Microsoft Corp might now look for a mixture of deals after moving away from Yahoo Inc, but some would be complete enough to let it confront Google Inc's power of online advertising. When Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer called off talks with Yahoo on Saturday soon after the Web Company discarded his $47.5 billion offer, he gave up what he and his investors saw as the best method to grow rapidly in marketing and online services to take on market head Google.

"Ultimately, our goal is to build the industry-leading business in search, online advertising, media, and social networking," Ballmer wrote in a Saturday letter to employees, obtained by Reuters. "Although the acquisition of Yahoo would have accelerated our ability to deliver on our strategy in advertising and online services, I remain confident that we can achieve our goals without Yahoo," Ballmer wrote.

Ballmer said Microsoft might go it unaided, but a likelier situation would be to use some of the hard cash it hanged in front of Yahoo to make lesser acquisitions or strike up partnerships.

Yahoo exposes new services for Viet Nam

2008-05-01T21:12:00.000-07:00

Yahoo! exposed many Viet Nam-centric plans as part of its business plans in the country last week. Yahoo! 360plus, a blogging tool, and Yahoo!Music, a home music service, are two of the fresh features.

The 360plus is a fresh blogging stage, which offers users more options in customizing their profiles and comprising exterior feeds, in addition to providing simple navigation. Yahoo!Music, accessible from the Yahoo! Vietnam home page, lets users attach to their favorite Vietnamese singers and contact the current music news. At launch, its library comprises 14,000 songs from 2,000 artists.

Google Launches Image Ads

2008-04-30T04:00:00.001-07:00

The search engine giant Google researchers have presented a technique for improving image search results to attendees of the International World Wide Web Conference in Beijing. Google calls the plan VisualRank, after the company's signature PageRank technology appeared. VisualRank, The New York Times reports, is an algorithm, which blends image-recognition software techniques with Google's own process for weighting and ranking images that become visible similar.

Google, debatably, has the world's main networked computer and thereby a capability to crunch a lot more data than most. Now, a piece of that horsepower is going to be applied to a more sophisticated image search algorithm.

Google: SEO could help discourage spammers

2008-04-29T21:28:00.000-07:00

"Websites should enlist the help of search engine optimization (SEO) companies in their spam drop strategies", a Google expert in the subject matter has claimed. Speaking at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last week, Matt Cutts stated that SEO firms must be seen as friends rather than foes by website operators, reports CNET News.

According to the news provider, Mr. Cutts said: "SEO is not spam. Google does not hate SEO. "There is plenty of white-hat SEO [companies] who could help you out." Mr. Cutts, who heads of Google's Webspam team, was once known as "porn cookie guy" after he offered cookies baked by his partner to anyone who found lewd content they did not want in their search results. At the San Francisco event, he suggested that site operators use captcha systems to differentiate between genuine users and bots. He as well suggested reconfiguring software settings after setting up in order to discourage bots.

Additional Proxy Material Available - Google

2008-04-28T21:27:00.000-07:00

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) recently announced that additional proxy materials are now accessible for its stockholders in association with the 2008 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held next Thursday that would be May 8, 2008. The additional proxy materials could be obtained at the following websites: www.sec.gov, http://investor.google.com/proxy.html, http://www.proxyvote.com/ (beneficial stockholders) and http://www.envisionreports.com/goog (only for registered stockholders). About Google Inc. Google's ground-breaking search technologies thrive hard to connect millions of people across the globe with information every day. Google's targeted advertising program offers businesses of all sizes with assessable results, while improving the on the whole web experience for users.

Microsoft/Yahoo cut-off date passes with No Pact

2008-04-26T20:14:00.000-07:00

Yahoo failed to agree to an acquirement pact with Microsoft last Saturday, the deadline Microsoft had set for taking up such negotiations. Now Microsoft should decide whether to follow a hostile conquest via a proxy fight or to drop the bid and look for other acquirement alternatives.

All along, Microsoft's management had stated strongly that they would follow Yahoo via all obtainable options, comprising the hostile route of expelling the present board by suggested its own schedule of director candidates at the proceeding Yahoo shareholders' meeting. But Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and CFO Chris Liddell softened that stand in public comments last week, saying that giving up on the acquirement would also be an option.

Google faces another Lawsuit for "Unwanted Ads"

2008-04-24T20:12:00.000-07:00

Lawyers representing an American private detective now claim hundreds of thousands of companies, which registered to advertise on Google, may have been hoodwinked into paying for unwanted ads. The private detective has further opened a legal action against the search engine giant, and his attorneys desires the proceedings to become a class action that could price the company millions of dollars if he becomes successful.

David Almeida said he signed up his firm, Bay State Detective Agency, as an advertiser on Google in 2006 – one of millions of small businesses, which have found a cheap means of aiming advertising at people who are authentically searching for their services (ads). However, he wanted the ads to come only on Google's own site, not the thousands of other websites, from MySpace to personal blogs, on which Google serves up the ads.

What is Yahoo gonna decide?

2008-04-21T21:38:00.000-07:00

Yahoo! yet has only six days left to determine whether it wants to stay independent or surrender to a spontaneous capture by Microsoft. The internet gigantic is racing to locate a probable substitute to the takeover by Microsoft or no less than force it to augment its offer from $31 a share, according to the Irish Independent.

Yahoo! is soon going to disclose its first quarter profits that might show some financial constancy, which could advantage its situation, while Microsoft's results are due out on coming Thursday. Of late, Yahoo! has exposed that it is testing an advertising sales contract with Google in an offer to deter antagonistic takeover by Microsoft. It is running an experiment of Google's Adsense for search service that would deliver pertinent Google ads next to Yahoo!’s search results.

Google Remain No.1 Brand in the World

2008-04-20T21:37:00.000-07:00

Google has preserved its mark as the world's most precious brand in a group table, which exposes the ever-developing power of technology companies and rising economies.

The search engine's marque is merit more than $86.1 billion ($94 billion), up 30% on preceding year, according to the Brandz list from Millward Brown Optimor published yesterday that calculates the amount of sales determined by brand. Google, proprietor of the most well-liked search engine, topped the third annual ranking from Millward Brown that surveyed more than 1 million consumers about 50,000 brands.

Google's iGoogle Expands

2008-04-18T21:47:00.000-07:00

It seem like google is having big plans for iGoogle. Google's personalized homepage, named iGoogle, took an important move forward today when Google stated a sandbox environment, which developers could use to start making social gadgets with. This new surroundings mashes up the finest of iGoogle and Facebook — this must be interesting.

The new iGoogle would yet let people add the same gadgets they used to earlier, but it's absolutely more geared toward ones, which use the fresh Open Social API. The sandbox border has two novel items — a sidebar, and an "update" list that lets you see what your friends are up to. Sound familiar? That's right; it's on the whole Google's completion of the popular News Feed on Facebook.

Google exceeds its First Quarter expectations

2008-04-17T21:23:00.000-07:00

Google Inc. twisted its online advertising method and hastened its development outside the United States to generate a first-quarter profit, which exceeded analysts' forecasted, lightened some of the economic concerns mauling its stock in current year. This news was exposed after the stock market was closed on last evening. Lifted Google's current drooping shares by simply more than $76, or 17 percent on whole.

"This is mostly a relief rally," said Stanford Group analyst Clayton Moran. "People are relieved that things aren't as bad as they thought." Google's worldwide appeal pushed the Mountain View-based company for more than half of its revenue that came from outside the United States for the first time in its nine-and-a-half-year history.

YouTube's Geotagging now with Google Maps

2008-04-16T22:14:00.000-07:00

Google recently announced that the local business owners could now incorporate YouTube videos (ensuring embed option to be turned on) to their listings on Google Maps. Google stated that this move was just a natural extension to its last year's move to add geotagged YouTube on Google Earth. When video creator set up particular locations for their own videos, those videos would come in view as a unique YouTube layer of Google Maps. Further users could also launch videos on Google Maps from the Photos and Videos tab of the information bubble, which emerges when a user clicks on a particular listing. In addition they could link their video to their business throughout the Google Local Business Center.

Yahoo Japan Make Use of Microsoft Silverlight technology

2008-04-15T01:06:00.001-07:00

Yahoo may be trying hard to stay away from Microsoft in the US market; however their Japanese unit has publicized the decision to embrace Silverlight for improvising the search practice. The new efficient web interface is predicted to be exposed in the upcoming weeks. Yahoo Japan is further planning to use Silverlight in more of their services.

Microsoft Silverlight technology is a very new competitor to Adobe Flash which allows better interactivity on websites. Madison Square Garden Interactive, Tencent, Abertis Telecom, Terra Networks Operations, SBSi, and MNet are some of the other companies that are making use of Silverlight extensively.

Integration of Google and Salesforce augments Google Apps

2008-04-14T02:25:00.000-07:00

The long-whispered partnership between Salesforce.com and Google is now probable to be made authorized through a statement this Monday. This Partnership is made to integrate Google Apps with Salesforce.com's CRM (customer relationship management) effective tools. To be more accurate, it would comprise Google's e-mail service, Gmail, chat service, Google Talk and also Calendar.

Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO, said, as quoted by PC World: "The combination of our leading CRM applications and Google's business productivity applications pushes forward the transformation of the industry to cloud computing. The end of software is here."

The choice was made at the people's request, Salesforce stated, and so far Salesforce.com customers have also had the opportunity to test the fresh incorporation through its beta version. Moreover, they would further pay no extra charge for the service, the company said.

Google wins in Yahoo-Microsoft battle

2008-04-12T23:09:00.000-07:00

Microsoft Corp.'s effort to take over Yahoo Inc. has actually become so tortured it might in turn help Internet search and advertising giant Google Inc. to grow stronger, dejection Microsoft's main reason for reward the deal in the first place.

"We find this to be a very advantageous situation for Google," Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Derek Brown said Thursday. "The longer this gets dragged out, the better for Google." Yahoo indicated it is stimulating for a long-drawn-out battle late Wednesday when a statement and a media leak offered a sight at its convoluted search for alternatives to Microsoft's bid of more than $40 billion. "The more complicated a deal gets, the more difficult it becomes to satisfy all parties," Brown said. "And the more complicated the (post-deal) integration gets, the more it favors Google."

Google Exposes Google App Engine

2008-04-11T21:30:00.000-07:00

Google has recently exposed its Google App Engine, a set of free services for tech developers that would compete squarely with offerings Amazon (AMZN) by now offers. On the gist we can put down this way:

Servers: Amazon's = EC2; Google's = Python
Database: Amazon's = Simple DB; Google's = BigTable
Storage: Amazon's = S3; Google's = GFS.

The good part is that the Google's package is entirely free, with restrictions on storage, bandwidth and the processor power. Once it is actually out of beta, developers would be capable to go beyond these limitations, but they would certainly be charged for overages. In fact, this is a very appealing direction for Google (GOOG) to take, however it's not troublesome technology. Like Google Docs and Google Spreadsheets, this is intended straight at any well-known competitor's offerings.

Yahoo's Flickr Launches Video Sharing

2008-04-10T23:05:00.000-07:00

Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) recently announced that its photo-sharing site Flickr.com has introduced video sharing feature, through which expert members could now upload personal video clips and share them online. Flickr's new video uploading quality would sustain up to 90 seconds of personal video recording recorded with any digital video device comprising still cameras, camcorders and camera phones. The company noted that video on Flickr would further be obtainable in eight languages incorporating English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and traditional Chinese.

Google Docs Adds up 'Save As PPT' feature

2008-04-09T22:50:00.000-07:00

Google had introduced the feature of "Save as PPT" on to its Google Docs. You are now free to save any of your Google Presentation to PowerPoint files. Andrew Chang, marketing manager with Google, Stated, "We believe you should be able to access your presentations however and whenever you want, in whatever format you need. In that vein, today we launched "Save as PPT" which allows you to save presentations as PowerPoint. We now support PDF, PPT, and basic text as export filetypes."

On the other hand, you could as well share your presentations in many other ways: call collaborators and viewers within the Docs, publish your presentation (and share the exclusive URL to the presentation, or even drive in your presentation on a unique website or blog."

Yahoo rejects three-week deadline of Microsoft

2008-04-08T21:17:00.000-07:00

Yahoo has rejected a three-week deadline offered by Microsoft to agree to a 44.6 billion dollar capture, as the fight between the two giant technologies titans heated up. Yahoo anyhow stated on Monday it was open to a sweet bid from the software giant or another bidder also.

"We continue to believe that your proposal is not in the best interests of Yahoo and our stockholders," Yahoo's board chairman Roy Bostock and chief executive Jerry Yang said in a letter to CEO of Microsoft Corporation Steve Ballmer. "We are open to all alternatives that maximize stockholder value. To be clear, this includes a transaction with Microsoft if it represents a price that fully recognizes the value of Yahoo on a standalone basis," the Yahoo letter said.

The letter came in reply to a challenge issued by Microsoft on Saturday for the Internet giant to agree to its 44.6 billion dollar capture offer in three weeks or face a shareholder proxy fight. Analysts said the conflict of the technology giants appeared to be escalating.

Google Launches Voice Search in Hyderabad

2008-04-07T21:15:00.000-07:00

Google has recently launched its new voice search service in Hyderabad by means of a toll free number (1-800-41-999-999). This is in market after six months its text search for mobile users through 54664. Hyderabad people seem to be excited about the services and already started using it.

The service was exposed silently over last weekend and the news moved out in blogs. A Digital news site, contentsutra.com was successful in getting a spokesperson response from Google. "Google has introduced a pilot for voice search in Hyderabad. Voice enables us to reach non-web users in local languages, while still ever aging our core strength in search. We are focusing on our users and innovating for the needs of the local market. This pilot will enable us to get real user feedback to improve the service before a full launch," Google said.

New Service by Google - BigTable

2008-04-07T21:01:00.000-07:00

Google may expose its new services called BigTable this week. BigTable is basically based on the Google File System (GFS) and intended for sharing across thousands of product servers, which collectively store petabytes of data. Services that depend on it comprise Google Search, Google Earth and Maps, Google Finance, Google Print, Orkut, YouTube, and Blogger.

Public stated that they expect BigTable to be straight competition for Amazon SimpleDB - and we need to agree. The only thing that comes under consideration is about the pricing strategy. What is your opinion? Would Google make BigTable for free, or would it be competitively priced with the Amazon equivalent?