Google shares ad wealth with videographers

Google has recently started to share advertising revenue with the maker of a popular video clip in an innovative deal, which could drive up the costs of competing in the hatchling video sharing sector. Now the search company has also agreed to turn over most advertising money generated by the latest video from Fritz Grobe and Stephen Volts, maker of “The Diet Coke & Mentos Experiment” said according to Peter Chane, a senior product manager for Google Video.

Other than that Metacafe, one of the top 10 Video-sharing sites, also announced that it would pay $5 to video maker for every 1,000 times video is watched.

Google comes up with Blog Alerts

Now google allows its user to set up alerts that can cover blogs specifically. User can select news, groups or other web alerts such as comprehensive which covers everything.

On the other hand, segmenting user’s sources for information could have some interesting uses – perhaps sending specific information appearing in an existing blog to a person and also the information appearing in Google Group to the other.

Google Announces Winner of Global Code Jam 2006

Petr Mitrichev of Russia was awarded as a first winner of Global Code Jam (GCJ) competition, announced today by Google Inc. He received a prize worth $10,000. Last year this award was won by Marek Cygan of Poland.

Second and third prize were won by Ying Wang a citizen of US and Andrey Stankevich respectively. Ying Wang received a cash of $5,000. This competition was purely based on the programming done with Java, C++, and c#, Python or VB.NET.

Google Earth now with space program

The launch of new images and features for Google Earth was lately a part of the festivities at the X Prize Cup held at Las Cruces, N.M. on October 20 to 21. Several historic and futuristic 3D space images from the Google Earth society were posted mainly for the X Prize Cup. Plus, the first same-day image of the area was then posted on Google Earth and a live Webcam of the festival was available.

This animation shows the Apollo 11 space capsule to track the moon. Apollo 11, of course, was the vehicle, which brought Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon and home.

Launch of Google Politics

Last month, Google had announced that it will form a political action committee to act in the political kingdom on behalf of the company’s interests. The group, labeled NetPAC, is now starting to endorse candidates running for office in the coming November elections.

“We started this NetPAC in order to be able to sustain office-holders and candidates who are capable of sharing our vision of promoting and preserving the Internet as a free and also open platform for information, communication and innovation.” said by Ricardo Reyes, Google’s senior manager of global communication.

Google Launches Election Guide

Google on Monday launched an election guide, which provides information from all 435 congressional districts.

The content is accessible by clicking on the place mark for every district on the Google Earth, the search engine’s mapping service. The guide for the Nov. 7 elections is obtainable under the “layers” tab of the Google Earth sidebar. In addition, the guide also offers campaign finance information from the Federal Election Commission and the Center for Responsive Politics.

Personalized Google searches for special needs

The latest service provided by Google places more control on the hands of webmasters and individual people, giving us the tools needed to generate deep searches at the drop of a hat.

Google would allow its search engine to be much customized, enabling a Web site owner to focus the site’s vast information into search results more pertinent for the users. Along with its ability to make money through ads, a Web site owner could also change the look to match their own site.

Google’s new release – web toolkit

Google engineers are striving to put a finishing touch on a new release of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT), version 1.2. Major features would include:

• Support for MacOSX as a first class advance platform
• Support for adding arbitrary widgets to a Tree
• Greatly improved act on refresh (to speed up the development cycle)
• A new HTTP section to let modification of asynchronous requests

Google launches customizable search service

Google today has launched a new search service, which enables users to restrict searches to groups of any specific pages or websites. The Google Custom Search Engine is especially designed to enable users to make their own customized search engine focused on any content they may like.

As an option, Custom Search Engines could also be monetized by way of Google AdSense program to make revenue. Google now plans to expand the offering internationally in the upcoming weeks.

Yahoo! Launches Indichat Plug-in

Yahoo! India has launched the Indichat plug-in, which enables users to chat in Hindi and Tamil without any special language keyboard. All users need to do is to load the Side Panel plug-in, and then start chatting in Hindi and Tamil.

Yahoo! India now also offers other plug-ins that facilitates chat in other Indian languages like Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, and Malayalam as well. A user with any language keyboard could now chat on Yahoo Messenger 8.0 in that language. The service would soon be rolled out in the other Indian languages as well.