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Credit Cards for Adwords Customers
Google has some good news for the Adwords advertisers and the news is that it is offering credit cards with low interest rate.The credit card comes with a no annual fee and will be issued by MasterCard with a 8.99 annual percentage rate.
The card will be used by the customers to buy AdWords ads alone. The card will benefit small and medium businesses as they can able to increase their sales with ad campaigns even when they don’t have sufficient funds. Claire Johnson,vice president of Online Sales at Google says “they are resource-constrained and they are often cash flow-strapped. Many of them are trying to grow a business without the kind of means that, say, your classic company has”.
The benefits of the card will vary depending upon the cardholder and Google hasn’t disclosed to whom it plans to offer the card.Chosen customers should get an invitation from Google to start using the card.
Let us know what you readers feel about this Google’s credit offer and let us wait how it works out.
Google Withdraws Toolbar for Firefox
Google’s famous toolbar for Firefox will not be available from Firefox 5 onwards. Google toolbar for Firefox has been a very popular addon for most of the users .Google has been making a lot of changes in the recent past and it has been killing some projects and services and most notably Google Labs.
As Google has it’s own browser Firefox is definitely not it’s priority anymore. The user’s were not happy by this move from Google which was clearly evident from user’s comments in Google Blog
Multiple Calls in Gmail at the same time
We all would be well aware of the old multiple line phones with all the buttons across the bottom. Now in Google’s Gmail we can access to more than one line at a time.
The news from the official Gmail Blog states that the new multi-call capability will let the user to pick another call at the same time and put the current caller on hold. The thing is that there is no music to entertain the first caller.
You will receive a notification on the current call and then it’s up to you whether you’re going to answer it or not. Through out this year US and Canada calls using the Gmail phone will be free and all these features work with Gmail’s phone, voice and video calls.
New URL shortener from Google
A new URL shortener g.co has been unveiled by Google that will link to only Google products and websites.
The earlier URL shortener goo.gl, was launched in the year 2009 and unlike the current URL shortener it can be used for any link on the web via the Google toolbar whereas g.co will always end up at a page for a Google product or service.
Google has been using goo.gl URL shortner for all it’s products until now and they clearly want to eliminate the confusion where it leads to.Apart from Google ,twitter also has it’s own URL shortener to improve the links shared on it’s secured platform
Is Google+ female dominated?
It’s hard to believe that Google+,the new social networking site from Google is not a male dominated network. Statistics reveal that Google+ is about to reach 10million users and 33percent of users as of July 14th are female.
The methodology Allen from Ancestory.com in estimating Google+ statistics varies from other Google+ data sources. The data from US Census Bureau is being compared with Google+ users. By comparing surname popularity in the U.S. with the number of users on Google+ with each surname, he can guesstimate the percentage of the U.S. population that signed up for Google+. We’re not sure how census data can be applied to gender, especially on a social network, but we’ve reached out to Allen for additional information on how his data was composited.
The marketing services from Google has put on a lot of emphasis for women which implies that women are prime target for Google+
Google+ has totally a different interface and I think that users will find time to get adapted to it with especially facebook making a lot of changes.
Yahoo mail revamped, integrates more features
In order to survive and be a competitive player in the market Yahoo mail underwent significant changes. The new features includes a redesigned email format, an option to update Facebook and Twitter account via yahoomail platform and above all double faster service with 100 megabytes attachment capabilities. The ‘makeover’ also consist of better chatting ability with dear ones who are logged into Facebook and also improved Junk mail controls. These overhauls are mainly to get modernized with the current trends where people spend more time Social media and also due to the rivals’ constant up gradation. Though once upon a time Yahoo was much larger than its rival Google, for the past several months they are losing the grip. According to Comscore research report, yahoo faces a drop out in its subscribers whereas Gmail had grown to 220 million with 24% increased subscribers on to their credit. Russia’s most popular search engine Yandex will be offering shares double of Google’s earning.
Bing becoming more “social” with their search results
With the rapport with Facebook, Microsoft will be producing results from your friend’s circle; ie, more “Likes” in their search results. It is true that we prefer comments, advises from our buddies and also are likely to believe what they say rather what others say. With that assumption and also considering some favourable research results about “Friend effect” Bing announced on their blog “We are bringing the collective IQ of the Web together with the opinions of the people you trust the most, to bring the “Friend effect” to search”. Starting today users will get personalized search results based on the opinions of their friends by simply signing into Facebook.
This new feature of Bing will make it easier for you to view what your friends “like” across the web. This feature is quite interesting since we always wish to get advice/opinions before buying or taking a decision. But one very important fact is that you and your friends should make a big list of things of what you like so as to provide apt results for your friends also. In case, if none of your friends haven’t commented about the particular thing you are searching for, then Input from the collective IQ can enable search to become a discovery tool, allowing you to benefit from the connections, inferences and “likes” of it. Bing shows also popular content, including trendy topics, articles and Facebook fan pages, from sites across the web. The above mentioned are a few about this new “social” feature of Bing.There are lot more, visit http://binged.it/kJ6X7T
Google unveils “Chromebook”
Google introduces yet another product to their cart. Google has announced the launch of Google Chrome, a web browser based notebook. Though they had been talking about the concept for a while, now only they have announced it officially. With Google Chromebook you could read your email faster and also get access to so many applications such as games, photos, music, movies and documents irrespective of your location. This new web based PC was developed by Samsung and Acer Inc. This technology will allow users to use applications directly on the web instead of installing software such as Outlook or Word into the PC’s. The main advantage is that one need not have to worry about the hassles such as software update installation, back up files or run antivirus checks etc. The operating system and Chromebook will expand on Google’s web browser (Chrome). Chromebook will be available from June 15 in the US, U.K., France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy and Spain on a subscription model for educational institutes and corporate’s at a starting price of $20 and $28/respectively.
Bing brings new shopping experience via Bing Shopping
The new page will display popular items to make you select rather wasting time in searching. Popular products and brands are listed and displayed next to top searches with articles and reviews in order to give you an overview about all products before purchasing one. Bing also provides an option to connect your Facebook account to Bing shopping to alert you about upcoming birthdays while you shop. The products that are added to your list could also be shared with your facebook friends to get their feedback. Bing has also made some changes to the product search. Now you could get to see a larger image of the product and also you could insert your own price match in the left rail.
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.