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Google for office
Search engine giant Google has planned to launch its new software especially designed to let small businesses run its email, calendar and other services. This software is named “Google Apps for Your Domain” and is cost free, consisting of programs designed for businesses, universities and other organizations. The best part of this software is that workers will be capable to send e-mail with Gmail, Google’s two-year-old web-based mail service with company’s domain name.
The initial version is free and the paid version that will proffer more storage, some degree of support, probably without ads. Price for this edition is not yet decided.
Google boosts Online News Index
In a bid to discover new sales channels for long-established media, Google Inc. will enlarge its online news directory to take in historical news stories. According to the Associated Press report, the news records encompasses previous articles published in The New YorkTimes, The Wall Street Journal, Time magazine and The Washington Post.
Also articles from other information warehouses like LexisNexis, Factiva and HighBeam will also be available in Google’s prolonged index.
We may start video service in Japan: Google
Google Inc. the globe’s greatest Web search engine, said on Sept 7 it was looking for partners to put in contents for a video service in Japan. Google Japan’s President Norio Murakami said video was the subsequent step for Google in Japan, following the company’s online news and book searches.
Google Video, a service at no cost commenced this year in the United States, permits users search, watch and buy television shows, music videos and other clips submitted by both companies and individuals.
Yahoo Answers Now in UK
Yahoo has extended its extremely accepted and winning social media reference offering, Yahoo Answers, into the UK today (5th September 2006). Yahoo Answers is based completely upon human generated answers to queries put up by its registered members.
This extremely wonderful plan is now flourishing and is being praised by every member who is searching for answer to specific frequently occurring questions and it’s a better place for one who wants an answer for any complicated question too.
Social Search by Yahoo!
Yahoo!, the search engine, is undulating out a new social search service and is supporting the launch with its major advertising campaign since the dotcom boom. Yahoo! Answers Which is fully prepared to launch today, is a social service that will allow user’s to ask other people’s advice and support online.
This scheme of Yahoo will allow its users to pose a question that anyone registered to the site can answer. It is the newest move in the latest fashion towards ‘social search’ services including site such as Wikipidea and YouTube, permitting people to work together and share information online.
Google Will Take Part in "The Mediterranean Travel Fair 2006"
Google inc. will take part in the upcoming Mediterranean Travel Fair in Cairo. On September 6th there’ll be a seminar taken up by the Google’s Vertical Travel Manager Michal Lorenc, to discuss about Online Advertising and the Travel Industry. This seminar will help the travel agencies and industries to learn the benefits of Online Advertisement with regards to destinations, attractions and transport.
This fair has been urbanized to offer an educational element to the event covering the industry’s newest business developments and keeping you informed with up to the minute travel associated matters. Any one can attend this seminar at no cost, seats available on first come first serve basis. The seminar room is situated on the mezzanine level of the Cairo International Convention and Exhibition Centre in Nasr City.
British Airways Teamed Up with Google Earth!
British Airways has teamed up with Google Earth which will assist the holidaymakers to use satellite technology to check out their chosen destination before they even set foot in the airport.
The modified version of Google Earth lets populace whiz in on their chosen destination and views the local attractions.
You can now detect and translate language with Google!
Google’s automatic language detection and translation service has brought a great sigh of relief to the people because it will now help people in translating text between languages. Translating text between languages is an exciting problem to solve and solving such problem is an ideal way to use some of the additional brain power that can be found now at Google.
With this service it is almost certain that one day people will only need to know a single language to access everything on the Internet, a service like this is a wonderful beginning to that end.
Yahoo mobile service soon on Windows smartphones
Yahoo will now have its mobile service available for download on phones that use Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating system.
The most popular Internet media company launched its Yahoo Go service, earlier this year. This service permits cell phones access the company’s email, digital photo service and web search. Yahoo’s wonderful mobile service is available on some phones made by Motorola.
You can now download books from Google!
There is a wonderful opportunity for google users, Google has now expanded its controversial book search service to permit populace to download the entire copies of books in PDF to their computers, and you can also print them out. Before these books were allowed for reading purpose and now it can be easily downloaded. Smith said “only the books which are available in the public domain and thus unprotected by copyright can be downloaded.”




