New Google Search to affect Copyright offenders

Google today announced that it will update its search Algorothm to ignore or lower the search results of web domains with high number of copyright removal notices.

Starting next week, we will begin taking into account a new signal in our rankings: the number of valid copyright removal notices we receive for any given site.

Since last year the company has been gathering data(complaints) from Copyright owners.  Couple of months back Google published this data in its Google Transparency Report .

At this moment the Top 10 affected domains are ..

Google Glass Trackpad spotted in a demo by Sergey Brin [Video]

On promoting the company's sci-fi-inspired eyewear 'Project Glass', Sergey Brin( who has been working seriously on the project from an year ) appeared on The Gavin Newsom’s Current TV talk show Wednesday, May 23 along with his wife, Anne Wojcicki.

On the show, Brin demoed how the Google Glass interface is navigated.

Sergey also told Newsom that Google X is now his primary focus at Google. His team has been working on the glasses for two to three years, and Brin as been involved for the past year. Brin also explains why Google is working on the technology: “The idea is that you want to be free to experience the world without futzing with a phone.”

Google Project Glass Progress: More photos and a sample video released

Google Project glass an augmented reality head-mounted display got attention of the public in recent months because the project is being carried out by Google and also  slim design of the prototype.

Although many of the augmented reality experts aurged on the concept video of project glass saying that it is not possible on such a small device and may effect the eye.

Irrespective of this critisism the company has been testing the glasses in very public ways over the past couple of months. Google co-founder Sergey Brin showed off the glasses at a charity event in April and a group of employees at Google have published a series of photos from an event this week "Google Glass Walk".

Google also posted a sample video from its Project Glass Device on Goolge+.The video, just 15 seconds long and shot in 720P, shows what it's like to be on a trampoline while using Project Glass.

Google offering indians Free .in domain for one year

India Get Your Business Online

Google offering a first-of-its kind program to offer free websites, domain & hosting services to small medium businesses in India. Designed with local partners, the program provides Indian businesses the tools and resources to establish a website, find new customers, and grow their businesses.

People who want to get there free domain has to logon to www.indiagetonline.in and provide their PAN card no. (this is to identify you as citizen of india)

The features available to those who will register successful are

And Finally Google+ Pages are Here

The long waited feature of the new social network is available from today.

As everybody know about facebook pages, people are very much expected the same from Goolge+.Giving a break to this, Google yesterday introduced Google+ Business Pages or simply Pages.

This is how a G+ page looks like https://plus.google.com/b/115986030712259484018/

 Vic Gundotra, Senior Vice President of Engineering Google+ said

Google+ has always been a place for real-life sharing, and Google+ Pages is no exception. After all: behind every page (or storefront, or four-door sedan) is a passionate group of individuals, and we think you should able to connect with them too.

"G+ an identity service | No one is forcing you to use it " says Eric Smidth

 " G+ was build primarily as an identity service, so fundamentally, it depends on people using their real names if they're going to build future products that leverage that information. "

" G+ is completely optional. No one is forcing you to use it "

These comments are by Eric Schmidt at the Edinburgh TV Festival yesterday 

Via Andy Carvin

Google+ Updated : Verified Public Figures like in Twitter

Google+ is now verifying celebrities and popular people who are featured in too many Circles and awarding them with a ‘verified’ badge for followers to know they are really following who they think they are following. 

Google Maps Updated : Weather forecast added

Yesterday Google updated Maps to show weather conditions and forecast for next four days.

If you select the weather layer on Google Maps you can view the current temperature and weather conditions for where ever you are. You can also see the current cloud coverage for the whole world.




If you want a weather forecast for a location you can also click on the weather icon for a particular city. An info window will then open with a detailed summary of current humidity and wind conditions, as well as a forecast for the next four days. 

Pierre de Fermat : Todays' Google Doodle -17 Aug 2011

Today, Aug 17 2011, is the 410th Birthday of Pierre de Fermat (17 August 1601 or 1607/8 – 12 January 1665)  who was a was a French lawyer and an amateur mathematician whose  early developments that led to infinitesimal calculus.

Google commemorated the 410th birthday of Pierre de Fermat by drawing a Google Doodle that demonstrating a class room board on which an equation is written with Google. When you hover your mouse over the Doodle the text comes up “I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this theorem, which this doodle is too small to contain”.

He is recognized for his discovery of an original method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved lines, which is analogous to that of the then unknown differential calculus, as well as his research into number theory. He made notable contributions to analytic geometry, probability, and optics. He is best known for Fermat's Last Theorem, which he described in a note at the margin of a copy of Diophantus' Arithmetica.

via Wikipedia 

Google to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion.:Live Conference Call

Listn Here the Conference Call

Press Release :

Google to Acquire Motorola Mobility

Combination will Supercharge Android, Enhance Competition, and Offer Wonderful User Experiences

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA and LIBERTYVILLE, IL – AUGUST 15, 2011 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MMI) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire Motorola Mobility for $40.00 per share in cash, or a total of about $12.5 billion, a premium of 63% to the closing price of Motorola Mobility shares on Friday, August 12, 2011. The transaction was unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies.

The acquisition of Motorola Mobility, a dedicated Android partner, will enable Google to supercharge the Android ecosystem and will enhance competition in mobile computing. Motorola Mobility will remain a licensee of Android and Android will remain open. Google will run Motorola Mobility as a separate business.

Larry Page​, CEO of Google, said, “Motorola Mobility’s total commitment to Android has created a natural fit for our two companies. Together, we will create amazing user experiences that supercharge the entire Android ecosystem for the benefit of consumers, partners and developers. I look forward to welcoming Motorolans to our family of Googlers.”

Sanjay Jha, CEO of Motorola Mobility, said, “This transaction offers significant value for Motorola Mobility’s stockholders and provides compelling new opportunities for our employees, customers, and partners around the world. We have shared a productive partnership with Google to advance the Android platform, and now through this combination we will be able to do even more to innovate and deliver outstanding mobility solutions across our mobile devices and home businesses.”

Andy Rubin​, Senior Vice President of Mobile at Google, said, “We expect that this combination will enable us to break new ground for the Android ecosystem. However, our vision for Android is unchanged and Google remains firmly committed to Android as an open platform and a vibrant open source community. We will continue to work with all of our valued Android partners to develop and distribute innovative Android-powered devices.”

The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including the receipt of regulatory approvals in the US, the European Union and other jurisdictions, and the approval of Motorola Mobility’s stockholders. The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2011 or early 2012.

Gmail’s New Sign-in Page: Preview it

 

Google is redesigning Sign-in page for Gmail and for other products Google Docs and YouTube services, this is part of redesign of Google products with launch of Google+. If you land into Gmail homepage you’ll find a link(like the above image) at the bottom to preview Gmail’s new sign-in page. Once you click it, you’ll be switched to new sign-in page and it will become your default sign-in page across all Google products that currently have new design enabled. 

You can also switch back to old page by clicking “Back to old page” option at the bottom. If you switch the browsers, the old page might come up again. These design changes shouldn’t affect your bookmarks,  they’ll work same as before at the same URL.

Google real time search to come again live soon :Mashable

[Mashable]:Google Realtime Search is coming back soon, and it will include data from Google+ and other social sources.

Google+ Android app updated :Whats New

Google plus for Android updated to version 1.0.5

 

The new update includes some of the features that a lot of early adopters were requesting like leaving a 1 to 1 Huddle room, clickable link in the huddle conversations,

New Google Search UI for Tablets

a new and improved search interface

Google got new search interface on tablets as part of their Google design and experience, The new interface results are be simplified and the buttons are easier to tap and the image previews are larger and thumbnails will load faster with the great continuous scrolling feature.

Google Man : Microsofts satirical Video on Gmail service privacy

Microsoft satirical Video shared the funny take on Google’s email service approach to privacy at its recent Microsoft Global Exchange sales conference. 

Pixazza rebrands as Luminate

Pixazza is losing its unwieldy name as the company looks to evolve from being a photo ad network that specialized in tagging jpegs and gifs for direct response in-image purchases, to a wider platform for sharing, indexing and creating apps for online pictures. 

Google+ namming policy irritating,Google Admits

After hundreds of complaints from its users Goolge+ finally admitted about their missteps in the policy .

In a Google+ post published late yesterday, Bradley Horowitz, Vice President

Google+ deleting accounts with fake names..

Google is strictly against fake identity on its brand new social network. This was evident through the striking number of Google+ accounts that it had deleted in the past 24 hours.

Google acquired PittPatt for facial recognition in mobile

 

Google the Internet Gaint made another acqusition this month, now it is a face recognisation based company PittPatt.This month Google had a couple of acquisitions.Earlier to this it bought Fridge for their brand pages

Google accquired Fridge to build groups in Google+

Group social-networking site Fridge yesterday posted in its blog that it is closing up shop and joining Google.

New York-based Fridge, which offered a simple and pretty group communication tool with photo-sharing and event-planning features, had raised some curiosity when it told members last week via email that it was shutting down its product.