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Viacom Wanted the Source Code for Google's Search Engine, But Obtained YouTube's Server Logs
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Thu, 03 Jul. 2008
In the ongoing trial between Viacom and Google, regarding the videos uploaded to YouTube that infringe Viacom's copyright, Viacom really wants to prove that the most popular videos watched at YouTube were from its programs. Viacom even claimed that Google's search results are biased to give better ranking readmore
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Google Results in Firefox's Address Bar
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Thu, 03 Jul. 2008
Ryan Wagner from CyberNet News developed CyberSearch, a Firefox extension that lets you see Google results in the address bar. The extension adds new functionality to Firefox 3's address bar, which already shows bookmarks and other pages from your web history.By default, CyberSearch is a little ineffi readmore
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Second-Class Google Citizens
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Thu, 03 Jul. 2008
Every time Google releases a new feature for Gmail, Calendar, Google Docs etc. people who use Google Apps are left wondering whether they'll get the new feature. Sometimes they have to guess addresses, like for the new mobile Google Talk. They are supposed to figure out that the Google Apps version of: http://talkga readmore
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Google Talk for iPhone
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Thu, 03 Jul. 2008
Google has finally launched a mobile version of Google Talk, but it's optimized for iPhone's browser. You can access if you go to google.com/talk on an iPhone/iPod Touch or using this permalink: http://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/m (shorter URL: http://tinyurl.com/4vnfcd). readmore
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Google Street View in France
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Wed, 02 Jul. 2008
As a special present for the upcoming Tour de France, Google added Street View imagery for Tour de France's routes. The coverage is really limited, but Google will extend it in the next months, when Street View will be avail readmore
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Mobile Google Maps with Voice Search
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Wed, 02 Jul. 2008
An obvious use of the GOOG-411 service is to add speech recognition to Google's mobile mapping application. Microsoft already has voice support in Live Search for Windows Mobile and that's an important differentiating factor when you are on the go a readmore
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Taking Features Away From Users
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Wed, 02 Jul. 2008
Ryan Singer wrote an interesting post titled "Features are a one-way street". The main idea was that "once your user base has grown beyond a certain point, you cannot take features away from them. They will freak out. Whether the feature is good or bad, once you launch it you've married it."Google is a comp readmore
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Google Docs Stats
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Tue, 01 Jul. 2008
If you publish documents at Google Docs and link them from web pages, you may wonder how many people actually view them. Google helps you find this information by placing a Google Analytics tracking code that can be connected to your account. How to get traffic stats for your documents?Just go to readmore
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The Best Firefox Extension for Google Bookmarks
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Tue, 01 Jul. 2008
If you use Google Toolbar for Firefox only because you like the bookmarking feature, there's a much better option: GMarks. While there are other ex readmore
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Adobe Helps Search Engines Find Flash Files
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Tue, 01 Jul. 2008
Adobe announced that it provided some its Flash technology to Google and Yahoo in order to improve the indexing of SWF files and especially Flex applications. "Although search engines already index static text and links within SWF files, readmore
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Google Photos?
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Mon, 30 Jun. 2008
Launched in 2006 as an online extension of the Picasa photo management application, Picasa Web Albums didn't become very popular, as Flickr continued to grow. Besides lacking a community of photography enthusiasts and leaving out a lot of basic readmore
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YouTube's Search Module
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Mon, 30 Jun. 2008
Probably as an alternative to the list of related videos displayed in a sidebar, YouTube experiments with a search box placed below the video's description. The search box doesn't load a new page to show the results, as you can see in the screenshot. readmore
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Export Data from Google's Services
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Sun, 29 Jun. 2008
Google mentioned in many occasions that it doesn't want to trap users' data and some of its services have started to provide import/export options. Here are some of the ways to export your data from Google's services:* iGoogle lets you download the list of gadgets, feeds, themes and their corresponding options if you readmore
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Google Talk Is a Social Network
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Sat, 28 Jun. 2008
I know it seems hard to believe, but your Google Talk contacts will become... your Google Friends. Everything started last year with an innocent addition to Google Reader: automatically broadcasting your shared items to your friends. If you use Google Reader, you probably noticed that you're subscribe readmore
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Major Update for Google's Blogger
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Fri, 27 Jun. 2008
It's raining with features in the experimental version of Blogger, available at http://draft.blogger.com. To try these new features, it's a good idea to visit Draft Blogger and temporarily enable "Make Blogger in Draft my de readmore
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A Media Server from Google
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Thu, 26 Jun. 2008
A surprising Google Desktop gadget released by Google enables you to share your media across devices. "Google Media Server us readmore
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Google Tests the New iGoogle
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Thu, 26 Jun. 2008
Announced in April, the new version of iGoogle that brings social applications is tested in a small number of randomly readmore
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Google Reader Is Feeling Lucky
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Thu, 26 Jun. 2008
Google Reader decided to simplify the way you add feeds. Previously, you had to click on "Add subscription" and either type the address of the site or enter some keywords. After entering some keywords like [Google blog] or [new scientist], Google Reader displayed a list of results mostly obtained using a standard web search. Basically, Google Reader took readmore
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Google Lists Your Reviews
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Thu, 26 Jun. 2008
Google gathers all your comments and reviews from services like iGoogle, Google Maps, Google Base, Google 3D Warehouse and lists them at http://www.google.com/reviews/search . readmore
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Gmail's Limitations for Sending Messages
Ionut Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Wed, 25 Jun. 2008
It's likely that a normal Gmail users didn't notice that Gmail has a lot of limitations for sending messages. Here are some of them, as mentioned in a mail from Google:- 500 messages per day (i.e., you can hit 'Send' a maximum of 500 times)- 500 unique recipients per message- 2000 total readmore
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