Google+ will be available on google apps

Good news for Google Apps users: your pleas to get access to Google+, the search titan's latest foray into social networking, have been heard.

In a public-facing note on the service yesterday, Google's president of enterprise, Dave Girouard, said that the company is working to make Google+ available to Google Apps users. Google Apps is Google's customizable version of the company's various productivity services including Gmail, Calendar, Talk, Docs and Groups.

"Sorry for the delay," Girouard wrote. "We need to do it right!"

No estimate was given for how long it will be until that happens, nor was any insight offered on how Google plans to handle sharing in what could be a company's private network with public circles.

Google+ was launched late last month as part of a "field trial period", and continues to be a closed service unless you have an invite, or sign up to eventually get access. The service has drawn many comparisons to Facebook and even Twitter in offering users a place to share and view content in a stream with others with whom they've made connections. Google has built it up with tie-ins to a number of its other services and technologies like Gmail, Picasa, YouTube and Google Talk.

Google acquires LabPixies

Google loves to build platforms on which programs run--Android, App Engine, iGoogle, and in the biggest picture, the Web itself. But platforms are of no use, and aren't much fun, without applications on top, so Google often also kick-starts development with applications of its own.Now it appears Google is interested in boosting development in a variety of casual gaming and entertainment areas with the acquisition of LabPixies, announced late Monday. The company offers a collection of games and lightweight utilities that run on iGoogle, Google's customizable home page, and on the iPhone and Android phones.iGoogle uses the OpenSocial foundation for applications. That's also used by Yahoo, Hi5, MySpace, and Orkut, meaning that OpenSocial gadgets will run on all those social-networking services. LabPixies also develops applications that run on Facebook's platform. Google launched iGoogle in 2005 and has been gradually improving it since then.

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Gmail is now in indian languages

Here is some good news for all you Indians out there who always wanted to email your friends and family in your native language. Google has launched a new feature in Gmail that makes it easy to type out emails in Indian languages. When you compose a new mail in Gmail, you will now see an icon with an Indian character. This feature is enabled by default for Gmail users in India. If you do not see this function enabled by default, you will need to go to the “Settings” page and enable this option in the “Language” section. Gmail currently supports five Indian languages — Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam — and you can select the language of your choice from the drop-down list next to the icon. You can pick from the following:

Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian, Oriya, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, UK English, US English, Ukrainian, or Vietnamese.

To change the language view in Gmail, you have to do the following:

1. Sign in to Gmail.
2. Click Settings at the top of any Gmail page.
3. Select a language from the Gmail display language: drop-down menu in the Language section.
4. Click Save Changes.

Google,Microsoft to clean up the web

As all we know that,whenever a person searches something on the internet it sees a lot of pages for its corresponding search.The msot frustrating thing that any user found about these pages,that many of them contain the same content that means there exists a lot of duplicate content on the internet.But now Google,Microsoft and Yahoo decided to take measures on this,according to them support a new web standard that will allow millions of publishers to remove duplicate pages from their websites. As a result of that, search engines would be able to make their search results more comprehensive.According to Google,this problem arises due to the e-commerce companies that having multiple URLs that all point to the same page.Now to cope up with this problem Google came up with a simple way for web publishers to indicate when a URL is a duplicate, and if so, which is the principal, or "canonical," URL that search engines should be indexing.Now after this all search engines start modifying their search engine in this way.

Indian Version of YouTube

As all we know every internet user is aware of the what the Google is and the various products of Google like Orkut, Google earth, Gmail, Youtube and many more. Here I am going to told you something about the world's most visited website for online videos i.e youtube.com. Now youtube going to take the Indian version that means its Indian version is going to be launched in form of youtube.co.in which promotes an entirely local experience highlighting and featuring the content and functionality most desired by Indian users.

As all we know what Youtube is, the most popular online video community that allows people to discover, watch and share originally created content, announced the launch of its local Indian site.YouTube India features a localized homepage and search functions, allowing users to create and share videos, discover the most popular and relevant videos in India, and connect with other Indian and global users. Steve Chen the cofounder of Youtube is very excited about the launching the indian version of youtube.They said its a new experience to bring a local version of YouTube to India considering the passion of users here for music and entertainment.

In addition to all the international features some new local features are also added to this new version such as promoted videos, featured videos, and homepage promotions, localised user interface and help center. In addition to this, site also tries to facilitate connections among the large Indian NRI community. In India, YouTube has already signed partnerships with Eros Entertainment, Rajshri Films, IIFA, Ministry of Tourism, IIT Delhi, NDTV, UTV, Zoom TV, India TV and Krishcricket, to name a few, and will continue to work with a range of partners, across a range of genres, to bring Indian content to more people in new ways.

Gmail is now ok as always

As all we know friends on 10the august at 2100 GMT, or 1400 PST their occur some problem in the gmail accounts.Gmail users across the United States, Canada and India are unable to access their online emails.After that a Google employee also reported that the company's own corporate email account was down. After one day this is known that this problem exists due to outage in the contacts system used by Gmail and prevented the email system from loading properly.After that Google officials said that there may be minor delays in deliveries even though all mail is safe.Now this problem is resolved said by a Google official and he also added that it has resolved an issue with its contacts system that caused many users of its Gmail service to have trouble accessing their online email.Now our Gmail is OK as always.

Google Browser goes live

Google Inc's new browser software is designed to work "invisibly" and will run any application that runs on Apple Inc's Safari Web browser, company officials said on Tuesday.The company said the new Web browser, dubbed Google Chrome -- a long-anticipated move to compete with Microsoft Corp, Mozilla Firefox and other browsers -- is now available for download at www.google.com/chrome/.The public trial of the Google browser will be available in 43 languages in 100 countries, Sundar Pichai, Google's vice president of product management said at a news conference at the company's Mountain View, California headquarters.

"You actually spend more time in your browser than you do in your car," Brian Rakowski, group product manager for the browser project, said of the significance of offering a faster browser and forcing greater competition in the market.Google Chrome relies on Apple's WebKit software for rendering Web pages, he said. It also has taken advantage of features of community-developed browser Firefox from Mozilla Corp. Google is a primary financial backer of Mozilla."If you are Webmaster, and your site works in Apple Safari then it will work very well in Google Chrome," Pichai said.Officials said Chrome's code would be fully available for other developers to enhance.

A Google official said it planned to share code that makes Chrome work with WebKit openly with other WebKit open source developers.Apple WebKit is widely used by Web developers, not simply for Apple applications like the iPhone but also by Google itself with its mobile phone software, called Android.It is probably worth noting that they (Mozilla Corp) are across the street and they come over here for lunch," Brin said of Mozzilla employees visits to cafeterias at the Googleplex headquarters. "I hope we will have more and more unity over time."Chrome introduces various features that promise to make Web browsing faster, more secure and stable. The browser allows users to keep working even when one of its open windows crashes.
Chrome is designed to take advantage of multi-core chips, recently offered by Intel Corp and Advanced Micro Devices, which allow computers to handle multiple processes simultaneously and with greater speed, Google engineers said.

Microsoft, Google fight over Yahoo

Google and Microsoft will spar today at a congressional hearing called to examine whether Google's revenue-sharing deal with No 2 search rival Yahoo will harm competition. Google, with more than 60 per cent of the Web search market, and Yahoo, with 16.6 per cent, announced a deal on June 12 that would allow Yahoo to place Google advertisements on its site and collect the revenue.The deal, which the firms have said would garner Yahoo at least $250 million in the first year, was widely seen as an effort by Yahoo to fend off Microsoft's on-again, off-again efforts to buy all or part of Yahoo.

Microsoft's most recent offer to acquire Yahoo's search business was rejected by Yahoo. Google chief legal officer David Drummond, defending his company's deal with Yahoo in written testimony for Tuesday's hearing, took a shot at Microsoft's 90 per cent share of the personal computer operating system market."Dominance of the desktop can let one company favor its own products and services and obstruct the interoperability of competing products or services, overriding the desires of consumers," said Drummond in testimony prepared for the Senate Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel.Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith hit back, saying Google's deal would reduce Yahoo's incentive to compete against Google, would push Yahoo's search advertising platform into a downward spiral and establish an illegal price floor."When it comes to the issues before this subcommittee, Google should not be allowed to achieve an outcome through an agreement that it would not be permitted to achieve otherwise," said Smith in his written testimony.


The revenue-sharing deal has not been implemented by Google and Yahoo while they wait for an opinion from the Justice Department's Antitrust Division. Several state attorney generals have expressed concern about the arrangement."Microsoft believes the Google/Yahoo deal harms competition in several critical ways. Advertisers and online content providers would be harmed through price coordination that will establish higher prices and limit choice," said Smith. "Consumers would be put at risk as Google expands its ability to collect the personal information of users passing through its search gateway. On an even more fundamental level, Google's monopoly power would increase its ability to shape what people get to see and experience online."

Google launches free music service

Its really a good news for all the music lovers that Google is going launch a music search service that will give users access to free downloads of licenced songs, while capturing advertising revenue for music providers in a market rife with piracy.Initially this service is going to start only in China.The main reason behind the launching of this service is the Baidu.com china's top search engine and dominates China's Internet search market, but now Baidu.com along with other Chinese search providers, faced lawsuits charging that it facilitates copyright violations through downloads of unlicensed music.
The service that Google is going to provides its users in China can search tens of thousands of Chinese songs by singer or song title on its website and download them from Top100.cn.As all we know that downloads of unlicensed music and videos are rampant in China,as China is the world's biggest Internet market by number of users. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry has estimated that more than 99 per cent of all music files distributed in China are pirated.On the launching of this service Google China President Kai-fu Lee said in a statement. "Google always believes profoundly that mutual interest, rather than monopoly, is the key to sustainable growth."

Let see what will happen in future.Please share your comments with us, we are waiting.

Google and Yahoo join hands

The hottest news of this week from the field of technology is the agreement of Yahoo and Google on their advertising partnership.Currently this agreement is valid only in United States and Canada.On the other hand Microsoft Corporation have claimed that Google already controls 70 percent of the Web search ad market and that a Yahoo deal would give Google control over 90 percent of the market.Under this agreement Google would supply Yahoo with advertising services to run alongside Yahoo's own Web search system. Yahoo runs the Web's second most popular search service.
Google and Yahoo have sought to portray the partnership as a non-exclusive arrangement in which Yahoo is effectively contracting with Google to sell ads alongside a portion of its search results.With this agreement now Yahoo can focus on other aspects of its business where it is more strongly positioned.Neither Google nor Yahoo told about the financial terms and the extent of other ties between the two.While the contract reveals details of previously disclosed plans to make Yahoo Messenger and Google Talk, the companies' instant messaging (IM) systems, work together, it redacts four of the five other points in this "other business" section.