Google Gives Real-Time Search New Tools and its Own Home. Google just announced a major update to its real-time search functionality. Google already displayed real-time search results inside its regular search results pages and offered users the option to see real-time updates through an option in the search options sidebar.
Today, Google has given real-time search its own home on www.google.com/realtime and added a number of new tools. Now, Google Realtime Search offers users the ability to refine searches by location and see updates in a conversations view. In addition, you can now subscribe to real-time search results through Google Alerts. Google's real-time search displays results from news sources and blogs, as well as from Twitter, Buzz and Facebook. Besides displaying real-time search results in a constantly refreshing stream, Google Realtime Search also offers a "replay" feature that allows users to dig into the company's archive to see how conversations about a given topic developed in the past.
Google blocks Android games in South Korea. “Free Isn’t Free”: Microsoft Trying To Make Android More Costly With Patent Suit. News broke yesterday that Microsoft was suing Motorola for Android-related patent infringements. Microsoft said in a blog post that its patents cover a range of software functions used by Android devices (presumably this would apply to the iPhone as well): The Microsoft innovations at issue in this case help make smartphones “smart.” Indeed, our patents relate to key features that users have come to expect from every smartphone. The ability to send and receive email on-the-go has driven smartphone adoption . . . Of course, for certain apps to run efficiently on handheld devices, they must be notified of changes in signal strength and battery power and the device must manage memory for storing data.
Given the wide range of functionality smartphones offer, they also need to be able to display relevant choices for users efficiently. The Microsoft-Motorola litigation is a virtual mirror of a similar suit by Apple against HTC. Image credit: Motorola. Google Kite images come to Google Earth. Google has started to add photographs taken from a kite to Google Earth, with the images coming from one of its own bloggers. The images are from Google Earth blogger Frank Taylor who is on a five-year trip around the world by boat. "I'm taking photos of the Earth in some places along the way just like what you see in Google Earth," said Taylor on the Google Earth blog. "Only, some of the photos are even better than what you normally see because we are flying a camera only a few hundred feet above the ground with a kite. " Kite capture As the photos were done by kite, there were a few things which had to be considered, like electricity pylons. But Taylor does explain how he managed to get round the problem and at the same time interact with French Polynesian villagers of Manihi – the place he was taking images of.
"My goal was to capture parts of the village near the pass into the lagoon," said Taylor. "We had time to walk down the main street on the north side. Via twitlonger.com * This. Via The Official Google Blog. Google Offers Satellite Images of Haiti, Post-Earthquake. In the immediate aftermath of a 7.0 earthquake that caused an unbelievable amount of destruction to Haiti's capital, Google has been asked by relief organizations and users to show images of what's actually happening on the ground. In partnership with geospatial imagery company GeoEye, Google has just released a new layer for Google Earth showing post-earthquake devastation.
Haiti was first added to Google Map Maker in response to hurricanes that wreaked havoc on the country more than a year ago. Read on for before-after pictures and details. The Red Cross has stated that as many as 3 million Haitians have been affected by the earthquake, with as many as 100,000 deaths likely, according to Haiti's prime minister. Since the quake's epicenter was right off the capital city, Port-au-Prince, most of the official buildings, from government officials' residences to jails and hospitals, have been significantly damaged or completely leveled.
Google's imagery shows exactly that: (BN) Google Said to Have Tried to Enlist Companies as Allies Aft. Kim (9) - Google Wave. As we announced in August 2010, we are not continuing active development of Google Wave as a stand-alone product. Google Wave will be shut down in April 2012. This page details the implication of the turn down process for Google Wave. Stage 1: Google Wave is read-only -- January 31, 2012 In this stage, you will no longer be able to create or edit waves.
Marking a wave as read will also not be saved. Robots that try to write to a wave will stop functioning. During this time, you will continue to be able to export your waves using the existing PDF export feature. If you want to continue using Wave, there is an open source project called Walkaround that includes an experimental feature to import all your waves from Google. Cloud Computing. What Does Clam Chowder & the Google Wave API Have in Common? Bos. I've always been a fan of Boston, Massachusetts. If I could dig it up and transport it to an eternally warm weather location, it would rank in my top 3 of best cities in the world. It's filled with history (really gruesome stuff like the Salem Witch trials) and creative intellect (the MIT Media Lab is like a playground for nerds), and conveniently enough, 2 members of my immediate family (3, counting my kitty).
So, I like to visit it whenever I'm in the states, and since there is now a Massachusetts GTUG, I took the opportunity to co-organize a Google Wave APIs hackathon with them (using a wave to plan it, of course). On the day of the event, about 60 developers showed up (including my sister, a Drupal developer), and they filled the office cafe up nicely with their laptops and power cords. I kicked it off with a talk called "Understanding & Extending Wave", then Brian Kennish led them through a coding walkthrough of the "click me" gadget and Embeddy robot. Google Buzz Getting Smoked In The Sharing Race By A Dead Man. Update: See this post for a likely explanation on why Buzz appears to be sending almost no traffic referrals.
It is, in essence, a black hole. In the 2000 elections, incumbent Republican Senator John Ashcroft was defeated by Governor Mel Carnahan in the race for one of Missouri’s U.S. Senate seats. The only problem? Carnahan was dead. I’m reminded of this while looking over the traffic logs for TechCrunch, because it appears that someone else is losing to a dead rival: Google Buzz. But apparently, a ghost town still sends more traffic than the much buzzed-about Buzz.
Looking over a handful of popular stories on TechCrunch over the past month, Google Buzz is nowhere to be seen anywhere near the top referrers. All that being said, there is evidence that Buzz is helping to boost sharing on Google Reader, because it did help make Google Profiles more social. While it may be a ghost town, FriendFeed remains the example of what Buzz should be when it comes to sharing content. [image: Miramax] Attack on Google exploited browser flaw: McAfee. PRESS RELEASE Tue 7 Dec 15.55 GMT Julian Assange Defense Fund frozen. The Swiss Bank Post Finance. 6th December 2010 from Twitlonger PRESS RELEASE Tue 7 Dec 15.55 GMT Julian Assange Defense Fund frozen. The Swiss Bank Post Finance today issues a press release stating that it had frozen Julian Assange's defense fund and personal assets (31K EUR) after reviewing him as a "high profile" individual. The technicality used to seize the defense fund was that Mr. Assange, as a homeless refugee attempting to gain residency in Switzerland, had used his lawyers address in Geneva for the bank's correspondence.
Late last week, the internet payment giant PayPal, froze 60Keur of donations to the German charity the Wau Holland Foundation, which were targeted to promote the sharing of knowledge via WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks and Julian have lost 100Keur in assets this week. One of the most fascinating aspects of the Cablegate exposure is how it is throwing into relief the power dynamics between supposedly independent states like Switzerland, Sweden and Australia.
China Says Internet Firms Abiding by Its Laws Welcome (Update1) A make-shift shrine outside the Google Beijing office People congregate outside the Google Beijing office A message of support for Google Inc. People inside the Google office in Beijing The Chinese flag outside the Google Beijing office Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Ben McLannahan of the Financial Times' Lex commentary team talks with Bloomberg's Linzie Janis about Google Inc.' Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) -- China, in a veiled response to the announcement by Google Inc. that it will stop censoring its Chinese Web site, said it welcomed global Internet companies provided they obey laws that restrict their content. “The Chinese government administers the Internet according to law and we have explicit stipulations over what content can be spread on the Internet,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said at a regular briefing in Beijing today.
Google said Jan. 12 in a blog posting that it had been subjected to “highly sophisticated” cyber attacks originating from China. Unfiltered Searches --Michael Forsythe. 10 handy tips for Google Chrome beginners. Google's Chrome browser is marketed as a streamlined browser that removes all unnecessary bloat in order to maximise its speed on the web. But its lack of bells and whistles shouldn't be misinterpreted as a lack of functionality. There are still plenty of ways that you can tweak Chrome to suit your own surfing habits.. 1. Useful Chrome shortcuts As with other browsers, you can use keyboard shortcuts to save time. Use [Ctrl]+[B] to toggle the Bookmarks bar, [Shift]+[Esc] to open Chrome's Task Manager and [Ctrl]+[J] to bring up the Downloads window. There are also plenty of tab-related shortcuts: [Ctrl]+[T] opens a new tab, [Ctrl]+[N] opens a new window, [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[T] reopens the last-closed tab, [Ctrl]+[Tab] cycles through open tabs and [Ctrl]+[W] closes the current tab. 2.
Google is, of course, best known for its search engine, and Chrome aims to make search as easy as possible. 3. 4. Got a set of sites you visit every day? 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Murdoch's Next Step: Hiding UK Times Articles from Search Engine. In four weeks, The Times' network of news sites will no longer allow search engines to index its articles. Rupert Murdoch has long threatened to hide some of the news sites in his media empire from search engines such as Google.
It seems he's finally ready to walk the walk. The folks from PaidContent saw a preview of the two upcoming redesigns, and the future is indeed looking bleak for non-paying customers. Visitors who aren't members will be greeted with a login screen and will be unable to view articles. According to Assistant Editor of The Times Tom Whitwell, the reason you won't be able to search for articles is to strengthen the distinction between paying and non-paying customers.
“The clarity is something that was very important. The question is: How will The Times attract new readers?