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Google revealed some details about an upcoming mobile application that lets you upload photos and returns relevant information. Google is working on Google Visual Search, a mobile application that lets users take a picture of a location from their Android-powered smartphone and trigger a Google ...
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Google usually displays the search results in less than a second. so you rarely have to wait to see the results. Translated search , the most recent feature added to the search options sidebar, is a rare example of slow Google feature. It's also one of the most powerful features ever released by ...
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Google buys yet another company: AppJet , the start-up that created EtherPad , an innovative online word processor. The EtherPad team , that includes three former Googlers, will work on Google Wave. "Other real-time editors like Google Docs work by broadcasting an updated copy of the document ...
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If you don't like the fade-in animation from Google's homepage and you want the old homepage, one option is to disable JavaScript. Google will no longer hide navigation elements, but you won't be able to use many web apps that require JavaScript. Another option is to install a Greasemonkey ...
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If your query includes a single word or it's an expression, Google links to the definition in the blue bar that mentions the number of results. Initially, Google linked to dictionary.com, then it switched to answers.com and now it uses its own service: Google Dictionary . As mentioned in January ...
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Google launched a DNS resolving service called Google Public DNS that uses Google's infrastructure to improve page loading time. A DNS resolver converts domain names into IP addresses and this process might slow down browsing. "As the web continues to grow, greater load is placed on existing DNS ...
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Google Translated Search was launched as a Google Translate feature that helped you search in other languages. Google automated several steps that made it difficult to find information written in a language you don't know: Google translated the query, used it to obtain the search result and then ...
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Feather is a new feature from YouTube Labs. The goal is "to serve YouTube video watch pages with the lowest latency possible. It achieves this by severely limiting the features available to the viewer and making use of advanced web techniques for reducing the total amount of bytes downloaded by ...
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Google has been testing a new version of its homepage that hides the navigational elements until you use the mouse. Most people visit Google's homepage to search the Web, so the links to other Google services are distracting. After testing 10 variants of the new homepage, Google decided to keep ...
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If you like to use rich formatting when you compose Gmail's messages, but the default text style is too boring, you can change it. Go to Gmail Labs , enable "Default Text Styling" and then change the style from the settings page . You can select a different font face (including Comic Sans), ...
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A lot of web sites use Google Analytics to analyze traffic data, so the performance of Google's tracking code is very important. Google recommends to place the code just before closing the <body> tag to ensure "that the tracking code is executed as the last element of the DOM". Otherwise, ...
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Google and other search engines publish every year a list of the most popular searches, but it's not always clear how it's compiled. This year, Google explained the methodology : "To compile the 2009 Year-End Zeitgeist, we studied the aggregation of billions of queries people typed into Google ...
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One of my favorite bookmarklets translates the current web page into English using Google Translate: you can find it here . Unfortunately, Google Translate doesn't handle properly web pages dynamically generated using JavaScript. For example, if you try to translate Google Pack's Chinese ...
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Google Calendar tests a new feature that lets you view your calendar and the calendars of your guests when you create a new event. "Sneak preview" can be enabled when you click on "create event". "We're working a new feature that makes it easier to schedule events with guests. The new event page ...
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If you are logged in to a Google account and you promote a search result using the SearchWiki icons, the web page is automatically saved to Google Bookmarks . For some reason, Google labels the web page using your query, so you'll end up with a long list of labels. The list of SearchWiki ...
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If you'd like to see a favicon next to each Google Reader subscription, you can now add this feature: go to the settings page and check "Show favicons for subscriptions". Another way to enable the feature is to click on the arrow next to "Subcriptions" and select "use favicons". The feature ...
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Many Gmail interfaces lack a basic feature: adding attachments. You can't add attachments if you use Gmail's mobile app, the mobile version of Gmail, iGoogle's Gmail gadget or if you used the offline version of Gmail until today. "Starting today, attachments work just the way you would expect ...
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Google didn't do a good job at explaining the intended use of Chrome OS and many people wondered if Google's operating system is an alternative to Windows. The goal is to build "an operating system that provides a fast, simple, and more secure computing experience for people who spend most of ...
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YouTube added a feature that generates video captions . "We've combined Google's automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology with the YouTube caption system to offer automatic captions, or auto-caps for short. Auto-caps use the same voice recognition algorithms in Google Voice to automatically ...
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Google will announce more information about Chrome OS at a press event that starts at 10:00am PST. Google will offer "an update on Google Chrome OS and provide at the work that has been done thus far, an overview of the technology, and launch plans for next year. Speakers will include Sundar ...
