Jumaat, Ogos 01, 2008

Google Friends Newsletter - July 2008

POWER TIP

Mobile app for iPhone now available

If you have an iPhone, you can now use the Google Mobile App to search faster than ever - not only the web, but in your contacts as well. It also integrates Google Suggest, meaning some of the most popular queries will auto-complete. It's available through the App Store on your iPhone.
http://www.google.com/mobile/apple

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NEW PRODUCTS & UPDATES

Share and gain knowledge using Knol

This month we launched a new service called Knol that makes it much easier to author and share information on the web. You can write authoritative articles (a.k.a. knols) on a subject you know about, and then share your knowledge with everyone. Each knol identifies an author or group of authors, and readers can clearly see who wrote it and their credentials. You can also comment, rate, or review a knol. Using a new feature called "moderated collaboration," readers can even edit a knol directly. Then the author can decide whether to take the suggestions into account.
http://knol.google.com

Elections Video Search gadget

Using our own state-of-the-art speech recognition technologies, videos from politicians' YouTube channels are automatically transcribed from speech to text and indexed. Using the gadget, you can search not only the titles and descriptions of the videos, but also their spoken content. And since speech recognition tells us exactly *when* words are spoken in the video, you can jump right to the most relevant parts.
http://tinyurl.com/6rjakw

Chat in 3D using Lively

Lively by Google lets you design your own virtual rooms and chat and interact with your friends in 3D. You can also create and personalize your own chat avatar. Lively is a great new way for you to meet and connect with people who share your interests: when browsing your favorite blogs or websites, you can now join Lively rooms embedded into the sites.
http://www.lively.com

Get walking directions on Google Maps

You can now get walking directions on Google Maps that include the most direct, flat route, as well as the best use of pedestrian pathways. But you don't have to just be going on a walk to benefit from this new service; it's also helpful if you're using Google Maps for public transit directions and want the best way to get from one stop to another.
http://maps.google.com

Explore the Tour de France with Street View

You can now (virtually) ride in the Tour de France using Street View on Google Maps. If you're a sports fan, this is a great new way to experience the famous race. If you enjoy nature and the outdoors, you can explore France's scenic countryside. If you're curious about French cities and cafes, here's an opportunity for you to see them up close. Whatever your interest, this is guaranteed to be an exciting
ride!
http://google.com/tourdefrance2008

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MISCELLANY

We spend a lot of time thinking about, you guessed it, search. Over the last decade, search technologies have significantly improved, and user expectations have greatly increased along the way. We work hard to fulfill the expectations of each and every user, and to do that we're constantly pushing the technologies for understanding the pages, the queries, and our users further. But search is an ongoing challenge because there is *so* much out there. To give you an idea of the scope, a few hundreds of millions of times a day people will ask Google questions, and within a fraction of a second Google needs to decide which among the billions of pages on the web to show you - and in what order. We know we have to continue to work hard to meet the challenge, and for us that's half the fun. We've recently been posting about what's under the hood as we work to improve the quality and speed of our search experience. Visit the Official Google Blog to read more.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/search/label/search

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