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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 ...
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Google Chrome OS Press Event
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For many people web addresses aren't very useful and that's why they continue to use their favorite search engine to search for [yahoo], [youtube] or [facebook] instead of typing the obvious web addresses. Some web sites use breadcrumbs for navigation. "Breadcrumbs typically appear horizontally ...
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Search Engine Roundtable spotted a new flavor of
Google AdSense ads: featured ads. The ads include a
yellow star similar to the one used for bookmarks in Google Toolbar, Firefox and Google Chrome. According to the description from "Google in your ...
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Google Tests Featured Ads
Google released a new Google Labs experiment related to image search: Google Image Swirl . The service "organizes image search results based on their visual and semantic similarities and presents them in an intuitive exploratory interface." Google Image Swirl clusters the top image search ...
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googlesystem.blogspot.com - 4 days ago
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When Google Chrome launched, many people complained that
the browser didn't detect feeds. Apparently, this feature has
been implemented in an extension that will come preinstalled in Google Chrome. The extension "adds a button to the URL bar when a ...
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Google Chrome Feed Preview
Google Translate has a new design and some new features. The service translates your text as you type, so you no longer have to click on "Translate" every time you edit the text. Getting real-time feedback helps you improve the original text and get a better translation. If you translate a ...
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If you're curious to see which web pages
are voted in SearchWiki at the moment, add the
SearchWiki Live Stream gadget to iGoogle. The canvas view shows the query that triggered each search results. I tried to see if the gadget shows all the ...
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SearchWiki Live Stream
Google confirms the acquisition of Gizmo5 , a proprietary SIP soft phone. "The Gizmo5 network uses open standards for call management, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). However, the Gizmo5 client application is proprietary software and uses ...
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Google's document viewer has a better search feature: you no longer have to manually locate the matches in the document. After performing a search, press Enter repeatedly to find the matches or click on the arrows placed below the search box. The document viewer is used for the PDF files ...
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As previously anticipated , Google added a feature that lets you lock SafeSearch filtering. Google says that "SafeSearch screens for sites that contain explicit sexual content and deletes them from your search results". SafeSearch could be easily disabled from Google's preferences page, so now ...
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Google Latitude added two new applications that make location tracking more useful: history and alerts . Google Latitude History stores your locations and lets you visualize them on a map. You can remove some of the locations and export the history to a KML file. At the moment, you are the ...
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Flemming Steffensen found an undocumented trick that lets you customize a Google Docs form by injecting CSS. Let's assume that the URL of your form is: https://spreadsheets.google.com/embeddedform?key=0Ato1MNFt5ld1cExhRTl0c1ZMcF8zcWZJRTNPSGhLQkE You can add some new CSS rules as a value of the ...
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Some smart Google engineers decided that it's time to address the limitations of C and C++ by designing a new programming language: Go . Go was born out of frustration with existing languages and environments for systems programming. Programming had become too difficult and the choice of ...
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Google updated the pricing for the additional storage
you can buy in Gmail and Picasa Web Albums.
Storage Price (per year) 20 GB $5 80 GB $20 200 GB $50 400 GB $100 1 TB $256 2 TB $512 4 TB $1024 8 TB $2048 16 ...
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Google Calendar's gallery of interesting calendars lets you add some useful features: show week numbers, the day of the week, sunrise and sunset time for your location. Some of these features should be available as options because they're difficult to find in the list of calendars and they ...
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Google acquired AdMob , a mobile ad company well-known for its innovative solutions to monetize iPhone apps and iPhone-optimized web sites. "AdMob is the world's largest mobile advertising marketplace, offering solutions for discovery, branding and monetization on the mobile web." "Publishers ...
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googlesystem.blogspot.com - 11 days ago
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A Google Docs error message has an interesting
suggestion: "If you are running a Google Docs experiment,
turn it off." Google Docs will probably add a Labs section with experimental features, much like Gmail Labs and Google Calendar Labs . Here's ...
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Google Docs Labs?
googlesystem.blogspot.com - 13 days ago
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Gmail Chat, the web-based version of Google Talk,
added last year voice and video chat . The
feature is now available in iGoogle and orkut , but it will probably be added to other Google services, as well. SFGate reports that Google will improve the ...
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Google Talk to Add Video Conferencing
Google received many complaints that Google Toolbar is not available for Chrome, so it created a page meant to convince users that "many Toolbar features are already built right into Google Chrome". The page explains that Google Chrome already includes a search box, a pop-up blocker, a new tab ...
