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An Unofficial blog for Google Inc. Know everything about Google. Inside and Outside story...Gautam Kishorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13327364342401395349noreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14344527.post-64355074723607513652009-01-31T07:18:00.001-08:002009-01-31T11:09:05.399-08:00Google may harm your computer?Something very unseen and unexpected is happening around the web while I am writing this post. I searched for some term on mighty Google.com and all the results came with "<span style="font-weight: bold;">This site may harm your computer</span>" link. I tried searching same text on some other computers and operating systems and even gave a call to few friends to check it. It is returning the same erratic result set. I searched for the term "Google" and the result is (Screenshot below)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgflueUVPXOYu5jZCV8K0_o_Rm_fSAqHdFoZkY6cFYsnim2DyQZyBIUqyxfSPPkKS6OPnd7W9aAKXCAqWftr_DGKhclGh79C9KfNnDou093XFRnTIWwSz8n1I-77j6_411OU-21/s1600-h/Screenshot.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgflueUVPXOYu5jZCV8K0_o_Rm_fSAqHdFoZkY6cFYsnim2DyQZyBIUqyxfSPPkKS6OPnd7W9aAKXCAqWftr_DGKhclGh79C9KfNnDou093XFRnTIWwSz8n1I-77j6_411OU-21/s400/Screenshot.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297479206790816946" border="0" /></a>Then I clicked on the 1st result which was google.com itself and the page opened was<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhst0-W9UFoLuTyardqRWP4NYBlcNM-q4ZfN3yqwGVBMeJbOIw-NUGTe-2u1MqdJTrj66iNriDoUm-FWBB3agecz3_bTLdKZIN-HnsOCup5Tf79lUHHObKnJw5VEU8lSFhLdipW/s1600-h/Screenshot-1.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhst0-W9UFoLuTyardqRWP4NYBlcNM-q4ZfN3yqwGVBMeJbOIw-NUGTe-2u1MqdJTrj66iNriDoUm-FWBB3agecz3_bTLdKZIN-HnsOCup5Tf79lUHHObKnJw5VEU8lSFhLdipW/s400/Screenshot-1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297479595087417170" border="0" /></a>What the heck? Google is hacked or is it some stupid mistake by googlers. This event looks like a solar eclipse in the world of Internet to me. I hope we get an explanation soon and the error fixed.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Update 1:</span> Just now, the bug was fixed and it started behaving properly after more than an hour's erratic behavior. Are we getting an explanation, Google?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Update 2:</span> And, here comes the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-on.html">explanation</a> from Google ;) . A human error.<br /><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-on.html">http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-on.html</a>Gautam Kishorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13327364342401395349noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14344527.post-61513031608642136092007-11-14T21:19:00.000-08:002007-11-14T22:46:06.391-08:00Open Handset Alliance | Android , Google's mobile initiativeLast week Google announced an <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/">Open Handset Alliance</a> to group world's biggest mobile technology companies, chip manufacturing leaders, mobile operator giants and software companies altogether. Giants like Motorola, Intel, Samsung, LG, nVidia, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm, Ebay and <a href="http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/oha_members.html">more</a> are combined under the alliance to prepare an open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices.<br /><br />Google envisions huge possibilities for the alliance as there are 1.5 billion television sets in use around the world. 1 billion people are on the Internet. But nearly 3 billion people have a mobile phone. And, it will keep growing being world's most successful consumer product.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/android_overview.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Android</span></a> - the operating system, middleware and a set of key mobile applications. <a href="http://code.google.com/android/">Android</a> as a platform will technically collaborate all companies, services, developers, devices and users in the alliance. the <a href="http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/developers.html">SDK for developers is out</a> now and probably it is based on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux">Linux</a>.<br /><br />What does all this actually mean?<br /><br /><ol><li>There will be one open platform for all mobile devices in <a href="http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/oha_members.html">alliance</a>, named Android.</li><li>Android will be able to communicate to device features as well as applications.</li><li>Developers can develop applications on the <a href="http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/developers.html">Android SDK</a> which will run on any mobile device.</li><li>All companies under the alliance are giants in their fields, which ensures the success of the alliance.</li><li>Google's vision for the alliance is really futuristic and well timed.</li><li>Like <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/">OpenSocial</a> is for social networks, <a href="http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/">OHA</a> is for mobile phones.</li><li>Being open ensures the rapid and unrestricted growth of the alliance and will also make it a success anyway.</li><li>It is going to benefit all, the service providers, the mobile operators, users, and all companies anyhow connected to the alliance.</li></ol>Also, Google has announced an <a href="http://code.google.com/android/adc.html">open challenge to developers worth $10 million for Android SDK</a>.<br />All the best, thinktanks ;)Gautam Kishorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13327364342401395349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14344527.post-65874965331644567972007-10-31T12:31:00.000-07:002007-11-14T22:47:38.225-08:00Google to offer a facebook like platform for developers<em>"Google Inc will offer Internet developers an open system to create applications across Web sites, a move that could challenge the features behind the explosive popularity of social network Facebook.<br />The OpenSocial system offered by Google, which lost out last week to rival Microsoft Corp in securing an investment in Facebook, gives developers standardized tools to write applications and embed them in many sites.<br />This will eliminate the need for small startups or even one-person shops to customize their programs for each site.<br />It also has the potential to lure developers mostly allied with Facebook by allowing their applications to find a home on many other Web sites.<br />"This is about making the Web more social; how do you have your friends go along with you to any site on the Web?" Joe Kraus, Google director of product management, said in an interview on Tuesday.<br />In May, Facebook opened its site to outside developers whose programs let users do everything from comparing favorite books to buying friends a virtual cocktail or mapping travels around the world.<br />Thousands of applications have since been attached to the site and are credited with helping Facebook -- valued at about $15 billion after the Microsoft investment -- to increase its user base to more than 48 million.<br />UNLEASHING A CHALLENGE<br />Google said it has signed on about a dozen partners so far, including social network LinkedIn for business professionals, its own Orkut network and Friendster. The sites combined reach about 100 million people, the company said.<br />Developers who are testing the program include key companies behind Facebook applications, such as music recommendation service iLike and Slide, which created the "Top Friends" ranking application.<br />Industry blogs have speculated for nearly a month that Web search leader Google was seeking to unleash a major challenge to Facebook, which is due to announce its own new advertising strategy on November 6. "</em><br />courtesy, Michele Gershberg of <a href="http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2007-10-31T182430Z_01_N30431655_RTRIDST_0_TECH-GOOGLE-DEVELOPERS-COL.XML">Reuters</a>Gautam Kishorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13327364342401395349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14344527.post-3283682576321154172007-10-14T13:05:00.000-07:002007-10-15T00:29:01.378-07:00YouTube India to be launchedGoogle is planning to launch the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=eeae2f9c-0af4-445b-a835-f7461f3f043d">Indian flavor</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> of its popular video sharing site </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://youtube.com/">YouTube</a>. The launch is expected between January and March 2008(as Shashi Seth, head of monetization at YouTube, <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">San Bruno</st1:city> <st1:state st="on">California</st1:state></st1:place> told). YouTube <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> is supposed to aggregate Indian movie trailers, music videos, independent films and TV content. It has already tied up with an Indian film and music production giant, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eros_Labs">Eros Entertainment</a> to showcase its new releases etc. Even they are looking to tie up with other big productions both in films and TV too. Also, the news channels are on the list. <p class="MsoNormal">As they say,</p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="">The site will help Indian surfers what they want. It will also be an excellent platform for young filmmakers to launch their work.</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">YouTube charges $20 for every 1,000 impressions internationally but may have separate pricing for <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>.</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajnikanth">Rajnikanth</a> video was recently ranked in the top 100 YouTube videos of all time.</li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal">My impression about why Google is launching a special edition of YouTube for a country sharing less than one percent of the global traffic is,</p> <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> is the biggest film production country in the world which proves it has a great potential in video content ofcourse.</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">Indian viewers are so interested in movies, music and TV. All they need is an Indianized easy source of entertainment.</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">There are so many big production houses to tie up with and earn money publicizing their video products.</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">Number of YouTube users is not much but number of video entertainment lovers is the highest in the world. It indicates there is a huge scope of business out there.</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">Indian content lovers are not just in India but in whole world.</li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">We’re waiting, Google.</p>Gautam Kishorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13327364342401395349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14344527.post-11376527072909444222007-09-27T16:23:00.000-07:002007-09-27T16:44:58.182-07:00Zingku, acquired by who else? GoogleA few moment ago, it was confirmed that Google has acquired the mobile social networking site Zingku. Also, Zingku has announced the news proudly as "<span style="font-style: italic;" class="bright-static"> We've entered into an agreement to have Google acquire our Zingku service.</span>"<br />Also, the new user registrations are frozen after the buyout.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhORvDRMN9apPA_qSxqk0GJPSkKaSXVu_M5pS7-m2hODhj632an0V0AY2JobXdpuI8Q73PF3ezJvt7yBYVRhZVKMsnHTEvXFPRtJkEiryG2LnanXnElxmqqQgkzc3jGvqhodjZQ/s1600-h/zingku.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhORvDRMN9apPA_qSxqk0GJPSkKaSXVu_M5pS7-m2hODhj632an0V0AY2JobXdpuI8Q73PF3ezJvt7yBYVRhZVKMsnHTEvXFPRtJkEiryG2LnanXnElxmqqQgkzc3jGvqhodjZQ/s400/zingku.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115033472038960242" border="0" /></a>What Google might be doing of zingku? My guess is, may be it's going to be integrated with Orkut.<br /><br />Zingko have been doing really well and has social features like share, invite, poll, flyer and even mashups.Gautam Kishorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13327364342401395349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14344527.post-76754138930182401442007-09-27T11:05:00.000-07:002007-09-27T11:23:35.552-07:00Happy B'day Google. You turn 9 today.Google,<br /> you turn 9 today. You've grown from<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoPCPypoQfKMhKDoAEZ351ggHBPAcjlu8IIdNWYDH9H9zzHYWD5IJTOACPoMKJcZBQK6Hh4qhDDoYEczvAXfrb4wJgDE3_Py5r4Xu8PKvfqDRei5wr9CtdPJHlEkdLTECEsOhc/s1600-h/google.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoPCPypoQfKMhKDoAEZ351ggHBPAcjlu8IIdNWYDH9H9zzHYWD5IJTOACPoMKJcZBQK6Hh4qhDDoYEczvAXfrb4wJgDE3_Py5r4Xu8PKvfqDRei5wr9CtdPJHlEkdLTECEsOhc/s320/google.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5114948002189769810" border="0" /></a>google.stanford.edu(1997)<br /><br />to<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtm7v439Mb3Jut66ewlafYmVN5XsLQxGyKDgO7C47Cn7-1UTdtz5PMuqtQAmk00Z1KfjmYVqENVguf-mB8HX8K7y7qLfSzEcfBVh2XO14XIDg0CTFoSBNkxyGxtDw_wacPNsA9/s1600-h/9th_birthday.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtm7v439Mb3Jut66ewlafYmVN5XsLQxGyKDgO7C47Cn7-1UTdtz5PMuqtQAmk00Z1KfjmYVqENVguf-mB8HX8K7y7qLfSzEcfBVh2XO14XIDg0CTFoSBNkxyGxtDw_wacPNsA9/s320/9th_birthday.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5114948805348654178" border="0" /></a>www.google.com(2007)<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">one of your creaters, <em>Sergey Brin in 1999 says, “A perfect search engine will process and understand all the information in the world ... That is where Google is headed.”</em></div></div><br /><p>In-between being a search engine and staying one, this is what also happened during the last 9 years, in semi-particular order:</p> <ul><li>The Google homepage goes out of Beta</li><li>A Google Friends newsletter is started to address “Googlers,” originally the term for Google users</li><li>Google teams up with RealNames to bring now-forgotten Internet Keyword support to their search engine</li><li>Google bought a huge Newsgroup archive from Deja News and turned it into Google Groups. The first mention of Madonna on the internet is now owned by Google Inc.</li><li>Google created a technology playground called Google Labs, where they release tools such as Google Sets</li><li>Yahoo switches to Google results, but later changes their mind and develops their own search engine back-end to compete with Google and Microsoft in the club of the three only high-scale search engines worldwide</li><li>Eric Emerson Schmidt, then 46, replaces Larry Page, then 28 years old, as boss of Google</li><li>Google shows context-relevant AdWords in search results, and later AdSense on external websites</li><li>Aaron Swartz starts posting news on Google on the Google Weblog</li><li>Google releases more and more company blogs to communicate with people outside the company</li><li>Google releases Gmail, which many thought was an April Fool’s prank due to the at the time incredible storage of 1 Gigabyte</li><li>Google went through an Initial Public Offering, meaning the company gets special attention from stock market investors</li><li>Google enters China and decides to compromise its mission by self-censoring human rights websites, proclaiming a change from “don’t ever be evil, period” to “scales balancing what Google thinks is least evil”</li><li>Google releases a set of programming frameworks called GData</li><li>Google releases a set of client-side, ad-powered JavaScript APIs, ditching support for their server-side, ad-free SOAP API</li><li>Google releases a word processor, a spreadsheet editor, and later a presentations tool, all with a focus on online collaboration</li><li>Google publishes their Google Apps suite for companies</li><li>Google starts showing good-resolution photos of people on the streets as part of mining public information and making it accessible</li><li>Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin in a speech given on a Google Developer Day says we’ve come full circle, as the generation which grew up with the web is now starting to create on the web, determining its shape... a self-increasing feedback loop causing exponentially growing development (or so one would hope).</li><li><em>and much, much more.</em></li></ul>according to Philipp Lenssen of <a href="http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-09-27-n24.html">blogoscoped</a><br /><br />Good going Google. We're with you :)Gautam Kishorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13327364342401395349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14344527.post-90070847795225502712007-09-25T06:22:00.000-07:002007-09-25T07:44:19.599-07:00Gmail getting a new lookIt has been long time since last post on this blog.<br />now we will try to keep the post coming in constant flow.<br /><br />so getting back to the original topic<br /><br />gmail is getting a new look.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipTn3IOm6R155r6FBoz8ViHvl6azBSTt0lGI7GAJ6-tkSqxXOOPs1NB4dU9oWeOwW6cze5kjIPtD0XR1vO1dFu2S-EkKKWKfb3sKj0_V4MZLqJuqH1H1W-od1ypIikLzJ_HdlESw/s1600-h/Screenshot.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipTn3IOm6R155r6FBoz8ViHvl6azBSTt0lGI7GAJ6-tkSqxXOOPs1NB4dU9oWeOwW6cze5kjIPtD0XR1vO1dFu2S-EkKKWKfb3sKj0_V4MZLqJuqH1H1W-od1ypIikLzJ_HdlESw/s320/Screenshot.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5114132427197783586" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />first evident scene is the account creation page which has been revamped and looks good,<br />secondly there have been rumors about the label feature of gmail getting an uplift.<br /><br />We can expect some security features including some checks to tell when an account has been accessed simultaneously on two different places.<br /><br />some side jacking attempts were made on gmail and were quite successful in the defcon2007, so we can expect gmail security to be beefed up.<br /><br />a little improvements in terms of its usability on low bandwidth systems is a thing which could or could not be in the list of improvements.<br /><br />Will inform more as an when possible.Anant Shrivastavahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595465248582691654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14344527.post-27666781290840622082007-03-10T22:20:00.000-08:002007-03-10T22:27:28.368-08:00Desktop v5 released<p>Google <a href="http://googledesktop.blogspot.com/2007/03/new-sidebar-and-gadgets.html">just announced</a> their latest version of Google Desktop. The new release gives users a better sidebar, a preview "plusbox" in search results and better security. The Gadget directory was given a major facelift too — it looks very apple-ish with the reflective gadget previews.</p> <p><img src="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/images/googlegadgetappleish.png" border="0" height="383" hspace="5" width="475" /> </p> <span>"The sidebar has a completely new look and feel. It samples the color of your wallpaper and fades in the sampled color so that it fits seamlessly onto your desktop. Some of our gadgets have been redesigned so that they are easy to tell apart, easy to read, and easy on the eyes. More differentiated gadgets allow for faster scanning of information through the sidebar. And we've created a new dialog for adding gadgets so it's easier and faster than ever to find the right gadgets for you." — <a href="http://googledesktop.blogspot.com/">Inside Google Desktop Blog</a></span> , according to <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=497">Garett Rogers</a>Gautam Kishorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13327364342401395349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14344527.post-1160606769731981772006-10-11T15:17:00.000-07:002006-10-11T15:46:10.313-07:00Google Office out now, oops! its Google DocsAfter acquiring <a href="http://www.Writely.com">Writely</a>, everyone knew that google is rolling out its own Web Office. Then came <a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com">Google Spreadsheets</a> which is really a great tool so far but still needs improvements if comparing to Microsoft Office or Open Office.<br />Now, Google has combined both, writely and spreadsheets into one application named <a href="http://docs.google.com"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Google Docs</span></a>. The google version of writely has following features according to <a href="http://ajaxian.com">ajaxian</a>:<br /><br /><ul><li>Use our online editor to format documents, spell-check and more.</li><li>Upload Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML or text.</li><li>Download documents to your desktop as Word, PDF and more.</li><li>View your documents’ revision history and roll back to any version.</li><li>Invite others to share your documents by e-mail address.</li><li>Edit documents online with whomever you choose.</li><li>Publish documents online to the world, or to just who you choose.</li><li>Post your documents to your blog.</li></ul> <p>Here we see the Google suite slowly getting together.</p> <p><a href="http://docs.google.com/"><img src="http://www.google.com/google-d-s/images/new_doclist.gif" height="320" width="400" /></a></p><p>But wait, there is one more highly noticeable something on the internet. Yes, I'm talking about <a href="http://ZOHO.com">ZOHO</a> <a href="http://zohox.com">Virtual Office</a>. It sure will be a challange to Google in future. You can access it at <a href="http://Zohox.com">Zohox.com</a> or <a href="http://ZohoVO.com">ZohoVO.com</a>. Zoho has a big range of web solutions along with the office suite. It already has its <a href="http://www.zohowriter.com/">Zoho Writer</a>, <a href="http://www.zohosheet.com">Zoho Sheet</a> and <a href="http://ZohoShow.com">Zoho Show</a>(an online presentation tool). Sure deserves attention.<br /></p>Gautam Kishorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13327364342401395349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14344527.post-1160434457890501262006-10-09T15:26:00.000-07:002006-10-09T23:41:19.246-07:00Google has acquired YouTube. GooTube confirmed!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6908/900/1600/gootube.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6908/900/200/gootube.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />As reported by me on my <a href="http://googlelogs.blogspot.com/2006/10/whats-next-gootube.html">previous post</a>, Google and <a href="http://www.youtube.com">YouTube</a> were talking about an acquisition deal for about $1.6 - $2 billion.<br />The deal has been done and <a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/google_youtube.html">confirmed</a> a few moments ago. <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/google_youtube.html">Google has acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion</a>.</span> Very few of us know that YouTube just started in 2005 with two guys as a core team. This is the largest deal google has made yet for an acquisition.<br /><blockquote><br />Both companies have approved the deal, which should officially close in the fourth quarter. YouTube’s 65 employees will remain with the company at YouTube’s San Bruno headquarters.<p>Details are also emerging that Yahoo was in the bidding war until very close to the end.</p>Google is hosting a conference call and webcast to discuss the deal. It is just starting now. You can hear it live at <a href="http://investor.google.com/webcast.html">http://investor.google.com/webcast.html</a>. If you miss it live, a replay of the call will be available until midnight Monday, October 16 at 888-203-1112 domestically and 719-457-0820 internationally. Confirmation code for the replay is 2260624.<br /></blockquote><br />What Google may be planning to do with YouTube?<br /><ul><li>To integrate its AdSense for video in YouTube as its user exposer would be perfect for google.</li><li>To earn lots of benefit from YouTube's largest Video database for search and all.</li><li>To benefit from YouTube's great new technology to auto recognise video wheather its copyrighted or not.</li><li>To Enjoy its popularity as Google video has made its biggest rival a part of history now.</li></ul><br /><br />The way to go Google... keep goingGautam Kishorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13327364342401395349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14344527.post-1160257637135590402006-10-07T13:59:00.000-07:002006-10-07T15:18:44.646-07:00What's next?. . . GooTube?Rumors are, Google is talking to <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/">YouTube</a>(the most popular video sharing site) for a buyout, according to Michael Arrington of <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/06/completely-unsubstantiated-googleyoutube-rumor/#comments">TechCrunch</a>. The price? $1.6 to $2 billion according to his sources. And, if rumors are not just rumors, it will be a huge deal. However, the deal is not final yet.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6908/900/1600/info-googtube061006_chrt.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6908/900/400/info-googtube061006_chrt.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Let's talk about some aspects of it.<br />Definitely <a href="http://video.google.com">google video</a> is lagging behind YouTube in number of customers and the video database size.<br />The cost is not too much for something like Google Inc. and alone the number of customers YouTube has, is worth its cost.<br />Google can earn more bucks by its video ads program alone on this huge database and number of users.<br />Now, some negative aspects.<br />Google folks have to be aware of the fact that the minute they buy YouTube, they are going to have to deal with lawsuits by truckloads, which could cost them money, but more importantly distract them from their core business. Anti youtube lobby is waiting for youtube to be bought and than file a suit against that big pcoket company. The company breaks lots of copyrights.<br /><br />you can read detailed story on a <a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116014813857884917-Gem0HRYECGdR__oHmAXYxklWDQE_20061105.html">wall street journal</a> article by Kevin J. Delaney.Gautam Kishorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13327364342401395349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14344527.post-1160118900595258742006-10-06T00:10:00.000-07:002006-10-06T00:15:00.606-07:00Google To Predict Accuracy of Political Statements<blockquote>Google CEO Eric Schmidt talks about a service which can give the probability of the <a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006460135,,00.html">accuracy of statements made by politicians</a>, among other things. From the Reuters article, Schmidt says: "We (at Google) are not in charge of truth but we might be able to give a probability." Can Google's '<a href="http://reuters.myway.com/article/20061004/2006-10-04T005304Z_01_L03419567_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-GOOGLE-POLITICIANS-DC.html">truth predictor</a>' bring an end to sound bites and one-liners? I'm not holding my breath...<br /></blockquote><br />will Google be doing this? Sure it can.Gautam Kishorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13327364342401395349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14344527.post-1160118502353700372006-10-06T00:04:00.000-07:002006-10-06T00:08:51.006-07:00Powerset ?According to <a href="http://polls.gigaom.com/2006/10/05/powerset-vs-google/">Om Malik</a>,<br /><blockquote>The Internets are all chattering about <a href="http://www.powerset.com/">Powerset</a>, a new natural language search start-up, that plans to out-Google, Google. There are a bunch of <a href="http://www.techmeme.com/061005/p13#a061005p13">varied opinions</a> about this company, some good, and most not so good. Danny Sullivan <a href="http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/061005-095006">calls it overhyped</a>.<br /></blockquote><br />What do you think?Gautam Kishorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13327364342401395349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14344527.post-1160117512567281462006-10-05T23:39:00.000-07:002006-10-05T23:51:52.580-07:00Google releases Code Search<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6908/900/1600/codesearch_logo_sm.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6908/900/320/codesearch_logo_sm.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />For developers, Google releases a <a href="http://www.google.com/codesearch"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Code Search</span></a> like <a href="http://www.krugle.com/">Krugle</a> or <a href="http://www.Koders.com">Koders</a>. It was expected from a long time as google has the biggest database of code directories. For now, it looks like it is following things what <a href="http://www.krugle.com/">Krugle</a> or <a href="http://koders.com">Koders</a> have been doing. The source codes it searches in are definitely the huge open source collections available on the internet like <a href="http://sourceforge.net">SourceForge</a>, <a href="http://freshmeat.net">Freshmeat</a> and many others.<br />To search, you need to use <a href="http://www.google.com/help/faq_codesearch.html#regexp">Regular Expressions</a> which are better described <a href="http://www.google.com/help/faq_codesearch.html#regexp">here</a>.Gautam Kishorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13327364342401395349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14344527.post-1160116729956190352006-10-05T23:22:00.000-07:002006-10-08T12:59:07.290-07:00Google Movies may be launching soon<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6908/900/1600/google-movies-search.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6908/900/320/google-movies-search.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Google has just added a "/movies?" to its <a href="http://www.google.com/robots.txt">robots.txt</a> file which means they might be cooking something next like a movies search. Following this fact, I tried looking up <a href="http://www.google.com/movies">google.com/movies</a> which returned a <a href="http://www.google.com/movies">movie search</a> page, a location based movie search. You can enter your zip code and search for local showtimes for your movie.Gautam Kishorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13327364342401395349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14344527.post-1160115706604896602006-10-05T23:09:00.000-07:002006-10-05T23:21:46.613-07:00Google Gadgets - now on your homepageGadgets which google provided for its <a href="http://www.google.com/ig">personalised homepage</a>, now are open for your web pages. All you need to do is simply find a gadget in the <a href="http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open">Gadgets directory</a> and copy a small snippet of code onto your website.<br />Also, Google has extended its <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/samples.html">Ajax Search API</a> and now, its easier to put a google ajax search on your page with lots of features like <a href="http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/videobar/index.html">Video Bar</a> , <a href="http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/mapsearch/index.html">Map Search</a>, <a href="http://ajaxsearch.blogspot.com/">Search for Blogger</a> etc.Gautam Kishorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13327364342401395349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14344527.post-1159794136420925962006-10-02T05:48:00.000-07:002006-10-02T06:02:16.490-07:00EBay bans Google Checkout<a href="http://www.ebay.com">eBay</a> has <a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=22740">barred</a> its users from employing Google Checkout on its site.<br />eBay’s new <strong><a href="http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/accepted-payments-policy.html" target="_blank"><strong>Acceptable Payments Policy</strong></a></strong> states “sellers may not request payment through online payment methods not specifically permitted in this policy,” and the document does not specify that Google Checkout is an acceptable payment method.<br />The reason behind this? as it looks obvious to me, the reason is Ebay's own PayPal. Google Checkout was rumored as a "PayPal Killer". And, it is the one greatest ever competitor to PayPal.<br /><br />There are over held a dozen requirements that Ebay requires of payment methods in order to get Ebay approval, including a track record of providing safe and reliable financial banking.<br /><br />So, no Google Checkout on Ebay now, or maybe ever....Gautam Kishorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13327364342401395349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14344527.post-1159339266177178292006-09-26T23:11:00.001-07:002006-09-26T23:43:26.446-07:00Happy Birthday Google.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6908/900/1600/8th_birthday.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6908/900/320/8th_birthday.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>Its Google's 8th b'day. In these just 8 years what have google been. 8 years ago it was started by the two stanford univarsity minds. It was named Googol by them. But, when their first angel investor wrote a check to them by name Google mistakingly, they decided to rename their thing as Google only. However, everyone knows this.. but, in these years nobody knew it will grow like this and will be the god on the internet.<br />here is a overview of the strategy google follows according to me:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1. To start up with the most simple thing which they think they can be best at.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2. To excel in the field and to be unbeatable without diverting any efforts.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">3. After that, to start other ventures the simple and easy way.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">4. Not to annoy their customers(by ads and all).</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">5. Personalisation of every service and try to be closest to the human brain.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">6. To never misuse the personal data of their customers and to use them only to make their products better and more familier.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">7. Simple outside. Brilliant inside.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">8. Future Vision which lets them think out of the box.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">9. respect their customers as well as employees. to be liberal to all the employees so that they love Google Inc. and devote everything they can to it.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">10. To learn from each and everything that is worth learning. Many of small businesses Google has converted into large projects and succeeded.</span><br /><br />there are more but, i guess this would be enough for now.<br />We got to learn business the Google way.<br />Happy B'day again Google. Cheers!!!Gautam Kishorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13327364342401395349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14344527.post-1154438138304700822006-08-01T06:14:00.000-07:002006-08-01T06:24:10.323-07:00Need Google Analytics Invitation Code?Want to register for <a href="http://www.google.com/analytics/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Google Analytics</span></a>(Urchin) and don't have the Invitation Code?<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Get you <a href="http://www.google.com/analytics/">Google Analytics(Urchin)</a> Invitation Code in a day</span> or two. Here is the <span style="font-weight: bold;">trick ;) </span>.<br /><br />Usually Google people send you the Invitation Code in one two or three months. But, using this trick you can get it in a day or two.<br />When I <a href="http://www.google.com/analytics/sign_up.html">requested</a> for it using my gmail ID, I didn't receive my Invitation Code for about two months now. But, I again requested it using another email id of mine which is gautam@storedprocedures.org and which is on my company domain, they sent it in a day and half.<br /><br />So, the trick is so simple. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Use a private or company domain email and not the email address providers' email address</span> to <a href="http://www.google.com/analytics/sign_up.html">request the invitation Code</a>.<br /><br />if you get an invitation code, leave a smile back in my comment box . . .</span>Gautam Kishorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13327364342401395349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14344527.post-1153691664628241512006-07-23T14:46:00.000-07:002006-07-23T14:54:24.643-07:00Google Paint , Not by Google<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6908/900/1600/google-paint.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6908/900/400/google-paint.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Amazed? :P<br /><br />there is a webpage hosted on Google Pages by some stuart j moore called <a href="http://stuartjmoore.googlepages.com/Gpaint.html">Google Paint</a>. A web clone for microsoft paint tool. I used it and found quite interesting but still there aren't some features available. Hope stuart will launch them soon. Nice idea and great work stuart.<br /><br /><a href="http://stuartjmoore.googlepages.com/Gpaint.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Google Paint </span></a>- have a lookGautam Kishorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13327364342401395349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14344527.post-1153689732174689862006-07-23T13:48:00.000-07:002006-07-23T14:24:12.596-07:00Blogspot blocked, a challange to bloggerIndian govt. has put a ban on all blogspot sites earlier on 17th of this month. The reason they provide for the ban was kinda ridiculous as they say, there were some blogs used to provide terrorists with some info and some of the blogs were publishing some not-too-friendly articles.<br /><br />Not only blogspot, they blocked even typepad and geocities too. Afterwards, the govt. said they told <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bsnl.co.in%2F&ei=FOfDRNDzIp6YYK_pmfsN&sig2=UIB3TlA0hYmAJ7yOBK5QJA">BSNL</a>(Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, the indian govt. telecomm. company) to ban only the 22 blogs which were in the list provided by intelligence. But, the <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bsnl.co.in%2F&ei=FOfDRNDzIp6YYK_pmfsN&sig2=UIB3TlA0hYmAJ7yOBK5QJA">BSNL</a> never worried about the other blogs or they weren't so expert to ban only those 22 subdomains and they just blocked the whole domain name (<a href="http://www.blogspot.com">Blogspot</a>).<br /><br />When we <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ablogger.com%2Fprofile+india">search over the internet for indian bloggers' profiles</a>, we get about <span style="font-weight: bold;">114,000 profiles.<br /></span>So, 114,000 people in india and millions of their blog visitors were affected due to these 22 blogs and the stupidity of BSNL.<br /><br />We can realize the sentiments and businesses of bloggers got affected by this action at <a href="http://www.digg.com/tech_news/India_bans_services_of_blogger.com">Digg</a>, <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&amp;cd=14&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boingboing.net%2F2006%2F07%2F17%2Freport_indian_gov_bl.html&ei=y-TDRNf8FYigogK1xv3PAg&sig2=rrl9ybcXOiMgaZPxyRespg">Boing Boing</a>, <a href="http://news.google.com/news?q=blogspot+banned+in+india&amp;hl=en&lr=&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-23,GGGL:en&pwst=1&sa=X&oi=news&ct=title">Google News</a> and <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-23,GGGL:en&q=blogspot+banned+in+india">thousands of blogs</a> and user groups like yahoo and google groups too.<br /><br />Due to this ban and being an indian, i was also not able to update or even check my blog <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://googlelogs.blogspot.com/">GoogleLogs</a> . </span>Finally today the ban is lifted and im thankful to indian govt. as well as BSNL for this pity on us bloggers.<br /><br />I wil keep updating <a href="http://googlelogs.blogspot.com/">Google Logs</a> like always and will keep providing you great news and plans right from inside google and outside too. Thanks visitors for visiting and increasing PR(google pagerank) :) keep visiting.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>Gautam Kishorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13327364342401395349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14344527.post-1152739667753868752006-07-12T14:25:00.000-07:002006-07-12T14:27:47.766-07:00VOIP in Google Talk???Garett Rogers discovered that Google added the directory /call to the Google robots.txt file. So when he checked out <a href="http://www.google.com/call" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/call</a> he noticed that it is an XML file that contains and error and also a "<span style="font-weight: bold;">caller id</span>" field. What can we guess that this means? Do you think they may be adding VOIP services to Google Talk? Can this be related to AdWords Click to Call features? Or do you think Google is opening a Vonage like service named GoogleCall? Again, this is just a rumor, no one really has any idea what the /call directory is, as of yet.<br /><br />Source: <a href="http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060612-145435" target="_blank">http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060612-145435</a>Gautam Kishorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13327364342401395349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14344527.post-1148755491444133572006-05-27T11:06:00.000-07:002006-05-27T11:44:51.456-07:00Picasa, Linux ver.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6908/900/1600/picasa_logo.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6908/900/320/picasa_logo.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://labs.google.com/">Google Labs</a> page has now a new entry "<a href="http://picasa.google.com/linux/">Picasa for Linux</a>". it is available for download now.<br /><br /><br />the downloads are available as:<br /><ul><li> <span style="font-size:-1;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/linux/thanks-rpm.html">Free Download (.rpm) - for Red Hat/Fedora/Suse/Mandriva x86</a> </span></li><li><span style="font-size:-1;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/linux/thanks-deb.html">Free Download (.deb) - for Debian/Ubuntu x86</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:-1;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/linux/thanks-other.html">Free Download (.bin) - Self-extracting installer, for any x86 Linux distribution </a></span></li></ul><br /></div>Gautam Kishorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13327364342401395349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14344527.post-1148753019525012412006-05-27T10:37:00.000-07:002006-05-27T11:03:39.540-07:00Dell and Google join hands...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6908/900/1600/google_dell.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6908/900/320/google_dell.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/26/technology/26google.html?_r=1&oref=slogin">Dell and Google made a deal on may 26th</a> under which dell will ship its PCs with a few of Google applications like <a href="http://toolbar.google.com">Google Toolbar</a>, <a href="http://desktop.google.com">Google Desktop</a> applications and may be <a href="http://pack.google.com/">Google Pack</a> would be there too.<br />Also, Google has hosted a <a href="http://www.google.com/ig/dell">Google Personalized Homepage for Dell</a>. We can just hope, they might be planning to put the pretty rumored <a href="http://www.goobuntu.com/">Goobuntu, the Google OS</a> on each dell PC sold.Gautam Kishorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13327364342401395349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14344527.post-1148751375745385302006-05-27T10:20:00.000-07:002006-05-27T10:36:15.756-07:00Google announces Video AdsGoogle gets smarter by diversifying its most money earning part, <a href="http://www.google.com/adsense">Google AdSense</a> and <a href="https://adwords.google.com/">AdWords</a> to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Video Ads</span>. Till now, they earned lots by text ads and a few by picture ads too. But, why to let anyone else rule the high bandwidth customers or users?<br /><br />Finally they <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/05/23/google-ppc-video-ads-im-betting-against-it/">announced Video Ads</a> through Adsense and Adwords. Its good for you google.Gautam Kishorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13327364342401395349noreply@blogger.com0