Google has finally launched its much awaited Social Networking site

Internet Search Giant Google has finally launched its much awaited Social Networking site and it is expected to challenge Facebook. It is called Google+ which aims to help users easily arrange contacts into groups and particularly share with specific groups with their personal network instead of sharing with all their social connections at once.

Users can arrange and classify different "Circle" of friends where you can organize family, friends and others in a different circle.

For now, Google+ is available by invitation only.



Facebook is the No.1 social network on track indeed. The social networking giant’s official user statistics said that they have around 500 million users, but others believe that there can be up to 750 million.


Google said it's social network will meet the most basic human needs to connect with others. Google+ means "Google + You".

In a blog post by Google's Senior Vice President for engineering Vic Gundotra, he said "Online sharing is awkward. Even broken. And we aim to fix it,"

"We'd like to bring the nuance and richness of real-life sharing to software," he said. "We want to make Google better by including you, your relationships and your interests".

Japanese Creative Artist Takashi Murakami Google Homepage Logo

Japanese creative artist Takashi Murakami marks the summer solstice on the Google homepage on Tuesday's Google homepage logo. The longest day of the year and the first day of summer.

The recent Google Doodle was a playable image to honor Musician Les Paul which you can download and edit the guitar notes from the Guitar Google Doodle.

It really makes searching on Google more fun and very inspiring for its users worldwide.,

Google Doodle Celebrates Les Paul 96th Birthday

Today's Google Doodle celebrates the 96th Birthday of legendary musician Les Paul.



Google's homepage has a guitar that you can strum with your mouse, use letters and numbers on your keyboard and even record a music created using the Google logo.


Lester William Polsfuss better known as Les Paul is an American jazz and country guitarist, songwriter and inventor. His name Les Paul was acquired into a Gibson brand which is known as Gibson Les Paul guitars.

Google Music Launches Today

According to the Wall Street Journal search giant Google will launch its Google Music service at its I/O developers conference in San Francisco later today.

Google is naming their service "Music Beta by Google" and it will be similar to what Amazon launched back in March. The service allows users to upload their music to a personal online storage locker, which can be streamed and downloaded from devices connected to the Internet.

Google Responds to the Japan Earthquake With an Online Crisis Center

Google Responds to the Japan Earthquake With an Online Crisis Center.

Google has reacted to the devastating 8.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Japan on Friday with a tool that helps you find a person or provide information on missing persons. The site also aggregates important resources, maps and other related information.

Google has previously used the Person Finder tool, for example, during the Christchurch earthquake and the Egypt protests.

The Japan earthquake version of the tool currently lists about 5,500 records, but the number is rising quickly as news about the catastrophe spreads around the world. Although the tool can be useful for finding information about a friend or a loved one, Google warns users that it doesn’t review or verify the accuracy of the data. Furthermore, all data entered will be available to the public, as well as viewable and usable by everyone.

Google’s Crisis Center also shows a map of the earthquake, the latest related news and lists link to warning centers, disaster bulletin boards, and train and blackout information.

The Google Crisis Center is available here, but it also shows up on top of searches for “Japan earthquake” and similar phrases. During these times of disaster, it’s good to see Google taking swift action and leveraging its vastly popular search engine to help people cope and find information.

What tools are you using to track the Japan quake? Tell us in the comments.

Google Declares War on Content Farms

Google has announced a major algorithmic change to its search engine, subtle in nature and perhaps unnoticeable to many users, but one that should dramatically improve the quality of Google’s search results.
With this move, Google is targeting content farms – a common name for low quality sites whose main goal is to attract search traffic by piling up (mostly) useless content, usually by either producing large amounts of low-quality text or by copying it from websites with original content. Google does not go into details of the change which should impact 11.8% of Google’s queries (currently only in the US, with plans to roll it out elsewhere over time), but it does say that it will affect the ranking of many sites on the web.

“This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites—sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful. At the same time, it will provide better rankings for high-quality sites—sites with original content and information such as research, in-depth reports, thoughtful analysis and so on,” explain Googlers Amit Singhal and Matt Cutts in a blog post.

While the change will surely have many website owners up in arms, complaining that their website was unfairly ranked lower than before (we’re sure that in some cases they will be right), it’s a very welcome one.

The popularity of Google’s search engine is still second to none, but Google has been plagued by black hat SEO practices and content farms for a while now, with the complaints from users slowly mounting over time. If Google manages to put an end to content farms or at least significantly reduce their influence in search results, it will be an important step in regaining the trust of its millions of users.

Google Unveils Delicious Bookmark Importer

Google has just rolled out a convenient new tool for importing your Delicious bookmarks to Google Bookmarks.
The simple importer takes your Delicious login credentials (or lets you use a one-click OAuth button) and imports all your bookmarks, preserving labels or tags.
Considering Google’s rather broad reach as a company, the importer is likely more than just a friendly bid for more Google Bookmarks users.

Bookmarks was launched in 2005, but it’s never been a huge hit — or a money maker — for the company. Last year, Google launched Lists for Bookmarks, a more social feature for bookmarking that put the product into direct competition with Yahoo’s Delicious. At the time, Delicious founder Joshua Schachter was still a Google employee. However, what makes the Delicious importer timing so interesting is Yahoo’s recent decision to “sunset,” i.e., to sell, Delicious. As more startups and other web companies have promoted their own Delicious importers, a successful sale of the once relatively popular web service grows ever more unlikely. Google’s importer may be the nail in the coffin, in fact.

This isn’t the first time Google has made overt overtures to Yahoo services users. But it’s definitely a direct stab at Yahoo’s bottom line.

But Machiavellian maneuvers aside, Google’s importer is a pleasure to use and will likely be a good fit if you’re a user of other Google apps, such as Reader or Gmail. Here are some screenshots:

Amber Alerts on Facebook Now

Unfortunately, as much as we wouldn't want to hear such sad news, we do get to hear or watch on news that some kid has gone missing and that the parents are desperately looking for their children. Very often, radio alerts, city specific news updates are given so that anybody in that vicinity can help in finding such missing children. Text messages for such cases are also received if one has signed up. Responsible networks and organizations such as AOL, Yahoo, Google and Microsoft all help in disseminating such information.

And now facebook too will do this work of spreading the word around about missing children so that help is provided. Of course, this is all an optional feature and if one wants to specifically receive updates for his location, he will get updates only for that vicinity. Facebook is one of the most popular forms of viral communication and the word spreads around quickly, so it is hoped that this move will help in finding missing children.

The Amber alert program, which was established 15 years ago after the abduction and murder of its namesake, 9-year-old Amber Hagerman, has so far resulted in the recovery of 525 kids according to Ernie Allen, CEO of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-19518_3-20028314-238.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Paul Cézanne

Today is Paul Ce'zanne's 172nd birthday. I only know because of Google as their logo has been changed for today. Paul Ce'zanne was French artist and painter. I never knew who he was but I saw his paintings on google and they were really good. Here are just a few of his work. I really liked the colors and tones he used and those fruit paintings remind me of a painting we had in our dining hall in our old house when I was a kid. That painting was also recorded in my aunt's mayun ceremony that took place in our home.

Anyway, some people are so great they are remembered so long after they are gone because of their work.

Google eBooks

Mountain View, California-based Google Inc. launched Google eBooks earlier known as Google Editions. Google eBook comes with reader compatible for Android, iOS, web, desktop, Nook and Sony. It has 3 million public domain books for free anywhere.

The Company's goal is to provide eBooks that consumers can read anywhere. Users will buy books directly from Google or from other online retailers as well as independent bookstores. These books will then be added to an online library linked to a user's Google account.

Google eBooks started selling books today and might evolve into the largest bookstores in the world.

Super Cool Cubicles at Work

These are some of the coolest work stations and cubicles that I have seen. Yes, good companies that care about the welfare of their people and think about creating a work environment in which people feel more productive and happy. I wouldn't mind working in such a place.

Google Birthday Cake logo

Google has changed its Google Doodle as Google celebrates its 12th birthday today September 27. The Google birthday cake logo is designed and created by Wayne Thiebaud. Wayne is an American painter and this Google birthday cake logo is a real painting.

Google is a search engine giant and advertising media that accumulate and boost its profits from advertisers. Many think of Google as the God of the Internet. People should really thank Google, the best search engine of all time because it made peoples lives easier and comfortable. Happy Birthday Google!

Play Pacman on Google

Google has created the first interactive doodle of their logo. To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Pacman, Google has honored and it with a playable doodle. Simply click the insert coin button and you’ll be able to control her with W, A, S, and D on your keyboard.

According to Google, the Pacman logo will have a total of 256 levels and Pacman will be up on Google for a total of 48 hours.

Google changes their google doodles when there is a major event, holidays, anniversaries, birthdays, etc.. and i think this is the very first time that an interactive doodle of their logo was made.

Google I/O

Google I/O means Google Innovation in the Open. It is one of the mega events of Google which would be focusing on the topic of web development. The conference will be kicking today in Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco, which is on the nineteenth day of May in the annum ‘10.

More than four thousand professional web developers and engineers are expected to participate in the event in person. The conference can also be watched live on the internet. Google I/O will last for two days and the focus will be on open web technologies, Android, internet browser Google Chrome, Application Engine, Google APIs
, mobile technologies, Google wave Google web toolkit.


Source: www.makli.com/google-io-0040393/

Doodle 4 Google

At Google's Silicon Valley corporate headquarters, the artists painting on digital canvases are producing works of art that will be viewed by millions. Google Doodles are the images and designs that appears in the Google search engine page. They appear on special days like birthdays of people who are popular, anniversaries or events that are popularly known worldwide but disappear in just 24 hours. If you happened to visit Google any time yesterday, you saw a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble space telescope.

The first Google Doodle was in honor of the Burning Man Festival and that was in 1998 and the The doodle was designed by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin