What's Keeping Google Busy - Part 1

1. Google Tasks

Google recently introduced "Google Tasks" in multiple applications spanning around GMail, GMail Mobile, Google Calender & iGoogle.

This is really a cool feature many were waiting for since long time. The tasks feature on Gmail web & Google calender is simply good, while there is lot of scope for improvement for the same on GMail Mobile & iGoogle. The gadget on iGoogle is little weird no one is completely happy with its design, though it is a good option. Keeping he exploration capabilities of is platform in mind, anyone would expect more than traditional tasks... something innovative something replicates the google trend & brand.

How to use Google Tasks on GMail Web - Click Here

How to use Google Tasks on GMail Mobile - Click Here

How to use Google Tasks on Google Calender - Click Here

How to use Google Tasks on iGoogle - Click Here

More updates about Google Tasks - Click Here

Wait for more updates soon.

Google Maps - Street View

Innovation Innovation more and more Innovation!!

But this time Google takes it to the next level with the Google Street View…

‘ Explore neighborhoods at street level–virtually ‘ goes the Tag line…

But it raises some moral issues,as the privacy of the American is at stake…

Anyways I guess it will take a long time for the Streets to hit India.

Related Sites:

http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/index.html

and as always click on the link below to know why My Blog provides special updates to you.

http://streetview.ytmnd.com/

The Chinese search engine that out-Googled the Google

Chinese search giant Baidu is beating Google at its own game in China, but it’s playing by different rules

INGAPORE — “I get it,” the Western man says, speaking heavily accented Chinese. Surrounded by beautiful Chinese women in the video advertisement, he grins with self-satisfaction.

Nearby, a suave Chinese man dressed in scholar’s robes laughs. “You don’t necessarily get it,” he says. As the ad unfolds, the Chinese scholar proceeds to humiliate the Westerner, mocking his poor Chinese-language skills. In the end, the women flock to the scholar’s side, and the Westerner is left confused, alone and humiliated.

“Baidu understands Chinese better,” the Baidu.com Inc. advertisement says, needling the company’s former investor and current rival, Google Inc. And statistics seem to bear that out: Baidu accounts for 62% of the country’s search traffic, up from 52% in 2005, according to the China Internet Network Information Center in Beijing. For Western companies trying to establish a Web presence in China, understanding how Baidu plays the game could be key.

Robin Li

Founded in 2000 by Robin Li and Eric Xu, two Chinese technology executives who once worked in the U.S., Baidu has grown to become the most visited Chinese-language Web site in the world. In the process, it has also earned the rare distinction of being one of few companies to have competed toe-to-toe with Google and won, though some would say the playing field was tilted.

Baidu’s detractors claim that the company abets music piracy and pads the top of its search results with paid listings. But the success and popularity of the company’s search engine is undeniable.

A large part of Baidu’s early success is attributable to its MP3 search engine, which came just as MP3 players were taking off in China. Lawsuits brought by music companies claiming that the search service infringes on their copyrights haven’t slowed Baidu’s progress.

The company’s rise occurred as the Chinese government was growing increasingly concerned about Google’s search engine.

read more at Computer World

Google Hoax

Google , Google and once again its Google…

My day starts with Google products... Gmail, GTalk, Google Finanace, Google Base, Google Docs, Blogspot, Orkut, Analytics & endless list of google components & ofcourse the ends with the same…

But this post is a take on the coolest side of Google. It is the Fun made by the Google, apart from all the serious research on track.

Google’s April Fool Day hoaxes are pretty interesting and I almost fell for the Gmail Paper hoax..

A year wise list of Google Hoaxes are ...

2000: Google MentalPlex

2002: Pigeon Rank

2004: Google Lunar/Copernicus Center

2005: Google Gulp

2006: Google Romance

2007: Gmail Paper

2007: Google TiSP

and finally http://www.googleaprilfools.com/

Now, I know friends what you will be thinking...??? What is going to be for 2008 ??? Hmm... Any hard guesses...??? Leave Ur comments...

Drivers, start your batteries!

Since Google.org launched the RechargeIT initiative in June as part of our efforts to stop global warming, a lot has happened in the world of plug-in vehicles. Automakers have made key announcements about future plans for plug-ins. Our grantee, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), along with Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), released a comprehensive assessment that found that widespread use of plug-in hybrids could dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The charge for electrified transportation is heating up, and we couldn't be more excited. But consumers still can't buy plug-in vehicles – and that's a problem. It's time for us to put some money where our mouth is and help accelerate mass commercialization of plug-in vehicles.

Today, Google.org has issued a request for investment proposals (RFP) to the tune of $10 million in order to advance sustainable transportation solutions. We are inviting entrepreneurs and companies to show us their best ideas on how they can contribute to this important cause. We need catalytic investments to support technologies, products and services that are critical to accelerating plug-in vehicle commercialization. That is why we have structured this RFP to offer investment dollars to for-profit companies to promote social and environmental change. The severity of global warming requires solutions from NGOs, governments, individuals and (very importantly) the private sector. We have already made $1 million in grants to a group of outstanding non-profit organizations, and want to expand our impact by spurring innovation in the private sector. While $10 million is a fraction of the total investment needed to transform our transportation sector, we hope this RFP will help catalyze a broader response. We need the automakers to bring these cars to market, but plug-in vehicles also need an entire ecosystem of companies to flourish.

We realize that this type of open call for proposals is not the usual model for investment, but we wanted to use a process that was open to new ideas and new entrants. Part of our goal is to get as many people as possible to work on solutions to our vehicle emissions challenges. We welcome and expect to receive submissions from a wide variety of companies -- from cutting edge battery technologies to innovative service businesses – and from companies of all sizes. We also encourage participants from all over the world to submit proposals. This is a global challenge, and it will take all of us to solve it.

This open RFP process is a new approach to mission-focused investing, and we're interested to see what we can learn from it, both in terms of opportunities and gaps that exist in this space today, as well as ways that we can improve on this solicitation process for future investments. Our focus on learning is the primary reason we decided to narrow this first RFP to investments in private companies, rather than a combination of grants and investments.

We will continue to make grants as part of RechargeIT and other programs, but we're excited today to announce our first foray into investments.To learn more, read the RFP.

Note: Original message can be read Here.

All about Google

1. Corporate Information

1.1 Company Overview:

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.

As a first step to fulfilling that mission, Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed a new approach to online search that took root in a Stanford University dorm room and quickly spread to information seekers around the globe. Google is now widely recognized as the world's largest search engine -- an easy-to-use free service that usually returns relevant results in a fraction of a second.

When you visit
www.google.com or one of the dozens of other Google domains, you'll be able to find information in many different languages; check stock quotes, maps, and news headlines; lookup phonebook listings for every city in the United States; search billions of
images and peruse the world's largest archive of Usenet messages -- more than 1 billion posts dating back to 1981.

We also provide ways to access all this information without making a special trip to the Google homepage. The
Google Toolbar enables you to conduct a Google search from anywhere on the web. And for those times when you're away from your PC altogether, Google can be used from a number of wireless platforms including WAP and i-mode phones.

Google's utility and ease of use have made it one of the world's best known brands almost entirely through word of mouth from satisfied users. As a business, Google generates revenue by providing advertisers with the opportunity to deliver measurable, cost-effective online advertising that is relevant to the information displayed on any given page. This makes the advertising useful to you as well as to the advertiser placing it. We believe you should know when someone has paid to put a message in front of you, so we always distinguish ads from the search results or other content on a page. We don't sell placement in the search results themselves, or allow people to pay for a higher ranking there.

Thousands of advertisers use our
Google AdWords program to promote their products and services on the web with targeted advertising, and we believe AdWords is the largest program of its kind. In addition, thousands of web site managers take advantage of our
Google AdSense program to deliver ads relevant to the content on their sites, improving their ability to generate revenue and enhancing the experience for their users.

To learn more about Google, click on the link at the left for the area that most interests you. Or type what you want to find into our search box and hit enter. Once you do, you'll be on your way to understanding why others say, "Google is the closest thing the Web has to an ultimate answer machine."

1.1.1 What's a Google?

"Googol" is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web.

1.2 Features Overview:

A single search reveals four elements that separate Google from its competition: speed, accuracy, objectivity and ease of use. Almost as soon as www.google.com or an international Google URL is entered, the homepage appears on the screen. The clean design of the site makes it abundantly clear how to proceed and offers little to distract the user in search of information. Search results are clearly separated from advertising, which is identified as "sponsored links."

The speed with which the results are returned is even more impressive. Google examines billions of web pages to find the most relevant pages for any query and typically returns those results in less than half a second. No other search engine accesses more of the Internet or delivers more useful information than Google.

Though a basic Google search answers most questions, it is possible to customize everything from the language of the interface to the format of the pages Google returns as results. Users can search for images, multiple file types, pages in Czech or Turkish, posts to Usenet, phone numbers, airline flight info or categories in the Open Directory. By using the preferences page, users can also select the number of results returned and filter out adult content.

There's much more to what Google offers, from an amazing spell checker to tools for translating web pages from one language to another or from HTML to a format readable by most mobile devices. Other search features include:

To use Google's built-in calculator function, simply enter the calculation you'd like done into the search box. example:

To use Google to find street maps, enter a U.S. street address, including zip code or city/state in the Google search box. example:

For a complete list, visit our features page at: http://www.google.com/help/features.html