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More more step from google to feel more “lucky” while they are using Google Search.
We all know that google is search engine giant and our favourite too. To make people more happy and to please people who use right to left languages, they have just included support in search, all it do is when you type any such language in search box, it will automatically get aligned to “right side” instead of left as usual. Ofcourse you should be searching from supported portal ie. your language’s native portal of google.. eg. google.co.il or google.com.eg etc.
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Google just added Hindi Transliteration facility to Google search and to orkut also.

Now easily search in Hindi and post scraps in Hindi

Hindi transliteraion search

How this works ?
For Google Search
First you need to goto google India page in Hindi. You can do find it here. http://www.google.co.in/hi
Now whatever you type in english, google will show its similar words in Hindi and if you like any hindi word then simply select it and search for it using google. Read the rest of this entry »

Recently Google book search launched new feature to google book search. For those who don’t know what is Google book search:
Google has digitized many books from library collections, including hundreds of books related to Old English literature: editions, translations and lot more and has presented it to user which can be searched and read online.

So now you can have Personalized online library which you can share with your friends and others.
I have created a sample one which can be found here : Gfan Google library
Online personalized google library
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We all know that Competition is over now for Gmail Video. Outcome ie. results are yet to come but here I am sharing few videos worthy to share:

Video 1 :


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Google India Labs

Products for India which google wants to test by offering them to public can be found on Google India Labs.
As google say about Google India Labs:

Google labs for India showcases a few of our favorite ideas that aren’t quite ready for prime time. Your feedback can help us improve them. Please play with these prototypes and send your comments directly to the Googlers who developed them.

So Google Labs Current Offerings are :

  1. Google online Hindi, Gujaratie, Tamil etc. Multilingual Keyboard.
  2. Google Indice Tanslilteration Tool (Hindi phonetic typing tool)

1. Google Online Multilingual Keyboard : Widget

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More space for Picasa web album, more space for Gmail-More google space

Google introduced now cheaper option to buy more space for their services which includes Picasa & Gmail. What they have introduced is Shared Storage ie. if you buy more storage then you will have available for both ie. Gmail & Picasa.

Below is the Tariff as google introduced

  • 6 GB ($20.00 per year)
  • 25 GB ($75.00 per year)
  • 100 GB ($250.00 per year)
  • 250 GB ($500.00 per year)

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I was seeing it from few days but was not paying attention towards it. I saw that sometimes in my google searches (which a do a lot daily) there is time mentioned in front of result. I thought its been there as I don’t know much and was ignoring but today..Now I am not sure if I really saw what google guys are talking about today ???

Google Guys today officially announced that you can point out most freshest from search results. It will now show timestamp ie. date since the page is with google with search results thus making it easy to look for freshest one.
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I recently encountered this.

Google Cheat Sheet PDF


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Today google announced that now they will reduce the lifetime of a cookie which is stored on your computer while you visit Google. Earlier it was set to expire in 2038 but now will expire in two years of from last accessed time.

The people , who however visits google regularly shall get their cookies renewed automatically. Google call it a step further to protect privacy of Google users after announcing the step to anonymize their server after 18 months.

What are cookies

Cookies are small piece of information residing in a file on your computer whenever you visit certain sites which need to keep track of your preferences so that next time you visit a site, you can see it as the way you set it last time. You can delete them manually anytime.

Lately I read that German court ruled against google for using name Gmail in their country. It has actually stopped google for using name gmail in their country. Google guys try to buy their name but the owner refused, I know they should have offered a huge amount because Money is not the case with google, isn’t ?
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Google periodically comes up with many specialized searches, here I am listing 3 of them ie. google code search, google specialized search for linux and google bsd search.

  1. Google Code Search
  2. Google Linux Search
  3. Google Bsd Search

Lets start with Google Code Search:
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In other post I was talking that there are many things I still do not know about google though using it from years. Now again this one.. is small yet cute :P

It is Google search at : http://www.google.com/ie

Here is its screenshot..

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Orkut recently launched a form where you can report about stolen communities..

This is what they say:

Hello to everyone in orkut land I know it’s frustrating that some people on orkut don’t play nice and try to steal other people’s communities :( When this happens, please write into the Help Center for individual help.

It takes a lot of time to investigate these cases and attempt to restore communities, so it’s not very efficient to post them here, with only one Guide here to help out!
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As we all know that google is always upto something, many might be not aware about this facility from google. ie. 3d Warehouse. It is a huge collection of 3d models made using Google SketchUp which is also from Google and it is a free yet useful 3d modeling software

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