Google Image Search Advanced : Photos / Faces / News Content
Google Image Search has now added more advanced search features to fine tune to result. Seems to be inspired from Live Search from Microsoft, Google tries to keep things simple. A usual search to any images will include images of all types ranging from handmade cartoons, logos, banners, photographs etc. What we can do now [...]
Wrong Adsense Payment Report with 1:1 ratio
The payment page for my current adsense check is showing an exchange rate of 1:1 for USD : INR instead of something close to 1:45. I had instant shock seeing this.After some research on Adsense support I found a post saying that thiswas actually a general error. According to Adsense support team,[digg=http://digg.com/url_to/story_on_digg] The exchange rate [...]
A compilation of Google’s April Fool Jokes
Guys at Google are pretty good in fooling people all around the world with their April Fool Jokes. Here we are giving links to the April Fool Jokes from Google till 2008. Some of the recent pranks from google are reported to be working only on certain countries. So if we have missed anything (2008 [...]
Google’s Project 10 to the 100th
“May Those Who Help The Most Win” is the slogan for Google’s new campaign related to the 1oth anniversary celebrations.Project 10 to 100 is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.Google’s thought is that money is not the barrier in innovating the world. As per the [...]
Google Chrome : Keyboard Shortcuts
Google Chrome have some handy keyboard shortcuts as any other main stream browsers. Most of the functions which are not available through the menu , is possible through Keyboard shortcuts. In my last post about Google Chrome Review , I complained about the lack of undo close tab feature in Chrome. But though its not [...]
Google Audio Indexing : Search Spoken Words in Video
Google Audio Indexing or GAudi is the latest addition to Google Labs after Google Chrome.Google Audio Indexing is a new technology from Google that allows users to better search and watch videos from various YouTube channels. It uses speech technology to find spoken words inside videos and lets the user jump to the right portion of [...]
Google News : Malayalam
Its festival season for Keralites. And here is the Google’s Onam gift : Google News in Malayalam. Like all Google news editions, the Malayalam edition gathers news from several Malayalam sources and automatically arranges these stories in different sections. There is also a seperate edition for Gulf Malayalies , which alone makes a huge population. After [...]
Google Chrome v/s Mozilla FireFox – Comparing Web 2.0 Performance
Keeping all the calculations and theory away, lets make a raw attempt to compare the speed of Google Chrome and Firefox in Web 2.0 applications like Gmail. Lets see how fast is fast enough to say faster. The scene set for the test is a Google Mail App, similar to Gmail. Preference is given to [...]
Picasa Web Albums – Face Recognition
Google is super hot this week. After Google Chrome , its a revamped version of Picasa Web Albums with Name tags aided with Face Recognition. A new beta version of Picasa 3 is also out now. Name Tags is a feature by which Picasa Web Album automatically scans our photos and identifies “Faces”in the photos. To [...]
Google Chrome Quick Review
Here is a quick review on Google Chrome. A few minutes ago , Google Chrome was unleashed to the world. I have used it for say 15 minutes now and now writing this post from Google Chrome. From this short span of usage , what I’ve felt is that Chrome is going to stay. Unlike [...]