Taking a leaf (or the entire tree?) from Facebook, Orkut is planning to launch face tagging – though the big differentiator is face detection technique that
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Few justifications if any, need to be given for choosing “Google Search” as the product of the year from 1998. It has been a winner in terms of...
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Google has launched Translator toolkit that will enable you to translate any document/website/wikipedia, knol page in a language of your choice. Google Translator toolkit integrates Google translation, WYSIWYG editor, and one can covert
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Monetizing social networks has been a traditional challenge for companies (Read: Why advertising in social networks does not work?) and Orkut has gone all the way to publish a blog post calling advertisers to advertise@ Orkut. “Recently we decided to move the location of ads on your homepages to a more prominent position:...
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Google has won back the Googblog.com domain name from an Indian national, Herit Shah. Google filed a case few months back and WIPO has instructed Herit Shah (who registered the domain, googblog from GoDaddy in Sep 2008) to return back the domain to Google. More Details Google’s claim: The Complainant has used the name “GOOG” as a NASDAQ...
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Well, Google FriendConnect is live and we have enabled the same for pluGGd.in as well. So, if we are friends, please
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Interesting presentation on Google’s business strategy, how they buy traffic,business levers, how do they plan to take on Facebook, why do they not monetize all their services etc. All about Google View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: google seo) Take it with a pinch of salt (as with any ‘pitchy’ presentation). via TC
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Quite sad that Google adwords team failed to do a basic sanity check on the ads they were showing. There has to be a basic template for profanity checks as well as banned keywords and looks like Google failed to add ‘terrorism’ in the list. (pic via sanyam, credit)
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Orkut has made couple of improvements in GTalk integration- an attempt to make Orkut less spammy (sometime back, they accepted that they were unable
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Google’s SMS search has been around for quite sometime (was launched a year back),and  it seems Google is now getting aggressive in promoting SMS search (asklaila Airtel deal served as a wake-up call?) – I believe, this is the first time, Google has launched a print campaign in India to promote it’s services. The SMS...
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As a social application, it’s imperative for a site to offer seasonal brownies and looks like Orkut had a process failure this time. While Google India promptly changed it’s logo to reflect the Diwali mood, Orkut team added the Diwali theme, 3 days after the event – not sure whether it was intentional or simply...
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Quite a different sort of acquisition by Google (especially outside US) – Google has acquired Korean blog platform, TNC (english), which runs a blog service called Textcube. TNC is a blog platform that’s used by Korean A-bloggers and the startup also was heavily involved with the open source community- so guess it’s more of a...
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Google Chrome is finally live and is almost showing the middle finger to Microsoft and Mozilla. Lets track back and understand where did Google fail in it’s bid to conquer the world (reality check: apart from search and gmail, no other Google product is doing amazingly great): Search: Bundling deal with Dell or other manufacturers...
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Google today announced Chrome – their own version of a browser (via TechCrunch). Everyone on the Internet is talking about it. And here is my two cents on it. I dont know a lot of things from the technology perspective but the browser from Google makes a lot of business sense. Search Business. Search is...
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Google has launched Google Map Maker, a product built out of India office. Google Map Maker lets you: Add line features (roads, railways, rivers, flyovers, underpasses), region features and points of interest. Add features such as roads, parks, and buildings for unmapped rural areas Tag small businesses and help users find them Collaborate with others to map neighborhoods that...
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Now this is a shame..shame on a company which holds pretty much all information about us. After Google India’s Labs site, another Google group – Barcamp Ahmedabad has been hacked . Hackers, it seems have got the better of Google and the company doesn’t seem to do anything about it – worst, there was no...
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Uhuroo is an easy-to-use information sharing platform that enables teams within and across companies to collect, share information (notes, important emails, documents, web-pages, folders, etc) in a flash, manage collaborations, and ensure that all their information and conversations remain secure and available for future reference and quick consolidation. Couple of interesting features: Plugins for Information Collection...
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Looks like somebody has hacked Google India’s lab’s group page: The “Enter” link is a NSFW – porn site! Update: The issue has been fixed. Related: YouTube India’s porn “suggestions” tip: raxit
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Google India is is facing defamation charges from a Mumbai-based firm, Gremach Infrastructure Equipments & Projects. The company has filed a lawsuit against Google for hosting a series of articles on its blogging site, campaigning against its mines in Mozambique. In an interim order, the Bombay High Court has asked Google India to furnish information...
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Google Insights is probably the coolest product from Google factory (after Gmail and Google Apps) in the last few years. The product lets you conduct marketing research/insights based on search queries handled by Google. Lets look at an example: Restaurant category is a highly searched topic (relative strength: 72, above sex (66), railways (79) In...
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