Technology Bites

The much awaited feature in Google Reader, the ability to search feeds with keywords is added today. You can search your subscribed feeds as well as shared feed items using keywords. It took long for the company who is specialized in search to add this feature to Google reader. Along with search there are some [...]

iGoogle has a feature which lets you customize the layout of the tab. Whether this is new feature or a hidden one is not clear, myself i never noticed it. There are 7 layouts available so far, 1. 1 column 2. 2 column (3 types) 3. 3 column (2 types) 4. 4 column

The Google Phone rumors are continuing to roll but no one seems to know exactly Google plans. Engadget today reported that Google is planning a linux based OS for the mobile platform. Google’s mobile project started with the acquisition of a mobile software company called Android late in 2005. They have developed this mobile operating [...]

Orkut is going to have a face lift, this is the first redesign of the sites as far as i know. My account is still showing the boring old interface, the new design is looking better than the old one. The one comment we always hear is how orkut’s simplicity keeps long-time users coming back [...]

Google is testing new Adsense units with Related words showing at the bottom of the ad units. When i first saw it i thought someone hacked my site and added some links, because one of the link is Adult Blog. Later confirmed from here Apart from Related words Adsense units are also showing show more [...]

Google News launched a new image version, to see it in action go to Google News, currently it appears to me that it is only available in US. The new version adds a text link “Image Version” on the home page when you click this link you will see News Images as square thumbs. Mouse [...]

The web based Google talk gadget now allows you chat with multi users in a group chat. To open group chat click on the icon Group Chat when you are on a conversation with somebody, you can invite several people to the conversation. It is a small feature but it is much needed feature, but [...]

YouTube has created an iGoogle Gadget to add it to your Google homepage. It’s the first official youtube gadget for iGoogle. YouTube gadget enables you to watch videos and search directly in the gadget itself without leaving your home page. Th gadget shows recently featured, top favorites, top rated, most viewed today, most discussed today, [...]

Now its official, Google acquired [tag]Feedburner[/tag]. After much rumors the deal is through. Google Blog Excerpts As you know, we’re constantly looking for ways to identify and offer new tools for content creators and website publishers. Likewise, we constantly aim to give AdWords advertisers broader distribution to an even wider audience of users. For these [...]

Google’s acquisition spree continues with the latest acquisition of GreenBorder, a company focussed on security software. GreenBorder Pro is designed to protect computers from malware execution through browsers. The software separates browsing session from the computer virtually, so that malware or trojans can not infect the host system and when you close the session all [...]