Archive for the ‘Google’ Category

iGoogle Themes Directory

Published on January 16th, 2008   Filed Under Google   2 Comments

Google launched a directory for iGoogle themes. If you are a iGoogle user you can pimp your homepage with new themes, but there are not many at the moment. As of now there are only 18 themes available, but this number may increase in the next few weeks if not days.
Google also announced an [...]

Google Profiles

Published on December 16th, 2007   Filed Under Google   3 Comments

Google is rolling out profiles with information on Google products you use. Google Operating System reports that these profiles integrating in to all Google services so you have one identity across the Google services.
A Google Profile is simply how you represent yourself on Google products — it lets you tell others a bit more about [...]

Knol: Google’s User Generated Content (Encyclopedia)

Published on December 14th, 2007   Filed Under Google   6 Comments

Google has posted an announcement on its official blog about an upcoming knowledge portal called “Knol”. Something similar to wikipedia, users generate content on the site on topics they are familiar.
Google wants users write content who are authoritative on a subject. The users are called knols here, these knols can write on any topic.
Google [...]

Gmail Labels gets colors and AIM chat in Gmail

Published on December 4th, 2007   Filed Under Google   0 Comments

Recently Gmail is on a roll with new features, IMAP, Groupchat, Emoticons. Today Google announced two new features to Gmail, Gmail Labels get colors and AIM chat in Gmail.
Now Gmail users can assign colors to their labels. This feature will make it easy to recognize the labels by their color code. To use this [...]

Voting for Google Search Results

Published on November 29th, 2007   Filed Under Google   5 Comments

Today Google Operating system posted about a personalized search experiment Google is doing with the search results. This experiment will allow you to personalize the search results by adding, moving or removing the order of search results.

In the search results page there are two buttons, one up arrow and one “x” button, you can [...]

Gmail chat gets emoticons

Published on November 29th, 2007   Filed Under Google   5 Comments

Google added a much awaited feature emoticons to Gmail chat. They added emoticons support to Gtalk Gadget in May, it took almost six months for them to add this feature to Gmail and may be another six months for Gtalk. Now you can share your emotions with your gmail buddies, these emoticons comes in three [...]

Google Maps Mobile shows your location

Published on November 28th, 2007   Filed Under Google   0 Comments

Google added a new feature called My Location to Google Maps for mobile phones. My Location works like GPS and shows you your location on your mobile phone.
If your phone already supports GPS, then it will use this information to show your location if it is not available it will try to approximate your [...]

Adsense rolls out simple ad management

Published on November 6th, 2007   Filed Under Advertising, Google   6 Comments

Tired of updating the Adsense code everytime you make small changes, now you can update the code from Adsense site itself. Google finally released the Manage Ads feature for Adsense, now you just modify the code in Adsense and the changes will take place in your site ads.
This feature won’t work automatically with old [...]