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If you use Gmail and you'd like a simplified interface, that doesn't use AJAX, loads fast and works well in most browsers, try the basic HTML view. Gmail links to this version at the bottom of the page, but you can also access it if you go to http://mail.google.com/mail/h/ . Until recently, Gmail didn't have the option to set the basic HTML version as the default interface and you had to bookmark its...
Google started to display a thumbnail next to the Product Search OneBox, as you can see by searching for [ usb flash ]. The image illustrates the top search result, but links to the list of results. Another change is that the OneBox groups identical tech products and shows a range of prices. For queries that include clustered listings, Google no longer shows a link that restricts the results to products...
From GoogleOperating System : " Google Spreadsheets added an option in the sharing dialog that allows anyone to view or edit the spreadsheet just by knowing the URL. If you click on the Share tab and enable "Anyone can edit this document WITHOUT LOGGING IN", your spreadsheet becomes a wiki that can be edited by anyone." Also, you can now embed spreadsheets and forms in a web...
Google released an encyclopedia of the "open web" . "The open web is the web built on open standards: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and more. The open web is a beautiful soup of barely compatible clients and servers. It comprises billions of pages, millions of users, and thousands of browser-based applications." Google Doctype is an encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone who has a Google account and wants...
A simple use for Google's iPhone interfaces is to add them as sidebars in Firefox or Opera. I mentioned last year some Google gadgets for Google Notebook, Google Talk, Google Docs, that could be displayed in a permanently-visible sidebar. Here are two interfaces optimized for iPhone that have permalinks: iGoogle - all of the gadgets are displayed in a single column and you can switch between tabs at...
GoogleOperating System and others are reporting that Google has added a “real estate” option to a pull-down list of content categories on Maps: There’s nothing really new about “real estate search” on Google Maps, other than the pull-down filter on the Maps interface itself perhaps. Google has offered “one box” housing search with listings from [...]
Google prepares to launch Street View in Europe, Canada and Australia, where local laws regarding privacy in public places are less permissive than in the US. As promised, Google will blur faces for all the Street View imagery not just because of local laws, but also because the purpose of Street View is to show places, not people that happen to be there when Google's Street View cars go by. To test...
Google Maps now makes it easy to check out real estate listings in a certain area: click on the "Show search options" link next to the Search Maps button, and choose "Real Estate" from the drop down. Your search will map homes for sale, with photos and prices. Search blog GoogleOperating System reports that the results come from real estate site feeds, not Google Base...
As a Google employee recently said, "Google Maps is evolving from a driving directions and business search tool, to a comprehensive representation of all the world's information, on a map." That's why Google Maps started to integrate different layers of information when you search for an address and it added a new "More" button to enable layers for photos and Wikipedia articles. Google Maps now includes...
Any web site can be a container for OpenSocial , any web site can add social features even if it's not a social network - that seems to be the idea behind Friend Connect , a new piece from Google's social puzzle. Friend Connect will allow the users of a site to add profiles, to import their friends from other social networks, to use social applications in the context of a site. Paul Buchheit wrote...
If you publish a presentation at Google Docs , you'll receive a simple URL that can be used to view the presentation online. Unfortunately, if you go to that URl without being logged in to a Google Account, Google will ask you to log in: The explanation is that Google Presentations offers some advanced features that require authentication: chatting with other people that view the presentation and joining...
Yahoo's strategy to increase the search market share is to add features that can't be found at Google or somewhere else. The problem is that these features need to be distinctive and useful enough to attract the attention and make people switch to Yahoo or at least use it a secondary search engine. The first innovative feature added by Yahoo was Search Assistant , an integrated pane that combined autocomplete...
iGoogle finally offers a way to reorder tabs: just go to google.com/ig/settings and use the arrows displayed next to each tab name in the Content section. This solution is not very straightforward, compared to other services like Netvibes , where you can reorder the tabs using drag and drop. If you're wondering how to access the settings page from iGoogle, click on the small arrow displayed next to...
Two years ago, Google released a collection of n-grams from web pages and made it available on Linguistic Data Consortium's website . "We processed 1,024,908,267,229 words of running text and are publishing the counts for all 1,176,470,663 five-word sequences that appear at least 40 times. There are 13,588,391 unique words, after discarding words that appear less than 200 times." Here are some examples...
Hello, Picasa's obscure instant messenger, has been discontinued and will be completely shut down on May 15th. Hello was released in January 2005 , six months after Picasa was acquired by Google . According to its site, "Hello is a program that lets you connect directly with your friends to share your digital pictures. (...) With Hello, you just pick what pictures you want to show off, and click Send...
