Google just recently launched a new powerful search product designed specifically for e-commerce websites and online retailers– Google Commerce Search.
Good timing now that we’re entering the holiday rush!
The new service is a cloud-based search utility that promises to provide visitors with an improved online shopping experience by helping them find the right products faster. On [...]
Have you ever regretted an email you wrote when you were wicked drunk? Then Gmail’s Goggles is the thing for you!
The new Gmail lab applet helps you test whether you are sober when you are trying to send an email, by giving you simple math problems. Look here:
By default it works on Friday and Saturday [...]
Posted in Google Applications on October 9th, 2008After Google’s recent launch of the Mobile Search with My Location, you’ll never be late to your job interview or dinner with your hot date at that new sushi place.
Thanks to the Geolocator API web application your phone will be able to:
* Obtain the user’s current position, using the getCurrentPosition method
* Watch the user’s position [...]
As we know, a couple weeks back, Google released ‘walking directions’ as part of their Google Maps feature options.
If you’re keen to taking random strolls down some unknown street, perhaps some new ‘pedestrian friendly’ town you happen to be visiting for the weekend, or want to enjoy the beautifully HOT weather that has come to [...]
Don’t allow your city, state or island to just be a blob on the map! Its a good thing Google Map Maker added a new feature recently which lets you contribute or edit map information freely, however, its only currently available in certain cities.
The Google Team has realized, maybe due to continuous claims, that some [...]
Google has been hard at work developing their Google Enterprise business. They have advanced their customizable search hardware and software to make them more affordable for the smaller enterprise and to give users a boost in functionality:
Universal Search
Google released the first version of their Google Search Appliance back in 2002 as an internal search solution [...]
Google has released a preview of a new service where developers can house their developed applications within Google’s infrastructure. The service has been named Google App Engine and looks to help developers bypass difficulties that are common with application creation and development such as long deployment schedules and scalability problems. Google’s main aim seems to [...]
Posted in Google Applications on May 6th, 2008One big limit of Google Documents, the Google online office suite, was that it was always subjected to an Internet connection: it allowed you to create and edit a document but you were always in need for connection. Google knows that it cannot compete with other office suites without offering an offline option to its [...]
Posted in Google Applications on April 3rd, 2008I’m sure many of you could not wait to give Google’s brand new set of tools a try. These being the “Gadgets” and “Visualization API” tools which were recently launched last Wednesday in order to make-pretty and embellish user’s spreadsheets all the more. Yes, I am a girl writing this blog, hence the [...]
Posted in Google Applications on March 26th, 2008Everyone likes efficiency, right? Google does too, this is why as part of their efforts to perfect user experience, they have recently implemented a new factor into Quality Score: landing page load time.
Why is the landing page load time so important? On one hand, it is prominent users are taken to the page of interest [...]
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