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Google’s New Innovation – Indic Translation

Check this out…

http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic

Blackle – Black version of google

Blackle is nothing but a black version of google. I appreciate the concept Ontkush came up with.

“A few months ago, TreeHugger Mark Ontkush wrote a post on his blog EcoIron titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year. The post lays out the following train of thought. “An all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts.” Google, which has a white background and gets about “200 million queries a day” could reduce global energy use by 750 Megawatt-hours a year by simply changing the color of its homepage to black.In response to this post a black version of Google emerged called Blackle.com.
According to Blackle’s homepage at publication time, 4,408.917 Watt hours have been saved by. Nice ideas. But how does the search measure up? Very well indeed. Give it a whirl yourself and start saving energy one search at a time. :: Blackle.com

So here’s your site: http://www.blackle.com/

Google turns desi with Hindi news service

Google, the world’s largest search engine, launched its Hindi news service and Hindi transliteration on blogger as its web publishing service on Thursday.

The Indian subsidiary of the US-based firm said in a statement that the twin services would enable the Hindi-speaking people to have quicker and easier access to more information in the country’s most popular language.

Google News in Hindi gathers news stories from various Hindi news sources and presents a ranked one-page view with links to news sources.

Similarly, Google’s transliteration technology enables the conversion from English text to phonetically equivalent text in Indian languages. Hindi transliteration on blogger enables users to publish content in Hindi while using English keyboards for text entry.

Read More @ DNA India

Convert YouTube, Google Video, etc Flash FLV to AVI/MOV/MP4 online

Ack:- Parth Barot

Visy.net converts a FLV file (Youtube‘s movie,etc) to another format (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3). The service is using a unique technologies (JP), and converts FLV to MPEG4 faster and losslessy than a typical transcoder. When you submit an url, this service will download and convert the video format. Then you can download the converted file.

Find the Service @ Vixy.net

Google ready to buy Adscape for $23-m

Google Inc. has agreed to acquire in-game advertising company Adscape Media Inc. for $23 million, according to technology site Red Herring, which cited sources familiar with the matter.

A Google spokesman declined comment, saying the company’s policy is not to respond to “rumor or speculation.”

Video game industry analysts said the acquisition, if successful, could give a boost to the nascent in-game advertising market.

Adscape competes with advertising start-ups Double Fusion and IGA Worldwide, which have already inked deals with major publishers.

It also has a rival in Microsoft Corp., which last year paid $200 million for in-game ad company Massive Inc. — lured by Massive’s agreements to place ads in online games from UbiSoft Entertainment SA, THQ Inc. and Take- Two Interactive Software Inc

Read More @ CIOL.com

Yahoo pipes out a challenge to Google

There is so much information circulating throughout the web in the form of XML feeds that it’s hard to keep track of it all. However, Yahoo wants to make it easy for ordinary web surfers to pick the eyes out of it all and organize it into a custom made useful format with tools from a website called Yahoo Pipes.

As Yahoo says on its website, Pipes is a hosted service that lets you remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment.

According to Yahoo, the usefulness of the huge volume of XML feeds available to web users has been limited because users are restricted to feed readers which can access the information from one feed. However, Pipes allows users to take the data from one or more feeds and use it to build new applications

Read More @ IT Wire 

Google launches Google Maps Australia

Google today launched Google Maps Australia at http://maps.google.com.au, which enables users in Australia to find local information using online mapping facility.  In addition to map and satellite images, the expanded service includes Australian business listings, driving directions and support for Google Maps for mobile.

The launch of Google Maps Australia is aimed at businesses who want to target information about their services to users searching within a local area. It is also enable Google AdWords advertisers to reach customers searching for businesses, products and services in Australia using locally targeted advertisements.

Read More @  It Wire

Microsoft nightmare continues – Google Docs to support Powerpoint

As if Microsoft didn’t have enough to worry about after the lukewarm response to Vista and Office 2007, Google’s free online office suite is set to do Powerpoint as well.

Code-named Google Presently, the presentation feature is set to become a part of Google Docs & Spreadsheets which, as the name suggests, currently offers document and spreadsheet editing. Users will be able to convert a document into a presentation, create slides and view the presentation in full-screen, reports unofficial Google-watching blog Google Operating System.

Presently is a play on Writely, the name of the online document editor Google acquired last year and combined with an online spreadsheet to create Google Docs & Spreadsheets

Read More @ IT Wire

Now Upload Videos also into Orkut

Want to upload your own video to share? Upload videos to Google Video or YouTube and add the URL here to share on orkut.

You can find the above line inside Orkut ,that says that now Orkut holds a section named Videos for uploading your videos and sharing with ur orkut friends.

Read More @ Orkut Videos

Orkut goes 3

You can find a cake on orkut.com site ..its the 3 year celebration of the same

I couldnt get any official article on the same ,if u get any do post it as comment to this post.

The image is really good one …enjoy …Scrapping

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