Google Releases Website Translator Gadget
Google has released a new website translator gadget which automatically translates a website into different languages. Site owners and publishers will be able to implement this feature by paste a short snippet of code into their websites and instantly increase their reach to up to 51 languages.
The translator gadget has the ability to automatically [...]
Google acquires ReCaptcha
Google has acquired ReCaptcha. The exact terms of the deal were not disclosed but it is said that Google plans to use ReCaptcha’s technology both as a security measure on Google sites and also to make its book-scanning project a little smarter.
Here’s why Google’s reason for the acquisition:
“But there’s a twist — the [...]
Netbook Tips
With a recent article on Netbooks, it seems fitting that there should be a list of applications and gadgets that every Netbook user should have. Unfortunately, I haven’t really researched a lot of Linux applications, so the applications below are geared towards users with Windows XP and above installed on their system. Importantly, users of [...]
Google Translator more Multi-Lingual
For the last day of August, Google has announced on their blog that their translator is able to now translate more languages, an impressive 51. Apart from the usual Google spin that is on their blog, the new languages include the following
Afrikaans
Belarausian
Icelandic
Irish
Macedonian
Malay
Swahili
Welsh
Yiddish
Here’s just a few impressive figures to digest, while you ignore the slightly rough [...]
Google Wave opens public soon
Google Wave’s Public Beta Release will be opened up on the 30th of September, according to Wave API Tech Lead Douwe Osinga.
Before the Beta is released to the public, Osinga has released a document outlining it’s features. Probably the most important one is the ‘automated expressions’ function that can be displayed on a web page, [...]
New features for Google Services for Websites
With Google releasing Google Services for Websites earlier this year, this allows the webmaster and access providers to offer powerful tools to their customers. These services include Webmaster Tools, Custom Search, Site Search, and the Almighty Adsense, which could be made available to the webmasters from their hosters quite easily. These tools help webmasters to [...]
Google Adds Search Options To Google Images
Google has added some search options to Google Images. These new search options will make it easier to filter a search by color, type (face, photo, clip art, line drawing) and file size. You can choose more than one option to automatically narrow down your search.
A number of these filters were available before via the advanced [...]
Checkout iGoogle for iPhone and Android
Yep it’s out google blog and google mobile cross posted pictures yesterday about iGoogle for iPhone and Android. Looks cool tho doesn’t it?
Google Wave Sneek Peak
Would like to share this new buzzing Wave from Google. In this video you will find what Google Wave is and also what it does. And how you can put it to use.
Have You Checked Your SEO Lately?
While many are twittering around about what they did today, you my friend might want to check you SEO and what your website rankings are. See lately we have been hit with a bit downfall from Google for example instead of getting PR5 we got PR3 and we already had PR4! After talking to few [...]