Today Google Threat CHINA tomorrow Can be You ?

Google China fight is going hotter day by day and no one ready to move back. If Google say he is the world largest search company than China is among the world largest user for same and not only to increase in Information Technology we all know from McDonald toys to your Lovable mobiles, electronics and lot more are given by China Itself. They are the world largest manufactures for our day to day use products.

"Google entered China by promising to follow the rule of the land, and it censored the search results to abide it. But when hackers tried to hack the Gmail accounts of human rights activist from inside China, Google lost its cool. They went ahead and decided to take on Chinese government head-on"

If Google ready to censored the search result way back when they are in need to catch china market, Now why Google not ready to do the same.Just because of some hackers ? How can a hacker problem will be combined with search result ?

See what Yahoo Japan head feels about Google. "Google takes law in their hands and most of their success has come from such steps. He said that in an interview not related to Google-China conflict"

In October 2009 we had discussed about "Google’s contribution to International politics" where Google mapsite user of China saw Arunachal Pradesh as a part of China and Google India user saw the same as part of India. Arunachal Pradesh has been and will always be a part of India.

Google China conflict will be definitely a Bonus to India, we are happy today about the fact and most favor Google over China reason being India is a democratic country where freedom and rights are defined by the democratic principles.

Today there is hardly any signs of Google doing wrong with Indian Government but who will give assurence for tomorrow. Google and facebook are so big in India that its not easy for Government to handle the same. As we had already seen in one of the example of Arunachal Pradesh.

The situation is even worse for India as Indian Tech companies are no where near Chinese (www.Baidu.com) that can take the charge in case of conflict. Indian big three companies — Indiatimes, Rediff and In.com are very small, and is no match to Google.

As of now there is no issue with Google in India,but let me remind you one of the issue witch recently happen in India (not related to Google) and hits million of users. PayPal the online money transfer giant did not care about fulfilling the Reserve Bank of India criteria and stopped all personal payment in India in a very short notice or i say with no notice.

GigaOM writes, "An unnamed analyst quoted by IDG News Service says that the changes may be related to new government rules in India that are intended to prevent or discourage money laundering. These rules, introduced last year, require financial intermediaries to verify the identity of clients carrying out international money transfers." The problem came when Paypal did not take serious note of Indian government body’s policy change on time, and just ignored the legal obligations it had with the country.

India, and all nations where Google is becoming powerful, needs to be cautiously of this Google’s dangerous move in China.

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FaceBook new location feature coming next month

Facebook is growing with a great revenue stream and going to touch the $ 1 billion mark soon. Here is an another feather to Facebook success. Faceook’s location based services will turn live next month with lot more for the developers to relish.

Facebook Inc.is holding its yearly developer conference  f8 in April at San Francisco. This will mark the official unveiling of the new location feature along with the API’s for the developers. The feature will enable the users to share their location information with friends. The set of APIs on the other hand will give the outside developers an opportunity to offer their own location-based services to Facebook users.

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Google Index FaceBook Pages

The new update from Giant "G" is to Index pages from FaceBook 

FaceBook pages are now come in Google real time search result. Facebook pages are not similar to individual profiles, those can be used for companies,organizations,celebrities, businesses etc.  

Google is also planning to Index Jaiku,Friendster and Identia.ca but this will take some time for "G".

Twitter is already twitting in google real time search.

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Turn Off Buzz

Till now every one was thinking that Google Buzz is a one way buy friends it is not. Buzz is two way. I saw a video which states "You Hate Buzz, but Google Runs the Internet " but the other side of coin is different.

Here the great "G" gives you an option to "turn off the Buzz". If you want to off Buzz than you have to scroll down the main Gmail page. there you are able to find the option "turn off buzz". Just click on that and close the Buzz Light.

Google has provide the another option to off the Buzz,go to "setting"  located at the top right-hand corner of the page. The company included a “Buzz” option to the main settings due to which you are able to hide as well as disable Buzz.

Do remember in case you disable Buzz, your Google Profile and Buzz posts will also be deleted and as a result you will be disconnected to any connected sites.

 

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Tips about Google Buzz

Here are  few tips about Google Buzz to get you started:

• Formatting of an post can be done easily in Buzz. One can format text like *bold*,_italics_, etc.

• Buzz allow user to view the summary of your Buzz posts. One can look the complete summary at www.google.com/dashboard like how many people you are following, who all are your follower, information on recent post etc.

• Use an @reply to send a post directly to someone’s inbox. If you want to make sure one of your friends sees a certain Buzz post, you can direct it to their inbox with an @reply. Type the “@” symbol followed by the first few letters of their name, and select their email address from the list. Only you’ll see their Gmail address — other people will just see their name.

• Try keyboard shortcuts to fly through buzz. Turn on keyboard shortcuts from Settings, and use “j” or “n” to scroll down the buzz tab, “k” or “p” to go back up, “r” to comment (same shortcut as reply in Gmail), and “shift + l” to like.

• Mute this post-Comments on your posts and comments after your comments send buzz directly to your inbox. If you don’t want a lively conversation to keep appearing in your inbox as people reply to it, you can mute it. Click the arrow in the corner of a buzz post and select “Mute this post.

 

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Google joins the titans of Silicon Valley lobbying

With great power comes even greater headaches. Just ask Google.

The company's transition from upstart to Goliath has multiplied its legal and policy problems. There may be no better measure of this phenomenon than Google's expansion of its lobbying activities on Capitol Hill.

In just five years, the search engine giant has gone from almost no presence in Washington to spending more money on lobbying than all but one other Silicon Valley company in 2009. And in the past three months, Google topped all other valley spenders.

"The growth in their lobbying reflects what the company has become," said Dave Levinthal, communications director for the Center for Responsive Politics. "They've gone from a tiny company to a behemoth."

Google's drive for influence in D.C. extends beyond dollars and cents, and demonstrates remarkable savvy in the ways of Washington. These include Google funding policy fellowships and hosting politicians at the Googleplex, and Google employees taking jobs in the Obama administration.

Google seems determined not to repeat the mistake Microsoft made in the 1990s when the software company ignored politics until it was ensnared in an epic antitrust lawsuit.

There's certainly nothing unusual about a company aggressively pushing its agenda. But in Google's case, I think there's a disconnect between the company's view of these efforts, and how they look to outsiders.

Google has always been a company that believes it has a special mission to make the world better, and it sees its lobbying and policy efforts as part of that crusade. In truth, this massive investment in lobbying is just one more sign that Google is acting like the big corporation it has become.

That's neither good, nor evil. Sometimes Google's interests align with the interests of consumers, and sometimes they don't. But while Google believes it's not evil, its size means many others will increasingly question whether its motives aren't less than good.

I put this idea to Alan Davidson, head of U.S. public policy for Google, who said it's not true, and that Google works to show humility.

"We've always known that with growth comes responsibility," Davidson said. "We're grateful for the company's success. We know as we grow, we need to show that we're a responsible industry leader."

It seemed like just yesterday we were writing stories about "Google goes to Washington" as the Mountain View company opened its lobbying office in 2005. Now, Google's right at home.

In 2009, Google spent $4.03 million on its lobbying efforts, up from $260,000 in 2005, according to U.S. Senate records. In the valley, that's second only to Oracle, which spent $5.1 million. And in the fourth quarter of 2009, Google outspent Oracle $1.12 million to $1.05 million.

While Google's expansion is extraordinary, it does reflect an increase in the valley's investment in lobbying. The top 10 valley companies increased their lobbying expenditures from a total of $12.4 million in 2005 to $26.4 million in 2009. Only Hewlett-Packard, a company that's been around for decades, came close to matching Google's expansion, growing from $380,000 in 2005 to $3.62 million last year.

"There was always a plan for steady growth in our presence," Davidson said. "We knew when we started the office here, the issues facing our users and industries were only going to grow out here in Washington."

Davidson notes that on some of the issues that Google lobbies for, it now butts heads with companies that spend far more on lobbying. While Davidson wouldn't say which ones, he's most likely talking about telecom companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast, whose expenditures ranged from $12 million to $17 million in 2009. Google looks at them, and still sees itself as the guppy.

And in the tech industry, Microsoft and IBM spent more last year, $6.7 million and $5.4 million respectively. But the gap is closing fast.

Davidson said Google's efforts are benign, aimed at educating politicians and making sure its users' interests are being heard.

"We started this office with the same philosophy as we did the business," he said. "If you start with the user and focus on that, everything else will follow. If what we're doing is good for our users and the Internet community, then it will be good for us in the long term."

The problem is that the company often seems so certain of its mission that it can't believe anyone would question its motives.

For instance, in a New York Times op-ed last fall, co-founder Sergey Brin painted Google's efforts to scan books as a crusade to protect the world's knowledge against the ravages of history. He bristled over criticisms of a settlement with publishers and authors: "In reality, nothing in this agreement precludes any other company or organization from pursuing their own similar effort. The agreement limits consumer choice in out-of-print books about as much as it limits consumer choice in unicorns."

Sorry, but it is hubris to expect us to genuflect and accept that Google is doing this purely for the benefit of mankind. Google is scanning books because it expects to make money in some fashion down the road.

Lobbying on behalf of its position doesn't make Google evil. It just means it's a big corporation. But for a company with a messianic belief in its purpose, that's a hard truth to accept.

Source:http://www.mercurynews.com

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A LOOK AT GOOGLE SOCIAL SEARCH

Overview
With Google Social Search you can carry out search based on content published by your friends and contacts.

Important dates
26 October 2009. Google Social Search goes live. But only as an opt-in Google Labs feature.
27 January 2010. Google Social Search is released in beta status, and becomes a standard feature on Google.com for signed-in users

Features (highlights)
My Social Circle: shows your extended network of online contacts and how you're connected.
My Social Content: shows your published content as it appears in other people’s social search results.
Google Images: you can view pictures from contacts in social circles

How does Google Social Search find content?
Mainly through your social Google profile. You can select what information you want to share.

Facebook
One of the most contentious issues with Google Social Search at the moment is that most Facebook content is outside the reach of Google Social Search. Google has expressed an interest in indexing and returning Facebook status updates in its search results. But it’s not up to Google as this is part of a bigger issue concerning Facebook and its approach to members’ privacy in general.

Any Good?
I found everything I wanted / expected, really, in its features. The Facebook issue has to be, surely, significant to the overall appeal of Google Social Search in general.

The main Google Social Search Demonstration video
(here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqWJxgp-_mU) did make me think about social search in general. The video brings up the scenario of visiting another country, and finding out what content your friends have published on that subject. Sure, this is an interesting use for Social Search, but it made me think that people are still going to depend a lot more on traditional, algorithmic search (i.e. Google takes them to a website such as Lonely Planet, or to web sites where travellers in general recount their experiences etc ..) than social search for a particular topic like this. In their next example, they discuss finding information about moving from blackberry to iPhone. I would have thought it would be much more effective – for people in general – to use traditional search to find good advice on such an issue. Lastly, they give an example of using Social Search to find out information about local restaurants. Of the three examples, this, I thought was the best one (surely, recommending restaurants – and other similar types of local businesses - is very usual amongst friends in life in general?).

How will Google Social Search fare in the world of business? The demonstration video didn’t refer to its use in a business environment at all. I can imagine people in businesses seeing Google Social Search as, potentially, another channel for marketing their business (compared to those who use social media for personal use and are more apt to keep their content private – between friends) as well as being a useful search tool in general. But it’s early days yet to say anything more concrete than that.

Google vs Microsoft vs Apple vs Yahoo- Directions of Exploration

The chart below will illustrates many of the services these companies provide. Some of their products have been cornerstone revenue streams, and others are just at the beginning of development. But putting them up against each other really helps illustrate each company’s focus and their possible future directions of exploration

.Source:New York Times

384 million Online User in China -Google to reconsider

The number of Internet user in china is 384 million by the end of 2009, One of the government linked industry body bring this information.

The online population in the world's most populous nation increased by 28.9 percent last year from the end of 2008, the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) said in a report published on its website.

Users accessing the Internet with mobile phones jumped by 120 million last year to 233 million, with the fast expansion of the country's third-generation (3G) network, allowing high-speed transmission of images and video.

The report added that Chinese web users are most interested in music, news and search engine services. This CNNIC report come after when world largest search engine company Google threaten china to pack up his business from china due to cyber attacks.

Why did Google not follow robots.txt directive?

The video clearly shows that Google sometimes lists your blocked urls, but shows no description, meaning that they have not “crawled” those urls but still list them as they found them, thereby abiding by robots.txt. Sometimes they extract the description from the ODP, and not by actually crawling the url. So many times these Google search results are just an ‘uncrawled url reference’

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Google May Close China Operations

Google threatened Tuesday to shut down its operations in China after uncovering what it said were "highly sophisticated" cyberattacks aimed at Chinese human rights activists.

China-based cyber spies struck the Internet giant and at least 20 other unidentified firms in an apparent bid to hack into the email accounts of activists around the world, Google said Tuesday.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on Beijing to explain the cyberattacks.

Related article: US calls on China to explain attacks

"We look to the Chinese government for an explanation," the chief US diplomat said in a released statement.

"The ability to operate with confidence in cyberspace is critical in a modern society and economy."

The online espionage has Google reconsidering its business operations in China and it said it will no longer filter Internet search engine results in that country.

"These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered -- combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the Web -- have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China," Google chief legal officer David Drummond said in a blog post.

"We are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all," he said.

Drummond said Google realizes that defying Chinese government demands regarding filtering Internet search engine results may mean having to shut down its operations in China.

Google said it detected in mid-December "a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google."

The company said it was notifying at least 20 other large companies of similar attacks including finance, Internet, media, technology, and chemical firms. Related article: Baidu shares up after Google warning "We have no indication that any of our mail properties have been compromised,"

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WiFi Charity -Google and Yahoo

Its time for WiFi Charity, Internet Leader Google announced about providing free WiFi across 47 airports in US by Jan 15 2010, after few hours Yahoo an other Giant of Internet market announce giving free WiFi, Yahoo has partnered with Times Square Alliance to provide free WiFi.

This service will be available in Time Square, New York. It has already started and will continue throughout all of 2010.

Providing free WiFi is actuaaly a good way to promote the use of Yahoo or Google as it start with the customized start page.

This service hopes to see about half a million visitors daily using their Internet accessible devices.

Social Media Calander 2009 -Review

Here comes the Google Toilet ! BEWARE !

Google indulging so deeply in to our private lives and with every human being treated as just another user, folks at CurrentTV have imagined the hell over the Privacy concerns. They created this interesting animation on YouTube about the Google Toilet, a new product that can literally sift through your sh*t to deliver the ultimate targeted ads. It’s filled with Fun and Humor, you can’t dare to miss. I like the end part where he was arrested by the police/military because “the U.S. Government is not cool with the way you are living with your life“.

Enjoy the video!

Google launching Smart phone on 5th Jan 2010

As i discussed earlier about the Google Launching Cell Phone.

Google is set to launch his new smart phone on 5th Jan 2010, in competition of Apple's iPhone. The Google-branded device will use its latest Android operating system called Anrdoid 2.1.Android is already being used in more than a dozen smart phones by many vendors, including Motorola and Samsung.

According to technology blog Gizmodo the Nexus One will be sold unlocked on a Google website for $530. The phone will work on GSM cellphone networks and will be offered at a subsidised price of $180 in the US by fourth-ranked carrier T-Mobile with a two-year talk and data contract costing $80 a month.

The Nexus One is likely to have a 3.7-inch AMOLED (active matrix organic light emitting diode) touch screen.

AMOLED, which is a bright display technology, needs no backlighting for the device to function. Since there is no backlight, touch screen looks brighter.

The Google GSM smart phone will also have a 5-megapixel camera and Wi-Fi connectivity.

According to mobile industry bloggers, Google may sell the smart phone unlocked, thus not locking buyers in long-term contracts with carriers.

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