Android Google glasses with built-in computer

Google is all set to unveil it’s Google glasses which are incorporated with a built-in display and android operating system. This out of the box gadget is said to have a camera as well. This gadget is expected to go on sale very soon.

The most intriguing aspect about this gadget is that it runs Google android operating system and can also be termed as a “Wearable Computer”. Through the glasses, people can even get accurate results for queries made through Google search. The Google glasses has a “Fighter Plane Style Heads Up Display” design which gives the gadget an overall compact functionality.

In addition to the above, there is also a mouse pointer which the users can use for navigation by just tilting their head. Through this, users can make searches and search results are displayed by making use of GPS technology. Thus Google has made an innovation which is out of the box and revolutionary

This concept of Google is all set to take the digital world by storm and thus replace conventional computers and laptops. Call it “ A wearable computer which responds to your eyes”.

Pakistan notches up top slot in Google search for sex

Pakistan has secured a dubious distinction of being the number one globally for searching the term 'sex' on Google in 2011.

Pakistan is followed by India. Interestingly, of the top ten cities in the world searching for "sex" as per Google Trends data, eight are Indian.

According to a 2010 Fox News report, Pakistan, which has over 20 million Internet users, had outranked all countries in Google searches for pornographic terms last year also.

Google Trends analyses a portion of Google web searches to compute how many searches have been done for the terms you enter, relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time.

Google Trends uses IP address information from server logs to make a best guess about where queries originated.

On the issue of accuracy, Google Trends say, "The data Trends produces may contain inaccuracies for a number of reasons, including data-sampling issues and a variety of approximations that are used to compute results. We hope you find this service interesting and entertaining, but you probably wouldn't want to write your PhD dissertation based on the information provided by Trends".

Google India unveils new search format for ads

Google India Tuesday unveiled a new format for media advertisements (ads) to target, pay for and experience video ads on its web search engine.

"The new ads format is designed to ensure users find the information they are looking for and enable advertisers to reach potential customers with the right information," Google India sales head Praveen Sharma said in a statement here.

As a standalone format designed to put video ads front and centre, the search target is automated.

"The format is launched with STAR TV campaign built around its new channel Life Ok. The media and entertainment category search volumes have shown phenomenal growth. In the last two years, the query volumes have grown at 125 percent year-on-year," Sharma said.

The format will also enable media firms to capture the traffic on search and leverage it to create familiarity of the content.

"Our research has shown that a substantial number of users are looking to watch the movie trailer or TV show clips on the search results page, which translates into a high response rate for this ad format," Sharma noted.

The format also changes the way users experience video on Google search. It introduces a new Lightbox media player. When the video is played either by clicking the thumbnail or the 'watch' link, the Lightbox player expands to the centre of the screen and dims the rest of the page around it.

"The experience is meant to put the viewer's attention on the video and to create a theatre-like experience," Sharma added.

Media Ads are charged at a flat rate on clicks. The pricing model makes it easier to budget for media ads campaign and to know how much an interaction is going to cost.

Google's search technologies connect millions of people the world over with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google is a top web property in all major global markets.

Google's targeted advertising programme provides businesses with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users.

Gurgaon boy doodles his way to Google

For once, Puru Pratap Singh’s (9) folks will allow him to surf the Net late at night. In fact, his whole family will be up till midnight
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Puru Pratap Singh, a Class 4 student from Gurgaon, won the Doodle for Google competition. Singh’s doodle was chosen from 4,000 entries across India. Log on to Google and you will see the logo
Friday, to see his artwork displayed as an icon on the homepage of Google India.

Singh, a Class IV student of Amity International, Saket, won the GoogleDoodle contest in India, edging out 4,000 others. His will be the search engine’s first “made in India” doodle.

But having won the contest, and a laptop in prize, Singh has other plans for the future: “I want to be a scientist, not an artist as they aren’t very well paid.”

The Gurgaon boy had a little help. His art teacher mother, Arti Singh, pitched in with the artwork while his father, N.P. Singh, helped him think up the concept, ‘My India full of life’.

“The first ‘G’ is in the shape of a peacock; ‘O’ represents the wisdom of our country; the other ‘O’ shows the discovery of water on the moon by India, ‘G’ revolves around Kashmir; ‘L’ is designed as the rifle at Amar Jawan Jyoti at India Gate; and ‘E’ depicts Mahatma Gandhi,” said Singh.

To see Singh’s doodle, a Google India spokesman said, all you have to do is log on to www.google.co.in.

Bing may Replace Google!

It's easy to mock Bing as Microsoft's latest attempt to rip off a competitor. Bloggers, in fact, have christened the search engine "But It's Not Google".

In many ways, Bing is better. Here's how:

* When you hover your mouse over a search result, Bing opens a pop-up window that displays the first few paragraphs. Saves time clicking on dead ends.
* Bing’s search-result sidebar is handy: input a celebrity’s name and it gives you the following list: News, Movies, Quotes, Bio, Images. A sports team will get you Schedule, Tickets, Stadium, History, and so on. “Aren’t those almost always the answers you’re really looking for?” writes Pogue.
* Bing’s image search page scrolls on and on, sparing you the tedium of clicking “next,” and you can filter the image results by size, file type, “just faces” or “just head and shoulders.”
* Bing allows you to see and hear samples from video thumbnails.

Is it the end of Google?

The perception among lay users of the Internet is that Google’s omniscience is unparalleled as far as looking up information on the Internet goes. But with Artificial Intelligence fast evolving, inference search engines like True Knowledge and Wolfram Alpha have begun to throw up results that promise to enlighten the user faster and more intuitively.

Google primarily indexes websites and stores millions of keywords in its database, based on which it throws up results. For instance, if a user were to type in ‘Bombay’, Google would return all webpages with the term ‘Bombay’ in them irrespective of what context it was needed in. The information is all pre-fed into the database.

On the contrary...
Inference search engines are programmed to recognise words in a context. They, too, recognise only keywords from the input, but show direct answers to queries rather than direct you to webpages on the Internet.

So if a user were to type in ‘Bombay’, such an engine will recognise Bombay as a metropolis and will accordingly display all of the city’s attributes much as it is pre-programmed to do. Wolfram Alpha comprehensively lists out the population, current temperature, local time and approximate elevation among other things. Simply put, direct answers. Such search engines help keep malware away, as they minimise your exposure to other websites.

Too much information?
In a Google search the kind of answer you get depends on the keywords you type in. And while you may be flooded with websites, it’s important to remember, excess information isn’t necessarily useless. You invariably come across a piece of information browsing through website that you never intended to directly search for, but found useful nonetheless.
If you’re not too clear on what you want, Google helps you navigate through even the most ambiguous searches and get to the answer. Wolfram Alpha isn’t too helpful as it throws up only a select few details.

So is Google still God?
According to journalist Aashray Hariharan, “Inference websites aren’t as informative and I only get specific information on them. I don’t even consider them as competition to Google. ”

Wolfram Alpha currently performs less than one-fifth of the operations a search engine with its kind of technology ideally should. So it doesn’t really do to compare it with Google. The whole point of having inference search engines is to streamline searches, and make them as direct and intuitive for the user.

Google ‘Internet Bus’ to Travel across Karnataka

In an attempt to create awareness about the Internet, Google India, will run an 'Internet bus' across Karnataka.

The Internet bus starting from Bangalore, would cover 15 towns spread over Karnataka in the next fifty days, enabling people to know the advantage of using the Internet.

Karnataka leg would focus on four themes - information, communication, entertainment and education.

The video-driven content would showcase how people with basic knowledge of Internet, 'could make their everyday lives simpler. All this information would be available in English and Kannada.

According R and D Head of Google, “We have got the positive results of Google bus experiment, in neighboring state Tamil Nadu.”

"Tamil Nadu was a big learning for us and it was inspiring to see that people wanted to know about the Internet and share their needs with us. In this phase we will also be focusing on how mobile can be used to access local information even without data plans," he added.