Yesterday Google announced the launch of Google+ their social networking project. A lot of people were talking about the slick design of Google+ and that it was developed by an ex-Apple employee. Now, Google has decided to release this design principle across their search engine worldwide!
As you can see from the image everything has been simplified and pastel-ised from a colour point of view. I’m a big fan of the design as it makes everything a lot more appealing to the eye and draws away from the ugly blue links for every entry.
Google has just launched their new social network project that is aiming to compete head on with Facebook. Google+ has all the features you expect from a social network, but with a few added features.
Google has started to offer their staff use of 30 electric vehicles. These cars are a part of Google’s employee car-sharing program.
As the company explained in its Official Blog on Thursday, these cars are a mixture of Nissan Leafs and Chevy Volts and only available in the USA.
The company now offers more than 200 chargers for electric vehicles at its Mountain View, California, Googleplex campus and plans to add 250 more soon. Google’s goal is to electrify 5% of its parking spaces. The company has about 23,000 employees, and most of them are stationed at the Googleplex.
Google has been trying to get their +1 button added to as many places across the web as possible. It seems as though the +1 button will help content creators in search results. Here are some quick options on how to add the +1 button to your site.
1.The Google +1 plugin: This plugin lets your visitors quickly and easily add their Google+1 vote to your posts or site.
Features;
Allows readers to vote using the cool Google +1 button
Includes a Google +1 widget
Provides ability to choose which posts and pages are included
Includes 4 different button sizes
Show/hide Google +1 counts
Customize position of the button
Shortcodes and styling for further customization
2.Google +1 Button: This is another simple plugin which will add the +1 button to your articles which enables readers to recommend posts.
If you want to manually add the +1 button, you can visit the Google +1 page to customize it.
Google is starting Google Offers tomorrow in Portland, Oregon tomorrow. Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and VP of Commerce Stephanie Tilenius made the announcement at the D9 Conference.
The first Google Offer will be from beloved local java shop Floyd’s Coffee.
You can learn more about Google Offers and sign up at google.com/offers.
It has been reported that Apple will be using Google Maps again in iOS 5. There have been a lot of rumours that Apple would be developing their own mapping software, however it seems like this is not going to be the case.
Expect Apple to release their own mapping service in the coming years, mainly due to their purchases of Placebase and Poly9. Im very much looking forward to a traffic service and GPS offering by Apple, but for the time being we will be sticking to Google Maps.
Yesterday in New York, Google launched the new Google Wallet. Google Wallet is an application that will turn your mobile phone into your wallet.
On Google Wallet you will be able to store your credit cards, loyalty cards, gift cards and more. At launch Google Wallet will support Citi Mastercard and Google Prepaid Card.
According to PayPal’s lawsuit, read in full here, former PayPal executive (now working at Google) Osama Bedier stole PayPal’s trade secrets and shared it with Google and other companies. Another present Googler and former PayPal exec, Stephanie Tilenius, violated her contract when she recruited Bedier, PayPal said.
I wanted to write a quick article here on Crenk to show how Google’s Panda update has hurt our site. I’m hoping that someone from Google actually reads this article and notices that there is still a big issue here!
The article is completely original, it’s over 400 words in length and provides a detailed step by step guide. This article is the epitome of original content!
I wanted to see where this article was actually ranking within Google for the keywords: burn hulu movie to dvd.
I would have thought that the original Crenk article would have been in the top 50 at least. However, after searching the top 100 article we didn’t appear. Bad times!
Then, I discovered that 4 websites scraping our content are ranking within the top 100, one even ranks just outside the top 10. How is this providing good search results?
It would be great if someone from Google could please take a look and let us know why this is happening!
Google has recently rolled out an intriguing recipe search engine which promises simply to provide dishes based on available ingredients on hand, as well as the number of calories that readers wish to expend, plus the amount of available preparation time. In the left side bar, the recipe feature can be found and will afford searchers the obvious option to zero in on more specific results like locating a recipe for chicken and dumplings, stipulating one which does not include flour, plus contains less than 400 total calories.
Surprisingly, it would seem that somewhere in the area of one percent of the searches on Google may just be for recipes and Google’s new and innovative vertical plans to bring about an experience that causes it to be simpler for cooks everywhere to locate tasty recipes on the internet. Remaining true to Google’s search roots, they’re not disclosing any actual recipes in their search results, but they do link to great recipes on relative websites such as the Food Network and Epicurious.
Clearly, however, the genuine originality would be much less obvious in the fact that the whole search has been constructed upon controlled data, which Google’s webmasters have built into their webpages with considerable utilization of markup code that appears to be imperceptible to human beings, however it is exceptionally valuable to technology. The inherent aspiration of the supposed semantic web was constructed on the premise that most all web pages would be packed with an abundance of essential tags such that search engines are enabled to parse any particular webpage in order to gain knowledge of anyone’s e-mail address, or to discern precisely what a particular business’s hours of operation are, simply by quickly reading the core code, which is completely hidden within the browser. Google’s product management search director, Mr. Jack Menzel, stated recently that this can be a difficult issue with the existing web.
The fantasy of a controlled web has been almost impossible to put into practice as basically it necessitates synchronization on construction specifications and then also requires that webpage architects take enough time to denote their pages in convoluted XML. A much more working class effort, in the form of Microformats, has enjoyed a great deal more triumph by focusing in on just a few types of data and innovatively using HTML to make simpler the basic publishing of the meta-data. Now a typical search engine is constructed in its entirety around webpages that are utilizing microformats, as well as other controlled data, for the first time. The majority of what has been stopping publishers from utilizing this type of data is similar to the chicken and egg issue. They don’t want to incur all of the bother of adding primary controlled metadata to a webpage when it may not be of any use to anyone. Hence, if there were none, why on earth would anyone expend their money and time attempting to locate it on the web?
In Jack Menzel’s estimatation, there are only a few hundred recipe sites that currently wrap the recipes that they publish in meta-data, however they do, in fact, consist of major players such as Epicurious and the Food Network. In addition, he is hoping that Google’s recipe search engine might cause developers to design simple means for bloggers to do so as well. However, Menzel is stressing that this has got to be an easy process and that Google definitely does not wish to force hard-working webmasters to do any work unless it will increase traffic.
So, Google is venturing into the kitchen now with Google Recipe Search to bring a tastier world to all of us.
Guest post by: Heater Marie Brown writes for the baristatraining.org blog and contributes hypoglycemic recipe ideas. It’s her non profits blog she uses to offers free tips to help people become a barista and find the best barista courses online. She worked with Starbucks as corporate trainer.
It has been reported that Apple will be using Google Maps again in iOS 5. There have been a lot of rumours that Apple would be developing their own mapping software, however it seems like this is not going to be the case.
