Okut OneBox for People Search
from Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu
Most of the data from Google’s social network orkut wasn’t included in search results because orkut requires authentications to see profile pages. Now Google intends to index the information from user profiles and show it in search results as an OneBox.
“Some orkut profiles will appear in Google search [...]
Track Your Holiday Flight with Google
from Lifehacker by Gina Trapani
Google rolls out a new flight tracking feature: just type your airline and flight number into the search box, and get the departure and arrival location and estimated time. I’m also a fan of 4INFO’s SMS flight status check on the way to the airport from my cell phone. How are [...]
Get Translations in Google Talk
from Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy
Google has integrated translation tools into its Google Talk and GChat interfaces through the use of chat bots. To have a line translated from English to French, for instance, invite en2fr@bot.talk.google.com to chat, then simply chat the line you want to see translated. The bots use Google Translate as their back [...]
Picasa 2.7 for Linux
from Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu
Google has a preview release of Picasa 2.7 for Linux. The previous version launched last year didn’t include the features from Picasa 2.5+ for Windows (like the Picasa Web integration), so this is a good opportunity to add these features to Linux. Here’s what is new in Picasa [...]
Google Bans Ads For Paid Links Marketplaces
Google continues to crack down on those text link advertising methods which don’t carry the “nofollow” attribute as a “machine-readable disclosure.” The latest move, triggered by communication between Google’s web spam team and the Google AdWords department, as Google’s Matt Cutts says, is to disallow the advertising for such PageRank-selling schemes via Google. Compare the [...]
