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Alex Chitu
Google SearchWiki Launched 
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Fri, 21 Nov. 2008
As anticipated last month, Google's experiment that lets you reorder and annotate search results is now live. Google SearchWiki should be available automatically if you are logged in to a Google account and it's recognizable by the visual clutter added to the search results.Next to each result, you should see thr
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YouTube Tests Even Higher Quality Videos
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Thu, 20 Nov. 2008
YouTube already provides an option to view higher quality versions for some videos and you can also append "&fmt=18" to the URLs for the other videos. If you add "&fmt=22", some YouTube videos are now available at an even higher quality, which makes the full screen view a very useful option. Compare:
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category YouTube
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Google Contacts Sync for Blackberry
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Wed, 19 Nov. 2008
As more of its services are used in business environments, Google started to provide synchronization tools for mail, calendar and contacts, but their launch wasn't timely and they were pretty limited. For example, the Google Calendar/Outlook sync tool is limited to the main calendar, while the Blackberry sync applicati
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Google Contacts Sync for Blackberry
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Wed, 19 Nov. 2008
As more of its services are used in business environments, Google started to provide synchronization tools for mail, calendar and contacts, but their launch wasn't timely and they were pretty limited. For example, the Google Calendar/Outlook sync tool is limited to the main calendar, while the Blackberry sync applicati
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Gmail Themes
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Wed, 19 Nov. 2008
Following the footsteps of Google's personalized homepage, Gmail added themes. Once the new option is enabled in your account (as usually, Gmail's new features are slowly rolled out), you'll find a tab named "Themes" in
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Google Hosts LIFE Photo Collection
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Wed, 19 Nov. 2008
When your mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", you have to first gather the information. If it's not online, the first thing that needs to be done is to get the permission to use that data or to create a system that allows copyright owners to upload their works and to monetize them.Goo
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Free Google Apps, More Difficult to Find
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Mon, 17 Nov. 2008
Google Apps for Your Domain has been launched in 2006 as a solutions for organizations that wanted to use Google's applications on their own domains. In 2007, Google launched a premier edition for businesses that added corporate features,
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URLs for iPhone-Optimized Google Sites
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Fri, 14 Nov. 2008
Google's interfaces optimized for iPhone, Android and WebKit-based browsers look extremely well and they have more features than the standard mobile versions. For example, Google's homepage shows suggestions and has customizable navigation links, iGoogle shows all your feeds and gadgets and Google Talk lets you chat with your contacts. If you want to try them from your computer or from a mobile ph
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category Reader
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Google Voice Search for iPhone
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Fri, 14 Nov. 2008
In 2002, Google Labs introduced a service that allowed you to search Google with a simple phone call. Unfortunately, the service wasn't very useful because the results were displayed on your computer and Google discontinued it.
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category Project
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More YouTube Ads
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Thu, 13 Nov. 2008
Two years after being acquired by Google, YouTube still hasn't figured out how to monetize the site. "We believe the best products are coming out this year. And they're new products. They're not announced. They're not just putting in-line ads in the things that people are trying. But we have a number — and, of course, Google is an innovative place,"
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category search
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Will There Ever Be a Google OS?
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Thu, 13 Nov. 2008
Here's Andrew Morton's answer to this question. As you probably know, Andrew Morton is a lead developer of the Linux kernel and a Google employee since 2006.The resources required to develop and test kernel/base apps/wind
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Voice and Video Chat in Gmail
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Tue, 11 Nov. 2008
As anticipated in the post about Gmail SMS, video chat is the next big that will be added to Gmail. Justin Uberti says that video chat will be added today, along with voice chat."We've tried to make this an easy-to-use,
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category Google
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Translate Feeds in Google Reader
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Tue, 11 Nov. 2008
Just because you don't speak a certain language doesn't mean you shouldn't read interesting articles written in that language. After increasing the number of supported language pairs and providing an API, Google Translate is rapidly integrated in
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Google Pack, a Reward for Google's Partners?
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Tue, 11 Nov. 2008
When Google launched Google Pack in January 2006, Larry Page said that software companies don't have to pay Google to be included in the bundle. In addition t
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Filter File Types from Google Video's Results
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Mon, 10 Nov. 2008
Google Video added a new option to the advanced search page: you can now filter videos that weren't uploaded to video sharing sites. If the search results include many videos that have one of these formats: ASF, AVI, FLV, M4V, MPV, MP4, MPG or WMV, you can exclude them by unchecking the corresponding box.Unfortunately, Google Video
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category iPhone
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When Google Scholar's Integration with Google Search is Useful
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Sat, 08 Nov. 2008
If you ever find an interesting academic paper in Google's search results:...and when you click on the result, the page says that you need a subscription:
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Google Chrome to Improve Bookmark Management
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Sat, 08 Nov. 2008
Some recent Chromium builds added many features that improve bookmark management and they'll probably be available in a future Google Chrome update (to find the difference between Chrome and Chromium, read
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category bookmarks
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View as HTML Office Open XML Files
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Thu, 06 Nov. 2008
Google started to support Microsoft's Office Open XML formats in Gmail and web search. You can now view as HTML documents created using Microsoft Office 2007: .docx documents, .xslx spreadsheets and .pptx presentations.
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Google Forum Search
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Wed, 05 Nov. 2008
Much like Google Video, Google Groups expanded its index from the Usenet discussion boards and the Google-hosted groups to almost all discussion boards from the web. The results show the same enhanced snippets that were added to the web search last month.
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Find YouTube Playlists
Alex Chitu via Google Operating System on Tue, 04 Nov. 2008
The option to find playlists is back at YouTube. Playlists are a great way to group related videos which can be later played one after another.YouTube shows three popular videos from each playlist and it lets you restrict the results to a certain category, like Education, Music or Sports.
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category TroopTube
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