Summer greetings to our Google friends. We hope you enjoy this month's
update on our products and services.
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POWER TIP
Mobile app for iPhone now available
If you have an iPhone, you can now use the Google Mobile App to search
faster than ever - not only the web, but in your contacts as well. It
also integrates Google Suggest, meaning some of the most popular
queries will auto-complete. It's available through the App Store on
your iPhone.
http://www.google.com/mobile/apple
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NEW PRODUCTS & UPDATES
Share and gain knowledge using Knol
This month we launched a new service called Knol that makes it much
easier to author and share information on the web. You can write
authoritative articles (a.k.a. knols) on a subject you know about, and
then share your knowledge with everyone. Each knol identifies an
author or group of authors, and readers can clearly see who wrote it
and their credentials. You can also comment, rate, or review a knol.
Using a new feature called "moderated collaboration," readers can even
edit a knol directly. Then the author can decide whether to take the
suggestions into account.
http://knol.google.com
Elections Video Search gadget
Using our own state-of-the-art speech recognition technologies, videos
from politicians' YouTube channels are automatically transcribed from
speech to text and indexed. Using the gadget, you can search not only
the titles and descriptions of the videos, but also their spoken
content. And since speech recognition tells us exactly *when* words
are spoken in the video, you can jump right to the most relevant
parts.
http://tinyurl.com/6rjakw
Chat in 3D using Lively
Lively by Google lets you design your own virtual rooms and chat and
interact with your friends in 3D. You can also create and personalize
your own chat avatar. Lively is a great new way for you to meet and
connect with people who share your interests: when browsing your
favorite blogs or websites, you can now join Lively rooms embedded
into the sites.
http://www.lively.com
Get walking directions on Google Maps
You can now get walking directions on Google Maps that include the
most direct, flat route, as well as the best use of pedestrian
pathways. But you don't have to just be going on a walk to benefit
from this new service; it's also helpful if you're using Google Maps
for public transit directions and want the best way to get from one
stop to another.
http://maps.google.com
Explore the Tour de France with Street View
You can now (virtually) ride in the Tour de France using Street View
on Google Maps. If you're a sports fan, this is a great new way to
experience the famous race. If you enjoy nature and the outdoors, you
can explore France's scenic countryside. If you're curious about
French cities and cafes, here's an opportunity for you to see them up
close. Whatever your interest, this is guaranteed to be an exciting
ride!
http://google.com/tourdefrance2008
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MISCELLANY
We spend a lot of time thinking about, you guessed it, search. Over
the last decade, search technologies have significantly improved, and
user expectations have greatly increased along the way. We work hard
to fulfill the expectations of each and every user, and to do that
we're constantly pushing the technologies for understanding the pages,
the queries, and our users further. But search is an ongoing challenge
because there is *so* much out there. To give you an idea of the
scope, a few hundreds of millions of times a day people will ask
Google questions, and within a fraction of a second Google needs to
decide which among the billions of pages on the web to show you - and
in what order. We know we have to continue to work hard to meet the
challenge, and for us that's half the fun. We've recently been posting
about what's under the hood as we work to improve the quality and
speed of our search experience. Visit the Official Google Blog to read
more.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/search/label/search
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