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YouTube To Stream IPL Matches Live From India

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YouTube IPL LogoGoogle India has just struck a nice deal with Indian Premier League (IPL) organizers that would enable to stream the IPL season 3 cricket matches live from it’s video-sharing site YouTube.

Google now holds the exclusive online rights of the IPL matches for two years.All the matches would be broadcasted with a delay of 5 minutes from the original live feed.

The live matches can be watched online from IPL’s YouTube account http://www.youtube.com/ipl.

With around 60 matches to be played, the tournament would be starting from March 12, 2010 and will run till April 25, 2010 in India.

IPL on YouTube March 2010

It’s probably the first time that Google is broadcasting a live sporting event.However IPL fans in USA may just have to stick to other unofficial live streaming sites as they wouldn’t be able to watch this coverage from YouTube.

BTW, the coverage also includes match highlights, interview of the man-of-the match player for that day, all wickets, top sixes of the match,award ceremony, pitch report etc.

Google Webmaster Quiz For Fun

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Google Webmaster central has today announced that it’s going to conduct a fun and educational quiz for the interested webmasters.The quiz consists of 40 basic questions on topics that every single webmaster should know for successful SEO.

Of course, some questions and answers seem funny, ultimately it’s fun answering those questions.

Quiz will be open till Wednesday, January 27 at 5PM PST.Go take the quiz and If you get them right, as kept in as am options for one of those question, Do the Google dance.Answers to the questions in the quiz will be posted in the Webmaster Central blog after Jan 27.What more? if you are the top scorer of the quiz, your username will be posted in the Google Webmaster Central blog post.That’s lot of free publicity !!

Link: Take the Google Webmaster Quiz

Webmaster Quiz Screen shot

Sshh….Don’t reveal the answers at least until Jan 27 !!

What Search Engines Have To Say About Themselves !! [Just For Fun]

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I got the idea of posting this post after seeing a funny picture of Google suggestions for Twitter at this page.I wanted to know what these search engines think about themselves (or at least suggest us), that would the next funniest thing to know.I went ahead using "Search Suggestions’ feature that all the major search engines launched sometime back, and took the screen shots of the major 3 search engines Google, Bing and Yahoo..GBY, the great 🙂

Check out the results yourself..

Google thinks about Google

Bing about Bing

Yahoo about Yahoo

Looks funny, isn’t it 🙂

New Feature in Orkut: Auto-Magic Groups

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Orkut has launched another new feature called “Auto-Magic Groups”.

Auto-Magic Groups automatically suggests friend groups (to filter updates) and suggests labels for them too.Just like friend suggestions that are coming in Orkut off late, you can either accept the suggestions or you may just ignore them.

orkut beta Logo

As you can see in the below screen shot, a link called “edit groups” will appear at the right corner of the ‘Friend updates’ tab.If you click ‘edit groups’ link, it will open all existing groups (that you have created) plus new groups suggested by orkut.You can further customize them from there.

This is what Orkut engineers have to say about this new feature in orkut blog.

This new feature makes it easy to filter your friends’ updates based on relevant groups, right on your orkut homepage, so now you can easily see only the updates from a specific group of people at a time. Try it out by selecting a group from the "groups" drop-down menu on your homepage!

automagic groups in Orkut

This feature I guess initially available to few selected users and will soon be rolled out for all.

‘Browser Size’ Tool From Google Allows You To Track The Most Appealing Areas Of Your Website

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Google has announced the launch of “Browser Size” (@ http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/), the newest of Google labs features that lets you see your website using standard view as it appears to the typical visitor of your website.

It depicts the most visible parts of your website and the part of the website which doesn’t strike to the visitor at the first sight and that requiring a scroll of the page to bring it visible to the visitor.

Just visit Browser Size page, and key in your website URL, to check the visibility of your website/ webpage.It produces lines of different bands of colours for different visibility percentages.For instance if your support website has a button (call for action scenario) “Donate” that falls in the 80% band, it means that 20% of your visitors can’t find it at first sight and they are forced to scroll down to see that button.Browser Size Techrena screen shot

The above is a screen shot of the Browser Size tool test for techrena.net.You can test the results with choosing different opacity.The percentages here refer to the visitors coming to Google, like the “90%” contour means that 90% of people visiting Google have their browser window open to at least this size or larger.

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More "God Mode" Like Windows 7 GUID Shortcuts

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Excited about Windows 7 unseen ‘GodMode’, the age-old windows trick which has got new life last week in Windows 7 ?

GodMode shortcut can be easily setup by creating a new folder and rename it as GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} [Folder name can be anything you want, give it your desired name followed by a period (.) and then the GUID, here GUID part is {ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} ]

Note: GUID stands for 'Globally Unique Identifier'

If “God Mode” alone isn’t enough for you, here comes Ed Bott with a nice collection of more such GUID shortcut tricks for you.His collection include tricks that work only on Windows 7 as well as some tricks can even work on Windows Vista too.I have put all of the tricks mentioned by Ed Bott in a nice table, so that it’d easier for you..Do make a note of these and you may bookmark this page for future reference.

1.Windows 7 Only (And Later Versions):

Shortcut GUID code
Action Center {BB64F8A7-BEE7-4E1A-AB8D-7D8273F7FDB6}
Backup and Restore {B98A2BEA-7D42-4558-8BD1-832F41BAC6FD}
Biometric Devices {0142e4d0-fb7a-11dc-ba4a-000ffe7ab428}
Credential Manager {1206F5F1-0569-412C-8FEC-3204630DFB70}
Default Location {00C6D95F-329C-409a-81D7-C46C66EA7F33}
Devices and Printers {A8A91A66-3A7D-4424-8D24-04E180695C7A}
Display {C555438B-3C23-4769-A71F-B6D3D9B6053A}
HomeGroup {67CA7650-96E6-4FDD-BB43-A8E774F73A57}
Location and Other Sensors {E9950154-C418-419e-A90A-20C5287AE24B}
Notification Area Icons {05d7b0f4-2121-4eff-bf6b-ed3f69b894d9}
Recovery {9FE63AFD-59CF-4419-9775-ABCC3849F861}
RemoteApp and Desktop Connections {241D7C96-F8BF-4F85-B01F-E2B043341A4B}
Speech Recognition {58E3C745-D971-4081-9034-86E34B30836A}
Troubleshooting {C58C4893-3BE0-4B45-ABB5-A63E4B8C8651}

2.Windows Vista And Windows 7:

These GUID shortcuts work on Windows 7 as well as on Windows Vista versions.

Shortcut GUID code
Administrative Tools {D20EA4E1-3957-11d2-A40B-0C5020524153}
All .NET Frameworks and COM Libraries {1D2680C9-0E2A-469d-B787-065558BC7D43}
All Tasks (Control Panel) {ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
AutoPlay {9C60DE1E-E5FC-40f4-A487-460851A8D915}
BitLocker Drive Encryption* {D9EF8727-CAC2-4e60-809E-86F80A666C91}
Computer Folder {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
Default Programs {17cd9488-1228-4b2f-88ce-4298e93e0966}
Ease of Access Center {D555645E-D4F8-4c29-A827-D93C859C4F2A}
Font Settings {93412589-74D4-4E4E-AD0E-E0CB621440FD}
Get Programs {15eae92e-f17a-4431-9f28-805e482dafd4}
Manage Wireless Networks {1FA9085F-25A2-489B-85D4-86326EEDCD87}
Network and Sharing Center {8E908FC9-BECC-40f6-915B-F4CA0E70D03D}
Network Connections {7007ACC7-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E}
Network Folder {208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}
Parental Controls {96AE8D84-A250-4520-95A5-A47A7E3C548B}
Performance Information and Tools {78F3955E-3B90-4184-BD14-5397C15F1EFC}
Personalization {ED834ED6-4B5A-4bfe-8F11-A626DCB6A921}
Power Options {025A5937-A6BE-4686-A844-36FE4BEC8B6D}
Programs and Features {7b81be6a-ce2b-4676-a29e-eb907a5126c5}
Sync Center {9C73F5E5-7AE7-4E32-A8E8-8D23B85255BF}
System {BB06C0E4-D293-4f75-8A90-CB05B6477EEE}
User Accounts {60632754-c523-4b62-b45c-4172da012619}
Windows Firewall {4026492F-2F69-46B8-B9BF-5654FC07E423}
Windows SideShow** {E95A4861-D57A-4be1-AD0F-35267E261739}
Windows Update {36eef7db-88ad-4e81-ad49-0e313f0c35f8}

* For Ultimate versions only)

** May Slowdown your system

Warning: Trying some of the above shortcuts created problems in some machines running 64-bit Windows, please do take note of it particularly if your machine is Windows Vista 64-bit version based.

The procedure is same as I had posted earlier for GodMode setup,

Create an empty folder

Use the shortcut name that you want to give it, ex: “Network connections” followed by a period (.) following it should be the corresponding GUID shortcut code.

Networks connection GUID GodMode code

Renaming for Networks connection shortcut

Networks connection shortcut

You can try any of the above GUIDs following the same method.

Source, ZDNet

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Fast Flip Comes To Google News Homepage

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Google today has announced that it has officially added Google Fast Flip to Google news homepage.Fast Flip, the article-reading service which was launched in September 2009 is still in Google Labs though. You can find Fast Flip at the bottom of the Google News Homepage (U.S).

Fast Flip grabs the screen shots of the newest articles from the popular news papers, magazines, blogs etc. (total news sources at present 90).Google decided to add this feature based upon the positive feedback that it got from the users (??).

Fast Flip in Google News Homepage

We’ve found that the speed and visual nature of the service encourages readers to look at many articles and, for the ones that catch their interest, click through to the story publishers’ websites.

Currently Fast Flip service in Google News is available only in the U.S. English version.

Funny: Microsoft Admits MSNbot is Slow !!

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We all know that Bing, the search engine from Microsoft indexes web pages at a slower rate than most of the other search engines (G and Y !! for instance).

But it’s interesting to note that even Microsoft admits the truth about their MSNbot 2.0 which they introduced in November 2009.

Brett Yount, Program Manager @ Bing Webmaster Center replies to the question put forward by an Indian webmaster about only one page of his site being indexed at Bing webmaster community forum.

See his reply in the below screen shot.

Bing MSNbot slow

It is well known in the industry that MSNbot is fairly slow

It’s indeed very much true that Bing indexing is too slow and never indexes a site properly.The good example to quote here would be our Techrena itself.

See these screen shots:

Google shows that it has indexed about 125 pages of Techrena.net

Google Indexing Techrena Bing Indexing: Indexed only 9 pages, out of which 3 are sitemaps !! and this has been static for more than 2 months now.

Bing Techrena Indexing

Perhaps it’s the time Microsoft should really think about increasing the indexing capability of MSNbot (for including in Bing).Are they listening??

via SE RoundTable

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“Near me now” On Google Mobile Homepage

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Google has just added a new feature called “Near me now” that lets mobile users find the business or services that are nearer to your current location.This uses your current location via phone’s GPS for search results that will be confined to area in and around you.

Mobile users can find this “Near me now” link just below the Google mobile homepage, when you click on the link, it’ll show a list of categories like restaurants, bars, ATMs etc. which are nearer to you.You can also find more details like how the service and menu would be in a restaurant for instance even before you enter the restaurant.This is possible via "Explore right here" option available.

Near Me Now in Google iPhone- Android

Clicking on “Browse more categories” gives you access to the various business categories listings under Google’s local search.

This new feature is currently available in US only for iPhone or Android-powered mobile devices.You must have enabled my location feature of your phone.

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Now You Can Chat On Google Translator Toolkit

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Google has added ‘Chat’ feature which allows you to chat with your friends in Gmail, right from the Translator Toolkit.

The chat would be same as that you’d normally see in your Gmail (web-based), with an ability to be ‘invisible’ to your friends(Note that Invisible mode is also available in web based talk gadget based services like Gmail).Just like Wave, this toolkit also is touted for collaborative work but between people whose languages differ.

 

 

Chat Inside Translator Toolkit

[Image: Official Google Blog]

To enable chat inside Translator Toolkit, go to Translator Toolkit settings, and you can toggle chat between ‘on ‘and ‘off’.

Google Translator Toolkit Chat Settings

There are many other improvements in Google Translator Toolkit, which you must check on your own, go visit Translator Toolkit

Via Official Google blog

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