Google Movies Search Google movies search is accessible over web, mobiles, iPhones just go to google.com/movies, it will automatically trace your location and show latest/ upcoming movies listing in theaters new you and can even play trailers, show ratings and categories, movie posters, upcoming showtimes, and a concise list of the nearest theaters and their distances from you. Google Files Search Google search commands gives a very useful way to search specific files such as MS Word, PDFs, RTF or even ZIP files, all you have to do is add <space>filetype:<file extension> after the search, for ex. - 'filetype:.doc' for word documents and 'filetype:pdf' for acrobat PDF files (see pic above). Google Music Search Google music search is a good option for music lovers that allow you to search latest songs, albums or artist and play them at same time. However, due to legal constraints the Music search is restricted to users in US only. Google Dictionary Google Fast-Flip As in google's own words - "Google Fast Flip is a web application that lets users discover and share news articles. It combines qualities of print and the Web, with the ability to "flip" through pages online as quickly as flipping through a magazine. It also enables users to ...

Google has just unveiled a Android based Super phone called - Nexus One phone and India being one among unsupported countries. however people residing in India may psychologically satisfy themselves watching the Inetractive demo , 3D Tour or videos of Nexus One phone until it arrives in India as there is not any mention via Google of how, why and when it will arrive in India. The Google super phone will be available only in US, UK, Singapore and Hong Kong. Noticeably unlike to Apple iPhone Google Nexus is "Unlocked" GSM phone sold and shipped by Google only. Moreover, unavailability of 3G Mobile technology in India could be strong reason for Nexus phone unavailability, as at present its with BSNL only. Ironically, countries like UK had already made trials of next generation 4G mobile broadband technology. Question - Why Google didn't approach BSNL? as its also 3G and GSM phone operator in India. However, India has its own Jugaad of getting Google Nexus by - shipping it to India (US$529 + $60 shipping + import duty = 32k INR approx.) or can also get it from ebay once people people start to resale it.

The recent United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen COP15 of all that big gathering of world leaders might not be as successful as it needed. However, the technology is backing up the Climate challenge education across the globe. The major internet brands such as Microsoft and Google are providing some excellent online resource and tools to educate, inform and empower people to address climate change. Microsoft - The Environmental Atlas of Europe - A digital platform for educating citizens about climate change, along with nine case studies illustrating the consequences of climate change in different environments, such as the shrinking ice cover in the Baltic. Bend the Trend - An online global program that helps people make pledges to reduce their carbon emissions. Eye on Earth - Windows Azure-powered portal that lets users track and give feedback about their environmental data such as air and water quality. The data is being provided by different individuals across the globe, through Bing maps, historical environment data and via environment monitoring stations. Project 2 Degrees - A Web-based Emissions Tracker software tool for cities around the world to measure and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by calculating the carbon footprint and also to plan meaningful actions that ...

Vevo is all new music video website devoted exclusively to streaming music videos, the website is developed and hosted by YouTube, Sony, and Google, with content being initially provided by Universal Music Group, Sony Music and EMI. Noticeably, this is the first time that YouTube hosts content off its main website and said to be the largest music oriented website on the Internet. Vevo was launched yesterday night in a Party at New York and the party have all the big names of western music industry such as Bono, lady Gaga, Mariah Carey and Vevo was introduced by famous singer Rihanna on youTube. VEVO videos will be available on VEVO.com and on YouTube.com via a VEVO-branded watch page - http://www.youtube.com/vevo, however the website is NOT available in many countries right now such as India and UK.

The First Google's Android technology based Mobile phone has been launched in India by HTC and the device is - HTC Tattoo. By having Android as a platform means Google Maps™ and Google Mail™ will perform brilliantly on phone and other apps free or almost free to have on this device unlike to iPhone. This is wha Android all about as being open-source. As HTC Tattoo has Google’s innovative Android it gives Google Maps, search, Google Mail, and Android market where users can download thousands of popular applications and games for free. This HTC Tattoo touchscreen mobile phone with excellent customization ability for both its outer and inner i.e. right from its cover design (through HTC's online cover creator) to its inner applications, its has 'HTC Sense' touch user Interface featuring 3G,GPS,WiFi,3.5mm audio jack,3.2MP autofocus camera,and a microSD card slot along with G-sensor and Digital Compass. The device costs around Rs.16,000 to Rs.20,000 in market varied in few states such as Maharashtra (being costlier) .

Today, on 26th November, Google had a an Event at its Gurgaon Office for Adsense Publishers called Google Adsense UnPlugged the main objectives for the event as apparent was to educate, train the publishers on how to earn from Adsense effectively and intelligently. The event had 6 sessions - 1. Channels & Reports 2. Tools, Features & Health of Adsense Accounts 3. Ad Formats and other Products (Adsense for content, for Feeds, for mobile etc.) 4. Placements & Positions 5. Google Ad Manager (GAM) 6. Google Analytics (w.r.t Adsense) Two very interesting things I was unaware of, was - Google place high paying Ads which reside on top of your HTML Source code of webpage Preferably, Do not chose either - 'Text Ads only' or 'Image Ads only' options, because if option Text & Image Ads (default) is chosen adsense will put only one that outbid the other, so in the end you get more money. The event was great for me and i was actually charmed by the way Google Adsense Team treated us, it was awesome experience. We were also being given certificates after all completing all the sessions.

Today Google has announced the Acquisition of Teracent, a California Startups that has patent pending dynamic ad optimization technology. This acquisition will help Google advertisers to get better results from their display ad campaigns running over Google Content Network and DoubleClick. The impressive dynamic ad optimization platform by Teracent customize display ads by choosing from thousands of different creative elements, automatically and in real-time, by machine-learning algorithms. The machine-algo pick and choose from thousands of creative elements of a display ad in real-time and tweak images, products, messages or colors. Even more, elements can be optimized depending on factors like geographic location, language, the content of the website, the time of day or the past performance of different ads. The total amount of acquisition is not known yet, however as apparent in Official Google Blog - the transaction is subject to various closing conditions and is expected to close this quarter.

Google has now finally come up with all new and much more colorful design interface although till time its on google.com address only and not for all its country specific servers such as Google.co.in. After a big time of a decade Google has made drastic changes in its design interface, which everyone is talking about - more glossy and colorful Logo, eye-catching blue search buttons and new left sidebar with extra search filters. Google has included the time-line search which was accessible in labs earlier and other search filters such as Blog, Forum, More or less Shopping sites in results and interesting ones are - Page Reviews and Related Search filters that show some extra metrics provided by Google.

Google's SafeSearch Feature that lets you filter sexually explicit web sites and images from your search results has now grown-up to next level as you can now lock the Safe Search settings in your account and to change that settings you need to enter your password for same. Even more, Google search results page looks will be visibly different with colored balls on top-right corner which you can notice even from distance, indicating that SafeSearch is locked. To use SafeSearch lock, go to the Search Settings page on Google. The new safe search enhancements are more helpful for Schools, Colleges, teachers and parents of net-savvy children at home to ensure that minors wont come across any sexually explicit content on web. Related - Google Tips for Online Safety For detailed instructions of enhanced Google SafeSearch, see video below.

Google has Introduced Page Speed, an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them. Google Page speed is very much in analogy of Yahoo's YSlow a similar Firefox/Firebug plugin which analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages, although google come late with such thing nevertheless Google's Page Speed provide bit more in-depth analysis than YSlow. Page Speed performs several tests on a site's web server configuration and front-end code. These tests are based on a set of best practices known to enhance web page performance. Webmasters who run Page Speed on their pages get a set of scores for each page, as well as helpful suggestions on how to improve its performance. Page Speed add-on also displays a timeline of network, cache and Javascript timeline event and events are displayed along the timeline and one can also record activities and collect complete call graphs for any single web page.