Posts Tagged ‘Google’
Google Search Rankings Now Consider Site Speed
Back in November, we started hearing murmurs that Google was considering whether or not to factor site speed into its search ranking algorithm. In a blog post today, the search giant confirms it is now adding site speed to its list of criteria that could affect your Google ranking. It’s another step on Google’s long road toward achieving maximum speed and efficiency. The...
12 Fresh Web Tools for Getting the Most Out of Google Buzz
Buzz — Google’s entry into the real-time social web — is becoming increasingly more popular. Because it was launched by an Internet giant and initially incorporated directly into Gmail by default (whether a good idea or not), the service was able to instantly compete with other, more well-established competitors like Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace in the crowded social networking arena. What’s more, with Google’s history...
Google's New Android Phone to Have Homely Name?
According to The Wall Street Journal, Google will release the successor to its G1 phone next week, and they may well be calling it the myTouch 3G. Thankfully the new device--which has also been dubbed Ion or Magic in other countries--isn't a sentient being, so it won't be able to hear all the mockery it'll endure for having such an unfortunate name. Seriously: how far can we go with "touch" names before things start...
Hack the Google and Guggenheim Design It: Shelter Competition
Think you have what it takes to design an electricity, gas, and water-free shelter that blends into the natural environment? Then enter the Design It:Shelter competition. The competition, held by Google Sketchup and the Guggenheim Museum, asks entrants to use Google's Sketchup application to design a 100-square-foot structure suitable for studying and sleeping. But without designing the structure for a specific community, the challenge lacks any purpose beyond architectural navel-gazing. That's where the...
Google Reveals New Product Logos
It might be a pretty minor thing, but when it’s on the scale of Google, it’s a change that millions of people will notice. The company has updated all of its product logos – Docs, News, Maps, etc – to all share a more standardized look and feel.
Specifically, all logos (aside from products with their own branding like Gmail) now include Google’s standard logo, plus the product name in the same...
Google Chrome: Another 30 Percent Faster?
Arguably the best feature of Google Chrome isn’t a feature at all, but rather the fact that it’s simply a faster Web browser than the competition. Today, the Chrome team has pushed live some new updates that they claim make the browser up to an additional 30 percent faster when it comes to loading web pages.
Additionally, a few new features are being released with this update, which, continue...
Google Translate Now Included in Gmail
You may rarely see an email in your inbox that’s not in your native language, but on the off chance that you do, what’s your translation strategy? Copy and paste into a translation engine, right? The process is only complicated further for those of us who communicate frequently with multi-language teams across the world.
Now Gmail users don’t have to bother...
Google Voice: Coming soon… Finally
GrandCentral.com users may not have much longer to wait for the release of Google Voice. Google Voice is being branded and primed for delivery after nearly a year of suspense. Google has been keeping Google Voice under wraps after buying out GrandCentral. For the duration, new users have only had an option to register for a GrandCentral number without being able to use the service. Quite frustrating after you learn of its many uses. Salvation...
Google Testing Android Usability on Netbooks
We already know that a lot of PC manufacturers are looking into Android as a viable platform for their netbooks. What we didn't know is that Google is now interested in seeing if Android is actually usable for netbooks. According to some reports, Google posted an ad on Craigslist seeking Netbook users to participate in a Google Android Netbook Usability Test. You'll get...
An Insight Into Google’s Design Decisions
Recently, Google announced a significant update to its Search function: the Options panel. Although - for the most part - it’s only a different way to display some old features, changes such as this one can have a profound impact on the most important service on the web today.
Design-wise, though, it doesn’t look like much. The new pane on the left side looks simple and logical; almost as...