Google SMS India 9773300000

Google is now providing a 10 digit mobile number for easy to search and serve various helpful services using mobile in a quick and economical way in India.

For e.g.: Just SMS your PNR number of railway ticket on this mobile number and instantaneously you will get your ticket's current status along with all other journey related details.

Or just send 'reliance quote' and you will get what you were looking for.

The number is 9773300000. No need to prefix 0 or +91.

Best of all, you don't pay a premium charge for any of this, just the price of a standard SMS.

Check out the various other services like cricket scores, horoscopes, facts, movies, news, flight status, local information and so on:

http://www.google.co.in/mobile/default/sms/

Google Zeitgeist 2008

Zeitgeist is German word which simply means: "spirit of the age", spirit of a specific period of history, cultural and intellectual characteristics or mood of a particular era; trend of a specific generation.

I am avid follower of Google Zeitgeist, seemingly its becoming my hobby now a days. It assist me to determine what are people looking for across the World, how an event/activity influences certain citizens of a nation and so on. Google has recently came up with its zeitgeist list of 2008. Though Barack Obama won the US election but Sarah Palin is the one leading 'Fastest Rising' section on Google Zeitgeist's global list.

Coming to India, Katrina Kaif is leading all the way in India specific list. She is appearing in every major section like Fastest Rising, Most Popular, Top searches on Mobile and leading in Top Bollywood Celebrities.

Among all the best entertaining part is Top 'how to' searches in India, Here is a snippet:
Excluding point 5, 7 and 8, I really got impressed with our Desi Bandhu's search precedences :). Reducing (1) weight along with Gaining (6) weight are our top priorities.

You can find full list here.

Google SMS in India

Now you can utilise search service of Google in India using Google SMS. Google SMS provides facility to search for certain kinds of information with Google from a mobile phone and returns results as text messages. These facilities are like local business listings, movie showtimes, weather, facts, dictionary definitions and so on. Check Google SMS homepage for a demo of the actual service.

Google SMS is currently available on the following mobile service providers in India: Aircel, Airtel, BPL, BSNL and Reliance. Also they are expanding this to other providers.

Now Big Attachment With Gmail

Now you can send attachment up to 20MB with your emails. Google has recently upgraded Gmail service that allows users to send attachments of size up to 20MB. Right now it will useful be useful only if you will send attachment to other Gmail users as many other provider has limit of 10 MB.

We can expect same kind of service from other mail providers like Microsoft’s Live Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail very soon while Rediff allows attachment upto 10MB.

GMail goes Mobile

Google now provides a downloadable gmail application for java-enabled phones to browse your email in a familiar web based user interface of Gmail. It is faster to access and also pre-fetch the messages. So now you can read, compose, search your inbox, view and add attachments including images and PDF files through your mobiles only.

To download the application, go to gmail.com/app and follow the instructions.

Google Image Labeler

Google just started a game to label random images by players where they have to tag images in 90 second period and simultaneously other player will also tag it. If there is any tag match happens then their score points will move ahead.

The objective of game is to improve the quality of image search results by Google.

So if you have little time or like to have some fun then you must try this.... remember in this way you are helping Google to improve their search facility.

Check out here: http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/

New! Google Desktop 4

Google Desktop 4 is now out of beta status. It gives you easy access to information on your PC and from the web by providing full text search over your email, files, music, photos, chats, Gmail, web pages that you’ve viewed, and much more.

It makes searching your computer as easy as searching the web with Google. It also has numerous widgets created by google and other developers for various perposes like stock ticker, weather etc. It supports 26 languages at present.

Yahoo! also has similar stuff for desktop called Yahoo! Widget Engine.

Google’s Writely

Writely is an AJAX based online word processor acquired by Google in March.

Writely is collaboration friendly, can import Word documents, save to PDF, OpenOffice, Rich Text Format and zip.The system offers online storage and autosaves your documents every 10 seconds.
It allows bookmarks for long documents, spell check, tags, image insert and also post to blogging site like blogger.

Other online word processing services provider are zohowriter, thinkfree, glidewrite, rallypoint and writeboard.

You can check a comparison of some of this services by CNet

Google Code Jam 2006

Registration for Google’s annual online coding competition i.e. Google Code Jam 2006 is started from 14th Aug 2006.

The top 100 contestants win an all expenses paid trip to New York City to compete in the finals at Google’s New York Engineering Office.

Grand Prize for this event is : $10,000.

Registration for Google Code Jam closes September 5, and the qualifying round begins on the same day

You can get more information here : http://www.google.com/codejam2006

So be ready to show some programming skills and creativity to solve.

All the Best.

Google Acquisition and Updates

Google acquired Neven Vision which will deal with better organization of photoes. Google already have Picasa for organization of pictures but Neven Vision will help in extraction of information from photo like photo contains a person or not, face recognition etc.

A similar service is also provide by Riya.

Google also unveils new beta version of blogger.com. You can take a look of this at beta.blogger.com. One of the feature will be instead of republishing the entire blog after each post it will now publish individual posts to the Blogspot servers, other features include tagging of blog, drag and drop.

Keep Googling ;-)

Google : A Dream Company.

Google began as a research project in January, 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Ph.D. students at Stanford University, California.

When Google was a Stanford research project, it was nicknamed BackRub because the technology checks backlinks to determine a site's importance.

The name "Google" originated from a misspelling of "googol".

Google is widely recognized as the "world's best search engine" because it is fast, accurate and easy to use.

This is one of the first logo of Google used in somewhere 1996-1998 :

If you love Google then you will love their accessosories also ...yes they do sell Google Accessory for googlers check out here

And one of the best page of Google is here : http://labs.google.com/

Also you can find few words about Google by Google-people here i.e. Official Google Blog.

Google recently ( probably on 10th Aug, 2006) updated their homepage ie www.google.com by removing few links like froogle and adding a new link for video search.

Keep Googling ;-)

Namaskar

Hello Friends,

Finally, I am here to create some web logs or better say blogs.

It will mostly informative kind of knowledge regarding Web-World and Internet. As I am very big fan of Google, thus I will share much space for it.

Also my blog will revolve around useful services, new websites and sites which are using AJAX to enhance user's experience.

I hope you will support me by your nice comments, suggestions, and feedbacks which will help me to improve and enhance my knowledge.

Have Fun ;-)
Deep.