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Google Hacks is a compilation of carefully crafted Google searches that expose novel functionality from Google's search and map services. For example, you can use it to view a timeline of your search results, view a map, search for music, search for books, and perform many other specific kinds of searches.
You can also use this program to use Google as a proxy.
This small utility is very simple to use, just type the word to search for, select the file type, extent and click on search
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Google has released a new widget -Chatback Badge that allows your blog/site visitors to chat with you, whenever you're signed in to Google Talk. All you need to copy and paste a piece of small code in to your blog or site.

With this chatback badge anyone can chat with you even if they haven't signed up for Google Talk or a Google Account. The badge will display your online status (whether you're available to chat or not) and, optionally, your status message. You can also change the title of your badge, and control whether you want to show or not your online status.
To create a Chatback badge, you need to be a Google Talk user and will need to be online and available (with a green ball next to your name) in Google Talk to enable people to chat with you.
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If you, for example, search on Google Images or Flickr (most of us are using) in a particular language for a thing, you will get the result based only on it, so the result was very less.

Here comes PanImages, where you can search in more than 300 languages. Just enter a word of your language and see the different. This tool translates the search term using about 350 online dictionaries before returning the result. This multilingual search engine searches simultaneously on Flickr and Google images.

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Google Image Labeler is a new feature of Google Image Search that allows you to label random images and help improve the relevance of image search results so that you and other Google users can quickly and easily find the results you're looking for?

Working is like this- “Each user who wants to participate will be paired randomly with a partner who's currently online and also using Google Image Labeler. Over a 90-second period, both participants will be shown the same set of images and asked to label each image based on what they see. They'll also be shown words that can't be used as labels. Both participants can add as many labels as they want until one of them matches a partner's label. After there's a match, they'll see a new image and continue the cycle, until time runs out. Contributors will also see points they've earned throughout the session”.

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Google recently introduced a new technology called Shared Stuff which allows you to share any web page, email or links with friends. Shared Stuff saves your shared page in a separate page similar to your profile page which is publicly visible or not on the web according to your settings.

‘A Shared Stuff page is a collection of all the links that you want to share online with friends’.

You can bookmark the Shared Stuff button in your browser for easy access. Whenever you see the Google sharing button, on the sites, click it to share the current webpage in whatever way you prefer

This widget offers following three main ways to share content with your friends and family. 1. Add the item to your Google Shared Stuff page, 2. Email the page, with a custom message and 3. Posting the page to some related social bookmarking sites
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The technology, called Google gears , is an open source browser extension for enabling offline web applications. Now developers will be able to create web applications that don't need a constant Internet connection to work. There are like software available, but will be able to make limited searches offline, since they will have downloaded data automatically when connected. Google's full web search functions would return once the user reconnects to the web.

Google Gears provide three key features - A local server, to cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) without needing to contact a server, a database, to store and access data from within the browser, and a worker thread pool, to make web applications more responsive by performing expensive operations in the background

Google Gears is currently an early-access developers' release. If you wish to install Google Gears on your computer, visit the Google Gears Home Page. Please note that Google Gears is not yet intended for general use.

To learn more about Gears click here
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Google Romance, a beta product from Google Labs, uses most fashionable personal search algorithms to help you find your soulmate. You can post all types of romantic information here, and then send you both on a Contextual Date with so called ‘soulmate’ in exchange for showing highly relevant advertising. Does it work?
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Google unveiled "iGoogle," a new brand for its Personalized Homepage service. Google's personalized homepage lets users to customize their start page for web browsing. Users can place gadgets containing information they like. They can add weather, stock feeds, and news feeds from Web sites, and even the current date and time. According to Google around 25,000 gadgets are currently available for the site.

The iGoogle name isn't exactly new, as developers of the feature originally planned to name the service as such before the idea was shot down by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Instead, the service was relegated to more generic branding, but remained at the URL: google.com/ig.

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Maxthon is currently one of the most popular browsers on the Internet, being based on the Internet Explorer engine but offering almost the same functions as the Mozilla Firefox browser. The browser has had over 80 million downloads, and over half of its users are in China. Maxthon-originated searches may account for up to 25% of total Baidu traffic (search engine from China), according to one source.

At the very least we expect the strategic deal to involve replacing the default search option in the browser from the Baidu search engine in China and Yahoo in other countries with Google search. The deal may also go beyond search and involve integration with other Google services directly into the browser. Maxthon would then be promoted on Google as a preferred browser.

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Yesterday I posted an article on Yahoo’s new search engine Alpha. Here is another one, more or less the same, from Google, Searchsmash. Searchmash was especially designed by the search giant Google with testing reasons to allow the company to test all the new features before they are implemented into the well-known Google product.

“Some features of SearchMash may enable you to interact with search results beyond simply clicking through a result or navigating to another page of results. It may record the use of these features in a non-personally identifiable manner to evaluate their usefulness.

Information collect through SearchMash will only be used to evaluate, research, and analyze the ideas and features offered on the site and will not combine or otherwise correlate information (such as cookies or log data) from SearchMash with information we may have from your use of our other services.”

Go to Searchmash Go to Alpha

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Google updated the instant messaging client Google Talk and made it accessible through a web interface without having to download or install any application. This version of the instant messaging client allows you to chat with your friends or with your Gmail contacts and offers videos or photo previews in chat. The new edition of Google Talk is based on the recently introduced gadget that allows users to add the instant messaging client straight on their Personalized Homepage.
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ICC Cricket World Cup 2007, the largest sporting event opens yesterday. Sir Garfield Sobers, the greatest all-round cricketer ever, opened the World Cup in a spectacular ceremony at Jamaica that designed to show what happens on the field over the next six weeks.

Millions of Cricket lovers around the world are looking for live scores and videos through online for the next six weeks. Searching through the website is not convenient every time.

Google added 3 gadgets to their “Google Desktop Search (GDS)” namely Cricket news and photos, Cricket Videos and Score board which helps to know latest happenings in the field right on our desktop.

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Google updates its news service-Google News- with News archive search.

This allows users to find older information very easily.

The function is similar to the main search technology including preferences, advanced search and a detailed help menu.

Clicking on the feature will return you a simple menu, asking you to specify the keyword to search and also a timeline if you be going to find an article posted on a certain date.

For this new feature, you can click on the News Archive Search available on the main page or from the URL below.

http://news.google.com/archivesearch
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Our passwords are very important because they allow us to access private information, services or our e-mail addresses that also contain personal details. That’s why it is very important to use a complex password that contains both numbers and letters.

Google tries to help us by creating a new hidden service that will give a security rating for every password.

All you need to do is to visit the link below that will take you directly to Google. [The company does not provide any official website or interface for this link so you will use it at your own risk].

Enter the URL shown below at the address bar of the browser and, observe the final “replaceme” tag. That’s the password field, so you must replace it with your password and then press enter. Google will analyze it and then will return you the number that corresponds with your word: 1 is the least secure and 4 is the most secure. (See image).

https://www.google.com/accounts/RatePassword?Passwd=replaceme

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Google Web accelerator

This application has been speed up your internet connection. Google tells us that dialup users “may not see much of an improvement”, and it is optimized for broadband connections.

How does it work?

First, frequently visited pages are stored on Google servers, so they can be dished up faster: there are dedicated servers for Google web accelerator. Then, some pages might be prefetched on to your computer in the anticipation that you will visit them. And, web data is compressed before it is send to your computer.

When you download and install the application, it sits in your system tray, and you can start or stop it from there. In preference, you have the option of choosing dialup, DSL, and so on.

The big question: Dose it work? It seemed to improve the speed for some sites.

Even if you are on dialup, download it and give it a try. After you have used it for a while, remember there is an option in the system tray menu that tells you how much time you have saved using the application. When you see that figure go in to the hours, you know the application work

http://webaccelerator.google.com

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