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Google Street View reaching all 7 Continents

There are some unique and spectacular places on this planet and now Google has given an opportunity for all to see these places from the comfort of our home or office. This is a great news for all of us as Google just announced that Street View is available in all seven continents. Now Street View imagery has been added in Ireland, Antarctica and Brazil. As we know road names and street addresses are quite difficult to come by in Antarctica, but Google has developed a Street View image gallery, which will help people get started in Antarctica and other locations around the world. This is a cool adventure as we can explore the world that is hard to reach and at the same time it is a good marketing and public positioning for Google, especially when they are in this ongoing privacy and legal issues over Street View. Google has updated in its blog post that the Street View images in Antarctica are quite limited to the area known as Half Moon Island. You may also see many photos across the ...

Google Live Search – Good or Bad

Google has always believed in refining its search value but they have been receiving a mixed reaction from the users especially for search engine optimization experts, it’s a big headache every time a change comes in. Now a number of changes have taken place, which include changes to the dictionary listings, images section and the color of paid adverts. All these changes have been done to enhanced the user experience. Most welcomed the changes but few dread over anything new comes. There had been a lot of speculation about the testing of their latest dashboard tweak but we still don’t know whether this is just a test that’s going to be wasted just like Google’s Wave expedition or it might turn out to be successful. The latest test is a feature which alters the search result as you type but this clearly modifies the page providing instant page refinement instead of pressing the enter key each time a keyword phrase is changed. This sound quite efficient, but does it bring anything new to...

Google Acquired Slide

Google announced that they have acquired Slide, a social technology company who has made innovative ways to help people connect with others across various platforms online. As for Google, the web is all about people and they are working to develop interesting, transparent and open ways to allow users to take full advantage of technology and see how it can bring them closer to their friends and family and offer useful information just for them. Already, Slide has created powerful social experiences for millions of people across various platforms. They have built some strong social elements into products such as Docs, Blogger, YouTube, Gmail and Picasa. Now as the team of Slide is joining Google, they are now investing more to make Google services socially aware and to expand their capabilities for their users across the web. With the skyrocketing popularity of Facebook, it seems Google has been searching hard for ways to make their products more fun and collaborative. Google had also an...