Google is going to digitalize 250,000 books of British Library

The rich and very precious collections dating from 17th to 18th Century texts are accessible to the world through British Library.  As the news have been circulating that British Library has signed contract with Google to digitalize the texts of the books and exhibits the collection.

The contract states that around 250000 most precious text will be digitalize on Google for just free reading – no copy – copy will be disabled.

As per my well sourced information the very first digitalized online reading text would be Spanish inventor Narciso Monturiol's campaign for one of the world's first submarines dating back to 1858 and a guide about French Queen Marie Antoinette. And also comprises of the period of French Revolution, invention of rail and telegraph, the British Industrial Revolution, the Crimean War and more.

   

The calculated partnership is being called over by both Google and British Library as a shift in the direction of safeguarding culture and history for posterity and generating consciousness among people about their historical backdrop during the incorporation of historic documents with modern media.



The British library has also declared partnership with IT firm BrightSolid for the digitization of 40 million
pages of text to be made available for free on Google.

Google Generates eBook Affiliate Program for Google Users

Google launched a latest and fresh affiliate program to publishers and bloggers for its eBook program on Thursday, the company declared. As per to the company, this innovative program will permit Web publishers, retailers and bloggers to link their websites or blogs to its Google eBook service and take delivery of a commission for sending visitors to the Google eBook store.

Under this program, users require to generate a Google Affiliate Network account and sign up for Google AdSense. Publishers who works following the terms and conditions of the program and convey the Google eBook Store customers from side to side of their websites, will be pleased on a cost per action (CPA)/sales feat basis, the company said.



“As it has begun from today, Google request anyone fascinated with the service, all site owners can come down to apply to join the greater Google eBooks affiliate program. Contributing websites to increase latest and fresh revenue torrents by giving their book-reading spectators a simple method to purchase Google eBooks," Pratip Banerji, product manager at the Google Books team, wrote in a blog post.

Highlighting the main point of the simplicity and taste of the new program, Banerji added, “After coming down with GAN, you can also subscribe to the Google eBooks product feed to receive links to the complete set of
accessible Google eBooks.”

Google Announces Latest Feature "Me On The Web"

Google has just announced a latest feature called "Me On The Web" for users. This feature allocates users to recognize and administer their online identities, in addition to control the search results they have put in. Users with Google accounts can access this feature through the Google Dashboard and this section helps users to control online that mentions, public profiles on a variety of social networking sites and blogs, handle online identity, over and above learn more about the procedure of what it takes users to eliminate off the web completely.



Google says that a bundle of people don't appreciate that at the same time as they are a most important gateway to the Web, and they are not the web. Most people don't actually even know how Google works i.e. they send crawlers transversely web pages and ranks the pages it discovers consequently when you enter search words, the most appropriate pages come into view.

Regrettably, this suggests that for the majority people, their online existence isn't forever in their possess power. "Me On The Web" endeavors to help users cyberstalk themselves. It has tools to demonstrate where you come into view online, essentially reverting to older tools such as Google Alerts or your Google Profile.

Google Taking off Malware Applications from The Android Market

Google has recently dragged down a small number of many malware infected applications from the Android Market last week, a security analyst declares. The disclosures came from Xuxian Jiang, an assistant professor in computer science and technology at North Carolina State University. As per to him, a total of 10 applications were uninvolved by Google from its Android Market on June 5.

  

Jiang, who was also accountable for ascertaining these malware infected applications being advertised via the Android Market, and functioned to get Google's notice to the danger facing its customers. Jiang also created a report hauling an in detail crash of the malicious code, known as Plankton. Another security specialist Andrew Bradit, who is also a research analyst at Webroot, did research on his way on Plankton. Brandt hoisted the apprehension by stating that, "It has the capability to remotely access a command-and-control (C&C) server for directions, and upload supplementary payloads. It exercises an extremely surreptitious technique to set in motion several malware it needs to phone."

Jiang's team as well accounted the continuation of more than a few other malicious apps in the Android Market, the nearly all bullying examples being DroidKungFu, and YZHCSMS, a Trojan horse. Google has given full freedom and permitted developers to build up apps, as contrasting to the closed loom taken by Apple. Although this has earned admiration of numerous developers and customers, it also raises the opportunity of malicious code receiving into constant the official Android Market.

Google launches various features like Icons for Mobile, Voice Search Desktop

Google revealed numerous latest and finest features, counting a number of for its mobile version and a number of for the desktop. The mobile version of Google obtains icons at the bottom of search pages. These icons consist of restaurants, bars and coffee shops and that is going to position the users to ones near your phone.

Google Goggles also finds a latest feature where user can point your mobile device at Russian text and get a translated version. Both features will launch today.The desktop version of Google has incorporated voice search and drag and drop image search in it.



Users will able to see a microphone icon next to the search bar and can click it to speak your search words, which is going to be fun. User will also be competent enough to drag and drop an image into the search bar and Google will furnish them with the best answer for what's in the image. These features will begin next week.

Google Announces much awaited Updates of Chrome 12 Version

Google added a complete horde of updates to their stable Google Chrome build. The most recent build, version 12.0.742.91 incorporates features that are branch of the preceding beta builds. A number of the motivating features consist of 3D CSS acceleration using hardware, a protected browsing feature that guarantees that nix malicious code comes into your system and the capability to delete Flash accumulation from inside the browser.



There’s as well the capability to start on web apps by means of the omnibox on the browser. Google Gears that was a very important component of Google Chrome and was used to scuttle web apps offline was uninvolved in this build. There also have some other slighter jerks and fixes. If users are by now using Google Chrome, the auto-updater should have updated your browser to the most recent version. Google has been functioning on the Chrome 13 build, which is part of the development division.

The updates are a perceptible feature that has features like group tabs, improvements to instant search and some finer improvements to the print feature. Users can also download several of those builds by mere clicking on the download links accessible on this page.

Google Purchases Online Ad-Optimization Company AdMeld for $400 Million

Google has purchased online ad optimization company Admeld for $400 million, as per to a well-known source knows everything about the contract. The contract ads an absent section to Google's online ad infrastructure that powers much of online display advertising today, but could bring more regulatory analysis.



AdMeld is one of numerous companies that help publishers settle on which ad to recognize from a host of buyers such as ad networks or buyers contributing in exchanges. Others in the space consist of the L.A. based Rubicon Project and Palo Alto-based Pubmatic.

Most of the users and viewers have long reflection that Google would append optimization functionality to its ad server, DoubleClick. The issue was whether it would develop it on its possess or obtains a present company, as it did with the exact side platform Invite Media, which Google purchased last year.

AdMeld is run by CEO David Barrett, former head of digital sales at News Corp. Mr. Barrett helped MySpace attain its revenue zenith, but took the plummet when traffic and sales happening to show drop. Google is anticipated to append the functionality to its suite of tools for publishers. In the course of DoubleClick, Google influences much of the world's online exhibit advertising, enchanting a minuscule cut of the purchase next to the technique.

With the contract, Google has purchased 12 companies seeing as the starting of the year, as per to Tolman Geffs, co-president of Jordan Edmiston Group, a media investment bank.

Bing Coalition with Facebook is Developing into Productive for Both

All of us knows that  Microsoft is trying to get ahead of Google Search Engine for decade and has been not able to put hole in Google  users, but now they have come out with new way to challenge Google’s authority by shaking hand with Facebook.



From this end itself, Bing establishes a number of astonishing innovative features in its search offerings. Microsoft’s Bing has determined to exercise the enormous reputation levels of the social networking platform, Facebook to its advantage.



At present all users will have much improved and appropriate search results to their queries if they are logged on top of Facebook account on the same period.For example, any haphazard query search will guide you to abundant pages before you locate the mainly significant or the precise answer.

Nevertheless, if you’re logged onto your Facebook account at the equivalent time, the relevant searches will pop up on the first page, itself. A bundle of this search activity also relies on the number of ‘likes’ that search result or the link has got from your friend list.



In addition, Bing searches will make possible for online shoppers to have an enhanced shopping experience. By means of Bing they would at the present be able to post links about products and services of their own selection. This technique they could get a second estimation on the same from their family and friends on Facebook.

Google Announces Search Globe for Surfers

Google has of late announced a visualization search tool called Search Globe. This tool maps search inquiries volume on a 3D image of the earth by language for one day. In a blog post, Valdean Klump of Google’s Data Team gives details that the Search Globe envisages searches from one day, and demonstrates the language of the popular of inquiries in an area in diverse colors.

He went on to explain that users would notice a dazzling landscape of reservations transversely in Europe, and parts of Asia but possibly will see fewer searches from parts of the world that require Internet access or even electricity like Africa.



This tool was urbanized by Google’s Data Arts team by means of WebGL which is a Web based Graphics Library that enlarges the competence of the JavaScript programming language to consent to it to generate 3D with several appropriate web browser. This visualization tool can be used on browsers such as the most recent version of Google

Google Reveals 'Time Machine' to Explore Space and Time

Google has developed a 'Time Machine' with which one can concurrently explore space and time at tremendously elevated resolutions. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have powers the most recent browser technology to generate GigaPan Time Machine, a system that allows spectators to discover gigapixel-scale, high-resolution videos and image series by berating or zooming in and out of the images whereas at once poignant back and forth through time.

Users can use the structure to spotlight in on the information of a booth surrounded by a panorama of a carnival halfway, but also quash time to see how the booth was erected. Or they can gaze at a group of plants sprout, cultivate and flower, shifting viewpoint to observe some plants budge outrageously as they produce while others get eaten by caterpillars. Or, they can scrutiny a computer simulation of the early universe, viewing the gravity functions across 600 million light-years to compact topic in to filaments and lastly in to stars that can be seen by zooming in for a close up.

"With GigaPan Time Machine, you can at the same time explore space and time at tremendously high resolutions," said Illah Nourbakhsh, associate professor of robotics and head of the CREATE Lab.

"Science has always been about tightening your point of view by choosing a meticulous experiment or observation that you think might offer imminent. But this system guarantees what we call comprehensive science, incarcerating enormous amounts of data that can then be explored in astonishing ways," added Nourbakhsh.

An enabling technology for time-lapse GigaPans is a feature of the HTML5 language that has been incorporated into such browsers as Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari. HTML5, the latest revision of the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) standard that is at the core of the Internet, makes browsers capable of presenting video content without use of plug-ins such as Adobe Flash or Quicktime.

When the Time Machine GigaPan has been developed, users will able to interpret and save their explorations of it in the form of video ‘Time Warps.’