Accessible Search now has advanced search features

<span class="byline-author">Posted by T.V Raman, Research Scientist</span><br /><br />Ever since we launched Google Accessible Search <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/finding-easy-to-read-web-content_20.html">in July</a>, one of the most oft-requested features has been the addition of advanced search capabilities similar to those available on the main Google Search page. In response, we've added an <a href="http://labs.google.com/accessible/advanced_search.html">advanced search link</a> at <a title="http://labs.google.com/accessible" href="http://labs.google.com/accessible">http://labs.google.com/accessible</a> in order to refine your searches in various ways. The order of results will continue to take the accessibility of the search results into account. <p></p><p>Here are the types of advanced queries you can perform: </p> <ul><li>restrict search to portions of a page, e.g., the title </li><li>restrict search to results in a given language </li><li>restrict searches to web pages found during a given time period </li><li>restrict searches to content in a given file format </li></ul>And a lot more that won't fit on the margin of this page --- for complete details, see our <a title="http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/refinesearch.html" href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/refinesearch.html">Advanced Search Tips</a>.

Accessible Search now has advanced search features

Posted by T.V Raman, Research Scientist Ever since we launched Google Accessible Search in July , one of the most oft-requested features has...

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The Literacy Project

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Dr. Brij Kothari, Founder and President, PlanetRead & BookBox, Inc.</span><br /><br />In India, a country saddled with one-third of the world's literacy problem, there are nearly 300 million people who are illiterate and 400 million who have only a rudimentary knowledge of the alphabet. That's 700 million people who cannot read even a newspaper headline.<br /><br />As <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/same-language-subtitling.html">I wrote in December</a>, PlanetRead employs Same Language Subtitling (SLS) to give subconscious reading practice for 30 minutes a week to more than 200 million early-literates in India, operating via 10 TV programmes in 10 languages. We’re hoping to take this project internationally, as well as collaborate with literacy organizations in other parts of the world. That’s why we’re so excited about <a href="http://www.google.com/literacy/">The Literacy Project</a> -— the initiative announced today by Google, the Frankfurt Book Fair literacy campaign (<a href="http://www.litcam.org/">Litcam</a>), and the <a href="http://www.unesco.org/">UNESCO</a> Institute for Lifelong Learning. (There's also a <a href="http://www.google.de/literacy">German version </a>of the Google page.)<br /><br />The project enables people to find everything -- from videos, books and scholarly articles about literacy to reading groups and literacy-related blogs. <a href="http://www.planetread.org/">PlanetRead</a> is one of the many organisations that is contributing. We’ve uploaded our subtitled videos (take a look!) and are sharing our own literacy research. And the site’s map of world literacy organisations also make it easier for us to connect with partner agencies who want to make literacy a way of life for everyone on this planet.<br /><br />The idea that others around the world will be able to see what we’re doing —- and in turn, that we’ll be able to see what other people are doing and saying about literacy -— is thrilling, and at the very heart of PlanetRead’s mission to make its projects available to everyone. With each new person that we reach, we come one step closer to solving this truly global problem.

The Literacy Project

Posted by Dr. Brij Kothari, Founder and President, PlanetRead & BookBox, Inc. In India, a country saddled with one-third of the world...

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Yes, you can have a pony

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Adam Sah, Software Engineer</span><br /><br />It's crazy over here -- in the last few months, we've had thousands of gadgets submitted for the <a href="http://www.google.com/ig">Google Personalized Homepage</a>. If you've used it, you've seen them -- those useful little units you can add, remove, and move around on your page. We have old-school games, clocks, calendars, and horoscopes. We've got a <a href="http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open&num=24&url=http://www.labpixies.com/campaigns/vat/vat.xml&q=Vat&start=0">VAT calculator</a>. We've got a <a href="http://gmodules.com/ig/creator?synd=open&url=http://mingyeeiu.googlepages.com/ponies.xml">pony</a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7609/900/1600/PONY.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7609/900/320/PONY.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" /></a>We've extended these gadgets to work on <a href="http://desktop.google.com">Google Desktop</a> and <a href="http://pages.google.com">Google Pages</a>, but it occurred to us that these would be slick on other people's web pages, too.<br /><br />Today we're opening up our gadget inventory for your viewing and cloning pleasure. In other words, now you can copy and paste some simple HTML to add the Google Gadgets you like to your own webpage. Check out our directory of <a href="http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open">Google Gadgets for your webpage</a> to see all the options. And as always, if you can't find one like the one you had in mind, you can always <a href="http://www.google.com/apis/homepage/">write a gadget</a> yourself.

Yes, you can have a pony

Posted by Adam Sah, Software Engineer It's crazy over here -- in the last few months, we've had thousands of gadgets submitted for t...

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Create web apps on top of Google search

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Tom Stocky, Product Manager</span><br /><br />We just launched a new version of the <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/">Google AJAX Search API</a>, which is designed to make it easier for webmasters and developers to do two things:<br /><ul><li>Add a search box to your site that displays Google Web, Video, News, Maps, and Blog Search results without taking users to a separate page.</li></ul><ul><li>Build powerful web apps on top of Google search. (<a href="http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/samples.html">See some samples</a>.)</li></ul>Read more about this release on the <a href="http://googleajaxsearchapi.blogspot.com/2006/10/google-ajax-search-api-beta-version-10.html">Google AJAX Search API Blog</a>.

Create web apps on top of Google search

Posted by Tom Stocky, Product Manager We just launched a new version of the Google AJAX Search API , which is designed to make it easier for...

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Discount with Checkout

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Dror Shimshowitz, Product Marketing Manager</span><br /><br />Here's another way it pays to use <a href="http://checkout.google.com">Google Checkout</a>: there's a $10 bonus on purchases of $30 or more at <a href="http://www.google.com/checkout/10off30.html">participating stores</a>.

Discount with Checkout

Posted by Dror Shimshowitz, Product Marketing Manager Here's another way it pays to use Google Checkout : there's a $10 bonus on pur...

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Now anyone can Talk

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Mike Jazayeri, Product Manager, Google Talk</span><br /><br />Last year, we launched <a title="Google Talk" href="http://www.google.com/talk">Google Talk</a>, a free and easy service for making voice calls and sending instant messages. It used to be that only Gmail users could use Google Talk but now <a title="anyone can sign up" href="https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?service=talk">anyone can sign up</a> for Google Talk. If you haven't tried the service yet, here are 5 good reasons to give it a try:<br /><ul><li>now anyone can use the service (Gmail accounts no longer required)</li><li>free and crystal clear <a href="http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?answer=23991">voice calls</a> to your friends and family anywhere in the world</li><li><a href="http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?answer=44253">transfer files</a> and folders to others</li><li>free <a href="http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?answer=44262">voicemail</a> messages (MEEP!)</li><li><a href="http://www.blackberry.com/googletalk">IM from your BlackBerry</a></li></ul>Just <a href="https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?service=talk">sign up</a>, invite some friends, and you can be chatting with them in minutes. There are millions of people around the world to chat with! There are, however, still some features including chat histories and mail notifications that will only work if you sign into Google Talk with a Gmail account. Either way, we encourage you to give it a try.

Now anyone can Talk

Posted by Mike Jazayeri, Product Manager, Google Talk Last year, we launched Google Talk , a free and easy service for making voice calls an...

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Your inbox for the web

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Nicholas Baum, Product Manager, Google Reader</span><br /><br />Do you ever wish that finding interesting stuff on the web was as easy as watching TV? Some nights, I just want to relax, tune in to HBO and see what's on. Other times, I know exactly what I want to watch: all those <span style="font-style: italic;">Curb Your Enthusiasm </span>episodes that I've recorded, for one thing. But on the web, the only way to "tune in" is to go to the websites themselves and see what's there. What I really want is for the websites to come to me instead, so I can read them when I feel like it.<br /><br />Enter Google Reader. Today there's <a href="http://reader.google.com">a new version</a> that makes it even easier to keep track of your favorite websites. Think of Google Reader as your inbox for the web. When you check your email, you don't go to each of your friends' mailboxes to see if they sent you anything — you just check your inbox. Google Reader does the same thing for the Internet, by putting all the sites that interest you in one convenient location and indicating when something has been updated. Here's a quick video intro for you:<br /><br /><embed style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=5980861656829941065&hl=en"><br /><br />We've also made sharing a lot more fun. Everyone who uses Google Reader now gets their own public page to which they can post items of interest. Kind of like a blog with training wheels — it creates a whole stream of your favorites on a page your friends and family can see or even subscribe to. This is definitely my favorite feature — I use it all the time to share pictures from my favorite photoblogs with my friends and family.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/uploaded_images/New_READER_screenshot2-748088.GIF"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/uploaded_images/New_READER_screenshot2-745501.GIF" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" /></a><br />So go ahead and try it out. If you're already a regular, we hope you'll like the new look. If you've never used Google Reader before, we invite you to discover a brand new way to keep track of the sites that interest you. We still have a lot of features we want to experiment with, so it's in Google Labs for the time being. And keep up to date with the latest developments via our <a href="http://googlereader.blogspot.com/">Reader blog</a>... in Google Reader, of course!

Your inbox for the web

Posted by Nicholas Baum, Product Manager, Google Reader Do you ever wish that finding interesting stuff on the web was as easy as watching T...

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