Two more reasons to type in Hindi

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Aditya Kulkarni and Balaji Gopalan, Software Engineers</span><br /><br />As some of you have already noticed, we've combined Google Suggest with our <a href="http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic" target="_blank"> Indic transliteration</a> technology to give you a new way to search the web in Hindi.<br /><br />You can type your queries using a regular English keyboard, and we'll show you suggestions and completions of your query in phonetically equivalent Hindi. This means that you can type "amit" and see Hindi suggestions like "अमिताभ" and "अमिताभ बच्चन". Once you're happy with one of the suggestions, you can click it to get search results in Hindi. Try this out on the <a href="http://www.google.co.in/hi" id="g7cn" title="Google India Hindi home page">Google India Hindi homepage</a> and explore all the Hindi content available on the web.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijl9CMi0dNO6hQ2xuTp1x5-JHSfpFSJ4ZoFHMZeHwO5orNJ-rWROHKm8pRtfxVfniQ3V94uCHo1xWissEixCL_Ot5fS9MswcQRD9B2_khSiCPmN-tWezCDyJZztQLi4RJzGQigyFa3cuOd/s1600-h/Indic+transliteration.gif"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119773342768820322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijl9CMi0dNO6hQ2xuTp1x5-JHSfpFSJ4ZoFHMZeHwO5orNJ-rWROHKm8pRtfxVfniQ3V94uCHo1xWissEixCL_Ot5fS9MswcQRD9B2_khSiCPmN-tWezCDyJZztQLi4RJzGQigyFa3cuOd/s320/Indic+transliteration.gif" style="cursor: pointer;" /></a><br /><br />Quite a lot of people have also asked for a Googley way to scrap your friends on orkut in Hindi. You can now type in Hindi the same way you do in <a href="http://www.blogger.com/hindi">Blogger</a> and on the <a href="http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic"> Google India Labs</a> page. If you have selected "Hindi" in the "languages i speak" field in your <a href="http://www.orkut.com/EditSummary.aspx">orkut profile</a>, you'll see the "Type in Hindi" checkbox on the scrap pages. Just check the box to start scrapping in your favorite tongue.<br /><br />We're eager to hear your <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/google-india-labs/" target="_blank">feedback and suggestions</a>, so please <a href="mailto:indialabs+indictransliteration@google.com"> let us know</a> what you think. Don't forget to visit the <a href="http://labs.google.co.in/" target="_blank">Google India Labs</a> page to see what we've been working on.

Two more reasons to type in Hindi

Posted by Aditya Kulkarni and Balaji Gopalan, Software Engineers As some of you have already noticed, we've combined Google Suggest with...

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Google Search Appliance takes five

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Matthew Glotzbach, Program Management Director, Google Enterprise</span><br /><br />Around here, we love <a href="http://searchengineland.com/070927-063022.php" id="unkj">celebrating birthdays</a>, including those of our products. And so it was just about five years ago that the idea for the Google Search Appliance was born. It was simple: make search inside of businesses as easy and effective as searching on Google.com.<br /><br />The <a href="http://www.google.com/enterprise/gsa/index.html" id="bha6">Google Search Appliance</a> has matured quite a bit <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2007/10/five-years-of-evolution-in-enterprise.html"><span>since then</span></a>. We started with intranet web servers, added security and more than 220 different file types, and found hundreds of partners and thousands of customers. Now, we're embarking on a new phase: <a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/20071010_gsa5.html">bringing universal search into the enterprise</a> in order to break down the information silos that have developed around business networks and information.<br /><br />It feels good to take five years of experience and put it to work in the next generation, but we know we have plenty of room for improvement. That's why we've also launched <a href="http://www.google.com/enterprise/labs/" id="osk_">Google Enterprise Labs</a>. So tune in for a even closer look at what's to come.

Google Search Appliance takes five

Posted by Matthew Glotzbach, Program Management Director, Google Enterprise Around here, we love celebrating birthdays , including those of ...

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Reach out and message someone

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Tony Hsieh, Product Manager</span><br /><br />Technology has made staying in touch with your friends and family both easier and harder: living a fast-paced, on-the-go lifestyle is easier (and a lot of fun), but it's more difficult to keep track of everyone when they're running around at warp speed. That's why we're excited to announce that we've acquired <a href="http://www.jaiku.com/">Jaiku</a>, a company that's been hard at work developing useful and innovative applications for staying in touch with the people you care about most -- regardless of whether you're at a computer or on a mobile phone.<br /><br />Current Jaiku users can still use the service normally, and new folks can sign up for an invitation to the service when we're ready to expand. We plan to use the ideas and technology behind Jaiku to make compelling and useful products. Although we don't have definite plans to announce at this time, we're excited about helping drive the next round of developments in web and mobile technology.<br /><br />We wish a hearty Google welcome to Jaiku, and are looking forward to working together on new and innovative ways of keeping people connected.

Reach out and message someone

Posted by Tony Hsieh, Product Manager Technology has made staying in touch with your friends and family both easier and harder: living a fas...

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AdSense goes straight to video -- units, that is

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Christine Lee, Product Marketing Manager</span><br /><br />Nowadays, website publishers realize that getting people to visit your website is only half of the equation. Growing your audience is important, but keeping your audience engaged and staying on your site longer is just as important, if not more so. This is why we're excited to let you know about video units on Google AdSense. Video units enable AdSense publishers to display videos from several YouTube content partners. The video units are ad-supported, and the ads are relevant to both the video and the site content, as well as unobtrusive. AdSense publishers and YouTube content partners will receive a share of the ad revenue, so video units enable both groups to earn incremental revenue.<br /><br />We're excited about video units because we see this as the first step in content distribution on AdSense and a great opportunity to foster the content ecosystem on the web. AdSense publishers can now enhance their sites with interesting videos, YouTube content partners benefit from a new distribution channel, advertisers have a new vehicle to distribute their messages to their target audiences, and people can tune in to interesting videos on sites they normally visit.<br /><br />To learn more about video units, mosey on over to the <a href="http://adsense.blogspot.com/2007/10/introducing-video-units.html">Inside AdSense blog</a>.

AdSense goes straight to video -- units, that is

Posted by Christine Lee, Product Marketing Manager Nowadays, website publishers realize that getting people to visit your website is only ha...

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Let a thousand servers bloom

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Christophe Bisciglia, Senior Software Engineer</span><br /><br />Just as people are social animals, computers are social machines—the more, the merrier. Twenty or thirty years ago, large, centralized mainframes sat alone in sheltered bunkers in computer science departments and government offices alike, choking for hours on mere megabytes of data. Even with recent advances in server technology, large, centralized machines are still struggling to cope with today’s modern computational challenges, which now involve terabytes of data and processing requirements well beyond a single CPU (or two, or four, or eight). One computer just won’t hack it; these days, to support a new paradigm of massively parallel systems architecture, we need to break the machine out of its bunker and give it some friends.<br /><br />In this age of “Internet-scale” computing, the new, evolving problems faced by computer science students and researchers require a new, evolving set of skills. It’s no longer enough to program one machine well; to tackle tomorrow’s challenges, students need to be able to program thousands of machines to manage massive amounts of data in the blink of an eye. This is how I, along with my good friend and mentor Ed Lazowska of the University of Washington’s CSE department, <a href="http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/09/uw-and-google-teaching-in-parallel.html">started to think about CS curricula</a> and the obstacles to teaching a practical and authentic approach to massively parallel computing.<br /><br />It's no easy feat. Teaching these methods effectively requires access to huge clusters and innovative new approaches to curricula. That's why we are pleased to announce the successful implementation of our Academic Cluster Computing Initiative pilot program at a handful of schools, including the University of Washington, Carnegie-Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Maryland. This pilot extends our expertise in large scale systems to strong undergraduate programs at the pilot schools, allowing individual students to take advantage of the hundreds of processors being made available. As the pilot progresses, we'll work with our technology partner IBM to shake the bugs out of the system so that we can expand the program to include more educators and academic researchers.<br /><br />The future of computing is already taking shape on campuses today, and Google and IBM are thrilled to help inspire a new generation of computer scientists to think big. All of the course material developed by UW as well as other tools and resources to facilitate teaching this cutting- edge technology is available at <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://code.google.com/edu">http://code.google.com/edu</a>. If you're a student wondering just what this sort of thing means for you, check out the <a href="http://code.google.com/edu/content/submissions/mapreduce-minilecture/listing.html">five-part video lecture series</a> (originally offered to Google Engineering interns) that introduces some of the fundamental concepts of large-scale cluster computing.

Let a thousand servers bloom

Posted by Christophe Bisciglia, Senior Software Engineer Just as people are social animals, computers are social machines—the more, the merr...

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More types of gadgets for iGoogle

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Mendel Chuang, Product Marketing Manager</span><br /><br />Google Desktop lets you not only search your computer easily, but you can also personalize your desktop. From cultivating a virtual potted plant, to reading the latest news and checking the weather forecast, you can customize your desktop with a variety of gadgets and a sidebar. Some of you have asked if you can also put gadgets on iGoogle homepages next to your other gadgets. And starting today, the answer is yes.<br /><br />With <a href="http://desktop.google.com/">Google Desktop 5.5 Beta</a>, you can you now embed Google Desktop Gadgets right into your iGoogle homepage. Gadgets on an iGoogle homepage can have more advanced functionality, such as <a href="http://www.google.com/ig/directory?root=%2Fig&dpos=top&num=24&url=http://desktop.google.com/gow/gadgets/glass_media_player.xml" title="playing music" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> playing music</a> from your computer. You can find them alongside other gadgets in the iGoogle Content Directory. We've also improved some of the other features; such as better looking Quick Search Box, support for multiple copies of a gadget, and improved Outlook search functionality. Read more on the <a href="http://googledesktop.blogspot.com/2007/10/igoogle-meets-desktop-gadgets.html">Google Desktop Blog</a> and check out <a href="http://www.google.com/ig/directory?root=%2Fig&dpos=top&q=desktop.google.com&btnG=Search+Homepage+Content" title="these gadgets" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> these gadgets</a> you can now add to your iGoogle homepage.

More types of gadgets for iGoogle

Posted by Mendel Chuang, Product Marketing Manager Google Desktop lets you not only search your computer easily, but you can also personaliz...

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3 short weeks

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Scott Petry, Founder, Postini</span><br /><br />Three weeks ago today was the official close of Google's acquisition of Postini -- and what a three weeks it's been. "Official close" meant that integration work could legally begin, and so the Google Apps team and Postini team have been burning the midnight oil to get our services integrated. Now, Google Apps customers, Postini customers and everyone else can see <a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/apps_postini_20071003.html">the results</a>.<br /><br />Postini security and compliance capabilities are officially part of <a href="https://www.google.com/a/enterprise/">Google Apps Premier Edition</a>. Google Apps customers get these services for free. Postini customers get an extended trial period for Apps. New customers can choose their entry point: Apps (including <a href="http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/security.html">Postini security and compliance</a>) or any of the standalone Postini services.<br /><br />The benefits of software as a service are numerous -- that's why we're seeing a huge interest in Apps. Businesses of all sizes are asking for these services, and we need to help customers embrace Apps without loss of features, functions, or security. I'm proud that Postini plays a role in this offering.<br /><br />Postini was founded in 1999 with the vision of transforming how IT organizations consumed security and compliance products. We recognized the service delivery model brings huge leverage, and 36,000 customers around the world validated that vision. Google Enterprise is now scaling that vision. No one knows what the next three weeks will bring, but we're all excited to be part of it.

3 short weeks

Posted by Scott Petry, Founder, Postini Three weeks ago today was the official close of Google's acquisition of Postini -- and what a ...

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