Tag: Google

  • Facebook Topples Yahoo From #3

    While it’s already been the #2 website on Alexa for long, Facebook has finally overtaken Yahoo to become the third most popular destination on the web. As per comScore’s data, in the last month (November 2010) Facebook had an estimated 648 million unique visitors from around the world compared to Yahoo’s 630 million. Google and…

  • Google and Samsung debut the Nexus S

    Google and Samsung are all set to launch the successor of Nexus one, the Nexus S in the US. Nexus S is the next Google branded smartphone which is manufactured by Samsung and will be available both unlocked and with a contract with T mobile in the US starting Dec 16, 2010. No word on…

  • Google launches music search service in India

    Google India has launched a music search service for India. The service indexes online music sites serving Indian music (yes, that’s Bollywood music) and you can search for any song and listen to it online for free! The index contains songs from sites like in.com, saavn.com, and saregama.com. The service has been launched under the…

  • Make free phone calls to US & Canada from any country if you have a Google voice account

    A few weeks back, Google launched a feature in Gmail which enabled their Google voice users to make free calls to phones in the US and Canada from within Gmail. However, this feature is only available to users physically located in the US and Canada. Even if you have a Google voice account, Gmail doesn’t…

  • Good bye, Google Wave

    When Google Wave was announced and previewed at the Google I/O conference, we loved it. We even ran contests to offer the Google Wave invites to you woikr readers. They’ve put forth amazing use cases of real time collaboration and communication which we all were excited to see. I’ve got goosebumps thinking how this would…

  • Another amazing ad from Google

    Looks like Google has hired some really smart and talented advertising agency to create ads for Google Chrome browser. Following the previous ad for extensions, they have released the following ad which is another example of sheer genius and amazing creativity:

  • Google’s new look

    The search giant Google has a new look for its search results page. The new look updates the visual looks and feel throughout and offers search tools in an all new left nav (click to enlarge):

  • Amazing ad for Google Chrome Extensions

    Google is slowly joining the bandwagon of companies that go above and beyond to make awesome ads for their products. The list includes Honda, Vodafone among many others. Check out Google’s latest ad for Google Chrome extensions: [via This is awesome]

  • What is Google Chrome OS?

    Google held a Chrome OS event yesterday at the their Mountain View office. Here are the findings: Its an open source OS Its very simple and lightweight, initially targeted to run on netbooks. Its basically a browser which is gonna run web apps Will support x86 and ARM processors You will have to buy Google…

  • Winners of Google Wave invite giveaway part II announced

    As promised, here are the winners of the Google Wave invite giveaway part II: Bharat Jilliedumudi Chris Larson Fran Nimesh Desai Priyanshu Bahuguna Congratulations! We will be nominating the winners by Saturday 24th October 2009. As told earlier, Google wave invites are nominations. So please be patient. Winners will also receive a separate email. While…