Google Docs, Gmail and Google Calendar getting offline access

It seems that this year Google's most popular web applications will work offline. After Google Reader and Google Docs, two other services will integrate with Gears.

Google Docs' word processor is introduced offline access. With the free Google Gears extension, users will quickly able to read and edit their files even when they have no Internet connection.

You'll know you have the feature when you see a little "offline" menu item in the upper right of your document window in Google Docs.

Offline access for Google's spreadsheet and presentation app will follow after the word processor rollout is complete.

Google Docs will not, at first, let users create new documents though offline. The feature's first-use case is, "I'm amending a document and I lose my Internet connection," Document creation capability will come ultimately.

Of course, users will not be able to collaborate in real time when offline, or see if other users are simultaneously modifying a document they are editing in offline mode. Google Docs will "do its best" to reconcile changes made by multiple users when one or more are offline.

Offline access is a must compulsory feature to make Google's productivity suite a competitor to Microsoft Office. However Google Docs' feature set, while improving over time, still falls far short of the functionality available in the Microsoft suite.

The only other Google application to use Google Gears currently is the RSS reader, Google Reader. A few other apps use Google Gears, such as Remember The Milk.

In the past months, Google accidentally enabled the option in Google Calendar and some users saw the dialog illustrated below: "To view and edit the next 3 months of your Google Calendar when you're not connected to the Internet, click OK."

Google will add SyncML support for Gmail contacts next month. He thinks this is "related to the sync that they worked on with Apple for 3G iPhone". SyncML is a standard for data synchronization supported by a lot of companies. "SyncML is most commonly thought of as a method to synchronize contact and calendar information between some type of handheld device and a computer (personal, or network-based service), such as between a mobile phone and a personal computer."

Gmail get new improved look (web 2.0)

Gmail's New Version Is Now Available

The new version of Gmail

"Google during the recent Analyst Day announced they want to release an updated version of Gmail that's supposed to be faster than the current one, thanks to a JavaScript back-end rewrite," said Google Blogscoped publisher Philipp Lenssen in a blog post. "Also, the new version aims to improve contacts management. 'Gmail 2.0' -- possibly the announced update -- was also mentioned in Google's internal company goals last year, the aim being to achieve '70% user happiness' for that version."

It might be a good idea to scrutinize your Gmail account more closely than usual these days. Not only is Google in the process of rolling out IMAP support, but it looks like some users are able to access a new version of Gmail. If you notice a new option that says "older version" or "newer version" at the upper right-hand corner, you're probably in. It should be right between the "settings" and "help" tabs.

Google Blogoscoped has a series of sreenshots showing some of the differences. Gmail 2.0 reportedly loads faster, although it's a bit early to say how much faster. And there's a much more detailed contacts section. There's a new contacts manager and the option to add images for contacts directly from Picasa Web. There also appears to be an option to "filter messages like these" from the Gmail "More Actions" drop down box.

Google the search giant's move into health information - Google Health

Now the search giant's move into health information could be a winner. Google's plans for a service that puts you in control of your health information start to take shape. This service could help you make more informed decisions about your health, get personalized recommendations from specialists and share this information with other people.

Google Health, that will help you find treatments, symptoms or alternative medicine treatments.

The service may end up looking like Google's Finance portal which offers other services, like news headlines and market data, alongside tailored search results.

Google, and the internet more widely, have been blamed by some doctors for giving patients alarming information and for spreading information about rare side effects.

• Google Health Screen Shots
• Health care information matters
• How do you know you're getting the best care possible?
• Is there a doctor in the family?

New updates in Google Code Search

Google has updated its Google Code Search site for finding publicly available source code, adding greater coverage and improvements in ranking and access.

Google Code Search a tool for locating publicly available source code.

Some of the updates are:

• Indexes individual files and code snippets from all over the Web; previously, only complete archives (.zip, .tar, etc) and repositories (CVS and Subversion) were indexed
• Class and function definitions are now closer to the top of searches for improved ranking,.
• Code Search allows users can now access Google Code Search through several international domains, including Poland, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain and some more.

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FeedBurner was acquired by google

FeedBurner was a pay services previously, now it will be free:

FeedBurner PRO
FeedBurner is a Chicago-based company, a News feed management provider launched in 2004. Its Web-based tools, provides custom RSS feeds and management tools to blog advertising network, web-based content publishers, podcaster to help promote, deliver, and monetize their content on the Web and make feed-based content more accessible and manageable for its end users.

Google Analytics taken FeedBurner PRO for its next level. You will now have access to view the number of people who have viewed or clicked individual content items in your feed and “Reach,” which estimates the daily number of subscribers who interacted with your feed content. You can turn this on by signing in to your account, navigating to the Analyze tab and heading to the FeedBurner Stats PRO section. Click the “Item Views” checkbox to activate these PRO features.

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Try Google Doc's new interface

A Google Groups launched a new interface for Google Docs which happens to be miles better than the older interface. The Google Docs and Spreadsheets blog also covers the launch and redesign.

What is new?

• There's a great new look with new icons, more content, and better organizational controls.
• Explorer view with Folders and files for easy organization.
• New improved search function
• You can see documents sory by edited "today," "yesterday," "earlier this month," or "earlier this year."
  
  New looks of Google Docs:
  
  
  
  
  as per my opinion, it looks cool. Its nice to see Google Doc's try to keeping the neat, clean and sober interface that helps make Google Doc's an important office tool that anyone can use.
  
  just thought I would like to share my discovery!
  
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Try Google's new interface

Google is testing new interface design for their homepage (Classic page). I think they gave it a bit of a web 2.0 looks with a white gradient in the background. (Decide for yourself.)

Pics below (click on the thumbnails to view fullsize):



They’ve also added a dropdown. I know that will save a whole load of time.



as per my opinion, it looks cool. Its nice to see Google try to keeping the neat, clean and sober interface that helps make Google an important search tool that anyone can use.

just thought I would like to share my discovery!


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Google, Yahoo and Microsoft most biggest of Search Engine field agree on Sitemap standard

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Microsoft has added some information, on how to identify the different types of their MSNbot Crawlers, on the Live Search’s WebLog. The different types of the MSNbot are:

MSNBot
Main web crawler (www.live.com)

MSNBot-Media
Images & all other media (images.live.com)

MSNBot-NewsBlogs
News and blogs (search.live.com/news)

MSNBot-Products
Products & shopping (products.live.com)

MSNBot-Academic
Academic search (academic.live.com)

They also explain a method, to verify the identy of the MSNbot. Might be useful, since a lot of spam bots are cloaking themself as searchengine crawlers.

1. When you get a page view request, it specifies a user-agent and an IP address. As I described above, all requests from Live Search use a user agent starting with the word ‘MSNBot’.
2. If you see the MSNBot user-agent, it’s time to check the identity of the bot. Starting with the IP address (i.e. 207.46.98.149), you can use reverse DNS lookup to find out the registered name of the machine.
3. Once you have the host name (in this case, livebot-207-46-98-149.search.live.com), you can check that it really is coming from Live Search. The name of all live search crawlers will end with ‘search.live.com’. If the name doesn’t end with ‘search.live.com’, you know it’s not really our crawler.
4. Finally, you need to verify that the name is accurate. In order to do this, you can use Forward DNS to see the IP address associated with the host name. This should match the IP address you used in Step 2 – if it doesn’t, it means the name was fake.
   
   
   

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