The name “Google” is a play on the word “googol,” Which means a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros.

Google as a search-engine it organise infinite number of results from the web.Lets have a look at the video that gives quick view of the google milestones.Its story of search engine to an operating system.

Also,its really great fun and inspiration to read the story about google

The Google Story: For Google’s 10th Birthday

Google story till 2009 was good and let see whats new coming up in 2010.

Technology has grown to great extent; you do not have time to visit your friends and dear ones. What if someone alerts you that “your school friend has landed in the city you live”? Yes Google Latitude does that.

Google has started its location-based services, which lets you to see and share your friend’s location on Google Maps. Google Latitude helps you to stay in touch with friends, or to track your loved ones get home safely.

Google Latitude Location History

Travel lovers will really love to have the visited place stored in Google maps. Enable Google Location History to store and manage your past visited locations on Google Maps. In your convenience you can also delete a portion or entire history.

Location history can be enabled using the following link.

Google Latitude Location Alert

Enable Google Location Alert, it will send the notification every time when friends are near each other. Your past location history is noted to recognize your routine locations which will avoid sending notification to your latitude friends.

What if your alerted every time for the your roommate or co-workers?
Do’nt forget to enable your location history, which will prevent alerting every-time for the roommates or co-workers.

Google Latitude is really wonderful service which should be enabled when you’re new to the city or when you feel the neighborhood is not safe. Its better check your neighborhood safety before visiting the new place.

Demo Google Latitude

Have you ever wondered what data is stored with your Google Account? Yes google knows your online life on the web,at least when your logged in google.

What is google dashboard

Google dashboard is platform which gives the whole details of the online activities.You might me surprised and stunned to see these details stored by google.Nearly 35 products like Alerts, Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Web History, Orkut, YouTube, Picasa, Talk, Google Reader, Latitude, Voice ,Connect, Profile and more are listed in google dashboard.

A detailed summary of your usage is listed with direct links for you to control.Your given a chance to add or delete the activities in google dashboard

Just click here to have a look at your online activity
http://www.google.com/dashboard

Google has built this with greater transparency and control over our own data,To me its a best example of single-sign-on to access our wide data with single log in.Moreover information shared or summarised here are less important expect google checkout. Its a great effort from google as long as it protects our privacy and data.

To know more about Google dashboard Watch this quick video

If your the one who live your lives online, and who wants do everything on the go,then Google chrome OS will be of your best choice.On an average any OS will take take 60-100 seconds(mine will take 2mins) to load the necessary files .Chrome OS loads up in just 4 seconds and Google aims, to turn your PC into a TV, which should instantly turn on and you can start to work on your likes.

Hype for “cloud computing,” is very high recent days,google has already tasted the success of cloud computing in google mail(First implemented in Gmail) and Google chrome is structured to work with the same cloud computing concept.

Chrome OS loading time highly reduced and also designed with the assumption 90% of the time in spend in the laptop on checking mails,use social networking sites (Facebook and Twitter), trace the maps and so on.

Chrome OS is a smart way for Google to push forward to gain the vendors,who are also limited to use components that google specifies and supports.Google will support,control and maintain the operating system remotely,so offline capabilities of the laptop might be limited.Google is also working to support the offline access(already done for gmail) with google gears and HTML 5.

Finally,Google promises that chrome OS with netbook will provide richer,faster and secure experience of web-based computing.

Pros of Chrome OS
1.It gives an auto-update service to the OS.
2.Data will be cached in netbooks for off-line access, it’s all encrypted.
3.No worries on OS crash,simple everything is stored online.
4.light weight web-based computing.
5.Users burden is greatly reduced.

Cons of Chrome OS
1.Simply installing your own software isn’t allowed.
2.Control and maintains the operating system is done remotely,by google.
3.OS will have a limitation to offline capabilities ,google is working to achieve this.

You can download the latest version of Operating System for a preview.

what is google chrome os ?

Google wave is surfing around the web since May 2009 and it is expected to be made open to the public in Dec 2009.Google wave brings hope of “e-communication” for the future.A bunch of invites has be sent to interested users to explore on 30th Sep 2009.

What is Google Wave?

Google wave is a simple fusion of gmail,picasa,google docs and social networking.Its a great tool which limits the screen hopping between the following applications ultimately.

1.Gmail(with inbox and instant messenger),
2.picasa(google photo sharing) ,
3.google docs(google file sharing)
4.Social media(Orkut,Facebook, twitter and many more)

Yes,your reading it right! Everything in one screen.Your professional and social network is managed in the same screen.

Google wave features
1.Spell checker
2.Embedding video instantly with chat or mail
3.social gadgets (to hit your social games eg.Farm ville)
4.exploring google maps
5.Seamlessly integrates with your blog or website
6.Wiki (collaborative editing of docs for the team or group)
7.Charter-by-character viewing(while chatting,you can view what is typed in opposite side)
8.Image drag & drop with integrated image slide show .
9.Native language conversion(chatting you type in English ,instantly your friend reads in French)
10.Handles RSVP efficiently
11.Play back of chatting or emails in same sequence.
12.search options to get the tagged mail or chat.
13.Google wave is very much friendly with iPhone and android phones.
14.Easy to communicate between your blog and wave
15.Integration of wave with orkut client.

Stay tuned to know the technical details with features of Google Wave.
if your searching for the link to get the invites.You can punch this link.

Google wave demo in 2 minutes

Halloween
Halloween is our weirdest annual celebration and much more stranger than it seems.Unlike the 4th of July and Thanksgiving, Halloween is neither patriotic nor historical, yet it is celebrated nationally. it is not even associated with a particular religion.It’s also the favourite holiday where you can dress up as whatever you want.

Some people prepare for Halloween as a time for fun, putting on costumes, trick-or-treating, and having theme parties. Others view it as a time of superstitions, ghosts, goblins and evil spirits that should be avoided at all costs.

History of Halloween

History of Halloween is inspired through traditions which has been transpired through generations.

On the night of October 31, they celebrated Samhain ,All disembodied spirits of those who had died throughout the preceding year would come back in search of living bodies to possess for the next year. It was believed to be their only hope for the afterlife. The Celts believed all laws of space and time were suspended during this time, allowing the spirit world to intermingle with the living.People had a belief of dressing in Scary Costume to frighten the evil spirits.

Googleween

Halloween 2009,Google’s web celebration is done by changing the doodle(logo). To the surprise, Google’s Doodle ,’trick or treating’ is done by changing the theme on each click.

Initially the logo appears in grey color and later it was replaced by series candy-treat(2nd click much more candy),3rd click on the logo shows the scattered sweet wrappers.final click shows the result of “Halloween 2009″.

googleween

Recently remembrance of the bar code was the google’s doodle .

Happy Googleween!

Its always better to know your neighborhood saftey on halloween.

Happy birthday bar code.People lose their patience in a long queue to checkout their favourite items,bar code made it easier with self check-out.Nice you had patience to read this.

October 7 ,Google has replaced its logo by a barcode to honor barcode service.The bar code was patented today on 1952 and later it was accepted as universal product code.

Quick catch on barcode
Invented by : Bernard Silver
Invented in Year : 1948
cost to generate : US$0.005 cent(Not even one cent)
Fomat : 1D or 2D barcode
barcode font : barcode-font(can download)

Here,I was able to generate barcode for “InspirationTrack”.

How to generate barcode image
You can generate the barcode for any text,why not try your name and get the barcode format.use the following link.

Barcode generator

How to decode the barcode image
You can upload the barcode image and get the decode format of the give JPEG or GIF file

Online Barcode reader

In the recent years search engine contest has reached its peak and hope it will be there forever.

Though MSN and Yahoo were parents in search engine, they are old to join old-age home. Bing, a fusion child of MSN has joined the search engine contest recently. Begin young and dynamic on its 11th birthday, Google takes the top position in the search engine market.

Here is a tool which compares Bing and Google in the screen by the sides.
http://www.bing-vs-google.com/

Firefox users can have their Add-on here, i wish horizontal scroll on both of screen will look great.

I would definitely say that Bing has improved a lot in searching relevant results, look and feel and the way it organize the search result.

Recall the story “a hare who ridicules a slow-moving tortoise”. Though Google started later than MSN and Yahoo, it leads the race, may be hare is sleeping and yes its going to be never ending race in the search engine contest.