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I just visited Google’s new app, its simply awesome use of technology with simplicity.

Google Indic Transliteration offers an option for converting Roman characters to the Devan?gar? characters used in Hindi. This lets you type Hindi words phonetically in English script and still have them appear in their correct alphabet. Note that this is not the same as translation — it is the sound of the words that are converted from one alphabet to the other, not their meaning. For example, typing “hamesha” transliterates into Hindi as the given figure

have a look

http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic

Google is hoping to launch a mobile phone early next year that allows users to surf the internet on the move.

The company hopes that the GPhone will follow in the footsteps of the popular Apple iPhone which was launched in the United States in June.

Google services, such as its search engine, email and interactive maps, will be loaded on to the phone.

The phone should make it easier for people to access the internet when they are away from their computers.

It is thought Google will derive its revenue from the lucrative mobile advertising market. (more…)

People who try to post copyrighted videos on YouTube could confront a video recognition system as sophisticated as FBI fingerprint technology by this fall, according to a lawyer for the popular Web site. (more…)

Google fired a direct volley at its chief adversaries in the enterprise search market, Microsoft and IBM, with the July 17 launch of its Google Custom Search Business Edition service.

The Custom Search Business Edition is a hosted, fee-based site search service aimed at small and medium-size businesses—but available for any Web site—that adds Google-type indexing and customized-search capabilities. The service’s free version displays advertisements; companies with larger, more complicated sites can have the ads turned off for as little as $100 per year or buy the Google Search Appliance itself to provide site and intranet search behind the firewall.

Indexing up to 5,000 pages will cost $100 a year, while 50,000 pages costs $500. Prices start at $15,000 for 1 million pages and more, a Google spokesperson said. Google, in Mountain View, Calif., also will provide its own service support via e-mail or telephone.

“In three simple steps, businesses can sign up online for the hosted service, and in less than 10 minutes customers and visitors are able to search their site using Google’s search technology for more relevant results,” said Nitin Mangtani, Google product manager for enterprise search. “You only need to add four lines of code to the site to make this work.”

Source:www.eweek.com 

Google Inc. has begun inviting mobile Web site developers to display Google ads on their sites as part of a limited beta test.

The offer extends to the mobile environment Google’s AdSense program which lets Web site developers earn revenue by placing advertisements on their sites. Google runs the backend network that places ads on the sites relevant to site content. Site owners earn revenue when visitors click on the ads.

Sites must be written in one of three mobile markup languages including WML (Wireless Markup Language), XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) and CHTML (Compact HTML) in order to use AdSense for Mobile, according to a Google AdSense for Mobile help page. That’s because Google’s crawlers must be able to read the page in those languages to determine page content and serve up relevant ads.

Google has done it again :).  A mind blowing news by various news sources  “Imagery on Google Earth revealed a new Chinese submarine to the public eye for the first time, according to a strategic security blogger with the Federation of American Scientists.”

 
The submarine appears to be about 35 feet longer than the unsuccessful Xia-class sub because of an extended midsection that houses the missile launch tubes and part of the reactor compartment, said Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project for the Federation of American Scientists.

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