Posted by Marcus Antonius - May 22, 2010. on google
Google announced on Thursday during the event for developers Google I / O in San Francisco, California, a new version of Android operating system. Codenamed Froyo Android 2.2 brings a number of improvements, both performance and usability, and new features for better integration with the cloud.
The presentation was made by Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering at Google, and full of "pins" in Apple: several of the demonstrations involved comparing a smartphone with Google Nexus One Froyo against an iPad with Apple's device invariably losing . Additionally, Vic was keen to stress the compatibility of the new system with Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe Air, saying "Be open and accepting to work with others. Say it is not easy, "in clear reference to Apple's refusal to adopt Apple products the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
Posted by Marcus Antonius - April 16, 2010. on google
For some time now that Google has been threatening to include the speed of the sites as rankeamento factor in their search algorithm. Now it's official. Starting today, Google is already considering the speed of the sites as a factor to help provide the best search results to its users. The announcement was made in a blog post in its webmaster central and next to it, Google listed some tools that can help webmasters to accelerate their applications. It is known that slower sites make visitors stay less time on the site, but according to Google, the fastest sites also reduce operating costs. Google's algorithms do a comparative benchmarking the speed of your site and other Google sites and provides tips for optimizing performance and in Webmaster Tools.
Following is a list of recommended tools for Google search engine optimization:
Page Speed - A firefox plugin that measures the performance of websites and provides optimization tips;
YSlow - A tool from Yahoo! that also gives tips on optimization;
Webmaster Tools , Labs - The Google service shows a benchmarking your site in comparison with other sites in the world. In the service's blog page and Google Code speed there are also tips for optimizing performance of sites.
Meanwhile, the inclusion of this factor in the search results is still mild and affects less than 1% of searches performed on Google today. Google says the change was made several weeks ago and that if your site has suffered some decline in traffic from search engines might be a good time to optimize the speed of your site.
Soon we will see the real effect that this change will search for the economy. It is an important step because it causes users to have a web faster, but we'll soon see some complaints from webmasters who have difficulties to optimize your front end or even migrate to a better server generating more costs. Let's wait and see.
Posted by Marcus Antonius - April 11, 2010. on google
To try to avoid a little iPad, which was released on Saturday, let's talk about something amazing that Google made the team. With 20% of free time that Google provides for its employees nerds, some engineers ported the Quake II to HTML5, using Google Web Toolkit.
To run in the browser, Quake II uses WebGL technology in conjunction with the Canvas API, audio elements HTML5 local storage API and WebSockets. Modern browsers like Chrome and Safari, are able to run it, reaching even 60 frames per second.
Just like today, you search for an address or business, you can search for properties to buy or rent directly on Maps.
Currently, the service allows the filtering properties for sale and rental, minimum and maximum number of bedrooms and number of bathrooms. The option can be activated by clicking on More ... and then selecting the option Properties .... Thus, the option will appear in front of the Real Estate field of research.
Clicking on the desired property, the famous balloon information Maps will load, displaying a summary of the same. In addition, you can plot a route to him or do a search on the bakeries, pizzerias or nearby pharmacies.
In a quick test, the option still found in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Campinas. The inclusion of real estate in Maps can be made free through Google for real estate professionals .
Posted by Marcus Antonius - September 15, 2009. in android , google , mobile
Eric Chu, the engineer responsible for the Android mobile platform, announced officially on Friday some news that will be introduced in the Android Market for Android version 1.6.
"As part of this change, developers now can provide screenshots, promotional icons and descriptions of which will be displayed in applications and games," said Google executive.
The change also implements four new sub-categories for applications such as sports, health, themes and comics. The current developers can select such categories for your applications through the publishing page.
Posted by Marcus Antonius - November 21, 2008. on google
Gmail
The Official Gmail blog has announced a series of themes to customize the page and free email. The package features 30 options, with modified versions and colorful logos.
The novelty is not immediately available to all users, but will be implemented gradually. To modify your page, go to Settings (settings) and look for the tab Themes (themes).
Orkut
Chat window will appear at the bottom of the screen
Google also announced that it will gradually provide a tool to Brazilian users to chat integrated into Orkut. The social network has worked with Google Talk, but the novelty simplifies access and use the chat.
The chat service will automatically appear at the foot of the page, as already happens with competitor Facebook. Thus, viewers can navigate through Orkut and chat online using a single window. Users can choose whether you want to appear online or offline.
The contacts are shared between the services offered by the company - this means that the user can talk to someone Orkut Gmail when browsing the social network. "Google has a single list of friends to chat. It is consistent between GTalk, Gmail and Orkut now. You can chat with all your friends in any of these sites, "the company said the G1 through its press office.
"Now you can know what your friends are online while you and talk to them in real time by chat, as you already do in Gmail for some time," the company announced.
In the same statement, Google also said the availability of a tool to facilitate meetings on Orkut offline. This is the Events application, which allows Internet users to make an appointment, choose friends who will participate and determine whether this information is public, private and seen only by the guests.
