YouTube Has Higher Resolution Videos With Better Sound!

YouTube has started making available higher resolution versions of its videos, offering 480×360 video with higher quality audio, up from the standard resolution of 320×240. The video is MP4 with AAC audio. It has also made available 448×336 video, with 44100 Hz audio, double the normal.
To benefit from this, append &fmt=18 to the end of [...]

Google 9, Me 19 and (Late) Bhagat Singh 100

Today is Google’s 9th birthday, but now only that it is also my 19th birthday and (late) Bhagat Singh’s 100th birthday.
View: Google’s 9th Birthday | Bhagat Singh
At the time of checking, Wikipedia showed Bhagat Singh’s birthday as the 28th of September, but this is incorrect, as I saw on Star News (an Indian news channel) [...]

Gmail Available For All

Until now nobody could have an Gmail e-mail address unless he/she got an invitation from another Gmail user. From today anybody can have a @gmail account. After a period of nearly three years, you can apply for an e-mail address without invitation. Since the introduction of Gmail in April 2004 the web mail service became [...]

Google Replaced by Yahoo! in Opera Mini

Opera Software and Yahoo! announced on 8th January (Opera, Yahoo!) a new partnership for mobile search.
New downloads from operamini.com will come with Y! search preinstalled in the built in homepage. We will also soon start switching existing users to Y! Search. (So don’t be alarmed when the search logo on the homepage suddenly changes. It’s [...]

Five New Gmail Features Just Launched!

Reply on top
No more scrolling to the bottom of a long message to find the “Reply” link. Now there’s a Reply button right on top, along with a lot of other options under the little dropdown arrow.

Embarassment-reducing new message notifications
Ever replied to a message only to find out that someone sent a better, smarter reply [...]

Eureka! Your own search engine has landed!

From the Official Google Blog:
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could easily build a search engine on your blog or website tailored to the topics and areas you know and love the most? You’re not alone if you’d like that — we’ve heard from partners large and small, and users across the web who want [...]

Google 8, Me 18. Happy Birthday to Google and Me.

As you may know today is Google’s 8th birthday, but what you might not know is that it is my 18th birthday today. Google was founded on September 27, 1998.

Google Inc. is an American public corporation, first incorporated as a privately held corporation on 7 September 1998, that designed and manages the Internet’s most used [...]

Try Google’s New Layout!

I know this may be old, but here it goes.
Google has been working on a new interface or layout for quite some time now. Quite a few users have reported seeing the layout but could not replicate it on other computers.
I have known about this interface for long time, but forgot about it. Recently this [...]

Go Google!

Google is truly the best!
The Bush administration on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order Google Inc. to turn over a broad range of material from its closely guarded databases. They requested one million random Web addresses and records of all Google searches from any one-week period.
Google “intend to resist their motion vigorously”.
In a specific [...]