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Google Operating System (Unofficial Google Blog)

Unofficial news and tips about Google. A blog that watches the Google services that help you move your operating system online.

Google Operating System: 2005

It is innovation's biggest paradox: We demand more and more from the stuff in our lives--more features, more function, more power--and yet we also increasingly demand that it be easy to use. And, in an Escher-like twist, the technology that's simplest to use is also, often, the most difficult to...

Google Operating System: March 2007

Google Personalized Homepage added comments, ratings and recommendations for gadgets, but also themes. Picasa Web Albums has community search, an API and upgraded the free accounts to 1GB. Google Notebook has a new design and is no longer in beta. Google Talk Gadget can be added to any site...

Google Operating System: April 2009

The most recent addition to Gmail Labs is a feature that lets you quickly add Google search results to a message. Instead of opening a new tab, typing the query and copying the results, you can now search directly from Gmail. The box that shows up lets you copy the results or just the web...

In short: Add Google search results to Gmail messages and customize Google Docs forms with themes! (AI summary)

Google Operating System: February 2007

This month, Google added personalized search for every logged-in user, so now it's even more likely that your search results are different than your friend's Dan. You'll also see plus boxes that extended the snippets with useful...

Google Operating System: May 2007

EMI Music signed an agreement with YouTube that will allow the video sharing site to distribute music videos produced by the label. "In addition to making available clips from acts like Coldplay and Norah Jones, EMI and YouTube plan to develop a system that provides for consumer-created content...

Google Operating System: January 2008

Durrell Robinson has a lot of great ideas for Google and he decided to share them with you. I only selected some of the most interesting ideas and found their place inside this post. Contact manager integration with Picasa Web Albums and customizable Facebook-like tags that allow you to tag a...

In short: Learn about Google's vision for social search in 2008, as Marissa Mayer discusses personalizing results using Facebook friends and trust networks. Discover h... (AI summary)

Google Operating System: June 2008

Launched in 2006 as an online extension of the Picasa photo management application, Picasa Web Albums didn't become very popular, as Flickr continued to grow. Besides lacking a community of photography enthusiasts and leaving out a lot of basic features like stats or adding a photo to favorites...

Google Operating System: July 2008

If you wanted a way to bypass Gmail's spam filter, now it's possible. Just create a filter that describes the cases when Gmail should not flag the incoming messages as spam and then check "Never send it to spam". To bypass the filter for...

Google Operating System: August 2008

Microsoft has recently released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, an impressive update for a software that stagnated in the past years. Internet Explorer 8 looks more elegant and easier to use, while adding many of the missing features. "The...

In short: Discover the improvements in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, including a sleeker design, new developer tools, inline search, and accelerator feature for easier data transfer. (AI summary)