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Google Shared Storage

In 2007 Google added an option to pay for additional storage for Gmail and Picasa Web. The prices have changed since then: for $20/year you get 10 GB instead of 6 GB, for $75/year you get 40 GB from 25 GB, for $250/year you get 150 GB...

In short: Upgrade your Google storage for more space in Gmail and Picasa Web Albums; learn about new pricing plans and compare with Yahoo Mail and Flickr. Discover how shared storage works across products. (AI summary)

Ads in Google Suggest

Google Suggest has been recently updated to include top search results and search buttons, but the most surprising additions are sponsored links. Here's how Google explains why you'll sometimes see ads below the suggestions: "Similar to the navigational suggestions, sometimes we detect that the...

Knol's Equation Editor

Knol, Google's knowledge sharing service launched last year, has improved with a lot of new features that have gone unnoticed: collections, templates, categories, Google Analytics integration, review scorecards. A recent feature added to Knol is a basic equation editor that uses the LaTeX markup...

On Google File System

Google File System is "a scalable distributed file system for large distributed data-intensive applications" created by Google. Initially used to store Google's search indexes and the crawling data, GFS is now mostly used to store user generated content. ACM has an interesting interview with Sean...

Google Font Previewer

that watches Google's attempts to move your operating system online since 2005. Not affiliated with Google. Send your tips to gostips@gmail.com. Google Operating System Unofficial news and tips about Google July 20, 2010 Google Font Previewer Google added an option to preview the fonts from the...

In short: Discover how to preview fonts from Google Font Directory before embedding, change text size and spacing, capitalize, add underlines and shadows - a game-changer for web design! (AI summary)

Google Toolbar 4.0 Beta

Google has released a new version of Google Toolbar for consumers and corporations: Google Toolbar 4.0. Users can easily create their own buttons from Web sites, that allow them to search a site directly from the toolbar. Developers are able to use a new XML application-programming interface to...

What's New In Firefox 2

Firefox 2, code named Bon Echo, due to be available in October, will bring many interesting features: * tabs will have close buttons * the search box will resize when the windows resizes * you'll search Google and Yahoo using inline suggestions from the search box * Bon Echo will allow you to...

In short: Firefox 2 (Bon Echo) brings tabs with close buttons, resizable search box, inline Google/Yahoo suggestions, feed subscription, automatic spell-check, session... (AI summary)

Google as a Command-Line

Simplicity is one of the most important qualities of Google's product. That's why I think Google's homepage should be extremely simple, without the options for image search, groups, maps or Froogle. You enter your query, press Google...

In short: Learn how to leverage Google as a command-line tool for more powerful searches, including shortcuts and service-specific queries. Discover the potential of a simplified Google homepage. (AI summary)

Google Redirect Notice

Let's say I have a site that sells Cialis, and I have to use spam to promote it. Wouldn't be nice to use a trusted site like google.com to make a redirect to my site? For a very long time, if you used a URL like http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.mysiteaboutcialis.com , Google sent you to...

Custom YouTube Players: Here Comes YouTube TV

You can now create customized YouTube players, choose a color theme, a video playlist and share your favorite videos. My green player shows three collections of incredible places from Google Earth, but you can use it as your own TV channel: it's easy to control the look and the content. When you...