A great day for 3D

Last month we told you that @Last Software had joined the Google fold. Today we’re releasing Google SketchUp, a free version of our 3D modeling software, which makes our long-time vision of making 3D accessible to everyone a reality. We’re still offering SketchUp Pro 5 for design professionals like architects, designers, builders, art directors and game developers. Both Google SketchUp and SketchUp Pro 5 enable you to place models in Google Earth; Pro users get some additional features.

Site – http://googleblog.blogspot.com

More from Google Enterprise

Google has introduced a new search appliance that features Google OneBox for Enterprise, which among other capabilities gives customers secure access to information in any application in the enterprise from the convenience of the Google search box. Google reports OneBox for Enterprise functionality was developed by Google as well as by some of the world’s leading enterprise companies, including: Cisco, Cognos, Employease, NetSuite, Oracle, Salesforce.com and SAS.

Site – http://www.kmworld.com

Google Patents Voice Search

Google, Inc. on Tuesday was granted a patent for a voice interface for search engines. The patent document suggests that Google will be leveraging its logs of stored text and audio queries to improve speech recognition and relevancy, as the company does currently with text keywords. It says, “The query logs may consist of audio data (i.e., a recorded query) and/or a textual transcription of the audio data…. The query logs may also consist of typed query logs from, for example, a text-based search engine.” The existence of audio query logs will likely prove as tempting to the Department of Justice and other entities as text search data. But audio queries are likely to contain even more information than text queries in the form of background noise. Anything said in the area of someone speaking into his or her phone could potentially be recorded and stored with GPS coordinates and a time stamp.

Site – http://www.informationweek.com

Google Directory: Computer Science

Google Directory has a good listing under computer science for people, confrences, artificial intelligence, etc…

Site – http://directory.google.com

How Google News is changing the way newspaper headlines are written

There’s a great article in today’s New York Times that highlights an interesting trend: To try and entice the search-engine bots of Google, Yahoo, and MSN, newspapers are beginning to alter their prose style. One of the biggest areas of change is headline-writing. Normally, a headline writer tries to use some witty wordplay to attract readers: A literary or cinematic allusion, perhaps, or maybe a pun. But such nuances are totally lost on machines. A bot is trying to quickly figure out the content of an article, and wordplay just gets in the way. Though the article doesn’t discuss it in this depth, this dilemma is known, in A.I. circles, as “the problem of synonymity”: A machine doesn’t know that when a copywriter pens the line “A horse of a different color”, she’s not talking about horses. The bot might accidentally slot that story into the sports section, even if the piece is actually about politics.

Site – http://www.collisiondetection.net

Google Must Give Up Some Data To Department Of Justice

Judge to Order Google to Give Up Some Data from the Associated Press covers the news that Google will be required to hand over some information requested by the US Department Of Justice. The DOJ has now asked for a much smaller set of data than it originally sought. It wants 50,000 URLs selected randomly from the Google index and 5,000 random search requests.

Geez, if that’s all you need, guess it’s confirmed you went overkill on the first request, eh? And what a nice spend of taxpayers money to contest this. I can think of better ways to get 5,000 random URLs out of the Google index and 5,000 search requests from other sources.

Site – http://blog.searchenginewatch.com

Volkswagen and Google develop revolutionary navigation system

Volkswagen and Google are working together to develop a revolutionary new navigation system. Together with the graphics card manufacturer nVidia, a revolutionary new navigation system is being developed in Volkswagen's Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL) in Palo Alto, California. This new system uses data from Google Earth to generate 3-dimensional images of the route. Moreover, the navigation system can gather online data to provide the driver with important real-time information, for example about the traffic situation or weather.

Stie – http://www.automotoportal.com

Google Launches “Google Mars”

Google has just launched a new service called “Google Mars” that lets you browse the martian land just as you would with Google Maps.

Site – http://www.google.com

Google Enters Web-Office Market

Google’s official blog tells us that Google has acquired Writely, a collaborative word processor.”From the article: “To be clear, Writely is still in beta, and it’s far from perfect. Upholding our great user experience means everything to us, so we’re not accepting new registrations until we’ve moved Writely to Google’s software architecture. If you’re interested in giving us a try, we hope you’ll get on the waitlist so we can let you know when you’ll be able to try out Writely.

Site – http://googleblog.blogspot.com

Google Tech Talks

Google video of talks held at Google Labs.

Site – http://video.google.com

Google GDrive Is Not A Rumor

The GDrive service will provide anyone (who trusts Google with their data) a universally accessible network share that spans across computers, operating systems and even devices.  Users will no longer require third party applications to emulate this behaviour by abusing Gmail storage.

Site – http://blogs.zdnet.com

Google Puts National Archives Video Online

A marching band begins to play. The United Newsreel logo, an eagle in a martial pose, flickers onto the black-and-white screen. Bold letters proclaim: “Nazi War Plants Blasted by R.A.F. in Night Raids.”  This is a World War II era newsreel, one of 100 historic videos retrieved from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration and posted Friday on Google Video. The content represents the first fruits of a joint project aimed at putting as much of the National Archives’ video content as possible online.

Site – http://news.com.com