Posts Tagged ‘google’

Measurement Lab - Network analysis

Thursday, January 29th, 2009
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This website loaded REALLY slow for me.  Which isn’t a good sign for a project dedicated to testing network speeds :D

But, when the page finally loaded, the tools they offer sound great.  I can’t wait to test these at home.

Measurement Lab was founded by the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, the PlanetLab Consortium, Google Inc. and academic researchers.

http://www.measurementlab.net/measurement-lab-tools.html

Use tools running on M-Lab to test your Internet connection.

  • Network Diagnostic Tool

Test your connection speed and receive sophisticated diagnosis of problems limiting speed.

  • Glasnost

Test whether BitTorrent is being blocked or throttled.

  • Network Path and Application Diagnosis

Diagnose common problems that impact last-mile broadband networks.

  • DiffProbe (coming soon)

Determine whether an ISP is giving some traffic a lower priority than other traffic.

  • NANO (coming soon)

Determine whether an ISP is degrading the performance of a certain subset of users, applications, or destinations.

Search images by type, Google

Friday, December 19th, 2008
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More specific results for image searches, thanks to Google.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-search-by-style-options-for-google.html

So some time ago we launched face search, which lets you limit your search results to only images containing face…

More recently we also rolled out photo search, which limits results to images that contain photographic elements, ignoring many cartoons and drawings which may not be useful to you…

Today we’re pleased to extend this capability to clip art and line drawings…

Tasks and Texting on Gmail

Thursday, December 11th, 2008
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http://mail.google.com/mail/help/about_whatsnew.html

Tasks
Keep track of what you need to do with a lightweight task list right inside of Gmail. Just click and type to add new tasks, convert emails into tasks, and (most satisfyingly) check them off as you’re done. Once you turn on this Labs feature, look for the Tasks link to the left of your inbox under Contacts.

Text Messaging in Chat
Send SMS text messages right from Gmail. You chat from your comfy computer and reach your friends on the go; they get your messages as texts and can peck out replies on their little keyboards.

To get started with these Labs features and more, click Settings and go to the Labs tab. Then select “Enable” next to the features you want to turn on and click “Save Changes.” Learn more

Google’s SearchWiki

Thursday, November 20th, 2008
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A tool that lets you re-order, note, and add to your own search results.  This doesn’t effect how other people see their search results, but you can at least customize your own (while you’re logged in).  Hmmm, how useful will this really be?  It might be useful if they categorize people to give certain groups better results for what they’re most likely searching for.  Thoughts?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7740815.stm

Voice-based search on iPhone, no G1?

Friday, November 14th, 2008
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Google is releasing a voice-based search for iPhone.  Supposed to be released soon.  Apparently they’re not releasing it for Android, yet.  Weird…

“What’s interesting is that Google has launched the voice based search for the iPhone rather than the G1. Google could well keep the new technology for itself that could shoot up the sales of the G1 exponentially. But Google has decided to go with the iPhone first. Google executives admitted that this could result in more ad revenues especially from the local businesses for the location-based services.”

Go read the full article at: http://androidguys.com/?p=2793