I thought one of the coolest announcements from today’s Google I/O keynote was not Android related at all. It was actually the new cloud based streaming music service, called Music Beta by Google. The new service will be rolling out real soon, with beta signups starting now.
Before we delve further into all of the huge announcements from today’s opening session at Google I/O 2011, we thought it might be smart to quickly outline some the bigger announcements. As expected today was “Android” day at Google I/O and the bulk of announcements today were all Android orientated.
Google has decided to change their search result page design and they already has made new design and it is steel testing.New design is running but it is being shown only for some special region and special person, they added a small tweak to Adsense ads, showing the Advertiser URL on mouse hover.Then there is the famous and much talked about Panda algorithmic tweak which is geared towards removing low quality sites from search results, a redesign of Google search result pages is on it’s way…………
Using WebGL and different color crayons for each language, the coders at Mountain View have put together the above Search Globe, which presents a single day’s worth of Google queries in a beautiful, skyscraper-infused visualization and it will let you twist and turn the model world for a closer exploration of global Google use………
A new version of Google Talk which includes voice and video chat capabilities. But if you have any phone running Android 2.3 and up you can now install the latest version of Google Talk without waiting for Google to push the update.
Google has confirmed the launching of Google Chrome OS Notebook (code name CR-48). The rough date for its launch is going to be set during this year’s summer (June or July).
Google Chrome 11 has just been released sporting the new flat icon with improved security and with the speech-to-text support through HTML speech input API. The feature has been in testing, along with Google Chrome 11 which has just graduated to the stable channel, but since this is the channel that most users are on, it’s the first time many encounter the new feature.
Loyal Google Docs users have been wishing and waiting for a some kind of native app to be released on one of the many mobile platforms today. It seemed logical that Google would take care of their own before any other platform. The wait is over! According to today’s blog post on the Google’s Docs Blog, Google’s mobile developers have released the first official Google Docs app for Android devices. Shortly after the app has made it first appearance on the Android Market.