Offline access to Google Docs

Filed under: Official Google Blog — Wrote by Lees on Sunday, May 4th, 2008 @ 2:26 am

Posted by Janani Ravi, Software
Engineer

Our team has a real affinity for free-spirited types, and so we
spend a lot of time thinking up ways to make href="http://docs.google.com/" id="xtf5" >Google Docs friendlier
even to people on the go. If you're one of those, you already
know how you can access your Google Docs from anywhere, how nice it
is to avoid having to email yourself files or back up docs with a
thumbdrive, and how easily you can collaborate with others.

Of course there was a
teeny thing missing: you needed an Internet connection to make
Google Docs work for you. Now, for documents, that's no longer
true. As you'll read on the href="http://googledocs.blogspot.com/" id="f98e"
>Google Docs blog, starting today and
over the coming weeks we're rolling out offline editing access
to word processing documents to Google Docs users. You no longer
need an Internet connection when inspiration strikes. Whether
you're working on an airplane or in a cafe, you can
automatically access all your docs on your own computer.

To see how offline access works, watch this video:

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When giving is fun

Filed under: Official Google Blog — Wrote by Lees on Sunday, May 4th, 2008 @ 2:23 am

Posted by Joscelin Cooper, Google Blog
team

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Dog Team, Longyearbyen, Svalbard

Filed under: Google Sightseeing — Wrote by Lees on Sunday, December 23rd, 2007 @ 8:17 pm

Could these be the shadows of one or more
dog sleds following old tracks through the snow on Svalbard,
the northernmost part of Norway?

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Unfortunately these are only medium resolution images id="fnref:2">#fn:2″ rel=”footnote 1 (which
disappear in Google Maps if you get too close), but zooming right
in on Google Earth certainly seems to add weight to the theory.

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Perhaps they’re travelling from the nearby http://www.eiscat.com/ EISCAT radar http://www.panoramio.com/photo/1028641 station to the
nearest town - the administrative centre of Svalbard,
Longyearbyen?

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Actually Longyearbyen is interesting too, as it’s the
world’s northernmost town
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and therefore has the world’s
northernmost of quite a few things, including the world’s
most northern bank
, ATM,
hospital, library, night
club
, bus station, taxi
rank
, http://www.spitsbergentravel.no tourist office,
supermarket, school and not not
forgetting http://www.polarriggen.com pub!

Oh yeah, they’ve also got the world’s most northern
permanent airport with scheduled flights
-
Svalbard Airport.

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See Wikipedia for more on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_sled dog sleds, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longyearbyen Longyearbyen,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard Svalbard and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_world’s_most_northern the
world’s most northern things.

Thanks to Harry.

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  2. With 1000 people or more. Longyearbyen has 1800. #fnref:1″ rev=”footnote ↩

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By the pricking of our thumbs…

Filed under: Official Google Blog — Wrote by Lees on Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 @ 9:58 pm

Posted by David Griswold, Google Blog
Team

… something Googley this way comes.

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It's that time of year, when ghouls, goblins, and href="http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html" >Zeitghosts
roam Google in search of fresh human bandwidth. We hope you enjoy
these Halloween photos from several of our offices, and wish you a
safe — but suitably scary — celebration.

And if you're looking to plot that perfect trick-or-treat
route, might we recommend the My Maps feature on href="http://maps.google.com/maps?tab=wl" >Google maps? You can
even tag videos and pictures from your spooky night, highlighting
your favorite stops. If you like seeing our ghoulish get-ups, you
can use Picasa Web
Albums
to share yours with kindred costumed spirits.

Now get out there and enjoy href="http://www.google.com/books?id=HvFAAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA55&dq=Halloween&as_brr=1&ei=PPkoR_XoOZ_SiQGI8NS1DA" >
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How I got to Google, ch. 1

Filed under: Official Google Blog — Wrote by Lees on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 @ 8:21 pm

Posted by Michael Krantz, Google Blog
Team

– via craigslist, and thanks for asking. Our engineers, though,
tend to come by more varied, and occasionally odder, routes. Some
get recruited out of grad school, or by friends or former
colleagues. Others just send their resumes to jobs@google.com. For
a few engineers, though, the path has been more interesting. href="http://www.flatfeetpete.com/musicbox/index.html" >Peter
Bradshaw, for instance, built “a music playing system based on
printed cards with barcodes and webcams. Includes lego!” (No, I
don’t know what that means, either.) Over the next few weeks, we’re
going to post some of their stories.

Like this one, from Systems Administrator Aaron Joyner:

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My story started when I came into work one morning and was unable
to look up something on Google. Being the sysadmin for my company
at the time, it was my responsibility to resolve the problem, so I
started poking around. It turned out that our DNS server [ed: all
the jargony stuff you'll hear in this anecdote refers to the
software that websites use to connect and talk to each other] was
returning an error when trying to look up google.com, specifically
a server failure error. Just as I’d convinced myself that it
wasn't our problem but Google’s, the problem suddenly resolved
itself. I promptly forgot about it and went back to my regular
work.

But then I came in the next morning and had exactly the same
problem, so I started looking at Google's DNS responses very
closely. It became clear that the specific combination of
delegations and glue records they were returning [ed: see note
above] would result in an eventual error approximately once per
day, and this would then take it about five minutes to give up and
try again. Not entirely convinced that I should point the finger at
Google yet, I posted href="http://www.trilug.org/pipermail/trilug/Week-of-Mon-20050328/033828.html" >
a message to my local Linux Users Group asking if anyone had
had problems with resolving google.com addresses and got a couple
"Yeah, I did have a problem like that once recently"
responses.

Thus reinforced, I headed over to Google.com, found the
"Contact Us" page and the "Report a problem"
link, chunked in a brief problem description and a link to the href="http://www.trilug.org/pipermail/trilug/Week-of-Mon-20050328/033838.html" >
archived copy of the long technical description from that same
mailing list thread, and thought to myself, "Gee, I'll
never hear about that again." But then one afternoon a week
later I get an email that said, basically, "We've received
your problem report, and forwarded it on to the appropriate
department, if they need any further information they’ll contact
you. Thanks." Again, I thought, "Gee, how nice. I'll
never hear about that again."

But that evening I got an email from Dave Presotto (the guy who
wrote the DNS server for Plan9) saying that he was looking into it
and would get back to me. Forty-five minutes later I got another
email, this one describing how he believed they had accidentally
fixed the problem earlier in the week due to general code cleanup,
and asking what I thought of the solution. After I recovered my
senses and stopped bouncing around the room, I had a few email
exchanges with Dave, in the course of which I asked casually if
they needed any good sysadmins out in Mountain View. He referred
me, and the rest is history.

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Global searches go to local libraries

Filed under: Official Google Blog — Wrote by Lees on Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 @ 10:13 pm

Posted by Christian DiCarlo, Content
Partnerships Team, Google Scholar

Recently I’ve been working with libraries on something we’re
excited to announce for Google Scholar users. Libraries are
fantastic repositories of scholarship, and we want to make them as
visible and accessible as possible. We’ve just expanded our Library
Search program in Google
Scholar
to help people around the world find works of their
interest in local libraries. That program now includes links to
libraries in Hungary, href="http://www.gegnir.is" >Iceland, href="http://libnet1.ac.il/~libnet/uli/" >Israel, href="http://opac.porbase.org" >Portugal, href="http://websok.libris.kb.se/websearch/form?lang=sve" >Sweden,
and Switzerland.

If for example you're a student in Sweden searching Google
Scholar for href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=chemistry" >[chemistry],
you can click the “Library Search (Sweden)” link underneath the
book titled "Principles of polymer chemistry" to see the
list of Swedish libraries that hold the book. Then just pay a visit
to one of those libraries to reserve it. If you’re outside Sweden,
you can activate the Swedish library catalog links from the
"Library Links" box in the "Scholar
preferences" by searching for Sweden.

If you are a library patron and can't find the books from your
library, ask your local library to participate in this program. If
you are a librarian and would like to work with us to help users
find scholarly literature in your library, please href="mailto:scholar-library@google.com" >contact us.

We'd like to thank our union catalog partners for helping to
make this happen. Here's hoping researchers worldwide will use
it to find and build on the amazing collections in the world's
libraries.

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Let us play a search together

Filed under: Yahoo Search — Wrote by Lees on Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 @ 10:43 pm

Author: Shi Xinglan OmniSearch Team Surfer

After search engine appears from 90 time, the footstep of innovation is becoming faster and faster. Today, yahoo is new roll outOmniSearch test version, search those who break a tradition product form, improve the use experience of the user.

Search one page to reach the designated position

Current large search engine has the perpendicular search product of ten kinds of above, but very rare however user can understand and use, create the waste of natural resources of a lot of information. FamedSearch engine to observeWebsite (Search Engine Watch) Buddhist nun of senior editor red - Sullivan (Danny Sullivan) still invented to cry ” Invisible tabs ” term, use descriptive search technically to all alone how engine may try to offer more the search result of original idea of user of press close to.

OmniSearch test versionSolve the bold innovation of these problems just about. The user should input an inquiry word only, yahoo search can undertake to its intelligence is analysed, make be returned after integrated sort to all sorts of pertinent information results next, no matter it is webpage, picture, or guest of frequency, rich waits. For instance, I want to search player of red building dreamboat “Yao Di” all information, at this moment the data that Yahoo search can return me to have Yao Di not merely, guest of the picture that still has her, rich waits. Future still will have more information resource meeting trends joins a search in the result.

New result still has an interesting small function on the page, be called ” others still is searching ” . It is to be after log of inquiry of many analysis user, the associated result that intelligence recommends, for instance search “Liu Dehua” , the information correlation that can think the closest user understanding Liu De Hua is relevant most comes out. Now is ” Yang Lijuan ” , who can future be? Ah breathe out ^_^

Of Ajax interactive

Believe everybody the new-style website that to Flickr, Del.icio.us, Google Earth these use Ajax should not not close, and this secondOmniSearch test versionSearch Ajax technology application engine to mainstream Chinese first. Search client end uses JavaScript processing to come from the response of the server, the data that exchanges between server and browser decreases in great quantities, search speed to be accelerated greatly.

Page of new edition result still tries to will turn over a page to put search result on the right side of, the relevant search such as picture, MP3 also can see directly as a result, so all content can be in basically the browser sees entirely in one screen… product manager laughingstock, the search need not boil to boil up and down as a result, OK still protect an eye: )

In addition, the user after use Ajax is right search a page can accuse a gender to also be strengthened, for instance: You can use clavier to go up ” ← ” ” → ” key will undertake those who search a result turn over a page.

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The close small function of home page

InOmniSearch searchHome page, our search casing has cut all sorts of search TAB, but the function that joined user of a few press close to ” every day much dot ” , can offer at present ” doohickey of weather, interpreter, almanac, search ” wait for information. BTW, if you often look ” search doohickey ” , affirmative meeting turns a search into ace.

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OmniSearch test versionIt is the project that searchs long-term technology and operation to accumulate a foundation to go up in Yahoo, before including to absorb paragraph site of time engineer HackEasy searchThe experience of the website, hope everybody can like. Current test version is a start only, be in next in time, yahoo search still can roll out more and close service.

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