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No More Annoying Frames in Google Video

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2008-10-11 14:15:00 by Alex Chitu in Google Operating System
Google has finally made the right decision and it removed that were created when you clicked on a result from Google Video . Instead of directly linking to the original site, Google used frames to show both the external site and a list of related videos from Google Video. This duplicated the functionality from video sites like YouTube, while...
 
Tags: google, google video, google image relinker, google image, frame, similar frame, frames, original site, greasemonkey scripts
 
 
 
 
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Embed a Part of a YouTube Video

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2008-10-10 11:36:00 by Alex Chitu in Google Operating System
 
If you want to embed a YouTube video that starts to become interesting somewhere in the middle, there's a simple way to skip the boring part. YouTube's embedded player has a parameter that lets you specify the number of seconds that should be skipped before starting to play the video. Here's how you should edit the code: append &start=[number of...
 
Tags: youtube video, youtube, video, player parameters, autoplay parameter, parameter, player, sergey brin answers, embed
 
 
 
 
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Advanced IMAP Settings for Gmail

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2008-10-10 05:26:00 by Alex Chitu in Google Operating System
Gmail offers more options for IMAP through an experimental add-on from Gmail Labs : "Advanced IMAP Controls". After enabling the add-on, you'll find two categories of options the Labels tab lets you control which labels show up in your email client, including built-in labels like Drafts, All Mail, Spam or Trash. If you have a lot of messages in...
 
Tags: gmail, imap, custom imap folder, folder, gmail labs, instruct gmail, gmail offers, standard imap implementation, message forever
 
 
 
 
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Enhanced Snippets for Discussion Boards

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2008-10-09 06:32:00 by Alex Chitu in Google Operating System
Google has been experimenting with displaying additional information for discussion boards in the search results and now the experiments are live. Below the title, Google lists automatically generated data about forum threads: the number of posts, the number of authors and the date of the last post The additional information helps you decide if...
 
Tags: google, google starts, google lists, google detects, additional information helps, additional information, post, discussion boards, web pages
 
 
 
 
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YouTube Links to Online Music Stores

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2008-10-08 10:12:00 by Alex Chitu in Google Operating System
YouTube started to add links to iTunes and Amazon MP3 for music videos from EMI Music and Universal Music. "Click-to-buy links are non-obtrusive retail links, placed on the watch page beneath the video with the other community features. Just as YouTube users can share, favorite, comment on, and respond to videos quickly and easily, now users can...
 
Tags: youtube, music, links, music videos, videos, youtube users, click-to-buy links, videos quickly, youtube hopes
 
 
 
 
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Machine Translation and Speech Recognition at Google

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2008-10-08 09:19:00 by Alex Chitu in Google Operating System
 
Google's technologies for automatic translation and speech recognition already have visible results: you can translate texts in 35 languages at translate.google.com or use voice to find a local business with GOOG-411 , but Google intends to expand their use. You should be able to translate an email written in a foreign language or find answers...
 
Tags: google, speech, data, speech data, leads google, speech recognition, google intends, google maps, speech technology efforts
 
 
 
 
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YouTube Theater View

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2008-10-06 14:03:00 by Alex Chitu in Google Operating System
YouTube shows a new option for long videos: a theater view that enlarges the player and fades out the rest of the page. Randall Munroe's talk at Google and Steve Jobs' speech at Stanford are two examples of feature length videos that should display the new option You can restrict YouTube's search results to feature length videos by appending...
 
Tags: youtube, youtube interface, feature length videos, videos, restrict youtube, theater view, google, carnegie mellon university, google video
 
 
 
 
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Better Answers in Ask.com

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2008-10-06 12:55:00 by Alex Chitu in Google Operating System
Ask.com went back to its roots and enhanced the snippets for search results if the query is a question. Snippets are usually excerpts that include your query, but Ask.com replaced them with the actual answers, as you can see if you search for [ how to tie a tie Presenting direct answers to your searches, front and center, has always been at...
 
Tags: organic web results, results, image results, video results, news results, web, technologies, snippets, answer technologies
 
 
 
 
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Google Spreadsheets Redesign

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2008-10-06 00:39:00 by Alex Chitu in Google Operating System
...presentation app We were hoping to accomplish three things with it: make it faster, make it more consistent with our siblings (documents and presentations), and give us more room to add features without clutter," explains Google The toolbar includes some of the most frequently used features, but I don't think Google did a job at ordering...
 
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Audio Knols

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2008-10-04 09:52:00 by Alex Chitu in Google Operating System
Google Knol tests a cool feature that automatically converts articles to audio files, which can be played or downloaded. For now, the option is available for a small number of knols, like this one about multiple sclerosis We are experimenting with Audio Playback as an option for some knols, starting with a handful of English language featured...