Google voice -Google's Speech-to-text technology

Google launched its new product very recently in the month of march which is quite innovative technology that is being provided freely. Briefly SAI, the technology is speech to text or which converts voice mails to text. This really innovative technology can have many applications and could even help the handicapped people though its not aimed at them.

Actually it started with Google's acquisition of Grand central communication.Google Voice provides consumers with a single phone number to which all incoming calls to home, office and cell phones can be diverted to.The new version the product after acquisition,uses goog-411 directory service which can convert voice mails to text or SMS or even email.Although Google makes money by selling products to organizations and through advertisements,people wonder where this product will fit into Google's business model and an announcement from one of the official is that its going to be free consumer product for now.

But the sad part of it is it's for US only for now.
If it opens its API there could be many applications like helping the handicapped by converting the speech to text to those who cant hear ,converting the text to speech to those who cant see and many more.It can be used at many places more innovatively and hope Google comes out with the same through out the world.
Know more @ https://www.google.com/voice

How to translate text in web ?

All the websites/blogs present on the internet are not written in English, though 65% of them are written in English but 95% of them are written in one of the popular languages like Portugese, Chinese, Swedish,… In the early times, it was difficult to read these pages but today there are various tools to translate those pages. So, you need not worry of not knowing any language. All it requires is using one of the following sites.

Google Translator: Presently they support 41 languages. The best translating software present around in the internet as of now. You can use this site to translate the whole page, a few sentences. They also provide different dictionaries for the easy usage. They also provide a translator widget which can be placed in your site so that others can translate the page directly.
Windows Live translator and Yahoo’s translator (Bable Fish acquired by Yahoo) also provide the same service but they don’t meet the Google’s height.


Worldlingo: Worldlingo offers free, premium version of language translators to their customers. It also offers some software to translate offline. They offer free 'text', 'webpage' and 'email' online translation tools. Everything is same, except that by 'email translation' you can send an email written in their language. These offer advanced options to help the users more.

Hidden features in Google Toolbar

Google toolbar is created with an intention of collecting the data from the users by Google to enhance its products. Google toolbar provides many services and its ease of use makes it popular tool bars among the net users. The main advantages of using Google toolbar are

1. To know the pagerank of a web page.
2. To find the back links of a web page
3. You can find the details of a book using ISBN number with a single click
4. See the location using Google maps
5. The biggest of all is autofill. If you save information, the same information can be used to unlimited number of websites using the auto fill option.
6. Search a keyword in different categories like web search, images search etc
7. You can easily manage the bookmarks, hence they become portable and you can use them from any internet connected computer.
8. All kinds of Google gadgets can be added to your browser and they can be accessed easily.

Read Goggle mails offline through Google Gears

Google is advancing itself into the email service and it is trying to outstand with its competitors with new technology and options at regular intervals. Google has introduced Google gears, an option to read your Google mails offline. Google is the first company to provide such an advanced and sophisticated service to its users. Google gears are long awaited services for most of internet users as they thought that will show a new trend in the usage of internet.


Initially, Google has used this Gears concept to access web pages offline by adding AJAX to them. You can install Gears from Google Gears official site. This will allow the users to interact with the webpage naturally with your desktop. There is also search option for this. Though Google gears are not the finest product to access offline web pages and mail, it is a promising step in achieving the bigger goals.

Effective Googling- tips to search easily in google

Getting the unknown information from internet is cumbersome if you don’t know how to search properly. At the same time, it will be very easy and you will love to search in the internet when you get what you want in a few attempts of searching using different combinations of keywords. Not only this, there are certain hidden features that can make you to search faster and quicker. The following are valid only for Google and I didn’t test them in other search engines.


Using of inurl phrase gets the search results in which the link contains the specified keywords. For example inurl:google will display only the web pages whose URL contains “google” at some part like http://google.com/blog

The other keyword that can be used in the similar fashion is “intitle”. This will display the webpages whose title contains the keyword that you specified. The title and URL are thus very important in creating a website.

Using of the keyword “filetype:pdf” will display only the webpages which are in pdf format. There are also separate websites which work on this like htpp://www.pdfse.com

If you want to have more specifically, and then go to the advanced search where you can impose more than one condition and get the accurate results.

Importance of Page rank

Not only the content but also the content provider’s reliability is the major issue in today’s world. Anyone can provide any content and anything, then how can readers make a choice? There are various parameters like page rank, alexa rank that shows the importance and popularity of a webpage which indirectly gives an impression of the content writer. In this we will discuss about the page rank. Page rank is introduced by Google to categorize the websites based on their popularity. Page rank is given against 10, higher the pagerank, better the website. Most of the websites in the internet have a page rank below 2.


Page rank shows the regularity of the author in updating the site. It also shows how many other sites are linking back to this site. A link to a webpage from a higher pagerank increases the pagerank of the webpage. Google uses a complex algorithm to calculate the pagerank of very single webpage. Pagerank of a site is affected by many factors like validation of all the links, images (following all the conventions of World Wide Web while designing the webpages). A constantly updated website will have a page rank of 4 in a year or two. Google always interests in original content than some copy-pasted content and this adversely affects your page rank in longer time. You can check pagerank of a site using google toolbar or from other sites like page rank checker.

Importance of saving search history

In this article, we will be telling what search history is and why it is import. Every internet user does search one time or the other time for some need. I will be talking about Google search primarily. Whenever you search for anything in Google search, they save the searched queries, your navigation, in fact all your moves after that in their web pages. Have you ever wandered there are times when you have searched for same thing more than once and wished to see the previous pages.


Here are good and bad about the saving your search terms and history.

1. When you search for the same time again, just go back and see your results, you don’t need to work again.
2. Google offers recommended web pages that will be useful in getting better results.
3. If you have found the answer and if it is not there in the search results, you can add your own.
4. You can find the trends and activities of you web search and web history making you to understand how you are moving in the internet.

The only down part is, it saves all your privacy, so if you care about privacy then other advantages, turn off the “save search history”.

Introduction to Google

Google is one of the best websites of internet which had changed the entire game strategy with its powerful search engine, adsenses, offline viewable Gmail, Google earth, etc. Larry Page and Srgey Brin are the creative heads of Google. If you want to divide the internet era, you can divide it as internet before Google and internet after Google. We will discuss about Google products in detail later, this post is just an introduction to Google and why it is so powerful.

Net users like Google because

The Google search engine algorithm is still indecipherable because it changes its algorithm for every fortnight. You can’t even know what Google is in fifteen days.

Most of its products are free like Gmail, android operating system for mobile users etc.

It had showed how to earn, thousands of dollars, money from a simple blog with no artistic knowledge or technical stuff.

Google Reader is making the users to read the entire web articles in a single place that can collaborate and share their views with others.

Everyone loves Google because it has complete resources for webmaster like analytics, adsenses and for net users with products search (in various forms like images, web, scholar, books etc)

The one downfall of the Google is it sometimes steals your privacy by logging your online actions and movements.