Go(oggle)Calendar

Today google launched new service called Google calendar. Like all its services this service is also quite rich and user friendly.
so Apart from search, to an individual, google offers Gmail (An email service), Gtalk (Messenger service),Google Page (Create your webpage),Google News(Read news), Blog(Your Weblog log), Orkut(Your social network) and now Google Calendar. Can you see come connectivity between the product. Google don't want to let you go anywhere else for you most of the daily on net activities. And that's perhaps is the long term plan of Google. Google's product manager Carl Sjogereen says the new Google Calendar service fitted the company’s mission to "organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful", since it would make it easier for users to organise and access their personal diary information from any computer. Gmail is the main integration point for now, but you can imagine integration with a number of other Google properties". This is very clear from the integration of Gtalk with Gmail. Can you smell next big thing..Yes you are right it should be something like Google office. Sun Microsystems and Google has already agreed to promote OpenOffice Microsoft is also trying hard to give something like this and you can see the ambitious live projects.
To get started with calendar and complete feature set visit Go(oogle)Calendar

Webaroo

What!! am I going to talk about some kangaroo familiy species. No it the latest buzz in the search market. The company 'Webarroo' recently launched its search product by the name 'Webaroo' only . It doesn't provide you the regular online search but you can search any thing while you are disconnected from the internet. Hmm is there some magic. Webaroo defines a concept called webpacks. So when you are connected with the internet you can download the webpack of your interest like 'World News', 'Mumbai' etc. Now next time when you connect to net you can sync up these webpack with the webaroo server (manually or automatically). But remember initially you need to download a large file (~250MB).
Well I don't think it sounds much attractive except for the people who travel a lot. But this idea clearly excites that people are thinking about new and innovative modes of search as I mentioned in my last article as well. The product is still in beta phase so you can't find much webpacks. I haven't tried the product (I downloaded the client but looking at the webpack download size I kept it aside). Let's see what is next search.

Orian(c) Search

Search search every where it's search...A revolutionary way of searching was unveiled in september( read here but today the news is hot because Google has come into the picture. An israeli newspaper broke the news on Apr9, 2006 that Google has acquired a search algorithm developed by an israeli student of New south wales australia. And no doubt Microsoft and Yahoo were also contacted NSW but when it comes to search Google can't compromise being #1. Sources said that Google paid a good amount to acquire the algorithm.
"Bill Gates was recently quoted in Forbes magazine as saying that we need to take the search way beyond how people think of it today.Earlier Gravee, Webaaroo and now Orian are new faces of search.
Ori Allen is a 26 year old Phd student of NSW university who developed this algorithm under guidance of Dr Eric Martin. "I provided the spark. But it is Ori who has developed this through his amazing creativity and sheer hard work over these past months," said Mr Martin.
A lot has been seen but seems there are more curtain to be raised.

Sources:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/04/11/1144521270227.html
http://www.smh.com.au/news/breaking/formula-for-a-fortune/2006/04/10/1144521239582.html
http://www.smh.com.au/news/breaking/search-me-mate/2006/01/23/1137864837376.html?page=2
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/703798.html

Here comes Gr@vee

Gr@vee is not a new kid on the search block but I noticed this today itself while browsing some URLs. The kid was borned on 19th Dec 2005,see this. Huh so what's so new with it. Well there have been a great crowed of search engines from google, msn, yahoo, amazon to metasearch engines like copernic, jx2 etc. What it does it, combines the result from many prominent search engines and then it applies its own algorithm( called as tag relevent alogrithm)to further refine the result.
Let's first understand what do we mean by tag relevent alogrithm. What graveed does it, it allows you to create your bookmarks and tag them just like popular bookmark service del.icio.us. Now search result received from the engines are filtered applying alogorithm which gets results based on search keyword used as tags.A user can also vote for useful tag.Ofcourse there is a revenue generating ad program also called AdShare (sounds similar to adsense). Gravee says about its adshare program.
Search advertising is an $8+ billion industry, which is effectively built on the backs of the content owners. The Gravee.com AdShare program fundamentally changes the economic model for search. Instead of just our search engine enjoying all the profit from advertising (which, incidentally, is made possible by the existence of natural search results in the first place), Gravee.com shares keyword advertising revenue with 1) natural search results that appeared on the same page and 2) affiliates who drive any search traffic that is monetized.We view ourselves as much as a distributor of content as we do a search engine. Search advertising is content driven. It’s an economy of attention – i.e. one could posit that the content showing up most frequently in search results is driving the most ad revenue. As a result, our economic model is so, as well – meaning, whatever content gets more attention (i.e. shows up in more searches) will get paid more.
Gravee is also about shifting the power from content “distributors” (read: search engines) to “authors” (read: content owners).
(to read more please see Gr@vee Blog.
To me idea appeals very much and till now I am convinced with search results too however results are a bit slow which are likely to be. FYI Recently they have added blog search as well.All the very best Gr@vee

Romance with Google

Now google is getting romantic.surprised!! Yeah that's true..Google added a new feather to its cap called Google Romance(For more information see Press Release . Younger guys or rather I should say single guys must be very happy after this. Google can now find out your soulmate infact can 'search' best fit for. I don't know what lead to romance because Orkut is already there to spread love though principle interest might not be so but this is the way it is being used by 'singles'.May be google is trying to generate more revenue by its contextual ads with reference to 'young emotions' because I don't think any kind of ad program is associated with orkut