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Google fired a direct volley at its chief adversaries in the enterprise search market, Microsoft and IBM, with the July 17 launch of its Google Custom Search Business Edition service.

The Custom Search Business Edition is a hosted, fee-based site search service aimed at small and medium-size businesses—but available for any Web site—that adds Google-type indexing and customized-search capabilities. The service’s free version displays advertisements; companies with larger, more complicated sites can have the ads turned off for as little as $100 per year or buy the Google Search Appliance itself to provide site and intranet search behind the firewall.

Indexing up to 5,000 pages will cost $100 a year, while 50,000 pages costs $500. Prices start at $15,000 for 1 million pages and more, a Google spokesperson said. Google, in Mountain View, Calif., also will provide its own service support via e-mail or telephone.

“In three simple steps, businesses can sign up online for the hosted service, and in less than 10 minutes customers and visitors are able to search their site using Google’s search technology for more relevant results,” said Nitin Mangtani, Google product manager for enterprise search. “You only need to add four lines of code to the site to make this work.”

Source:www.eweek.com 

Google Inc. has begun inviting mobile Web site developers to display Google ads on their sites as part of a limited beta test.

The offer extends to the mobile environment Google’s AdSense program which lets Web site developers earn revenue by placing advertisements on their sites. Google runs the backend network that places ads on the sites relevant to site content. Site owners earn revenue when visitors click on the ads.

Sites must be written in one of three mobile markup languages including WML (Wireless Markup Language), XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) and CHTML (Compact HTML) in order to use AdSense for Mobile, according to a Google AdSense for Mobile help page. That’s because Google’s crawlers must be able to read the page in those languages to determine page content and serve up relevant ads.

Google has done it again :).  A mind blowing news by various news sources  “Imagery on Google Earth revealed a new Chinese submarine to the public eye for the first time, according to a strategic security blogger with the Federation of American Scientists.”

 
The submarine appears to be about 35 feet longer than the unsuccessful Xia-class sub because of an extended midsection that houses the missile launch tubes and part of the reactor compartment, said Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project for the Federation of American Scientists.

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Hey Guys,

Just have a look what the Guru’s say about flash implementation.  I think most of them are quite useful and we often use but still worth taking a gist of it.

Its an article published at official webmasters site of Google.  visit the site

Best uses of Flash

Google’s buy of the small Unified Communications (UC) tech company GrandCentral is a sign that voice communications will soon become a big part of Gmail. The deal was announced yesterday.

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Google Inc. purchased Web-based phone service GrandCentral Communications, the Internet search company confirmed Tuesday.

The company, which originally reported the acquisition Monday on its official blog, did not disclose a purchase price.

Fremont, Calif.-based GrandCentral’s services let users personalize phone usage with Web-based features like the ability to assign a single phone number that rings various phones at once, records calls and accesses visual voicemail. (more…)

Google has just given the functionality of their online Maps product a real boost. You can now drag a route on a map to change the streets it takes. They’ve also added the ability to add a destination anywhere on a map just by right-clicking or by dragging an existing place marker to a new location.

Read the full article: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/06/google_maps_are.html

Google yesterday urged a federal court to extend its supervision of Microsoft to ensure that it complies with a 2002 antitrust consent decree, arguing that Microsoft has not done enough to make sure its new desktop search product leaves room for competitors.

“Given Microsoft’s history of aggressively minimizing the impact of court-ordered relief, (more…)