Esta mañana me he liado a poner en Twitter enlaces a noticias sobre diferentes movimientos de google, lo que me ha llevado a pensar en la cantidad de actividad que han tenido esta semana. Por eso, me he decidido a escribir este post listando todas las noticias que sobre ellos he leído a través de mi agregador RSS (en mi caso, el Google Reader ):

Lunes:

• Google Looks to Dominate iPhone and Android Advertising With AdMob Acquisition. Why did Google make this move? Two reasons stand out. First, AdMob is a very strong company in a sector (mobile advertising) that everyone expects to become much more important in the future. Second, this is a chance to make a big move towards monetizing on Apple’s iPhone platform while making sure that no one else does something similar to Android in the future.

Martes:

• New Version of Google Search Is Launching Soon. he secret project, known officially as Google Caffeine, wouldn’t change the face or design of the Google search engine, but would instead provide an overhaul of the architecture of Google’s web search that would improve its indexing speed, accuracy, and comprehensiveness.
• Google Helps You Find a Flu Shot. They’ve been working with the U.S. Department for Health and Human Services to develop a tool for locating flu shot providers near you, located at google.com/flushot.
• Google’s Go: A New Programming Language That’s Python Meets C++. Go attempts to combine the development speed of working in a dynamic language like Python with the performance and safety of a compiled language like C or C++.

Miércoles:

• Google Cuts Prices of Cloud Storage, Increases Cap to 16 Terabytes. You can now buy 20 GB for $5 a year, which is pretty darned cheap compared to the old price: 10 GB for 20 bucks per year. Furthermore, Google has increased the amount of storage you can purchase.
• There’s No Sex When Google Shows You Colored Balls. Today Google has just released a feature to let you lockdown SafeSearch settings. Once you put your search on lockdown, you’ll need to enter a password to revert back, and you’ll know your results are safe because you’ll see big, colored balls.
• Google Makes World Bank Data More Discoverable: Takes a Swipe at Wolfram Alpha. Google just announced that it now uses public data from the World Bank to display graphs for queries like “children per woman in brazil” or “internet users in the united states.” To do so, Google makes uses of the World Bank’s public API. Through this, Google can access 17 World Development Indicators. Google displays this data in interactive graphs that make it easy to compare stats for different countries.

Jueves:

• Google Wave Adds “Follow” Feature. Here’s how it works according to Google: “When you see a public wave that you would like to get updates on, you can chose to follow it by hitting the follow button in the wave panel toolbar. You can remove these waves from your inbox by hitting the “archive” button, but when there is an update they will pop back in. You can switch between following and unfollowing a wave as much and as often as you like.”
• Google’s Plan to Make the Web Twice as Fast. Google is apparently in the early stages of a research project that appears to aim as high as perhaps replacing the HTTP protocol, the fundamental technology that essentially makes the World Wide Web possible. In a somewhat obscure post on the Chromium blog, the development branch of their Chrome () browser, Google () reveals they’ve been working on a new protocol dubbed SPDY for “SPeeDY” for its goal of making the web faster.
• Google Launches Cost-Per-Action And Site-Search Products For E-Commerce. First, on November 5th the company announced a new hosted enterprise search product, Google Commerce Search, which powers search functionality on e-commerce sites. Then, yesterday Google introduced Product Listing Ads through AdWords. Product Listing Ads enable e-commerce companies to use pictures and more product detail like product image, price, and merchant name in their AdWords ads.  Importantly, with these ads, Google is paid per sale, not per click.
• Google Announces Acquisition of Gizmo5. They Now Have A Soft Phone For Google Voice. They aren’t saying much other than that the Gizmo5 team will join the Google Voice team, and that new Gizmo5 signups will be disabled. One thing this gives Google – a much needed soft phone on the desktop for users to make calls through Google Voice. And integration with Google Talk is likely as well, which will let users of that service access the normal telephone system for inbound and outbound calls.

Viernes:

• YouTube Videos Get Huger, High Def-er. TodayYouTube has announced its plan to support 1080p videos. This means that those amazing, high-definition videos you uploaded last year will now finally be converted to their original resolutions and will finally look as good as they do on your desktop. The new resolution represents a significant improvement over the current 720p maximum resolution, which leaves all those glorious, pirated segments of old movies tragically blurred and pixelated.

• Yes, A Beta Version Of Chrome For Mac Is Just Weeks Away. It would appear that everything is still definitely on track or Google would have simply given me a “no comment.” But you’ll notice Pichai didn’t originally specify that this would be a beta version, so I asked if it was safe to assume that it will be a beta version and not a final, stable release that will be out. “Yep, that would be a safe assumption. Kind of the same model as the Windows version — launch it in beta first then take it out of beta (upgrade to the stable channel) when it’s ready,” a Google spokesperson wrote to us in an email. So basically, yes, a beta version of Chrome for Mac will be coming in a matter of weeks. It will drop sometime in December.
• Google Chrome OS To Launch Within A Week. Google’s Chrome OS project, first announced in July, will become available for download within a week, we’ve heard from a reliable source. Google previously said to expect an early version of the OS in the fall. We expect Google will be careful with messaging around the launch, and endorse a small set of devices for installation. EEE PC netbooks, for example, may be one set of devices that Google will say are ready to use Chrome OS.

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