• Power Tips
• Recent Google Launches
• Miscellany
Live from the Googleplex comes this month's issue of Google Friends, a newsletter that shares news about Google and ways you can use our services. Newsletter details, including subscribe/unsubscribe information, are below.
Power Tips
* Why search the whole web when you need info from only a single (and possibly huge) website? Use Site Search to narrow searches, like this Stanford-only query: [admissions site:www.stanford.edu]. You can also narrow searches to a top-level domain (.org, .edu, .mil, .com, and .net, and for country domains like .it (Italy) or .sz (Swaziland).
http://www.google.com/help/features.html#sitesearch
http://www.google.com/search?q=admissions+site:www.stanford.edu
* You may have already heard about searching for TV shows with Google Video. But did you know that you can also search the program content of those shows? This is because Google Video makes use of closed-caption transcripts. For example, try a search for [shaq] or [new gadgets], or even a well-known phrase like [seinfeld no soup for you].
http://video.google.com
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=shaq
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=new+gadgets
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=seinfeld+no+soup+for+you
Recent Google Launches
Personalized Homepage
Those of you who want to add news headlines or weather to the Google homepage can now do that - and more - with our latest project on Google Labs. (Don't worry - you can always switch back to the "classic" Google look with a single mouseclick.) You must be signed in to your Google Account to personalize your Google homepage.
http://www.google.com/ig
Blogger Mobile
Blogging from a coffee shop - that's so last year. Get started instantly with Blogger by sending text and photos from your mobile device.
http://go.blogger.com
Google Q&A
In a world of complex situations and conditions, isn't it a relief to get a factual answer now and then? Google Q&A sheds light on facts: the [population of Portugal] or [who is Jane Fonda] or perhaps [how many moons does Jupiter have]. We're constantly adding more information that's well suited to a question/answer format. And you can use Google SMS to get the answers you need on your mobile device, too.
Google Q&A: http://www.google.com/help/features.html#qna
Google SMS for Google Q&A: http://www.google.com/sms/howtouse.html#qna
Google Video Upload Program
Advances in video technology have made it incredibly easy to make a film. Now - how about an audience? Google Video has an Upload Program, and we're accepting digital video files of any length and size. (Of course, you must own the rights to your videos.) We're still in the throes of launching this new service, but soon users will be able to search, preview, purchase, and play videos. Including yours?
https://upload.video.google.com
Miscellany
New York Times' op-ed columnist Thomas Friedman has a theory: The world is flat. That's the title of his new book, and he says this "flattening" of the globe is due to cheap, always-on telecommunications and the growing surge of Internet access across devices and continents. Rather than view the world through the old lenses of haves and have-nots, Friedman asks us to consider how much we're already intertwined across borders in service industries, e-commerce, and information. In the category of food for thought, "The World Is Flat" is a full meal.
http://www.thomaslfriedman.com
The Google Blog features insights from Googlers on technology, our products, and the company at large.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com
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