Google today launched two new extensions for the Mozilla Firefox browser. The Google Safe Browsing extension aims to notify the users of Firefox whenever they visit a phishing site. This is very much similar to the Netcraft Anti-phishing toolbar and anti-phishing feature that Microsoft is going to incorporate in IE7.
Another extension is the Blogger Web Comments. Once installed, the extension searches the Google Blogsearch and find whether other bloggers have any comment on the page you are currently viewing. You can use it to post to your own blog too.
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Just in time for the holiday season, Google has incorporated vacation response into its Gmail service.
Before you go on holiday, simply activate the vacation responder feature and write in the vacation messages you want Gmail to send to the sender on your behalf. The automated reply will be sent at most once every 4 days to the same person, and you can choose to respond only to people in your contact list.
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Published on December 6, 2005
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The calendar.google.com subdomain has been made available for quite some time. And this has been the style of Google in launching new services. Erick Schonfeld of B2Day has heard the rumor that Google Calendar will go live tomorrow at When 2.0 Conference at Stanford.
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Published on December 2, 2005
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The wait is over, and you no longer have to worry about downloading an email with malicious codes or viruses. Google has finally added antivirus into its popular Gmail service. It scans every incoming and outgoing mails to check whether there is any virus. Once detected, it will first attempt to remove the virus from the attachment. Removal of attachment will be the last resort if it fails to remove the virus.
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Published on November 16, 2005
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Update: It’s live now.
Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped seems to have some insider news about the Google Base that was “leaked” to the net a while ago. A trustworthy source has notified him that Google Base is set to go live tomorrow.
While I can’t validate the prediction and have to file it under “rumor”, the source looks trustworthy and does believe Wednesday, November 16th, will indeed have Google Base open its doors. By the end of tomorrow, we’ll know if this was true.
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Published on November 14, 2005
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After Google has acquired Urchin in March, people have been waiting for the service to be launched for free. Now the wait is over.
Dubbed Google Analytics, the service is free and it can be used to track as many websites as you own, provided the total number of pageviews does not exceed 5 million views per month.
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Published on November 7, 2005
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Instead of settling for a much smaller jet like Gulfstream as personal airplane, the Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page prefer something roomier while in the air.
It has been confirmed that the duo has bought an used Boeing 767 wide-body airliner earlier this year. It is previously operated by Australian Qantas Airways and is believed to have cost no more than $15m, much less than a new Gulfstream.
The plane is now undergoing refurbishment. And once it’s done, it is capable of flying 50 passengers (a commercial 767-200 commonly carries about 180 passengers).
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One of the coolest thing to do at the Google office is you can eat for free. Well, if you happen to be one of their employees, that is.
Michael Arrington of Techcrunch has heard that there is way to sneak into the Google campus for free lunch for non-Google employees. It is to his understanding that many or all of these people are Yahoo employees, whose office is right down the freeway, a very short drive away.
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Published on October 25, 2005
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Any moment from now, you are going to see another new service from Google. Dubbed Google Base, Google describes it as “Google’s database into which you can add all types of content”. Is it something like the database feature you can get from Yahoo Group?
It was first reported at Search Engine Watch forum a few days ago. And someone has posted the snapshop of Google Base and made it availabe at Threadwatch.
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Walid Elias Kai, a Lebanese Ph.D. in search engine marketing and his Swedish wife Carol just had a newcomer into their family - her wife had just given birthday to their son on September 12. His name? Oliver Google Kai.
“When we first knew that my wife Carol is pregnant, I said, ‘we will name our child Google.’ Everyone laughed and did not take me seriously. My brother said, ‘Yeah, name the next one yahoo fuji nikon.”
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