GO SPeeDY with Chrome

We all know Google's obsession about speed.It was this obsession which prompted Google to launch its own browser Chrome.Chrome is now considered as the fastest available browser by many.

Then came the announcement of Google Chrome OS this July.This is what Google said in a blog post while announcing the project.

Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight,to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.

If you thought google will stop with Chrome browser and OS then you are completely wrong.This week it announced the launch of two more exciting projects namely GO and SPDY.
GO is an experimental open source programming language that combines the development speed of Python with the performance and safety of a compiled language like C++.The video below claims that a Go package consisting of about 120,000 lines of code is compiled in just under 10 seconds.That's really great considering the time taken by C++ compilers.



You can find a review about the programming language here.The first project using GO programming language is a twitter client which you can find here.

SPDY ,pronounced as "SPeeDY" is an early stage research project which complements HTTP and is designed for minimizing the latency through various features such as HTTP header compression, request prioritization and multiplexed streams.This is what google has said in a blog post about SPDY.

So far we have only tested SPDY in lab conditions. The initial results are very encouraging: when we download the top 25 websites over simulated home network connections, we see a significant improvement in performance - pages loaded up to 55% faster.

You can find more info about SPDY here.With Chrome OS rumoured to be launched with in a week ,this is going to be interesting.Now combine Chrome browser with OS ,SpeeDY and GO and see where you are headed.

Guard your kids by locking Google SafeSearch

Google offers a SafeSearch filtering to block Sites from the search results that contain explicit sexual content.Under the SafeSearch settings you can opt either for Moderate filtering or Strict filtering.Moderate filtering applies only to Google Image search results where as strict filtering applies to both image search and ordinary web search.

If you and your kids/family members use the same computer how do you make sure the safe search is on? Well google has added a new feature to lock your SafeSearch .Once locked the filtering mode is always set to Strict filtering and the search results page becomes visibly different so that you can tell whether SafeSearch is locked or not from a distance.

Now head towards Search Settings and click on Lock SafeSearch under SafeSearch Filtering if you want to lock SafeSearch.Check this video to learn more about the feature.

How to Get All your Data from Google products

I am a big Google fan and if I have to make a list of All the Google products I use then it'll be pretty big.I love google because I do not have to carry the data always with me and I can access my data anywhere.

But if One day I have to get all the data ( photos,videos,Contacts,Bookmarks etc) out of Google products ,can I get them?Google certainly believes that I should be able to export any data that I create in(or import into) a product.That is called product liberation.

According to Google:
What does product liberation look like? Said simply, a liberated product is one which has built-in features that make it easy (and free) to remove your data from the product in the event that you'd like to take it elsewhere.

With this in mind Google recently launched DataLiberation Front.Different google products support Data Liberation at different levels and the site http://www.dataliberation.org/ holds the data liberation information for all the Google Products.

The blog post from google says:
We've already liberated over half of all Google products, from our popular blogging platform Blogger, to our email service Gmail, and Google developer tools including App Engine. In the upcoming months, we also plan to liberate Google Sites and Google Docs (batch-export).

In my opinion this is a very good gesture from google and others should also provide easier ways to export data free of cost.

How to get near Real-Time search results from Google

Real-Time search is the buzzword these days across the web community.Some of the companies that comes to my mind offering this is Twitter, Collecta and Friendfeed.

If you still do not know what is Real-Time search then check this definition.
Danny Sullivan from searchengineland says:
For me, "real time search" means looking through material that literally is published in real time. In other words, material where there’s practically no delay between composition and publishing. You take a picture and seconds later, it’s posted to the world to see.

Now you must be asking yourself where is google on this front?
Google introduced a feature called "Show Options" some time back using which you can filter the results.You can filter the results based on "recent results" ,"past 24 hours" ,"Past week" ,"Past year" and "Specific date range".If you want to filter the results in real-time ,meaning you want to see the search results for the last minute or second then you can tweak the search URL to get the desired result.

If you search for the term "google" inside google ,click on "Show options" and then click on Past 24 hours ,you will see the URL as given below.
http://www.google.com/search?q=google&hl=en&output=search&tbs=qdr:d&&tbo=1

Now look for the term qdr:d ."d" here means day and the result is filtered for past 24 hours.If you want to filter the results for last minute then alter the term to qdr:n in the URL.The URL will look as given below.
http://www.google.com/search?q=google&hl=en&output=search&tbs=qdr:n&&tbo=1


If you want to filter the results for last 5 minute then alter the term to qdr:n5 in the URL.
URL for last 5 minute: http://www.google.com/search?q=google&hl=en&output=search&tbs=qdr:n5&&tbo=1

If you want to filter the results for last 25 seconds then alter the term to qdr:s25 in the URL.
URL for last 25 seconds: http://www.google.com/search?q=google&hl=en&output=search&tbs=qdr:s25&&tbo=1

If you are looking for a bookmarklet to make your life easier then use this bookmarklet.Google Real Time

Credit for the bookmarklet:steverubel
Note:This bookmarklet is customized to filter the results for the last 10 minutes.

The trick was first discovered by Omgili CEO Ran Geva in a blog post.