Google Catalog

Google Catalog too faces axe. The service it launched in 2001 that made it possible to search the full text of hundreds and thousands of product catalogs. This was Google's first big effort to make offline information available online.

Catalogs helped to scan and make the full text of books available online. The search shown catalogs with pages that contain users search terms. Each listing shows the cover of the catalog, an image of the catalog page where the terms were found, and a close-up of the section of the page containing the terms.

The announcement was made by Ounit Soni, Google product manager, on the Inside Google Book Search blog. The posting said that Google's Catalog Search helped the search giant develop other key initiatives like Google Book Search, as well as learn about how users read scanned documents online.

Read the farewell note: “It was a great experiment.” Accepting that the service was not a great success the blog goes, “Nonetheless, in recent years, Catalog Search hasn't been as popular as some of our other products. So from (January 15), we're bidding it a fond farewell and focusing our efforts to bring more and more types of offline information such as magazines, newspapers and of course, books, online.”

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Google Video Uploading

The web search giant bid farewell to its Google Video service last month, a free video sharing website and also a video search engine that allows users to upload video clips.

Though Google is not removing any content hosted on Google Video but users will no longer be able to upload new content to the service. The videos that are already in users account will remain hosted on Google Video. Users will have access to all the existing management tools for them.

The web giant in its blog post wrote, "In a few months, we will discontinue support for uploads to Google Video. We've always maintained that Google Video's strength is in the search technology that makes it possible for people to search videos from across the web, regardless of where they may be hosted. And this move will enable us to focus on developing these technologies further to the benefit of searchers worldwide."

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Dodgeball

Dodgeball was a company that Google acquired in May 2005. The location-based meeting service allowed users to share their current locations using SMS messages. Come January 2009, the company announces that Dodgeball will be shut down "in the next couple of months."

Here goes the closure announcemet: "Google has decided to shut down dodgeball. I know this is kind of a bummer, but the site has been in maintenance mode for a while now, and it's just time to shut it down for good."

"We're planning on doing this in two stages. Everything will continue to function as-is until the end of February (can anyone say shutdown party?). At that point, we'll turn off the SMS service and the site will enter read-only mode. We'll leave it like that for about a month giving you time to save or export any of your data that you might want to keep. Sometime around the beginning of April we'll shut the site down for good, delete all the user accounts, and the associated data."

Incidentally, Dodgeball founders quit Google in April 2007. Both were reportedly unhappy with the way Google was handling the service and blamed Google of apathy.

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Google Lively

In July 2008 Google launched Google Lively, a 3D virtual reality service, with much fanfare. Four months, and Internet giant's take on Second Life ran out of fuel. Google announced that it is discontinuing Lively by the end of the year.

The shut down reflected Lively's inability to stand out from the rest of the virtual reality crowd. Lively was Web-based and allowed anyone to set up virtual spaces, such as rooms, that could be embedded onto blogs or Facebook pages.

Google management concluded that it needed to sharpen its focus on its primary business of Internet search and advertising as the company's revenue growth showed signs of a deteriorating economy.

"We've also always accepted that when you take these kinds of risks not every bet is going to pay off. It has been a tough decision, but we want to ensure that we prioritise our resources and focus more on our core search, ads and apps business," Google wrote in a blog post.

According to the blog, the employees working on Lively were reassigned other jobs after the service shut down. The pack of virtual worlds is led by Second Life, where people deploy animated alter egos known as avatars to pursue digital fantasies.

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Broadcast radio ad business

Google Inc has abandoned its efforts to sell advertising for broadcast radio stations, acknowledging that the three-year project has failed.

The leading Web search company said that it plans to sell its Radio Automation business, which created software to automate broadcast radio programming, and phase out its Audio Ads service.

The move will likely result in up to 40 people being laid off, Google said. Google has been re-appraising initiatives intended to expand its income beyond Internet advertising, which accounts for more than 90 per cent of total revenue.

Advertisers will continue to be able to use Audio Ads until May 31, the company said. Google -- which had 20,222 full-time employees as of December 31 -- would instead focus its efforts on placing ads on streaming audio over the Internet, according to company's vice president of product management, Susan Wojcicki.

Google plans to continue investing in its television ad business. It also is seeking ways to sell more advertising on online audio services, which younger audiences are using.

Recession: What all Google killed

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Google has often been extolled for its product innovations. However, it seems slowdown has cast its shadow on the company's `innovation spirit' too. The search giant, who is taking a harder line on managing expenses as the recession curbs spending on online ads, has been almost on a shutting spree. The past six months witnessed the company pull the plug on as many as nine of its new products.

Several of these causalities include products launched with lot of fanfare like Google Lively, which was widely believed to be the company's answer to Second Life.

Here's looking into the products/services Google has dumped in the last few months.

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Google, Yahoo, Microsoft To Clean Up Web Text

In a rare instance of collaboration among otherwise fierce rivals, Google

, Yahoo and Microsoft said they would support a new web standard that will allow millions of publishers to remove duplicate pages from their websites. As a result, search engines

would be able to make their search results more comprehensive.

"There is a lot of clutter on the web and with this, publishers will be able to clean up a lot of junk," said Matt Cutts, an engineer who heads Google's spam fighting efforts, the New York Times reported.

"I think it is going to gain traction pretty quickly," said Cutts.

The problem is the following: Many web publishers, especially those that have voluminous sites, like e-commerce companies, have multiple URLs that all point to the same page. This confuses search engines, sometimes causing them to index the same page multiple times. As much as 20 percent of URLs on the web may be duplicates, according to some estimates.

Engineers at Google came up with a simple way for web publishers to indicate when a URL is a duplicate, and if so, which is the principal, or "canonical," URL that search engines should be indexing. Yahoo and Microsoft, the no. 2 and no. 3 search engines, have agreed to support the same standard.

"We are happy that everyone is going to support the same implementation," said Nathan Buggia, a lead program manager

at Microsoft. "This is a clear benefit for publishers as it gives them an opportunity to get more exposure through search engines."

All search engines have developed technologies

to detect duplicates that are more or less effective. The so-called Canonical Link Tag, as the standard is known, should make it easier for both publishers and search engines to address the problem, NYT reported Thursday.

"It is an important step because all the search engines are coming out with it," said Priyank Garg, director of product management for web search at Yahoo.

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Word processor

Abbreviations such as ibid. op. cit. loc. cit. are discouraged by Wikipedias style guide for footnotes as they are easily broken. Please improve this article by replacing them with named references quick guide or an abbreviated title.Document preparation redirects here. For the service of preparing legal instruments see Legal document assistant.A word processor more formally known as document preparation system is a computer application used for the production including composition editing formatting and possibly printing of any sort of printable material.Word processors are descended from early text formatting tools sometimes called text justification tools from their only real capability.

Word processor may also refer to an obsolete type of standalone office machine popular in the s and s combining the keyboard textentry and printing functions of an electric typewriter with a dedicated computer for the editing of text. Although features and design varied between manufacturers and models with new features added as technology advanced word processors for several years usually featured a monochrome display and the ability to save documents on memory cards or diskettes. Later models introduced innovations such as spellchecking programs increased formatting options and dotmatrix printing. As the more versatile combination of a personal computer and separate printer became commonplace the word processor disappeared.

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Application software

This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. December OpenOffice.org Writer word processor. OpenOffice.org is a popular example of an open source application software suite Application software is any tool that functions and is operated by means of a computer with the purpose of supporting or improving the software users work. In other words is the subclass of computer software that employs the capabilities of a computer directly and thoroughly to a task that the user wishes to perform. This should be contrasted with system software infrastructure or middleware computer services processes integrators is involved in integrating a computers various capabilities but typically does not directly apply them in the performance of tasks that benefit the

A simple if imperfect analogy in the world of hardware would be the relationship of an electric light bulb an application to an electric power generation plant a system. The power plant merely generates electricity not itself of any real use until harnessed to an application like the electric light that performs a service that benefits the user.Typical examples of software applications are word processors spreadsheets and media players database applications.Multiple applications bundled together as a package are sometimes referred to as an application suite. Microsoft Office OpenOffice.org and iWork which bundle together a word processor a spreadsheet and several other discrete applications are typical examples.

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BASIC INPUT OUTPUT SYSTEM

During the late s and s it became economical to move an increasing number of peripheral functions onto the motherboard see above. In the late s motherboards began to include single ICs called Super IO chips capable of supporting a set of lowspeed peripherals keyboard mouse floppy disk drive serial ports and parallel ports. As of the late s many personal computer motherboards support a full range of audio video storage and networking functions without the need for any expansion cards at all higherend systems for D gaming and computer graphics typically retain only the graphics card as a separate component.Popular personal computers such as the Apple II and IBM PC had published schematic diagrams and other documentation which permitted rapid reverseengineering and thirdparty replacement motherboards. The term mainboard is archaicly applied to devices with a single board and no additional expansions or capability. In modern terms this would include embedded systems and controlling boards in telvisions washing machines etc.


Motherboards contain some nonvolatile memory to initialize the system and load an operating system from some external peripheral device. Microcomputers such as the Apple II and IBM PC used readonly memory chips mounted in sockets on the motherboard. At power up the central processor would load its program counter with the address of the boot ROM and start executing ROM instructions displaying system information on the screen and running memory checks which would in turn start loading memory from an external or peripheral device disk drive if one isnt available then the computer can perform tasks from other memory stores or displays an error message depending on the model and design of the computer and version of the bios.

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