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Google Fiber Makes It’s First Move, Offers 1Gbps Ultra High Speed Internet

March 31, 2011 by Raj Agrawal Leave a Comment

With a great response received from all over the country, Google has chosen to build their first Ultra High Speed Fiber Network at Kansas City, Kansas (USA).

More than a year ago, Google had slipped in a message seeking information from interested municipalities to test and build their ultra high speed fiber-to-the-home network around United States offering the users a tremendous data transfer speed of 1 gigabit per second.

google fiber network — Google’s illustration of residential fiber networks

As said before, this is a great and a very significant step toward introducing the amazing next generation web apps and technologies, also considering Google’s own set of web applications. It hasn’t been revealed to how long the will take Google’s fiber network to reach the other countries and revolutionize the web experience globally. There is a more obvious answer to it, being a matter of time and money.

Google’s Chrome OS and the proposed 1Gbps internet connectivity service are closely connected. The operating systems based on cloud computing, like the Chrome OS itself, need a sound and fast internet connectivity between the entire network and the Google Fiber Network will serve that purpose.

The Test Driven Google Car – It’s a Robot, An Auto Driver

March 10, 2011 by Raj Agrawal 9 Comments

UPCOMING TECHNOLOGY – Google’s constant attempts to spread it’s arms above it’s search engine and advertisement placements has brought in an experimental robot car that drives all by itself (under the supervision of a human safety driver), just in case the car needs help. Google’s blog said that it all works with the help of video cameras, radar sensors and a laser range finder to “see” other traffic, as well as detailed maps collected by their manually driven vehicles to navigate the road ahead.’ The car drives quite well on it’s own.

The concept of autonomous cars is not new. It as been in talks and research since quite some time. The recent conference at TED gave the attendees an opportunity to experience Google’s autonomous car first hand.

The inside view of the car

The ‘Auto driving’ demonstration

Google is hard focused on road safety and minimizing carbon emissions with their “in research” autonomous car. There is yet much time to experience the actual implementation of such vehicles because building a robot, in such case, the Google car, needs steep programming complexity and stability, teaching the machine to aptly understand the physics of motion and sensibility. This is why the Google car isn’t unmanned yet.

If Bing is copying Google, then Yahoo is copying Google too!

February 6, 2011 by Raj Agrawal 2 Comments

Lets not forget the recent revelation of yet another idea stealing attempt by Microsoft also applies to Yahoo.

Not very recently, Yahoo! and Microsoft entered into a deal where Microsoft’s Bing will be the search engine for all Yahoo! websites. This deal has been agreed to continue for 10 years from the date. Now, very recently Google accused Bing of copying their search results, Microsoft rubbished this claim and in response, Google backed their claim with valid statements. Bing was busted. Google thinks of one possibility being that Microsoft has been monitoring the user behaviour and modifying it’s search results accordingly with it’s toolbar on the user’s computer. Google finds this unethical because they spend a significant amount of money, time on R&D to construct and improve their search engine’s capability.

So, what does this point to? This means Yahoo! search may also be consciously or unconsciously copying the search results from Google because of the fact that it’s search algorithm is primarily being powered by Bing.

google-vs-microsoft-bing-vs-yahoo — A comical illustration

The following statement from Yahoo! – Microsoft deal’s press release has a lot to say about this,
Microsoft’s Bing will be the exclusive algorithmic search and paid search platform for Yahoo! sites. Yahoo! will continue to use its technology and data in other areas of its business such as enhancing online advertising technology.

SearchEngineJournal posted an article stating how Google backed up it’s claims, Amit Singhal, the Google Fellow who’s backing up the accusations, runs us through the entire story. It starts with the term “tarsorrhaphy,” a surgical procedure that almost no one knows about — and that Google was the first to find the common misspellings for. While Google queries for the misspelled word returned the typical smug “didn’t you mean” suggestion, Bing seemed to be lifting the top Google result without bothering to give the corrected spelling.

However, this was just the start. Google reps started looking at the query results from Bing, focusing on both common and bizarre terms to get a sense of the field. The definite trend was that the top Google result, even when it was “something [Google] would consider mistakes of our algorithms,” was displayed as the top Bing result.

Things really start to point toward one of the reasons behind Yahoo! – Bing’s search deal. Does this mean both giants had a meticulous plan to fight against Google Search’s success by striking such deal in the name of research and innovation?