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Googleholic for January 29, 2008
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This edition covers:
Instead of purchasing airtime based on time slots or demographics, Google Adword's TV ads will let advertisers bid for specific shows. From the looks of it, this will give advertisers a lot more flexibility when setting up budgets for television advertising.
Blogger is infused with three more languages
Blogger has added support for three more languages, bringing its total number of supported languages up to 40. The new languages available are Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew, and are fully fleshed out with right-to-left features such as right-to-left templates, as well as bi-directional input to give users flexibility in how they want their posts to appear. If you would like to use these new languages on your Blogger blog (or any of the other languages for that matter) you change the language settings from the dashboard.
Accessing Google Docs offline
Google Blogoscoped gave Google Gears a shot to see what kind of offline functionality could be had with Google Docs. Unfortunately, from the looks of it, offline capabilities are capped to renaming and starring files - viewing and editing is not possible at this point in time. So although the ability to "access" your Google Docs files offline is there, it is going to need a little more work before it's going to become standard fare for Google Docs users.
And other bits of Google we tracked since the last issue:
Google Reader adds timestamp - For those that do not enjoy the wait between the time it takes for a published post to update, the timestamp in Google Reader will let you at least know just how large the discrepancies are.
Google adds new search result views - If you're feeling adventurous and want to experience what it's like to be on the cutting edge of search, Google has just released three new experimental search views for you to play around with - map view, timeline view, and info view.
- Google TV ads to let advertisers bid for shows
- Blogger is infused with three more languages
- Accessing Google Docs offline
Instead of purchasing airtime based on time slots or demographics, Google Adword's TV ads will let advertisers bid for specific shows. From the looks of it, this will give advertisers a lot more flexibility when setting up budgets for television advertising.
Blogger is infused with three more languages
Blogger has added support for three more languages, bringing its total number of supported languages up to 40. The new languages available are Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew, and are fully fleshed out with right-to-left features such as right-to-left templates, as well as bi-directional input to give users flexibility in how they want their posts to appear. If you would like to use these new languages on your Blogger blog (or any of the other languages for that matter) you change the language settings from the dashboard.
Accessing Google Docs offline
Google Blogoscoped gave Google Gears a shot to see what kind of offline functionality could be had with Google Docs. Unfortunately, from the looks of it, offline capabilities are capped to renaming and starring files - viewing and editing is not possible at this point in time. So although the ability to "access" your Google Docs files offline is there, it is going to need a little more work before it's going to become standard fare for Google Docs users.
And other bits of Google we tracked since the last issue:
Google Reader adds timestamp - For those that do not enjoy the wait between the time it takes for a published post to update, the timestamp in Google Reader will let you at least know just how large the discrepancies are.
Google adds new search result views - If you're feeling adventurous and want to experience what it's like to be on the cutting edge of search, Google has just released three new experimental search views for you to play around with - map view, timeline view, and info view.
