Did you know that you can create your own search engine using Google CSE. Google custom search engine beta enables you to specify web sites that you want to search rather then searching the entire web. For instance, I’ve created a search engine that will search only popular social networking websites and embedded it into my iGoogle page. So here is how you can create your own search engine in just a few steps:
2. Before you begin, you have to name your search engine, write a brief description of it, select preferred language and websites you want to include.
3. You can also specify whether or not to display google ads on your query.
4. Once created, you can try it out by typing a keyword in the search box.
That is all that has to be done! Easy huh? You can also customize the look and feel of your search box and you can embed it into your blog or a website.
Ok, it’s official now, Google has acquired Jaiku! If you don’t know, Jaiku is mini-blog social networking platform especially suitable to use with mobile phone devices. Unlike Twitter and recently Pownce, Jaiku was never gained much popularity among users for some reason. Now, that Google owns the platform, things are about to change. Google already owns some popular web services: YouTube,Blogger,Gmail, Google Earth, Google maps and many more smaller services within google.com portal. Another rumour that has been spreading on the Internet is that google is about to make it’s own version of a mobile phone device called “gPhone” It is very likely that gPhone is going to be similar to apple’s iPhone and it will use same touch-sensitive technology iPhone uses. Here is what, in my opinion, could make gPhone the best mobile phone device ever:
Operating system: iPhone uses OS X as a platform which makes it unique to other mobile devices on the market. gPhone thus has to find as unique platform to use, so it can compete with the iPhone. Developing a new operating system for a mobile device can be rather expensive and risky. Google needs to adopt already developed solution. So guys, do you remember BeOS? It was a great operating system but lack of software and hardware support forced developers to shut down the original project. BeOS variations still exist, (see Zeta OS) but they can not be considered a serious OS for a PC again because of lack of software and hardware support. I think it would be great for Google to acquire say Zeta OS and modify it to make a brand new mobile platform that would be used with gPhone. BeOS is very similar to OS X. It’s powerful and it has friendly GUI. I remember back in 1998 when I first tried the original BeOS, I was really impressed. It had great graphic and networking performances combined with an intuitive interface that looks like NEXT.
Application support: Google does not have to be worried about application support as they already own vast variety of services that all can be used on gPhone too. iPhone for instance already uses YouTube. Gmail is the most popular web based e-mail service and it’s very reliable and most important, it’s free! With a few modifications made, (IMAP support) gmail could seamlessly work with gPhone. It would be integrated into the OS just like .Mac service is seamlessly working with OS X. Putting together Blogger and Jaiku would be great, and I don’t need to mention Google Earth and Google maps as we all know what kind of potential they have.
Hardware tweaking: Google has had enough time to see how competitors (LG-Prada and Apple) are going with their products. Now, if they are smart enough, they can correct all mistakes made by LG and Apple hardware-wise. I hope they will be able to do the job right.
What now you are asking yourself? What’s missing? I think the missing link is that Google does not have an online music store. Both Apple and Yahoo have one. It would be great if Google could offer a wi-fi music store. I am really looking forward to seeing if Google is up to the challenge of developing a mobile phone device. Good luck!!
My opinion is that technology is always good, it’s people who are making it look bad. After 9/11 we are in a constant fear of terrorist attacks, but is that a good reason for governments to spy on ordinary citizens?
Surveillance cameras: If you’ve been to London, New York or any other big city, you couldn’t not notice presence of surveillance cameras just about everywhere. They are meant to protect us from terrorists and the bad guys of sorts, but the cameras are intruding our privacy and make us feel uncomfortable (no cheating your wife on the street or a public place. In other words, people just don’t like being watched, period!
RFID passports: RFID (Radio-frequency identification) will be available in the new passports . RFID is a way of storing and remotely retrieving data. RFID chips can store a large amount of information about a passport holder, much more then it is available now. Authorized persons (at the airport for instance) use RFID readers to read and collect information off the RFID chip. RFID chips can already be found as a replacement for bar codes in big supermarket chains and department stores.
For more info about how RFID works, see this CBN news report – All rights reserved:
Airport Security: If you often have to travel by air, you know that you have to wear your “stripper clothes” at the airport and oh, no shoes applied. Otherwise, you’ll be stripped by the airport personnel whether you like it or not. If that is not humiliating enough for you, don’t worry, if some “old chum’” at the airport decides that you are looking kind of suspicious, you can easily be sent to a “special room” for some additional checking.
All the things mentioned above should help us and make us feel safer in the crazy world we live in. Question remains how all that affects our every day life. Do you feel safer?
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Ok, it’s official now, Google has acquired Jaiku! If you don’t know, Jaiku is mini-blog social networking platform especially suitable to use with mobile phone devices. Unlike Twitter and recently Pownce, Jaiku was never gained much popularity among users for some reason. Now, that Google owns the platform, things are about to change. Google already owns some popular web services: YouTube,Blogger,Gmail, Google Earth, Google maps and many more smaller services within google.com portal. Another rumour that has been spreading on the Internet is that google is about to make it’s own version of a mobile phone device called “gPhone” It is very likely that gPhone is going to be similar to apple’s iPhone and it will use same touch-sensitive technology iPhone uses. Here is what, in my opinion, could make gPhone the best mobile phone device ever:
Posted by Davor 
My opinion is that technology is always good, it’s people who are making it look bad. After 9/11 we are in a constant fear of terrorist attacks, but is that a good reason for governments to spy on ordinary citizens? 
