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• Bring Back YouTube Dislikes

  • #YouTube

  YouTube has recently hidden the number of dislikes for YouTube videos. In a blog post from November, YouTube announced that this was done to "help better protect our creators from harassment, and reduce dislike attacks". The dislike button hasn't disappeared, but the dislike counts were made private, so that only video creators could see them.If you install this Chrome extension, you can bring back the number of dislikes next to the "dislike" button. Unfortunately, YouTube removed the ability to

  2022/1/5 02:55Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2022/01/bring-back-youtube-dislikes.html

• Google April Fools' Day 2017

  • #April Fools Day

  April Fools' Day should probably be called Google Fools' Day, since there are so many Google hoaxes. Google Japan developed a "bubble wrap" version of the Japanese keyboard. "The Google Japanese input bubble wrap version is a keyboard that realizes 'I want to press in my mind, I want to keep pressing'," according to Google Translate. Another product for your smart home? Meet Google Gnome, "a voice-activated, hands-free tool designed to make backyard living effortless. Need to know what animal is

  2017/4/1 15:25Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2017/04/google-april-fools-day-2017.html

• Gmail Blocks JavaScript Attachments

  • #Gmail

  If you try to send a JavaScript attachment using Gmail or if you want to download a .js attachment, you'll get a new anti-virus warning: "Blocked for security reasons", "1 attachment contains a virus or blocked file. Downloading this attachment is disabled". .JS has been added to the long list of file types that are blocked by Gmail for security reasons. The full list: .ADE, .ADP, .BAT, .CHM, .CMD, .COM, .CPL, .EXE, .HTA, .INS, .ISP, .JAR, .JS (NEW), .JSE, .LIB, .LNK, .MDE, .MSC, .MSI, .MSP, .MS

  2017/2/19 18:39Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2017/02/gmail-blocks-javascript-attachments.html

• Google Image Search Shows Colorful Suggestions

  • #Image Search

  Google Image Search has a different way to display suggestions: it now shows a long list of colorful boxes with related searches. You can click one or more boxes to dynamically refine search results. For example, when searching for [sportswear], Google shows suggestions like: [women basketball], [tennis], [badminton], [golf], [volleyball], [nike woman], [alexander wang], [adidas], [fashion], [performance], [vintage], [trendy], [urban], [school], [gym], [90's], [70's], [vogue], [luxe], [avant gar

  2017/1/26 05:39Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2017/01/google-image-search-shows-colorful.html

• Google Image Search Starts Playing YouTube Videos

  • #YouTube
  • #Image Search

  Google Image Search's mobile interface tests a new feature that starts playing snippets from a YouTube video at the top of the search results page. It's not disclosed as an ad, there's no sound and you can't stop or hide the video, which continues to play on repeat. Right now, the experiment seems to be limited to fashion-related queries like [men jackets], [lookbook], [winter outfit], which match videos from YouTube channels like New Look and River Island. "New Look is a South African-owned Bri

  2017/1/16 18:49Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2017/01/google-image-search-starts-playing.html

• YouTube Desktop Notifications, Now For Everyone

  • #YouTube

  It looks like YouTube's notification experiment is now a regular feature and you can no longer disable it by clearing cookies. When sign in to your Google account, YouTube's desktop site no longer shows Google+ notifications in the navigation bar: it replaces them with YouTube notifications. "Your notifications live here. Subscribe to your favorite channels to get notified about their latest videos," informs the new notification box.

  2017/1/13 22:08Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2017/01/youtube-desktop-notifications-now-for.html

• YouTube Notifications in the Navigation Bar

  • #YouTube
  • #User interface

  YouTube has recently started to experiment with replacing Google+ notifications in the navigation bar with YouTube notifications. You get notifications for recently uploaded videos from your subscribed channels, but only if you've enabled notifications for those channels. For example, you can go to the subscription manager and click the bell icon next to a channel to enable or disable notifications. The settings button sends you to the Notifications section from YouTube's Settings page and the 3

  2016/12/29 20:24Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/12/youtube-notifications-in-navigation-bar.html

• Google's New Mobile UI for Recipe Search

  • #User interface
  • #Mobile
  • #Web Search

  Just in time for New Year's dinner, Google has a new mobile interface for recipe search. I searched for [avocado mayo] and noticed a long list of keywords below the search box and ads: salad, chicken, shrimp, vegan, bacon and more. You can select more than one keyword and this helps you refine the results. When selecting a related search, you get a completely different interface that only shows recipes: bigger expandable cards, bigger thumbnails, infinite scrolling.

  2016/12/29 19:09Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/12/googles-new-mobile-ui-for-recipe-search.html

• Google Translate's 5000 Character Limit

  • #Google Translate

  For some reason, Google Translate now has a limit of 5000 characters per translation. There's even a character counter at the bottom of the input box. If you happen to paste a long text that has more than 5000 characters, you'll get an error message ("maximum characters exceeded: X characters over 5000 maximum") and a "translate more" option that lets you translate the rest of the text. I don't understand the purpose of this restriction, considering that Google doesn't impose any limitation when

  2016/12/9 02:18Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/12/google-translates-5000-character-limit.html

• Google Tests Movie Ratings

  • #Web Search

  Google's knowledge graph card tests a feature that lets you like or dislike movies and TV shows. For example, when you search for "It's a Wonderful Life", you can click like or dislike and check the percentage of Google users who liked it. The same buttons show up when you search for a TV show like "Saturday Night Live". Search Engine Land reports that Google confirmed this experiment, which was first spotted last month.

  2016/12/8 19:45Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/12/google-tests-movie-ratings.html

• Google's Holiday Decorations

  • #Web Search

  When you search Google for [Christmas], [Hanukkah], [Kwanzaa], [Festivus] or other related queries, you'll see some special decorations related to each holiday. Festivus is "a holiday celebrated by those seeking an alternative to the commercialism and pressures of the Christmas holiday season." Christmas trees, Santa Claus, the Christmas star adorn the Google search page and bring the hoiday spirit. The Hanukkah menorah and Kwanzaa's Mishumaa Saba (The Seven Candles) are lighting up Google's sea

  2016/12/6 22:21Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/12/googles-holiday-decorations.html

• New Interface for Google Search

  • #User interface
  • #Web Search

  Google's desktop search pages have a new interface for navigating between search results. The search box is bigger, there's a new search icon and Google now only shows 2 or 3 specialized search engines next to "all", down from 4. Apps and shopping seem to be missing from the list of search engines, so you can only pick from image search, video search, Google News, Google Maps, Google Flights and Google Books. The settings dropdown is now placed below the search box and it includes the option tha

  2016/12/6 21:31Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/12/new-interface-for-google-search.html

• Random Facts About Animals in Google Search

  • #Web Search
  • #Knowledge

  Did you know that "male lions defend the pride's territory while females do most of the hunting"? Did you know that "the name humpback whale describes the motion it makes as it arches its back out of the water in preparation for a dive"? What about this one: "ostriches have the largest eyes of any land living animal and they measure 50 mm (2 inches) in diameter"? Google now shows random facts about animals in the "did you know" section of the Knowledge Graph card. They're extracted from various

  2016/10/18 05:00Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/10/random-facts-about-animals-in-google.html

• Found in Related Searches

  • #Mobile
  • #Web Search

  Google Knowledge Graph has more than one billion entities and more than 70 billion facts about these entities (people, places, things). It's huge and it brings a different dimension to search: understanding concepts and the relation between them. Mobile Google Search now has a section called "found in related search", which shows a few entities frequently mentioned in other related searches. For example, I searched for [ethanol molar mass] and Google showed 2 lists of organic and inorganic compo

  2016/10/15 15:34Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/10/found-in-related-searches.html

• Google Converts Queries Into Questions

  • #Mobile
  • #Web Search

  I noticed an interesting Google Search experiment in the mobile/tablet interface. When searching for [alcohol with the highest boiling], Google converted my query into a question: "Which alcohol has the highest boiling point?", then it tried to answer the question using a snippet from a web page and then it added a "more results" link. Google's link sent to me to the search results page for the question inferred by Google.

  2016/10/15 06:29Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/10/google-converts-queries-into-questions.html

• Google's Card for Directions

  • #Google Maps
  • #Web Search

  When you search Google for [directions] or [get directions], you get an error message: "No results for that place. Try entering it below to get suggestions." Google shows a special card for directions with cool features like autocomplete, but the error message is out of place because you haven't typed a location. Suggestions aren't very smart. For example, I typed "Brisbane, Australia" as the starting point and then I started to type "Mel" as the destination. Google suggested 3 places from Calif

  2016/10/15 05:27Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/10/googles-card-for-directions.html

• Add Home Screen Shortcuts to Google Maps Directions

  • #Android
  • #Google Maps

  I'm not sure if this is a new feature, but it must be pretty recent. Google Maps for Android lets you add home screen shortcuts to directions directly from the app. Just search for directions, tap the menu icon and pick "add route to Home screen". This works best when you select the current location, but it's not a requirement. You may also see this message: "Go here often? Add this route. Tap here to add a Home screen shortcut to this route." Another option is to add the directions widget, whic

  2016/10/15 04:48Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/10/add-home-screen-shortcuts-to-google.html

• Google Color Converter

  • #Web Search

  Google has a special card that's both a color picker and a color converter. For example, you can search for HEX color codes like #123456 and Google shows the color and converts it to other formats: RGB, HSV, HSL, CMYK. Google's card also shows up when you search for RGB values like rgb(255,0,255). The most interesting feature of the card lets you pick a color interactively. Other queries that trigger Google's card: RGB to HEX, color picker. This is not a new feature, but it's worth pointing out

  2016/10/10 20:00Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/10/google-color-converter.html

• Google Will Shut Down Panoramio

  • #Google Maps

  Google intended to discontinue Panoramio back in 2014, shortly after Google Maps Views was launched, but a lot of users complained and Panoramio continued to exist. Now Google announces that Panoramio will become read-only on November 4th and it'll be shut down one year later, in November 2017. "Today, with photo upload tools in Google Maps and our Local Guides program, we are providing easy ways for you to share your photos with an active and growing community. As such, we've decided to move fo

  2016/10/9 03:49Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/10/google-will-shut-down-panoramio.html

• More Related Searches in Mobile Google Search

  • #Mobile
  • #Web Search

  Google's mobile search interface shows a new box with related searches after clicking a result and going back to the search page. There's a list called "people also search for", which shows queries that are related to both the original search and the search result you've previously visited. Swipe left to see the entire the list. Tap a different search result and you'll get different suggestions: Google tested this feature back in June and now it's no longer an experiment.

  2016/10/8 16:39Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/10/more-related-searches-in-mobile-google.html

• Android 7.1: Pixel-Only, For Now

  • #Android

  Pixel phones will ship with a new Android version: 7.1. It looks like many of the important Nougat features have been left out from the 7.0 release. Android 7.1's unofficial changelog published by Android Police has many Pixel-specific features, including a new launcher, a new camera app, Google Assistant, a support tab in the settings, solid navbar icons, Smart Storage that removes old backed up photos and videos when storage is full. There are also some features that aren't restricted to Pixel

  2016/10/7 05:16Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/10/android-71-pixel-only-for-now.html

• Why Google Can't Sell Expensive Products

  • #Android

  Google announced its first phone and many people wondered why it's as expensive as an iPhone. Nexus phones were sometimes inexpensive (Nexus 4: $299, Nexus 5: $349, Nexus 5X: $379) and sometimes more expensive (Nexus One: $530, Nexus 6: $649, Nexus 6P: $599). Now the 5-inch Pixel costs $649 in the US, while the 5.5-inch Pixel XL costs $769, which is more than any other Nexus phone. Obviously, Google's pricing was more aggressive when it wanted to sell more products and less aggressive when sales

  2016/10/7 04:19Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/10/why-google-cant-sell-expensive-products.html

• No More Nexus Devices

  • #Android

  After the launch of Google's Pixel phones, many people wondered if the Nexus brand will be retired or we'll still see Nexus phones, tablets and other Android devices. It looks like the first answer is accurate. According to The Verge, Google says that there are no plans for future Nexus products. "The idea was to show everyone how it should be done," says Brian Rakowski, VP of product management for Android. "All the partners in the phone manufacturing space took it and built great products on t

  2016/10/6 04:38Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/10/no-more-nexus-devices.html

• Google Gets Serious About Hardware

  • #Android
  • #Mobile

  Google has a new hardware division and Rick Osterloh, the former Motorola chief, is in charge. This hardware division merges Google's disparate hardware projects to bring more cohesive products that work well together. Google announced a lot of products today and all of them are made by Google. Nexus phones have been replaced by Pixel phones, Daydream View is a comfortable VR headset that works with Pixel phones, Google Home brings Google Assistant to a smart speaker, Google WiFi is a new router

  2016/10/5 05:23Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/10/google-gets-serious-about-hardware.html

• Google Calendar Events in Google Maps

  • #Android
  • #Google Maps
  • #Google Calendar

  The latest version of the Google Maps app for Android adds more integration with Google Calendar. There's a new upcoming tab in "Your places", which shows a list of upcoming events, including your bookings and reservations from Gmail. Click an event to quickly see the location on the map. There's also a new "personal content" section in the settings, which lets you disable the integration with Google Contacts, Google Photos, disable location, location history and search history.

  2016/10/1 02:54Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/09/google-calendar-events-in-google-maps.html

• The Keyword: Google's New Unified Blog

  Google has a new blog that merges 19 of its most popular blogs, including the Official Google Blog, Gmail's blog, Google Drive blog, Chrome's blog, Android's blog and more. You can find it at blog.google and it's called The Keyword. "We wanted to make it easier for people to find news from Google about what we're up to. With that in mind, today we're launching the Keyword — a new destination for the latest news from inside Google, from Android to Translate. The Keyword is all the stuff we had ac

  2016/10/1 02:14Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-keyword-googles-new-unified-blog.html

• Mobile Google Tests Trending Searches

  • #Mobile
  • #Web Search

  Bing has a cool feature: just click the search box and you get a list of trending searches. Google has been testing a similar feature this year in the mobile search interface. It started as an experiment in the Google Search app for Android back in January and now I noticed the same experiment when visiting Google.com in Chrome. Google shows 5 searches that are currently popular and most of them seem to be related to recent news. Obviously, Google's results include a lot of news articles. "The d

  2016/10/1 01:48Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/09/mobile-google-tests-trending-searches.html

• Google Destinations, Now for Desktop

  • #Web Search

  Google launched the "plan a trip" feature for mobile phones back in March and now it's available in the regular desktop interface, as well. "Destinations on Google helps you discover and plan your next vacation, right from Google Search," informed Google. Search for a continent, a country or state you'd like to visit and the Knowledge Graph card has a "plan a trip" section which includes a travel guide, information about hotels and upcoming events. The travel guide link sends you to a new Google

  2016/9/14 17:07Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/09/google-destinations-now-for-desktop.html

• New Original Message UI in Gmail

  • #Gmail

  Gmail has a new interface for displaying the raw version of a message. If you click the arrow icon next to "reply" and then "show original", you'll see a list of headers like "message ID", "from", "to", "subject", "SPF", "DKIM", a link for downloading the message and then the actual text of the message. Until now, Gmail only displayed the text of the message. The new interface also displays help center links with additional information about SPF records, DKIM signatures and the DMARC standard. A

  2016/9/14 16:23Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/09/new-original-message-ui-in-gmail.html

• Play Solitaire and Tic Tac Toe in Google Search

  • #Web Search

  Google Search now comes with 2 games you can play right from your desktop or mobile browser: Solitaire and Tic-Tac-Toe. Just search for [solitaire] or [tic tac toe] and you can quickly start the games. Solitaire has 2 difficulty levels: easy and hard. The game has realistic sounds and animations (you can mute sounds) and it also shows your stats, just like any other Solitaire app. Unfortunately, Google doesn't save your state, so you can't resume a game later. Tic-Tac-Toe is much simpler and les

  2016/8/26 19:05Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/08/play-solitaire-and-tic-tac-toe-in.html

• Google Album Archive

  • #Google Photos
  • #Picasa Web Albums

  Picasa Web Albums will be discontinued on August 1st, but you can still access your photos from the new Google Album Archive. "The album archive is where we keep all the photos that have been shared or stored on Google products, like Picasa, Google+, and Blogger," informs Google. As you probably noticed, Google Photos doesn't show photos uploaded using other Google services, so it can't fully replace Picasa Web Albums or Google+ Photos. Google Album Archive lets you see, download or delete photo

  2016/7/30 17:34Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/07/google-album-archive.html

• Google Image Labeler Is Back

  • #Image Search

  Google Image Labeler used to be a game that helped Google categorize images and improve image search. It was launched in 2006 and discontinued in 2013. Now Image Labeler is back, but it's no longer a game. If you go to get.google.com/crowdsource/imagelabeler/category, you'll see this message: "Ready to help Google Image Labeler? Look at a few public images to see if Google is organizing them right." Then you can pick a category like birds, cats, dancing, concerts, food, cars, mountains, sky. If

  2016/7/30 16:54Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/07/google-image-labeler-is-back.html

• Google Translate Autocomplete

  • #Google Translate

  Google Translate's site for desktop and mobile now shows suggestions and autocompletes your text, much like Google Search. This works for English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, but you have to manually pick the input language instead of relying on automatic detection. The new feature helps you translate faster common phrases, words and expressions, but it's not very useful for long texts. For example, I picked French as the input language, typed "k" and one of the suggestions was

  2016/5/21 02:35Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/05/google-translate-autocomplete.html

• The Ever-Expanding Knowledge Graph Cards

  • #Web Search
  • #Knowledge

  Sometimes Google's Knowledge Graph cards use more real estate than all the other search results combined. I've searched for [from Paris with love] in the experimental mobile-like desktop interface and got a huge card with images, information about the movie, ratings, cast. Then Google displayed 10 search results and 3 other cards with John Travolta movies, Luc Besson movies and action movies, followed by another list of related searches. Somehow, the list of search results felt like a placeholde

  2016/5/20 22:24Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-ever-expanding-knowledge-graph-cards.html

• Google Tests Card-Style Search Interface for Desktop

  • #User interface
  • #Web Search

  Google experiments with a desktop search UI that looks more like the mobile interface. The experiment uses the same white cards on a gray background for both search results and ads. When the card-style layout was launched for the mobile site back in 2013, Google mentioned that the new look was "cleaner and simpler, optimized for touch, with results clustered on cards so you can focus on the answers you're looking for".

  2016/5/20 22:01Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/05/google-tests-card-style-search.html

• Google Works Better With Chrome

  • #Web Search

  When you open google.com in Firefox, Safari or any other browser than Chrome, you'll sometimes see an ad for Chrome. Usually, Google's promotional messages suggested you should try Chrome because it's fast, but now Google has a new ad: "Google works better with Chrome". Clicking "Yes, get Chrome now" sends you to the regular Chrome homepage, which promotes Chrome as "one browser for your laptop, phone and tablet" since "Chrome brings your open tabs, bookmarks and recent searches from your comput

  2016/5/20 21:25Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/05/google-works-better-with-chrome.html

• Android Instant Apps

  • #Android

  Back when the desktop was king, Google used to be all about the Web and the browser. As mobile devices got more popular, browsers were no longer the most important application for many users. Specialized apps for music, video, photos, messaging, maps were much more popular because they were better suited for mobile. Google pushed the boundaries of the mobile web with Chrome, but a few years ago it started to move on. New services like Inbox no longer have mobile web apps, Google Play Music no lo

  2016/5/19 22:23Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/05/android-instant-apps.html

• Google Assistant

  Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, mentioned in this year's Founders' Letter that "the next big step will be for the very concept of the 'device' to fade away. Over time, the computer itself — whatever its form factor — will be an intelligent assistant helping you through your day. We will move from mobile first to an AI first world." Right now, Google has an assistant, but it's not that conversational. You can find it in the Google Now cards and the voice search feature. It's there for answering quic

  2016/5/19 21:00Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/05/google-assistant.html

• Allo and Duo: Google's New Messaging Apps

  • #Mobile

  Hangouts was supposed to be Google's unified messaging solution, but things didn't go as planned: Hangouts was buggy, lacked features and many people hated it. After releasing a separate app for SMS (Messenger), Google will soon launch 2 other apps: Allo for group chat and Duo for video calling. Both Allo and Duo use your phone number, much like WhatsApp, so you can chat or talk with anyone from your phonebook. Allo includes a special version of the Smart Reply feature from Google Inbox and it s

  2016/5/19 20:16Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/05/allo-and-duo-googles-new-messaging-apps.html

• Google Image Search Ads

  • #Image Search
  • #Mobile
  • #Ads

  Google's product listing ads are now available in mobile Google Image Search. They're placed above the list of image search results and look much like the shopping ads from web search. Google also shows a colorful list of related keywords you can add to your query: brands, colors, categories and more. "Whether they're looking for a new sofa or the perfect pair of earrings, people who search and shop on their smartphones at least once a week say that product images are the shopping feature they t

  2016/5/17 19:36Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/05/google-image-search-ads.html

• Shopping Snippets in Mobile Google Image Search

  • #Image Search
  • #Mobile

  Google's image search engine now shows rich snippets for shopping sites like Amazon and eBay, but only when you use the mobile interface. Google displays the name of the product, the price, the rating and the number of reviews, stock information and a short description. There's also a message that asks users to "check website for latest pricing and availability". Google Image Search is pretty useful for finding products and the new snippets include even more information. I'd like to see a filter

  2016/5/17 18:56Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/05/shopping-snippets-in-mobile-google.html

• Automatic Translation in Google Search

  • #Web Search
  • #Google Translate

  If you search for a word in a foreign language, Google now automatically shows the translation. For example, you can search for [amanecer] to get the English translation of the Spanish word, instead of typing [translate amanecer] or [translate amanecer to english]. This only works for words, and some expressions, not for longer texts. It works for [buenas noches], but not for [buenas noches señora], so you'll still have to search for [translate buenas noches señora] or [buenas noches señora to e

  2016/5/1 17:22Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/05/automatic-translation-in-google-search.html

• Import Chrome Bookmarks Into Google Save

  • #Google Chrome

  If you install the "Save to Google" extension for Chrome, you can now import your Chrome bookmarks into the Google Save site. Just open the sidebar menu from the Google Save site, click "import Chrome bookmarks" and wait a few minutes until all your bookmarks are saved online. Reload the pages and you'll see all of your Chrome bookmarks next to the pages and images you've previously saved. Folders and subfolders are converted into tags. Let's assume that the folder "Google" has a subfolder calle

  2016/4/30 23:25Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/04/import-chrome-bookmarks-into-google-save.html

• Bolder YouTube Player

  • #YouTube
  • #User interface

  YouTube's HTML5 player looks different. There are new icons, text is bolder, menus are much bigger and the settings menu no longer closes when you pick an option, unless you change video quality. When you click "copy video URL", "copy video URL at current time" or "copy embed code", the player copies the text to the clipboard and no longer displays it. Here's a screenshot of the old UI for the contextual menu:

  2016/4/26 05:21Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/04/bolder-youtube-player.html

• Google Play Music Still Requires Flash

  • #Google Music

  I uninstalled Flash Player on my computer, now that most sites no longer need it. Adobe's Flash Player is still bundled with Chrome, so I had to disable it from the chrome://plugins/ page. One of the only Google services that still requires Flash is Google Play Music, but only if you don't use Chrome or Internet Explorer 11. I tried opening Google Play Music in Firefox and Safari and got this message: "Missing Flash Player. You need the latest Adobe Flash Player to listen to music." There's actu

  2016/4/24 23:11Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/04/google-play-music-still-requires-flash.html

• Chrome Extension for Google Keep

  • #Google Keep

  There must be an internal contest at Google for creating Chrome extensions that save links. After "Save to Google" and "Save to Inbox", there's now a Chrome extension for Google Keep that lets you create notes about the page you're currently visiting. "The next time you're on a website that you want to remember or reference later on, use the new Keep Chrome extension to add it — or any part of it — to a note in Keep. Just click the Keep badge to add a site's link to a note, or select some text o

  2016/4/21 04:12Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/04/chrome-extension-for-google-keep.html

• Save Links to Google Inbox

  • #Inbox

  Google Inbox has a new bundle called "saved". When you click it, you get this description: "Don't forget the articles, videos and other links you want to get back to. Use the Inbox Chrome extension or mobile share button to add links here." The Inbox Chrome extension has been launched today and it's only useful for saving links and sharing pages via email. Now you no longer have to send yourself messages with links to pages you want to read later. The links are added to the inbox and they're als

  2016/4/21 03:45Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/04/save-links-to-google-inbox.html

• YouTube Adds 360-Degree Live Streams, Spatial Audio

  • #YouTube

  YouTube gets closer to virtual reality. Last year, it added support for 360-degree videos and now it supports 360-degree live streaming. "And after years of live streaming Coachella for fans around the world who can't attend the festival, this year we're bringing you the festival like never before by live streaming select artist performances in 360 degrees this weekend," mentions YouTube's blog. The new interactive live streaming feature will be especially useful for concerts, news and sport eve

  2016/4/19 20:47Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/04/youtube-adds-360-degree-live-streams.html

• Podcasts in Google Play Music

  • #Android
  • #Google Music

  Google Play Music is no longer only about music, now it also lets you listen to podcasts. The podcasts section is already available in the web interface and it's rolling out to the Android app in the US and Canada. "We'll connect you with podcasts based on what you're doing, how you're feeling and what you're interested in. Similar to our contextual playlists for music, we want to make it easy to find the right podcast - whether you're a podcast aficionado or listening for the first time," infor

  2016/4/19 17:47Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/04/podcasts-in-google-play-music.html

• Google's Package Tracking Card

  • #Web Search

  Google Search has a new card for tracking packages. Google has always displayed a package tracking link when searching for a tracking code from UPS, USPS, FedEx and other carriers, but now you can search for [track package] and enter the tracking number. Click "Find carrier" and Google shows a link like "Track via UPS" or "Track via FedEx". If Google can't find a carrier, it will show this message: "Can't match this number to a carrier". The same card is also displayed when you search for the tr

  2016/4/19 17:06Alex Chituhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/04/googles-package-tracking-card.html