Jayaram confirmed that Twitter Search will also enable a reputation ranking system soon but did not disclose how reputation would be calculated.

Without providing specific recipes, Eric Schmidt laid out a few possibilities, including a site for medicine similar to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which lets users collectively contribute and edit entries. He urged publishers to focus on mobile technology and the development of new platforms for delivering news.

Schmidt said there’s still room for subscription and pay-by-the-piece journalism but he emphasized advertising, the source of 98 per cent of Google’s revenue, thanks to its success matching ads with a user’s search terms and other keywords.

“The important thing here is that advertising that is useful is going to work,” he said.

Schmidt commended newspapers for staking claim on the Internet in the 1990s but said there wasn’t a second act. He says news websites take too long to read, even slower than flipping through a newspaper or magazine, a shortcoming that can be addressed by improving technology.

“At Google we’re working hard to address the technological questions,” he said at the Newspaper Association of America’s annual convention. “We don’t have any answers here.”

He said technology for reading news on devices like mobile phone must ultimately be as pleasant as reading a magazine.

“From my perspective, the online experience can be thought of as terrible compared to what I view as this wonderful experience with magazines and newspapers.”

Schmidt’s wide-ranging remarks for about 45 minutes came before an audience whose businesses have plummeted as the recession compounds a decline in print advertising that began with the shift of some advertising to free or low-cost alternatives online.

Schmidt told reporters he was deeply concerned about the decline in quality journalism but had no easy answers for the industry’s woes.

His appearance came one day after The Associated Press announced a news industry initiative to track down copyright violators on the Internet and try to divert traffic from Web sites that don’t properly license news content. The AP didn’t name any potential targets, but some news reports focused on Internet search engines like Google.

Schmidt said Google has a multimillion-dollar licensing deal for AP content.

“I was a little confused by all the excitement in the news in the last 24 hours,” he said.

-AP

a) Western Union payments follow normal Google AdSense payment schedule and will be available for pickup next day.
b) This payment option is available for Individuals not for businesses
c) Should present government ID proof that match the AdSense payee name.
d) Funds must be picked up within 35 days of issue and will be made in US dollars.

Follow the below instructions:

1) Sign in to your account at www.google.com/adsense.
2) Visit the My Account tab.
3) Click the ‘edit’ link adjacent to the ‘Payment Details’ header.
4) Select the Western Union Quick Cash radio button.
5) Click ‘Continue’.
6) Click ‘Save Changes’ to save your payment type.

I hope soon or later we also enjoy using this new payment option in India

“Gmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their inboxes for a while, but up ’til now themes haven’t been an integral part of Gmail,” said Gmail engineer Annie Chen in a blog post. “We wanted to go beyond simple color customization, so out of the 30 odd themes we’re launching today, there’s a shiny theme with chrome styling, another one that turns your in-box into a retro notepad, nature themes that change scenery over time, weather driven themes that can rain on your mailbox, and fun characters to keep you in good company.”

For those of you that are lucky enough to be a part of the initial roll out you can customize your inbox by going to the Themes tab under Settings. Google has said they’ll be rolling out themes to everyone over the next couple of days, so if like me you don’t see them yet, check back soon.

Just last month, Google launched seven features for Gmail: Gmail Gadgets, emoticons for messages, Gmail for mobile version 2.0, Canned Responses, contact manager improvements, advanced IMAP controls, and Mail Goggles.

Wishing you ALL Happy and Prosperous Deepavali/Diwali celebrations and festivities of the season!

Cheers!

Frankly, Google Chrome load very quickly as compare to Firefox and Internet Explorer. The interface look is very clean and simplified and no status bar. It automatically generated page with tumbnails of your most frequently visited sites. But I’m also going to miss my Firefox extensions.

In above video Sergey Brin put his views on why Google’s launching a browser.

As far as I know Windows Vista users will have to find the uninstaller for beta 1 and it is located under: Control Panel, Programs & Features and in the left menu: “Installed Updates” under the listing Windows Internet Explorer 8. You will then be required to restart your system before beta 2 can be installed.

In new IE 8 they have enhanced tabbed browsing, good looking address bar, Inprivate browsing, undo closed tabs. Even you can reopen last browsing session.

Flyerguy a memebr of Webmaster World has also confirmed in his post that German users are also redirecting to Yahoo! German domain.

According to Barry Schwartz this has to do with Yahoo Now Showing Geo-Location Under Search Ads. Yahoo has told him that they rolled out that feature last “week with the roll out of a new “geo labels” feature.” He feels that same geo-technology was applied to this.

But in India I am still reaching www.yahoo.com domain instead of http://in.yahoo.com but last few days it is showing two search options Search Web and Search India. That wasn’t before.

If you seach with any of the option, Yahoo shows &fp_ip=IN in its search result URL. In India, www.yahoo.com is not redirecting yet but search results are fetching from Indian IP addresses.

1. Arabic
2. Hebrew
3. Hindi
4. Thai

The already available 22 languages of Google Webmaster Tools are British English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, and US English.