Google to Close Down 'Picnik.com' and Other Projects

We mentioned earlier in our blog post about the closure of several Google Projects in upcoming months. Google has already shut down its several projects last year including Google Buzz, Google Waves, iGoogle etc. and now Google is going to shut down its highly profile project named "Picnik.com" online photo editing website, Not only Picnik but Google will also close its other ventures including Needlebase, Urchin Software and Social Graph API projects soon in upcoming months. According to Google's Post, Google is more focusing towards its upcoming projects and wanted its staff to be more focused on other profitable projects like Google+.

Google acquired online photo editing website Picnik.com in 2010 but today the company said, "We�re retiring the Picnik on April 19, 2012" so the Picnik team can continue creating photo-editing magic across Google products. If any user of Picnik wants to get its data from Picnik.com can get it from here and can download a zip file through Picnik Takeout or copy them to Google+. Google have also unlocked the premium features of Picnik's so that users can get more benefits from it before its closure. People who paid for the premium service will receive refunds.

Closure of other Google projects includes Needlebase, the data management platform will also be shut down on June 1, 2012.

The Social Graph API from Google, which gives developers information about public connections between people on the web, will also be closed on April 20, 2012.

Urchin Software from Google, a client based online web analytics product, will also be shut down on March 2012.

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Expected Google PageRank (PR) Update in 2012

Google update its PageRank (PR) after every three months in a year and change its Algorithm very frequently. Last year Google PageRank (PR) was updated on November, 2011, which was the major PageRank (PR) update of the year 2011 and now the New Year 2012 has begun and many webmaster and web owners are waiting for the upcoming Google PageRank (PR) update and expecting the positive PageRank (PR) at start of year 2012.

No one knows the exact time frame and date when next Google PageRank (PR) Update occurs but the expected PageRank (PR) update period which we have noticed from last two to three years are quite same in timing so we can also expect the same period of Google PageRank (PR) Update in 2012.

Expected Dates of Next Google PageRank (PR) Update in 2012

First Google PageRank (PR) Update of 2012:

Between 30 January, 2012 to 2 February, 2012

Second Google PageRank (PR) Update of 2012:

Between 30 June, 2012 to 2 July, 2012

Third Google PageRank (PR) Update of 2012:

Between 30 September, 2012 to 2 October, 2012

Forth Google PageRank (PR) Update of 2012:

Between 31 December, 2012 to 3 January, 2013

Above mentioned Google PageRank (PR) update dates are mandatory but Google can also make minor updates between those dates in 2012.

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Google Punishes Itself After SERP Terms Violation - Google's Positive Response

Google has takes a positive step after getting various criticisms on internet over violation of its own Search Engine Ranking Position (SERP) Terms and Conditions to gain more popularity and ranking on its own Search Engine "Google" for one of its own product Google Chrome. According to the story unveiled from SEOBook about "Pay Per Post (PPP) Campaign" tactics from Google to market Google Chrome on various low end profile Blogs.

Now Google has punishes itself by demoting its own ranking on search engine results. For the next 60 days users won't be able to see any kind of ads for Chrome when searching for keyword 'browser' on Google.com. This step has been taken from Google for its paid ads campaign; Google had been paying various bloggers to create what would be considered 'low quality content' against the company's terms of service. By paying bloggers to post hyperlinks to the Chrome download page, Google was able to drive itself to a higher position in its own search results. The only problem was that this violated its own terms of service for Paid Links.

Before browser SERP:

After browser SERP:

The issue was first highlighted by one of SEOBook author in which he mentioned that how come a keyword for �This post is sponsored by Google� brings back over 400 search pages on Google, but now Google has taken a serious and major step by demoting and removing all search results of itself and various other website which were involved in that "Pay Per Post" (PPP) campaign. Google have also dropped the PageRank value of the website http://www.google.com/chrome contain 9 (PR), remembered reducing the PageRank value is not the same as removing or banning the page from Google Search. however, a lower PageRank value will reduce its chances to get higher rank for certain keywords, not only this Google have also dropped the ranking position of the webpage from top to lower grade, previously http://www.google.com/chrome was ranking on top 10 search results but now you have to go to the fifth page of results to find it, ranked in position 55 and sometime we have also seen the page lower to as low at 93.

According to Google's official statement to Search Engine Land;

We�ve investigated and are taking manual action to demote www.google.com/chrome and lower the site�s PageRank for a period of at least 60 days.
We strive to enforce Google�s webmaster guidelines consistently in order to provide better search results for users.
While Google did not authorize this campaign, and we can find no remaining violations of our webmaster guidelines, we believe Google should be held to a higher standard, so we have taken stricter action than we would against a typical site.

I think it�s really a good and positive step from Google and its team to defend itself and to clean Search Engine from all these kind of approaches and campaign in near future and it will helps Google to maintain its reputation and to become and remain number one Search Engine of Internet for decades.

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Suggest Captions for Google Search and Win Contest

Enter into Google's Search Caption Challenge and be a Winner, Google has introduced a new contest which provides an opportunity to individual to become winner. The contest is about different Google caption challenge, users have to suggest and fill the caption in most creative way. All you have to do is to see the particular cartoon picture and give suggestion according to the situation. The goal of the contest is to bring the most relevant and useful results as quickly as possible from Google Search.

If you're creative enough than you can win it. Each cartoon has a title and blank spots for users to submit name and a caption. The contest has a Reddit-style voting system; people can give a thumbs-up vote or thumbs-down vote for each submission. To participate in contest, Go to Inside Search and submit your idea. Your caption will appear on the site, and you can share it with friends via a unique link. However there is no prize for winners, all you can do is to get popular and win against all other competitors to win titles.

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Google Algorithm Updates & Changes In 2011 - Infographic

Google has always known for its experiments and efforts to make Search Engines free from Spammers, Scammers, Content Violations and to make Internet more secure by making changes and updates into their Algorithm. The year 2011 was the biggest year for Google Algorithm Updates because in this year Google made several changes into their Algorithm which affects almost 40% of its Search Ranking and Queries in Search Engines. Some of the Major Algorithm Changes And Updates of 2011 is Google Panda, Google+ Plus 1, Google UI Update etc.

Many webmasters and website owners are claiming that Google Algorithm Updates of 2011 was really effective and they had made changes into their websites and weblogs according to the new Google updates, which really effects their global audience and web traffic from Google Search Engines. The following Google Algorithm Infographic timeline contains the Major Google Algorithm Updates and Changes of 2011, which helps you to understand how frequently Google make changes into their Search Engines Algorithm.

Google Algorithm Updates and Changes In 2011

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Top 15 Most Downloadable Apps of Android Market

If you're an Android Smartphone owner and loves to download and install every single app from Android Market than you must have to know about the Most Popular and Best Applications of Android Market that worth download. Android Market is mostly known about its own integrated apps which are made from Google, but there are also popular third party applications available on Android Market which is quite useful for users to use it in daily life.

According to the latest survey report from Nielsen which summarizes the Top 15 Best and Popular Apps of Android Market sorted by user age groups from 18 to 24, 25 to 34, and 35 to 44. The following chart shows that Android Market Application is most popular amongst all age of peoples and then Facebook is on number second position as Most Downloadable App of Android Market and after that you can see 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th position is hold by Google made applications.

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Revenue Sharing Between iOS Apps and Android Apps

According to the latest report from Flurry.com about Comparison between iOS Apps and Android Apps Revenue Sharing, it�s revealed that iOS Apps are much profitable in terms of revenue as compare to Android Apps. iOS Apps make four times higher revenue as compare to Android platform. Flurry Analytics has also found that developers are choosing to start new projects on iOS over Android at a ratio of almost 3 to 1. No doubt Android is an open source platform and many big phone maker companies like Samsung, Motorola, Sony etc. is now offering Android devices but the statistic makes it clear that Apple iOS is still more popular platform in terms of Apps Revenue as compare Android platform.

I personally think that Android is new in smartphone arena and it has potential to gain more revenue as compare to any other platform including iOS and its popularity speaks itself that it has already beat its competitors when choosing Smartphones.

Revenue Sharing Between iOS Apps and Android Apps:

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Generate Smart Names for Android Smartphones

If you are Android Smartphone lover and wants to create your own unique name for your Android devices, now you can generate smart names for your android smartphone device. Android in its own way is a unique name and as well as Google name too because Google always try to named their products name unique. Many phone maker companies are launching smartphones with their unique brand names like Samsung Galaxy, Motorola Droid, HTC EVO, Sony Ericsson XPERIA, LG Optimus etc. etc.

There is one website available online which is providing Tool to Generate Smart Names for Android Smartphones. A website called itself Android Phone Name Generator through which users can have some fun by creating its own unique names for Android Smartphones. That website is using the real smartphone names and brands of all of the Android Phones that have been released so far and then generates a new name every time a person clicks on the "Generate" button on the website.

Click here to Generate Smart Names for Android Smartphones Now.

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Google Introduces Schemer.com - Explore, Do and Share

Google has again comes up with its new social networking service called "Schemer". A new way to explore, discover and share things with friends, with schemer people can Explore and Discover new schemes, Find stuff to do and Share them with friends and circles. Schemer provide users to do things which they don�t know and explore new places and stuff from their nearby, whether it�s exploring a new city or town, checking out a friend�s movie recommendation or just finding new activities for your weekends, you can do all things with Google' Schemer.

According to me Schemer is more likely Foursquare and Gowalla exploring websites, but with better user visibility with Google's Account and with Google+ integrated service. You can add your Google+ friends with schemer and share things with them. First user has to select their nearby place or location so that schemer can provide them all near places detail.

Schemer is currently in an invite-only beta period, so only people with invitations from other users can join Schemer and it�s also limited with some cities and places. New user has to submit their e-mail address in their WaitList and has to wait to get personal invitation from Schemer to join it but if you guys dont want to wait further and wants to experience and join Schemer now than Leave your E-Mail Address in comments box, i will send you an invitation to join Google's Schemer.

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Lock Google's Account with SMS Code - Google's 2-Step Verification Method

Google has always known for its extraordinary features for its products. Google always try to introduce such features which no one in industry provides to its users and now Google has comes one step forward to introduced "2-Step Verification" method for all of its Google Accounts and Google Products. Now Google users can able to lock up their Google Accounts through their cell phones.

Google's 2-Step Verification provides users an strongest level of security to your Google Account by necessitating you to have access to your phone as well as your username and password when you sign in to any Google's product and service online. Additionally you will require entering a code that Google will send you via text or voice message upon signing in.

According to Google Official Statement;

"2-step verification drastically reduces the chances of having the personal information in your Google account stolen by someone else. Why? Because hackers would have to not only get your password and your username, they'd have to get a hold of your phone".

I am personally using 2-step verification method and i strongly recommend all users to switch over to it. With their "2 step verification system", u can lock your account with your mobile phone and it is virtually guaranteed that only the person who's in possession of the Mobile No. (YOU) will be able to access the account.

For more information regarding How it works and How to setup 2-step verification Click Here.

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Most Expensive and High Paying Keywords for Google Advertisement - Adwords and Adsense

Advertise with Google is now become the most profitable business for online businesses on internet through which one can earn sufficient revenue and income with Google Advertisement, but the million dollars question is how to generate and earn maximum revenue and profit through Google Adwords and Google Adsense Advertisement? Do you know Google generate and earn its maximum 97% of revenue and income from its Advertisement (Google Adsense and Google Adwords).

In my prospectus and experience one can get maximum revenue and income from Google Advertisement Plan by choosing Relevant, Expensive and High Paying Keywords for Websites and Blogs. Today i am going to share Google Adwords Top Most Expensive High Paying Keywords for Advertisement. If you're in online business and using Google Adwords to get maximum traffic from Search Engines than this valuable infographic will helps Google Advertisers to choose best and high paying keywords to generate maximum traffic from Google Adwords Or if you're online publisher and using Google Adsense to earn and generate maximum revenue and income from Google than this infographic will also help Google Publishers to earn sufficient and maximum revenue and income from Google Adsense.

Top Most Expensive and High Paying Keywords of Google Adwords and Google Adsense:

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Google Publishers and Google Advertisers can also use Google Adwords Keyword Tool to know more about current competition of Searching Keywords and Trends of Search Engines locally and also globally.

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Android App to Manage Facebook Ad Campaign from Android Devices - Free App Available

If you are Android device owner and using Facebook Ad Management system to manage your Ads Campaign and wants to track your whole ad campaign 24/7 without having your personal computer or full browser access than you can do it by using Android Application from your device.

Social Ads Tool has launched an entirely new Android App which helps users to manage Facebook Ad Campaign from android devices. The App is called a light version of its web-based offering, �geared toward keen Facebook ads managers who want to keep an eye on their campaigns quickly and without the need for a full web browser.� According to 77Agency developers the app contains whole new features like budget, bidding, and status editing functions to devices and also provides security features to thwart unwanted access, and it also offers tips on best practices.

The Android App for Facebook Ad Campaign is available via Android Market at free of cost. Grab it and manage all your Facebook ad campaign now.

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YouTube Redesign Website Structure and UI Update

Google has rolled out all new YouTube design and has introduced more user friendly YouTube UI Redesign, its a part of Google+ project in which Google is changing UI of all its products. The new YouTube design is quite neat and clean as compare to its previous design which contains and focused more on two major colors Blue and White but in its new design YouTube now contains three major colors Grey, Red and Black, which has become signature mark of all new Google.

YouTube has also improved its UI structure of website in which they made changes in Video pages, the homepage and user Channels and also pulling some style features from Google�s other web products. The new YouTube homepage has seen a revamp with social integration and a brand new design. When you will get logged in you will notice all the new videos from your subscriptions in a list, with customization features on the left. You can filter the videos based on the selectors on the left, along with customizing your own channel, connecting with Facebook and Google+ to share videos and viewing suggested channels or popular YouTube videos.

I think the new and improved YouTube design is quite impressive and user friendly to manage all video subscription from homepage login. What guys have to say about new YouTube Design? Please comments.

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Best Online Cloud Music Service - Online Mass Music Storage

Do you love to hear Music every day? But suffering from little mass storage for your media? Than you won't have to worry about your storage media. Now you can choose between many of Online Music Service providers providing Cloud Mass Storage Media for users worldwide. Google has also recently launched its Google Music Service in United States so do you upload all your music to Google Music? Did you checked other Online Music Service providers like Spotify? Rdio? Mog? Rhapsody? iTunes? Amazon Cloud Music? Google Music? Which ones are free, and which ones cost money? Or do you just forget about online music storage and just go back to listening music on CD' and DVD's.

We have summerize some of Best Cloud Music Service Providers who are offering various Music Albums, Artist Albums, Popular Music Albums etc through online storage. Following are some of Best Cloud Music Service providers you should check out.

Comparison between several Online Cloud Music Service Providers:

Rdio Music Service:

Rdio is a new social music service, founded by Janus and Niklas. Rdio making a music service that takes the work out of deciding what to play next follow friends and people with great taste in music, get inspired by what they're playing, and listen to their playlists. With Rdio's mobile apps, music on your computer and mobile phone is finally connected without needing a cable. Collections and playlists are instantly updated and you can sync music and listen, even when you're offline.

Spotify Music Service:

Spotify broke onto the scene in a big way in July 2011, when it was finally released in the U.S. Spotify offers tight integration with Facebook; songs I listen to in Spotify show up in real time on my Facebook Timeline (which can be a good or bad thing, depending on what embarrassing thing I happen to be listening to). In fact, when I open my Spotify desktop app, more than 50 of my Facebook friends are actively using it. By comparison, only seven of my Facebook friends are using Rdio, (which I'll get to later), with only a couple actively using it.

Rhapsody Music Service:

Rhapsody is, quite simply, the ultimate digital jukebox: For $10 a month you can listen to whatever you want, whenever you want, on whatever gadget you choose, from the hottest new releases to our decades-spanning catalog of 13 million - yes, 13 million - songs. And if you're not sure exactly what you feel like listening to, allow our crack team of musical experts to ply you with personally tailored recommendations, playlists, cheat sheets, essays, arguments and delightfully random tangents, holding forth on everything from the highlights of Hank Williams' massive oeuvre to the albums that directly influenced Nirvana's Nevermind to a detailed beginner's guide to the music of Colombia to the biggest hip-hop releases in the last month or so - and that's just one day's work.

Mog Music Service:

MOG Inc. is a next-generation music media company founded in June 2005 by David Hyman, former CEO for Gracenote. MOG has one simple goal: to perfect your music-listening experience. MOG�s all-you-can-eat, on-demand listening service provides access to a deep library of over 13 million songs and a million albums through its mobile apps on iPhone and Android, as well as on the Web and streaming entertainment devices for TV. It surpasses all other music subscription services in its ease-of-use, discovery features and audio quality.

Amazon Cloud Music Player:

Amazon beat both Apple and Google to the punch when it released Amazon Cloud Player hand in hand with Amazon Cloud Drive. Amazon Cloud Drive allows you to upload 5GB of any type of file, including music files (MP3, AAC), to Amazon's servers for free. After that, there's a tiered-pricing plan, and music you purchase from Amazon doesn't count against your storage limits and is automatically added to your Cloud Drive. At the time of this writing, Amazon is offering unlimited space for music, which doesn't count against your total storage space. So for only $20 a year, you get 20GB of storage space, and unlimited music storage space.

iCloud and iTunes Match:

With iCloud, all the music you purchase through iTunes and your Apple ID will be available on all your iOS devices. So if you buy a song on your iPhone, it'll be available on your iPad and on your computer. For $25 a year, iTunes Match allows you to store music (MP3, AIFF, WAV, MPEG-4, AAC) that you didn't necessarily purchase from iTunes. Any music that's matched is automatically stored in iCloud; whatever music isn't available through Match, is uploaded. Since most of your music can probably found among iTunes 20 million songs, you won't have to upload from scratch, thus saving you tons of time.

Google Music Service:

Google Music came out of beta recently with a splash. The Android Market offers hundreds of free songs and millions you can buy. You can also upload up to 20,000 of your own songs (MP3, AAC, WMA, FLAC) to Google's servers, and play them on any device with a standard Web browser. That's right: Google's offering its music services outside the Google ecosystem. Imagine that?

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LG to support Google TV after Logitech..?

The world's second largest TV maker company LG is all set to launch Google TV software device on next year CES January, 2012. According to the Bloomberg sources, The South Korean consumer electronic marker LG company is quite interested in Google TV and Google and LG both are jointly working together to bring Google TV next year.

According to the spokesman of Google and LG, they have not made a final decision yet and have declined to comment on it yet, but after Logitech laid-off to promote Google TV in future, Google TV needs another electronic maker to working with to make it possible, for those who don�t know much about Google's upcoming product. Google TV is a device which lets users view Websites and Internet video on their home digital TVs, launched last year with Sony, Dish Network, and Logitech. Logitech was the first company who brings Google TV-setup box with other partners, but now Logitech has dismissed to work more on it.

According to Logitech Spokesman;

Logitech lost more than $100 million in operating profits on the Revue after bringing it to market almost a year ago. He went so far as to call production of the Revue a "mistake of implementation of a gigantic nature."

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Build Google+ Pages for branding and marketing of your business.

Now Google+ is also providing the feature to businesses and brands to build their business and brand pages with Google+. Its official now that Google+ is offering to market brands through Google+ Pages. The most promising social networking website of recent times after Facebook, Google+ is now back in competition with Google+ Brand Pages, a place where businesses, companies, celebrities and other popular �brands� can interact and meet each other with their customers and followers by sharing news or engaging in discussions through Google+ Pages.

Google Plus is now offering the same services and features which Facebook Brand Pages providing now to its customers. Some of the main features which Google Plus Pages providing are;

• Google Plus has the +1 button, while Facebook has the like button.
• Google Plus has Hangouts, while Facebook has video chat and group chat with Skype.
• Google Plus has Circles, while Facebook has smart friend lists.
• Share photos
• Share videos
• Share links
• Conduct Hangouts with Google+

Google+ Pages can be created in five popular categories like;

• Local Business or Place
• Product or Brand
• Company, Institution or Organization
• Arts, Entertainment or Sports
• Other

Following are the names of some popular businesses and companies which have already created Google Plus Pages to market their products and services through Google+ Pages.

• All American Rejects
• Angry Birds
• Barcelona Football Club
• Burberry
• Fox News
• Good Morning America
• H&M
• Macy�s
• Modelland
• The Muppets
• Pepsi
• Toyota
• Train
• WWE

So what are you waiting for? Go and build one Google+ Page of your choice and start branding with Google+

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Backup and Move Google Data with Google Takeout

Do you know that you can make backup of your Gmail�s, Google Contacts, Google Buzz, Google+ Steam, Google Profiles, Picasa Web and other Google Products and Services Data and also you can move all your Google's Data from Google E-mail address to any other E-mail services including (Hotmail, Yahoo etc.). Google Takeout is the official Google website that provides you a service to move your data securely, easily and fast.

Google Takeout is powered by Data Liberation Front; Google Takeout is a Data Liberation platform that provides service to Google users to move Google Products Data as easy as possible without any delay of time. Google Takeout lets you take your data out of multiple Google products in one fell swoop. Moreover, you�ll find that all your data is in portable and open formats� so it�s easy to import to other services quickly. 

The Data Liberation Front is an engineering team at Google whose singular goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products.  We do this because we believe that you should be able to export any data that you create in (or import into) a product.  We help and consult other engineering teams within Google on how to "liberate" their products

Mission Statement of The Data Liberation Front;

Users should be able to control the data they store in any of Google's products.  Our team's goal is to make it easier to move data in and out.

Google Takeout Services:

Google Takeout providing following services:

• Google +1 sites
• Google Buzz
• Google Contacts and Circles
• Google Picasa Web Albums
• Google Profile
• Google+ Stream
• Google Voice

According to Google;

These are just the beginning: we will be adding more Google products as time goes on, so stay tuned. You can find more answers of your questions from here.

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Google Introduced Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich - Galaxy Nexus Smartphone

Google has finally unveiled its upcoming version of Android OS 4.0 for smartphones and tablets named "Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich" in collaboration with Samsung, the next generation of smartphone namely Samsung Galaxy Nexus will be based on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich with the support of various new features.

The new Google Galaxy Nexus Specifications are as follows:

• A 4.65-inch 1280 x 720 HD Super AMOLED display
• HSPA+ or LTE (depending on region)
• 1.2 GHz dual-core processor (TI OMAP 4460)
• 1 GB of RAM
• 16 or 32 GB of internal storage
• 5 MP rear camera with flash; 1.3 MP front camera
• Full HD 1080p video recording at 30 FPS; zero shutter lag
• Bluetooth 3.0 and dual-band WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n
• NFC and a barometer
• 8.94mm thin; 135g light
• 1,750 mAh battery

You can register your advance booking online through official website of Google Nexus. Samsung Google Galaxy Nexus will be available for customers in United States, Europe and Asia from November 2011. 

Google has also launched Android 4.0 SDK for developers with all the improved and new APIs. Developers can get Android 4.0 SDK from here.

What�s New in "Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich�?

Google has added many new features in Android 4.0 while many improvements are customized and visual, there are still core enhancements being made. We have listed some of those new features about Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS).

• Honeycomb-styled interface
• New Roboto typeface used throughout the UI
• New lockscreen featuring quick unlock to camera and notification pane access
• Improvements to multitasking and the notification pane
• Resizable widgets
• Quick SMS responses when rejecting incoming calls
• Improvements to text input, autocorrect and copy & paste
• Real-time voice-to-text input
• Full control over data usage, including usage notifications
• New contacts app featuring better social integration and �Me� profile
• More advanced Calendar and Gmail apps
• Improved Gallery featuring a photo editor
• Improved Camera app including panorama mode and easy sharing
• Cloud connectivity with automatic Google Chrome bookmark sync
• Offline access to emails (past 30 days by default) and web pages (when you save them)
• Face unlock using facial recognition technology
• Android Beam for NFC sharing of loads of content
• Integrated visual voicemail and appropriate APIs
• Integrated screenshots from hardware button combination
• Support for high-density mobile displays such as the Galaxy Nexus� 720p display
• Many, many new APIs

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Google To Shut Down Google Buzz, iGoogle and Google Labs

Google has finally decided to shut down its Google Buzz project after introducing its social feature in February 2010. Google Buzz was one of the first steps of Google towards social networking arena and after learning the goods and bads from Google Buzz, Google launched its new Social Networking platform called Google+ in late June 2011, which is considering the one of the successor of Google in social networking arena.

According to the Official Google Blog, �In a few weeks we�ll shut down Google Buzz and the Buzz API, and focus instead on Google+, written by Google vice president of product "Bradley Horowitz". The site more said that "While people obviously won't be able to create new posts after that, they will be able to view their existing content on their Google Profile, and download it using Google Takeout."

Its good for Google to shutdown Google Buzz to focus more on Google+ because Google Buzz was not providing the online presence of Google into Social Networking arena. Google announced earlier this week that Google+ has 40 million users, and it seems now is the time to shut down Google Buzz.

In addition of Google Buzz shut down news, the company more said that they are going to close their Code Search project on January 15, 2012. (The feature let users search for open source code on the Internet). Google also said that they will also shut down other Social Media Features includes, Jaiku (Twitter Look alike), iGoogle�s social feature for Google Search and Google Labs will also be shut down on same date.

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How Google Plus Brand Pages Will Be Better Than Facebook Pages?

Changing Facebook�s millions of users to Google Plus will extent, difficult to fight for giant search. Perhaps changing brand to Google Plus would be much easier if Google Plus is able to solve advertisers� huge difficulties with Facebook like as post-click arrangement follow, paid search lack in efficiencies and specific customization.

Advertisers move paid media to their Facebook Pages they wanted to be in front of their audience, perhaps there is a bulk of imperfection in this plan. Without such information, we can only imagine whether media dollars are well spent.

In one or two month, Google Plus will launch its highly appreciated brand pages. These are 4 reasons that marketers have right to be happy and why Google Plus brand pages would deliver a better branded experience than Facebook.

Better Search Opportunities:

The slow CTR makes for a small quality score in Google�s bidding sample, which distinctically increases cost per click for paid search addsmoving to Facebook competes a unique brand domain. 

More Customization:

Facebook ads are the limits to some other ads, certainly with a video or vote, allowing for some branding or creative opportunities. 

Better Analytics:

People who uses Google analysis how much is the data, including metrics like time consumed on page, main content, referring sites and geographical information. It looks affordable for Google to integrate Google�s analysis into Google Plus brand pages.

Google Can Learn from Facebook:

Facebook�s achieved and misconfigure steps offer invaluable moral, giving Google second-drive pros in making a brand page based on brands need for much more customization. Facebook make new way on each connection between brands like musicians and celebrities.

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