Google improves image search, adds news timeline

Google improves image search, adds news timeline:



Google on Monday reintroduced Google Labs, its launch pad for new Web services, and committed itself to push the quirky Web innovations out the door more quickly.


"This is reviving the notion of launch early and launch often," said R.J. Pittman, Google's director of product management.


As part of the Labs' second rollout, the company unveiled improvements to the way users search for images and a news timeline developed by Andy Hertzfeld, a programming legend who helped write the software for the first Apple Macintosh.


As an increasing number of digital images are posted to the Web, engineers have struggled to create meaningful ways to organize them so people can find the pictures they're looking for by
typing terms into a search engine like Google.


The problem, said Radhika Malpani, director of engineering, is that "a picture really is worth a thousand words." So if someone is trying to find a certain image of a rocky beach, it's not particularly helpful to type words like "beach on rock" into Google. The new image search tries to solve the problem by letting users click on a "similar images" link. If an initial search returns an image that's similar to the one a person has in mind, he or she can use the link to dive deeper into the Web.


The Google News Timeline tackles the problem of visually representing the past several hundred years of news events. The timeline draws on licensed sources like Time magazine covers and scanned newspapers, as well as baseball scores and Wikipedia articles available in the public domain to create a visual news timeline of everything from New York City architecture to Mexican history.


Information can be sorted by the day, week, month, year or decade and includes events dating back to the 15th century


Google Labs has been a stand-alone Web site since 2002, serving as a test bed for products like Google Street View, Google Translate and Picasa facial recognition. It was supposed to be a place to fine-tune interesting ideas that weren't quite ready for prime time. But the site received little traffic and didn't offer an easy way for users to provide feedback.


The new site, at http://www.googlelabs.com/, is built to foster a community, said Michael Cohen, a Google product manager. It encourages users not only to comment on ideas, but to vote products up or down, increasing or decreasing their chances of moving out of the beta testing phase and onto Google's main platform.


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Is Google considering spinning out YouTube?

Is Google considering spinning out YouTube?

A recent analyst report by Credit Suisse that YouTube could lose as much as $470 million in 2009 has prompted some insiders — and outsiders -- to try to stir up enthusiasm for a YouTube spin out. The loss is not insignificant, even for Google, which recorded $4.2 billion in net income in 2008. To put it in perspective, the estimated YouTube loss exceeds the $448 million Google spent on salaries and other administrative expenses for the first quarter of 2009. It also exceeds what Google spent on sales and marketing.

But in a conversation with reporters on Thursday, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said the company is committed to YouTube. “We believe YouTube will eventually be a successful and profitable business and that it will take some time to do that. I don’t know how long it will.”

Schmidt also downplayed another option for reducing the expense of YouTube by downgrading video delivery to third-world countries where advertising revenue is insignfiicant. “I have not personally been in meetings where there were discussion on throttling bandwidth because of its costs,” Schmidt said. “In general we don’t link the two (bandwidth and cost). A typical example is India. A few years ago… we spent quite a bit of money to dramatically increase the connectivity to India even though it had no short-term or even near-term way to justify it economically. And I’m very proud of that. That’s how Google works. So I would discourage a linking between the two.”

Task Scheduler in windows 2008

Task Scheduler in windows 2008:

Windows 2008 has brought and introduced many new futures making the administration easy. Very first time in the windows history getting some of the necessary basic administration task is not complicated anymore. I am sure many of you always wanted to know or notified if there are changed been made on your Exchange server or domain controller. The way we have been finding these out so far if someone another domain admin breaks certain stuff and we get the notice after damage is done. Consider this is a big environment and many people have domain admin rights due to some unknown reason.

Anyway the shot story is windows 2008 is very smart and I am sure you will enjoy more you get to know it.

Problem:

Domain administrators logging on to Active directory domain controllers and Exchange servers and any other application server and they might be making changes. We have no way of knowing when they log in or if they are using service account to log in to do certain things which is not acceptable by corporate security policy.

Domain administrator user name: zz-JTucker is keep logging onto servers ( because he is domain admin (-:, ) and we don't want him to change things on our server or we want to know as soon as he logs on to one of our server.

Goal:

We would like to take smart approach and we want to know if either certain user / Group etc, logging on to critical windows 2008 servers.

We want to receive automatic e-mail being sent to us, when this event occurs and we want to run certain script to run at the same time based on our needs

Once we establish some basic configuration we can extend this based on our needs.

Scenario:

User names Mike (or a group) is one of the domain admins and we don't want Mike to log onto out servers. Or when Mike logs in we want to get notified.

We want to monitor some of activities or even event logs, such as, NTFRS issues, any SYSvol replication issues, any DNS issues, any other event logs it might be useful for you.

Solution:

Log into one of your windows 2008 server

• Click on start go to run

• Type, "taskschd.msc"

Expend, Task Scheduler, expend Microsoft, windows and , on the right pane we will click on new folder and name the folder as "AD Alert"

Now we have the folder and we will create schedule job. Click on Create task name it "AD-Alert user logged in"

When running the task, you may want to change this to user account going to be used for this purpose, I have creates user account in my domain and named it as "svc-Alert" for all scheduled task I will be creating going forward for all my needs.

Click on Triggers and click on new, click on begin task and pick "At logon" choose "Specific user or group and click on change user and pick the account for " zz-JTucker" ( John Tucker is domain administrator) and click on okay.

Click on actions, click new and actions menu pick send e-mail , from address Alert@smtp25.org to Alert@smtp25.org ( this is DL I created and I am member of this DL), fill out all required spaces, such as from to address and the relay server FQDN. Make sure you can open telnet from this server to the relay server and able to see 220.

Click okay the lst thing you want to do is make a right click and go to properties and select, "Hidden" for this task.

Now whenever the user " zz-JTacker" you will get an warning e-mail letting you know. You can also make a right click and select run to test the scheduled job.

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