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Posted on April 20, 2008 at 2:03 pm

Orkut unveils Low Bandwidth Version

Google did a major update to Orkut last week by adding Facebook ‘inspired’ applications to it, amongst other features like the one I really had to had to enable, it’s the low bandwidth version of Orkut. No, I’m not on dial-up, I’m on a good to go 384kbps line with no data caps, that’s enough for me, but saving bandwidth isn’t my real interest here, it’s the clean job.
Orkut Low Bandwidth Version is so clutter free, it shows the user’s photo, and that’s all, and everything else has been ‘textuated’. Thank God Google came up with this. Also scrapbooks now have a image-holder instead of the scraper’s picture.
To turn this version on, login to your Orkut account, and goto settings, there under the low bandwidth sub-item, select “show the low bandwidth version of Orkut” and then click on ’save changes’. Additionally you can check “do not prompt me if my network bandwidth changes”, so as to avoid the bugging notification from Orkut that your bandwidth has changed and you can return to the high bandwidth version, that you don’t want to :P.

Posted on November 22, 2007 at 12:40 am

Google releases Custom Search globally

It happens first time that Google extended its search service for the business users all over the world.

Users of the Google custom search engine can add Google search capabilities to their web sites. Roberto Solimene, Google’s European enterprise director said that, “”For many organizations, a Web site is their window to the world and significant investment goes into attracting customers to the site”. Both the Custom Search Engine free edition and business edition provide hosted search capabilities, obviating the need for installed appliances. Admins can monitor usage behavior through the reports generated by these.

However, its business edition includes features of email and phone support. It also depends on us whether we choose the option of advertising or not. Using an XML application programming interface helps in getting fully customized results.