Google Docs вместо MS Office

Google предлагает пользоваться бесплатным Google Docs вместо выходящего в ближайшее время из бета-версии проприетарного Microsoft Office 2010.

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Upgrade here

источник: Google Enterprise Blog, Автор: Jeff, дата: 11.05.10

This week Microsoft will take its Office 2010 suite out of beta. If you're considering upgrading Office with Office, we'd encourage you to consider an alternative: upgrading Office with Google Docs. If you choose this path, upgrade means what it's supposed to mean: effortless, affordable, and delivering a remarkable increase in employee productivity. This is a refreshing alternative to the expensive and laborious upgrades to which IT professionals have become accustomed.

Google Docs has been providing rich real-time collaboration to millions of users for nearly four years. It lets employees edit and share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in the browser from anywhere in the world. We recently made tremendous strides in improving Google Docs formatting, speed and functionality, and a growing number of companies are now using it as their primary productivity software.

Of course, you probably already own Office 2003 or 2007 (or maybe Office 2000?), and there's no need to uninstall them. Fortunately, Google Docs also makes Office 2003 and 2007 better. For example, you can store any file – including Microsoft Office documents – in Google's cloud and share them in their original format (protected, naturally by Google's synchronous replication across datacenters). Plus, in the coming months, Google will enable real-time collaboration directly in Office 2003 and 2007, as you can see here.

Google Docs represents a real alternative for companies: a chance to get the collaboration features you need today and end the endless cycle of "upgrades". For more information on the choices available to you, check out the summary below. But don't take our word for it – you can try Google Docs and the rest of the Google Apps suite for free. The only thing you have to lose is a server or two.

For further information on Microsoft's offerings and requirements, please reference the Microsoft TechNet articles on SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010.

Posted by Matthew Glotzbach, Google Enterprise Product Management Director

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Google запускает новый интерфейс результатов поиска

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Google запускает новый интерфейс результатов поиска

источник: Google Russia Blog, Автор: Inessa Roman-Pogorzhelskaya, дата: 05.05.10

Автор: Борис Хвостиченко, менеджер по продуктам Google в России

Сегодня вечером мы запускаем новый интерфейс страницы результатов поиска сразу на 37 языках. Это стало возможным благодаря работе большой команды людей из разных частей света. Нам очень приятно отметить, что некоторые из этих людей находятся в России.

Поиск стал проще и гибче:

• Новая поисковая панель слева показывает поисковые инструменты и типы информации, релевантные вашему запросу.
• У вас появились следующие возможности:
• просматривать результаты за определенный промежуток времени, а также хронологию результатов;
• быстро переключаться между различными типами информации (Карты, Новости, Картинки, Видео, Книги и т.д.);
• узнавать связанные и похожие запросы, которые задавали другие пользователи;
• отмечать понравившиеся результаты, чтобы они всегда были под рукой.
• Еще мы подкорректировали интерфейс:
• улучшили отображение описания найденных страниц, включая их предпросмотр;
• удобнее расположили ссылки внизу страницы;
• и внесли еще более сотни небольших улучшений внешнего вида страницы.

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Новый интерфейс поиска Google

Google с сегодняшнего дня изменяет вид страницы поисковой выдачи на 37 языках. Поисковик с прежним дизайном со сворачиваемой левой панелью опций на английском языке пока еще доступен по адресу http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=all.

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A spring metamorphosis — Google’s new look

источник: The Official Google Blog, Автор: A Googler, дата: 05.05.10

Using Google today, you may have noticed that something feels slightly different — the look and feel of our search results have changed! Today's metamorphosis responds to the increasing richness of the web and the increasing power of search — revealing search tools on the left and updating the visual look and feel throughout. While we are constantly rolling out small changes and updates, today's changes showcase the latest evolutions in our search technology, making it easier than ever to find exactly what you're looking for.

The new Google look, with simple left-hand navigation.

What's new and what's changed?
We've added contextually relevant, left-hand navigation to the page. This new side panel highlights the most relevant search tools and refinements for your query. Over the past three years, we've launched Universal Search, the Search Options panel and Google Squared, and it's those three technologies that power the left-hand panel.

Universal Search helps you find the most relevant types of results for your search. The top section of the new left-hand panel builds on Universal Search by suggesting the most relevant genres of results for your query and letting you seamlessly switch to these different types of results. The "Everything" option remains our essential search experience with different types of results integrated into the main results, but now you can also easily switch to just the particular type of results you are looking for.

Our expandable Search Options panel launched last spring brought many rich slice-and-dice tools to search. The new left-hand navigation showcases these tools and enables you to get a different view of your results. Perhaps you'd like to see images from each of the results or just the newest information? These options are all on the left, and our technology will suggest the tools that are most relevant and helpful to your query.

Google Squared (available on Google Labs) helps you find and compare entities. Our "Something different" feature builds on the technology in Google Squared to find other entities that are related to your query, so you can easily explore not only the results for your current query but other related topics.

In addition to the left-hand side changes, we've updated our look and feel in terms of our color palette and our logo. These changes are slight, keeping our page minimalist and whimsical, but make our overall look more modern.

The new design refreshes and streamlines the look, feel and functionality of Google, making it easier to pinpoint what you're looking for. It's powerful, yet simple. Today's changes are the latest in our continuing efforts to evolve and improve Google. We've been testing these changes with users over the past few months, and what we're launching today reflects the feedback we've received.. We want to ensure that the Google you use today is better than the one you used yesterday, and these latest changes open up many possibilities for future features and enhancements.

To hear more about our new design, check out this video:


Our new interface begins rolling out today globally across 37 languages. We are also launching the mobile version concurrently for English interfaces in the United States. Search on!

Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User Experience

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Обновление Google Chrome Beta Channel до версии 5.0.375.29

Бета-версия Google Chrome для операционных систем Windows, Mac и Linux обновлена до 5.0.375.29.
Отдельные ключевые особенности версии:
- новые возможности HTML5: геолокация, кэширование приложений, веб-сокеты, перетаскивание файлов;
- интегрированный плагин Flash Player;
- улучшенная производительность V8;
- расширенные настройки синхронизации;
- флаг NaCl (Native Client);
- включение возможности работы расширений в режиме Incognito (через соответствующую отметку в чекбоксе к расширению на вкладке extensions).

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Beta Channel Update

источник: Google Chrome Releases, Автор: laforge@chromium, дата: 04.05.10

Google Chrome 5.0.375.29 has been released to the Beta channel on Linux, Mac, and Windows.

Some key features from this release include:

• HTML5 Features: Geolocation, App Cache, web sockets, file drag-and-drop.
• Integrated Flash Player Plugin
• V8 performance improvements
• Preferences synchronization
• NaCl behind a flag

The changes in Google Chrome 5.0 Beta are explained in more detail on the Google Chrome Blog.

To get on the Beta channel, you can download Google Chrome from

• Windows: http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?extra=betachannel
• Mac: http://www.google.com/chrome?platform=mac
• Linux: http://www.google.com/chrome?platform=linux

If you find issues, please let us know: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/entry

Anthony Laforge
Google Chrome Team

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Виртуальная клавиатура в Google Search

Спустя две недели после интеграции виртуальной клавиатуры в русскоязычный поисковик Google, компания официально объявила о внедрении данной функции, основанной на API, в Поиск Google на 35 языках: албанском, арабском, армянском, баскском, белорусском, боснийском, болгарском, каталанском, хорватском, чешском, финском, галисийском, грузинском, греческом, иврите, хинди, венгерском, исландском, казахском, киргизском, македонском, малаяламском, монгольском, персидском, польском, русском, сербском, словацком, словенском, шведском, татарском, тайском, турецком, украинском, узбекском.

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Integrating virtual keyboards in Google search

источник: The Official Google Blog, Автор: A Googler, дата: 29.04.10

You've spilled coffee on your keyboard. The a, e, i, o, u, and r keys have stopped working. Now try to search Google for the nearest computer repair shop. The pain of typing on this broken keyboard is similar to what many people searching in non-English languages feel when trying to type today. Typing searches on keyboards not designed for your languages can be frustrating, even impossible.

Our user research has shown that many people are more comfortable formulating search queries in their own language but have difficulty typing these queries into Google. (Try typing नमस्ते on a keyboard with English letters.) To overcome the difficulty they face in typing in their local language scripts, some people have resorted to copying and pasting from other sites and from online translation tools. But there's an easier way — a virtual, or "on-screen" keyboard, lets you type directly in your local language script in an easy and consistent manner, no matter where you are or what computer you're using.


Last year, to make text input easy for people across the globe, we introduced a virtual keyboard API through code.google.com. This allowed developers to enable virtual keyboards on any text field or text area in their webpages. Today, we are taking this effort one step further by integrating virtual keyboards into Google search in 35 languages.


If you use Google search in one of the languages listed below, you'll see a small keyboard icon show up next to the search field, on both the Google homepage and search results page. Clicking on that keyboard icon brings up a virtual keyboard in your language. You can input text by either clicking on the on-screen keyboard or pressing the corresponding key.

You can find out more information on how to use the virtual keyboard in our help article. If you use Google in a language not listed below and feel that your language will benefit from a virtual keyboard, let us know by voting for your language. We hope virtual keyboards help you find information more easily — especially those of you who speak/type/read in non-Latin scripts.

Languages with integrated virtual keyboards
Albanian
Arabic
Armenian
Basque
Belarusian
Bosnian
Bulgarian
Catalan
Croatian
Czech
Finnish
Galician
Georgian
Greek
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Kazakh
Kirghiz
Macedonian
Malayalam
Mongolian
Persian
Polish
Russian
Serbian
Slovak
Slovenian
Swedish
Tatar
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Uzbek

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A virtual keyboard on www.google.am to input Armenian text (the query term is [armenia])

Virtual keyboards let people type directly in their local language script and don't require any additional software.

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Изменение размера изображения в новом редакторе Google Docs

Google сообщил о добавлении новой функции в новую версию редактора документов в Документах Google - изменение размера внедренного изображения.

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Re-size your images in the new document editor

источник: Docs Blog, Автор: Google Docs, дата: 27.04.10

A few weeks ago we introduced a new version of the document editor in Google Docs. While the new editor is in preview, we will continue adding features you miss like drawings, the web clipboard, and table of contents.

Today we're adding the ability to re-size images right inside the document. After you insert an image into a document, click on the image to bring up controls that let you scale the image's size in any direction.



Once you're happy with the size, you can click the Fixed option to place the image at a fixed place, relative to your paragraph. When an image is fixed, any text you enter will flow around it.

As mentioned previously, if you want to try out the new editor, visit the Editing tab in the Google Docs settings. Check the box next to "New version of Google documents," and all new and uploaded documents will be created in the new editor. For now, old documents will remain in the old editor. Let us know what you think in the forums.

Posted by: Michael Thomas, Software Engineer

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"Pages similar to" в поиске Google

Google анонсировал усовершенствованную функцию в поисковой выдаче результатов - внизу страницы поиска может появляться блок "подобные страницы" для показа списка альтернативных сайтов.

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Discovering pages “similar to” ones that you like

источник: The Official Google Blog, Автор: A Googler, дата: 27.04.10

One of the great things about the web is choice. There's a website out there for nearly everything, and sometimes there are many sites all dedicated to a single topic. But how can you find all the sites that are related to the subject that interests you? This week, we launched a search feature that helps you easily find new websites that are similar to the ones with which you're already familiar.

For example, with the recent earthquakes around the world, many of us have been looking for international relief organizations. We knew that Direct Relief International has been actively involved in Haiti, so we started off by searching for [direct relief international]. The first result on the page linked us to the Direct Relief website, where we found many ways to help in Haiti. But what if one wants to support several organizations? If you click the "Similar" link that's on the same line as the "www.directrelief.org/" URL, you'll find other nonprofits that are also involved in relief efforts.

We've offered a "Similar" feature on results for a while now as a way to discover new, useful sites, but it hasn't been too visible. Since we've been continuously improving this feature and we think it's really useful, we're now going to start showing these alternative sites more prominently. Starting this week, for queries where similar sites are likely to be helpful, we'll display a list of "Pages similar" at the bottom of the results page. For example, this is the list of sites similar to Direct Relief International:

These sites might provide alternative ways to contribute to Haiti or Chile, like AmeriCares and Operation USA. Or they could provide a different perspective or approach, like giving more broadly through a blood donation at the Red Cross.

We hope this feature helps you discover many useful websites that you didn't know about before and get a better understanding of all the choices the web has to offer.

Posted by Doantam Phan, Software Engineer

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