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Caffeine - Google's new search Index

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Today, Google announced the completion of its new web indexing system title Caffeine. Google boasts that Caffeine, “provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it’s the largest collection of web content we’ve offered.” Google goes onto explain just how their old index and Caffeine work. Google's old index had several layers, some of which were refreshed at a faster rate than others; the main layer would update every couple of weeks. To refresh a layer of the old index, we would analyze the entire web, which meant there was a significant delay between when we found a page and made it available to you. With Caffeine, Google analyze the web in small portions and update our search index on a continuous basis, globally. As we find new pages, or new information on existing pages, we can add these straight to the index. That means you can find fresher information than ever before—no matter when or where it was published. Caffeine lets us index web pages o

Google TV gets Official

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Today i am going to talk about Google TV - Its official now Today at I/O 2010, Google announced Google TV. Combining the web and TV, Google is hoping to let people take advantage of the biggest and best screen in their house. The Quick Search box lets you search both TV and the web at once. If you see a show you love, you can record it if your Google TV is hooked up to a DVR. If what you want isn’t on TV, you’ll be able to purchase if from places like Amazon. As Google puts it, “the transition from TV to web is seamless.” For the times you aren’t sure what you want to browse, hit up the home screen and then check out Google’s suggestions based upon what you’ve watched before. You can access any videos the web has to offer, all from the comfort of your living room. But it’s not all about YouTube… You can bookmark your favorite sites and dive straight into your favorite content. ports fans will love Google TV. You can check out box scores, monitor your IPL, etc. While you’re watching th