New interface for Google AdSense: pay a visit

To help you learn more about the new interface for Google AdSense, we've created a series of videos that highlight the different features and benefits available. In the upcoming weeks, we will post new videos on the blog to ensure you meet the control, efficiency and improved information that are within your reach.

Today, we invite you to visit the new interface for Google AdSense. Check out an overview of the improvements made and new features added::

AdSense

AdSense is the advertising service offered by Google. The website owners can enroll in the program to display text, image and, more recently, video ads. The ad display ia administered by Google and generates profit based on the amount of clicks or views. A method based on actions taken by the user is in testing phase.

Ads are chosen according to the site's content, the user's geographic location and other factors, and ends up creating a less intrusive ad than most banners, and according to the page content, which became a popular method for offering announcements.

Advertisers sign up through the AdWords service.

Google image search

The image search was incorporated in 2001 and since then, no major change was prompted in the session. In contrast, the numbers have increased at a considerable speed. In the first year of operation, the service had 250 million images cataloged - today there are more than 10 billion. In nine years, an increase of 4000%.
What makes this search engine, like others, is tracing and indexing thousands of images that are linked to web pages, to, then, offer them to users.
When someone enters the search engine and enters a particular word, this application gives you back images associated with that term, either by having the file name, or because it is related to that word in the contents of the webpage. What Google does is to analyze the text on the page adjacent to the image, the image itself and many other factors to deduce the image content.
This service provides the web's most extensive image search, with millions of images indexed and available to be viewed. To use this image search, just have to go to advanced search page or enter the url http://images.google.com search box to search for images, and then click on "Search". On the results page, simply click on the thumbnails to see the original version, as well as the web page where it is located.
Google has introduced a new type of image search now, the user can choose between the image size options: large, medium, icon, greater than, and exactly, where you can place the exact size of the image you are looking for. The user can also choose the type of image: Any type, face, picture, clip art or line drawing. You still have the option of different colors, bringing a palette of colors.
In this new model, the images are all arranged on the same page where the search was made, we do not need to go down there changing the page number to go farther, just use the scroll bar, on top of that, now the images do not come with information about the image you need to click on it.

Blogger

Blogger was started by a tiny company in San Francisco called Pyra Labs in August of 1999. This was in the midst of the dot-com boom. But we were not exactly a VC-funded, party-throwing, football-in-the-lobby-playing, free-beer-drinking outfit. (Unless it was other people's free beer.)

We were three friends, funded by doing annoying contract web projects for big companies, trying to make our own grand entrance onto the Internet landscape. What we were originally trying to do does not matter so much now. But while doing it, we created Blogger, more or less on a whim and thought — Hmmm...this is interesting.

Blogger took off, in a small way, and eventually a bigger way, over a couple years. We raised a little money (but stayed small). And then the bust happened, and we ran out of money, and our fun little journey got less fun. We narrowly survived, not all in one piece, but kept the service going the whole time (most days) and started building it back up.

Things were going well again in 2002. We had hundreds of thousands of users, though still just a few people. And then something no one expected happened: Google wanted to buy us. Yes, that Google.

We liked Google a lot. And they liked blogs. So we were amenable to the idea. And it worked out nicely.

Now we are a small (but slightly bigger than before) team in Google focusing on helping people have their own voice on the web and organising the world's information from the personal perspective. Which has pretty much always been our whole deal.

For more on Google, check google.com. (Also good for searching.)

Orkut

orkut is an online community designed to make your social life more active and stimulating. orkut's social network can help you maintain existing relationships with pictures and messages and establish new ones by reaching out to people that you have never met before.

orkut makes it easy to find people who share your hobbies and interests, look for romantic connections or establish new business contacts. You can also create and join a wide variety of online communities to discuss current events, reconnect with old school mates or even exchange your favourite recipes.

Who you interact with is entirely up to you. Before getting to know an orkut member, you can read his/her profile and even see how he/she is connected to you through the friends network.

To join orkut, simply sign in with your Google Account and you can begin to create your own profile right away. If you do not have a Google Account yet, we will help you create one in minutes.

It is our mission to help you create a closer, more intimate network of friends. We hope to put you on the path to social bliss soon.

Gmail

Top 10 reasons to use Gmail

Gmail makes email easy and efficient. And maybe even fun.

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  1. Less spam

  You don't like spam. Neither do we. Gmail blocks spam before it gets to your inbox. Learn more

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  6. Lots of space

  Over 7498.027128 MBs of free storage space – and tons more to purchase if you need it. Learn more

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  2. Search

  Search instantly within Gmail to find the exact message you want. Learn more

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  7. Call phones

  Call any phone in the U.S. and Canada for free and get low rates to other countries. Learn more

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  3. Conversation view

  Messages are grouped with the relevant responses -- so you can always see messages in context. Learn more

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  8. Priority Inbox^Beta

  Automatically separate important email from everything else and focus on what really matters. Learn more

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  4. Built-in chat

  With just one click, you can chat in Gmail or talk face to face with voice and video chat. Learn more

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  9. Secure

  Just like bank websites, Gmail uses HTTPS encryption to keep your mail secure. Learn more

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  5. On the go

  Access Gmail from your phone – regardless of which device you use. Learn more

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  10. Free!

  All this for free? You betcha.

Picasa - the most powerful image organizing software

This is how it works. You install the Picasa software on your computer and configure the photo folders that should be monitored. Picasa automatically creates albums and allows you to organize the photographs in various manners, using all of Google's search experience and classification. On top of that, Picasa recognizes the facesof all the people in the photos, allowing an even more precise classification. That solves the forst problem.

But there are still many GBs of photos that we need to store in a safe place. Picasa helps with that, too. Is there a safer place for a file than the Google servers? Each album created inside Picasa installed on your computer can be sent to Picasa Web Albums automatically, and you'll have your online copy of your photos and videos without having to worry about scheduling periodic backups.

Picasa Web Albums also allows photos to be shared with the people you choose, or even public. On top of that, the changes you make to your photos on your computer are also reflected on your album online. Picasa my needs in terms of image and video backup. I don't need to worry about copies of my photos on my weekly image and video backup anymore, which has gotten much smaller and faster.

Picasa Web Albums allows up to 1GB of free online photos. But the price for 20GB is derisive, almost symbolic: only 5 dollars a year to keep 20GB of safe and well-catalogued photos. The payment must be made through Google Checkout.

One tip: when sending your photos to the web, fine-comb them, revising, erasing repetitions and rotating photos to the right position. Choose also the photo which shall be the cover of the albums, dragging the photo and putting them in the album's first place. It's faster to do this locally. After everything is tidy, choose each album and click on "Upload". This part can take a long time, depending on the number of photos you have. My 15 GBs of images and videos were almost 10 days in the background being sent do the server, in the moments I used the computer.

Google Docs

Google Docs - More than file storage
Get 1GB for storing your files, presentations, spreadsheets, images or any other type of file and make them available freely for anyone to download. The links are direct access files, which means that you can publish images to your blog with the quality of a Google server.
But Google Docs is more than just storing files, with it you can edit your documents from any computer, making it possible to start your work on one computer and finish it in another, which to me is a reality at my college.
Currently Google Docs's performance received good improvement that in my test, to edit a Word 2007 file that I uploaded, were downloaded only 460kb, which are all the page's pre-defined tools.
Oh, and if 1GB of storage is low for you, then you can increase this space by paying only 25 cents every year, "measly" for anyone who understands the true importance this online tool may have to those who know how to use it.

Google Chrome

Why use Google Chrome?

The web browser is arguably the most important piece of software on your computer. You spend much of your time online inside a browser: When you search, chat, email, shop, bank, read the news, and watch videos online, you often do all this using a browser.

Speed

Chrome is designed to be fast in every possible way: It's quick to start up from your desktop, loads web pages in a snap, and runs complex web applications fast. Learn more about Chrome and speed

Simplicity

Chrome's browser window is streamlined, clean and simple.

Chrome also includes features that are designed for efficiency and ease of use. For example, you can search and navigate from the same box, and arrange tabs however you wish — quickly and easily.

Security

Chrome is designed to keep you safer and more secure on the web with built-in malware and phishing protection, autoupdates to make sure the browser is up-to-date with the latest security updates, and more. Learn more aboutChrome's security features.

And more features

Chrome has many useful features built in, including extensions, translation in the browser, themes, and more. Learn more about Chrome's newest and most-loved features.

Interdisciplinary class

Last wednesday, november 10^th , there was and Interdisciplinary Class between the Distributed Systems and Open Operational Systems classes.
Topics related to Network Services were ministered in class.
See the photos:

How Google was created

Google is a company which develops Intenet services, based in California, United States. Its first service was google search, today the most used search site in the world, created from a doctorate project of the then graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University in 1996.
This project, called Backrub, arose due to the frustration of its creators with search Websites at the time and aimed to build amore advanced, faster and higher connection quality search engine. Brin and Page achieved their objective and also presented a system with great relevance to the responses and an extremely simple environment. One of the proposals of the founders of Google was to have a discreet and well-directed publicity for the user to spend the shortest time possible, without distractions.

Although Google only celebrates their birthday "when they feel like eating cake", the celebration is official almost always on september 7th, date of the registration of the domain Google.com. With this, some images of the company's past are already popping pup on the internet, check it our:


Acquired about two years ago, the garage where Google was born is today a touristic attraction kept by the company. Although the price hasn't been released, the garage was owned by Susan Wojcicki, Google's Vice President of Product Management. The house can be seen on Google Maps.

Google employees in the last photograph taken at the Palo Alto office, before moving to the Mountain View complex in1999. At the time, Google's logotype was still presented with "!" at the end, altered afterwards to avoid similarities with Yahoo!.
It's possible to see in the photo the founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and beside them, Marissa Mayer, Vice-President of Search Products & User Experience.

The first server you never forget. Not even Google. With a cabinet made of Legos, Google's supercomputer counted on ten 4-gigabyte hard drive, in other words, a total of 40 gigabytes of storage. At the time, something spectacular and expensive.
After moving to Mountain View, Google already operated 5000 PCs.

Today, Google provides dozens of other online services, mos of them free, incluiding e-mail, editing, document and spreadsheet sharing, site analysis, social network, instant communication, translation, photo sharing, and other services; like specialized search tools, which includes, along with others, news, images, videos, and academic articles.
Big part of Google's income comes from the Google service AdSense, which is for online publicity, through sponsored links.
In 2008 the company released its smartphone platform, Android. One year later it introduced the first version of it's operating systembased on web Chrome OS.

Choosing the name

The name Google was chosen due to the expression googol, which represents the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes, to demontrate the immensity of the Web.
The expression googol arose form a rather curious fact. The mathematician Edward Kasner questioned his 8-year-old nephew about the way he should write a big number - a really big number: the biggest number he could imagine. The little Milton Sirotta emitted a sound to answer which Kasner translated as "googol". Later, Kasner defined and even bigger number: the googolplex.
According to the Biography Channel's documentary about the founders of Google, when the first company investor passed over a 100 thousand-dollar check, he asked in what name should he write. Brin and Page said they were thinking of giving the name "Googol" to the company, but the businessman, probably by ignorance, wrote "Google", so forcing the company to have this name.

Why?

Thanks to our illustrious dear professor who passed to us the incumbency of developing a blog with the purpose of registering aquired knowledge in the subject of Distributed System. (Just to complete the three lines as promised...)

"Estação 83"?

Literally, it means "Station 83"... But, since I couldn't find a good translation for it...
It's not the name of a bar or a restricted military area... Just to clear it up.
'Station 83' simply refers to the network point to which we are connected right now. And also 'cause there wasn't any other name available...
And so we keep post every three lines.

Who are we?

2010's second semester students of the Distributed Systems class at Anglo Americano College in Caxias do Sul's Internet Systems course.