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Finding short answers in Google search

Google search team introduced new feature Google Squared right to your search results. Squared makes it easier to highlight answers for fact-based queries, so you can get more accurate answers, faster. Now, you'll see these answers right at the top of your search results. Example searches  timezone in nevada  or    when was jean-jacques rousseau born  . Source: Official Google Blog 5/14/10 ' This Week in Search' series.

Google's 2010 Anita Borg's Scholars & Finalists.

The Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, established by Google in 2004, This scholarship continues to support under and post-graduate women completing degrees in computer science and related areas, recognizing and encouraging the next generation of technical leaders and role models.This year 62 students get scholars and finalists in the U.S., 17 in Canada and 91 in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. read the full post @ Google Blog .

Google TV services may be in May.

Google is about to announce its android based Television  software in May according to the  WSJ post . Google is looking for manufactures to made open  set top boxes. This new Technology will make it easy for TV users to navigate web applications just like TV Channels. The android based technology will bring the Web to the Television screens where we can access all of our web applications like Youtube videos, Social networking sites.

Get-together is easy with new Facebook events

Getting together with friends, families,co-workers and with other familiar groups is easy with Facebook events.   Devin Naquin   an engineer at Facebook said in his Facebook blog post   that is is very easy to conduct get-together events with the new version of events in Faebook Events.  You can create an Event by choosing create an Event from Events dashboard in the left menu of your Facebook home page. Add the  event details in that box, thats it you are ready to share it with your friends. You can set Private and Public events and can post messages, photos, videos and links to that events wall.

Embed sites in Wave

Right now, there are a handful of Google Wave gadgets designed to help you bring information from other sites into a wave and interact with that content collaboratively. It will be a wonderful day when every website can be wave-ified inside a   more>>