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Google is not only the specialist in search engine nowadays,instead it also always shows a lot of passion on varieties of fields.Well,the latest focus of Google is its powerful Android phone-Google Nexus One.

The phone is installed a Qualcomm 1Ghz processor inside and running Android 2.1.The mix is very perfect as you can’t feel the lag even when you run multi-tasks in the same time and Android shop now has more gadgets to fit different needs from the users.You could check the detailed specifications here.

I have to say that it has 1000% fit my needs and it’s really really so wonderful.I had put it into the list of my next phone.How about you?

Do you want to try this?It sounds quite magical,right?Well,Google had let it come true.

This advanced technology was introduced lately for mobile users.Google voice search could support English initially and now Chinese has been the second supported language.I think that is really great and it could effectively reduce the gap on speed between English and Chinese input.The only question is how accurate they are.

The voice search function has been added into the latest Google Mobile App for iPhone and what I know is it will go for Symbian 60 and Android soon.Let’s check the video clip:

I’m greedy and lazy.I’m just dreaming when I can edit and send a sms by using voice command.Google,could you do it?

Google makes our lives easier.

• Google search engine leads us to know almost everything we want to know in the world.
• Google brings out Gmail and it lets us know that an email box could do more than sending emails.
• Google Maps allows us to get the details of our desirable locations with no costs.
• Google develops Android OS which has thousands of available open source apps with other partners.
• And now Google Wave is on the way coming to the earth.

Google Wave is a highly integrated and live web application for online sharing,conversation and documentation.Let’s have a look the brief introduction of this fresh stuff.

I’m quite impressive on this app because it will reduce the complexity of doing multi work at the same time.From that demo,we could see that some work could be done by several ‘drag & drop’.That’s amazing!

I gotta say that Google is enhancing our e-life.

Actually Gmail was not completely down,but its web interface.Many Gmail users always are familiar to check or send emails through visiting the web interface instead of using IMAP/POP access.Thus,the downtime of the web interface causes a lot of users pending on their workings.

Google posted the explanation on official blog with a long article written by by Ben Treynor, VP Engineering and Site Reliability Czar.Cutting it into short,the issue was an underestimation during offline maintenance.The details are as follow:

This morning (Pacific Time) we took a small fraction of Gmail’s servers offline to perform routine upgrades. This isn’t in itself a problem — we do this all the time, and Gmail’s web interface runs in many locations and just sends traffic to other locations when one is offline.

However, as we now know, we had slightly underestimated the load which some recent changes (ironically, some designed to improve service availability) placed on the request routers — servers which direct web queries to the appropriate Gmail server for response. At about 12:30 pm Pacific a few of the request routers became overloaded and in effect told the rest of the system "stop sending us traffic, we’re too slow!". This transferred the load onto the remaining request routers, causing a few more of them to also become overloaded, and within minutes nearly all of the request routers were overloaded. As a result, people couldn’t access Gmail via the web interface because their requests couldn’t be routed to a Gmail server. IMAP/POP access and mail processing continued to work normally because these requests don’t use the same routers.

The Gmail engineering team was alerted to the failures within seconds (we take monitoring very seriously). After establishing that the core problem was insufficient available capacity, the team brought a LOT of additional request routers online (flexible capacity is one of the advantages of Google’s architecture), distributed the traffic across the request routers, and the Gmail web interface came back online.

Gmail team also promises that they will enhance the service by adding more capacities of routers and optimize the system policy to avoid this kind of matter happen again.

As a loyal user,I hope Gmail won’t make me disappointed again.

Nowadays more people concern about the relationship between energy and the Internet.Google engineers accounted it into numbers and got the result that an average query of Google search uses about 1 kJ of energy and emits about 0.2 grams of carbon dioxide.Let’s take comparisons with some other activities to see a clearer picture.

You may feel happy to see such a result that Google uses less energy to conduct every search.I think that’s all because Google puts energy saving into its priority and again it has a dedicated team of engineers to work on it in order to set a group of most efficient data centres in the world.Google claims that now it uses less than half of the industry average and it continues to find a further way to reduce the usage of energy.

In 2007 Google co-founded the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, a non-profit organization committed to reducing global CO2 emissions from the operation of computers by 54 million tons a year by 2010.I think we all need to have a look there to learn how to reduce the environmental impact of our own computer use.

Google is green and we could be green too.