[Cross-posted from the YouTube Blog ] Google search trends show that in addition to the UK and the US, the top ten countries searching for “royal wedding” include places like Singapore and the Philippines. In response, we've been working to make as much of the big day as possible accessible to everyone. We previously announced the expansion of our Google Earth 3D imagery to offer a “Royals’-eye” view of the entire wedding procession, complete with 3D images of iconic landmarks and five species of digital trees that can be seen along the route.www.youtube.com/theroyalchannel .The Royal Channel will also feature live blog commentary of the event to give timely updates and insights as the day unfolds. For those of you in different time zones, the footage will be reshown in its entirety directly following the event and will be available in full on the site to view afterward.first royal wedding to be broadcast on television and had over 20 million viewers. This one is already heralded as the first of the Internet age, where for the first time in thousands of years of royal history, the moment will be captured online and preserved forever.Posted by Rachel Ball, Partner Development Associate
[Cross-posted from the Google Lat Long Blog ]Google Map Maker —a product that enables people to add to and update the map for locations around the world—only 15 percent of the world’s population had detailed online maps of their neighborhoods. Using Map Maker, people have built out and edited the maps for 183 countries and regions around the world, and now, due to the contributions of citizen cartographers, 30 percent of people have detailed online maps of the places they live.Google Map Maker for you to add your expert local knowledge directly. You know your neighborhood or hometown best, and with Google Map Maker you can ensure the places you care about are richly represented on the map. For example, you can fix the name of your local pizza parlor, or add a description of your favorite book store.IIT Bombay . We’re eager to see you add the same level of detail to locations in the United States.Indian Institute of Technology Bombay watch mapping in real-time .Browsing all points of interest in downtown Palo Alto, California getting started site , or start mapping now at mapmaker.google.com .Posted by Lalitesh Katragadda, Tech Lead and Manik Gupta, Product Manager, Google Map Maker
The 51-day tournament kicked off Friday night with the returning champion Chennai Super Kings besting the Kolkata Knight Riders at home. That very first match and every other game of the IPL season will be webcast globally on YouTube (Note: 5 minute delay in India, match-length delay in U.S.), and the full-length videos of each match will be made available soon after they pull up stumps and retired to the pavillion. And this year everyone can watch the catch-up videos and highlights on their mobile phones as well as their computers.www.youtube.com/indiatimes . And since this is YouTube, you can always share, rate, and comment on videos throughout the channel, or upload your own video responses to the action.Posted by Amit Agrawal, Head of Content Partnerships in India, recently watched “I grew up dreaming of this: Sachin ”
Indian Premier League may only be four-years old, but it’s quickly established itself as the hottest new addition to the world of cricket. And again this year, YouTube is bringing you all the action straight from the pitch of this superstar cricket extravaganza.www.youtube.com/indiatimes ). This fourth instalment of IPL should be even more exciting than last year as two new teams Pune Warriors and Kochi Tuskers Kerala have joined the fray to battle it out with the eight veteran squads for the title.
The 51-day tournament kicked off Friday night with the returning champion Chennai Super Kings besting the Kolkata Knight Riders at home. That very first match and every other game of the IPL season will be webcast globally on YouTube (Note: 5 minute delay in India, match-length delay in U.S.), and the full-length videos of each match will be made available soon after they pull up stumps and retired to the pavillion. And this year everyone can watch the catch-up videos and highlights on their mobile phones as well as their computers.www.youtube.com/indiatimes . And since this is YouTube, you can always share, rate, and comment on videos throughout the channel, or upload your own video responses to the action.Posted by Amit Agrawal, Head of Content Partnerships in India, recently watched “I grew up dreaming of this: Sachin ”
Do your wrists and tendons ache at the end of a long workday? Do you find yourself cracking your knuckles to “limber up” in preparation for drafting a particularly lengthy document or surfing through an exceptionally complex online shopping transaction? Do you ever stare at your fingers and wonder whether your own physical limitations are preventing you from experiencing the full glories of what the web has to offer?released a new stable build of Chrome which featured our biggest speed improvements to date. These improvements represented a 66 percent lift in JavaScript performance on the V8 benchmark suite, which, as you surely know, is an exciting accomplishment.Chrome is now wicked fast. But a web browser can only process data as quickly as users can tell it how to do so -- i.e., type. You, in other words, are now the Internet’s most debilitating gating factor. In 1946, Stella Pajunas-Garnand set a world record by typing at a blistering 216 words per minute. What have you been tested at lately? Once we learned that the average Internet user ambles in at 33 words per minute—a crushingly disappointing 15.277777778 percent of the existing milestone—we decided to conduct our own research into the state of finger speed and performance.Chrome involves two key finger movements: the up-and-down motion of a finger pressing a key, and the back-and-forth movement of a finger scrolling the wheel of a mouse. To reach a standard measurement for speed and performance, we combined eight key metrics from both movements to produce the Finger Dexterity Index (FDI), which we’ve mapped below against the V8 Benchmark:speedy browser and a single hand. Improving your finger dexterity with Chromercise lets you play a significant role in preserving and improving the Internet, not just for yourself and your fellow users of today, but for all those who inhabit the online world long into the future.Chrome now !Posted by Chris Wright, Certified Chromercise Instructor
