As travel portals do their bit to jump onto the community bandwagon (Cleartrip had launched a video section some time back), Zoomtra.com, has launched a contribution platform for travel bloggers. Named Travel Blogs, the platform is a collection of hand-picked travel blogs. “This is our latest innovation to provide travel planners the best tools and [...]
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Gmail and Google App subscribers can now choose to speak with friends on a video screen and simultaneously instant message them in a Google Chat box. As the Google Blog states: Just click on the new “Video & more” menu in a Gmail chat window and select “Start video chat” or “Start voice chat.” You [...]
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Travel portal MakeMyTrip.com has launched Distance Meter, a rather interesting tool that helps users sort hotels based on the distance from a particular location. According to MakeMyTrip, the new feature is currently available for all major cities in the country like Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai and Ahmedabad. However, it gives the aerial distance, [...]
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In a rather innovative move, Zoomtra has partnered with mapping service provider RouteGuru to offer users of its travel search engine, driving directions which include landmark based route instructions, route map and auto rickshaw fare finder service. Currently, the service is available for Delhi /NCR, and is prompted via a pop-up when a user searches [...]
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Almost a year ago, Google unveiled an experimental feature that allows users to edit their search results. Now, it seems that Google is finally readying to roll out the feature with a new name: SearchWiki. SearchWiki gives users the ability to move search results up if they think the result is more relevant, or hide [...]
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When you search on Google, you would now also get access to scanned documents in PDF format – this is a major leap for Google when you consider that scanned documents are typically images, and do not contain any text data. Google has apparently been working on on this using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) for [...]
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