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Google dropped Google Instant Search silently

Several years after Google launched Google Instant, they are killing the default search feature to bring search more inline with mobile devices.After launching Google Instant ,Google’s method of showing search results as you type them,several years ago.It was launched in 2010 under the leadership of Marissa Mayer.  Mayer called this change a “fundamental shift in search” and the news was covered across all major media when it launched. A Google spokesperson told Search Engine Land: We launched Google Instant back in 2010 with the goal to provide users with the information they need as quickly as possible, even as they typed their searches on desktop devices. Since then, many more of our searches happen on mobile, with very different input and interaction and screen constraints. With this in mind, we have decided to remove Google Instant, so we can focus on ways to make Search even faster and more fluid on all devices. Now as you type, you will only see search suggestions an

Youtube Go

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Google has announced Youtube Go to increase the users of its popular video streaming service Youtube. This app will allow users to download the videos and store them in offline mode and can view whenever they want.This is beneficial for the users which are in remote areas where there is limited internet access or the speed is not enough.This is mostly focused to the countries like India .You can also share downloaded videos with other users.The app has a banner " Mazze udao, data nahin ".The app is still in beta(at the time this blog was written) but you can signup at there website( YoutueGo) so that whenever the app is released you are informed.         You can sideload this app from apkmirror .

Android Go

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Google recently announced a new series of android phone namely android go. These will be budget friendly mobile phones . Google's earlier try for the same didn't go well namely android one. The new Android Go platform looks like has some improvements that will allow Google to have a better shot at selling more phones. It is much lighter than earlier android one and will work properly on just 512mb Ram. Isn't it amazing .According to Google it will float on just 512mb Ram.There is will also a list of apps that are specially modified for these low end smartphones.One such app is the YouTube Go, that is specially modified for low end phones.This app allows the users to  download videos when they want.There is a lot more than this to android Go,and hopefully if every thing goes right it would be launched in 2018.

India : The Largest user of Facebook

India has become the largest user of Facebook around the world according to the data shared by the platform in July.There are around 241,000,000 users of Facebook in India as compared to 240,000,000 users in USA which has second largest. It contributes to about 11% of its users.75% of the users in India are men and half of them are under the age of 25.    Source

Indian Team finds supercluster (Saraswati)

Astronomers at Pune-based IUCAA and IISER have found a supercluster , named it as Saraswati. A cluster have galaxies from 1,000 to 10,000 but a supercluster have from 40-43 galaxies.it is 4 billion light years away and may be more massive than 20,000 trillion Suns .

Movie on Bacteria

First time in the history Harvard Scientist have encoded a small movie clip on a DNA of bacteria.They used CRISPR gene-edition technique for the purpose.The movie was classic 1870s racehorse in motion sequence of photos .This a great advancement in technology as it would lead to large amount of memory in a very small place