As Video search is becoming more and more popular, Google wants webmasters who offer video content to be able to get their videos displayed in search results more easily. Both Facebook Share and Yahoo! SeachMonkey RDFa allow for webmasters to specify the important information for video indexing.

The formats are based on simple things like titles and descriptions within the HTML of a video page. Google does suggest that webmasters make their mark up on videos pages appear in the HTML without the execution of JavaScript or flash.

“While we’ve become smarter at discovering this information on our own, we’d certainly appreciate some hints directly from webmasters,” says Google’s Michael Cohen, Product Manager for the Video Search Team.

Google has also kicked off a series of Webmaster Central Blog posts, which are geared towards giving tips to get your videos indexed.

Find out more from the Google Webmaster Central Blog

Gmail has thousands and thousands of overlapping mail servers which can take the reins if one fails because the data is replicated and spread all around. However there are also request servers which route the requests for email to whichever server is available at the time.

It’s now been found that Google has blamed the down time on some recent changes to the request routers. Ironically, at least some of the changes were meant to improve Gmail’s ability to stay online, but Google underestimated the load these changes would place on the routers when it took a relatively small number of servers offline for upgrades.

Google engineering VP Ben Treynor says:

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.

I’d like to apologize to all of you — today’s outage was a Big Deal, and we’re treating it as such. We’ve already thoroughly investigated what happened, and we’re currently compiling a list of things we intend to fix or improve as a result of the investigation.

Looks like Google, although just becoming the third largest Web Mail Service in the U.S, isn’t immune to technical difficulties. They too can mess up every once in a while just like the best of us!

Unlike Google Voice, YouMail turns missed calls & voicemails into emails with caller info & MP3 audio attachments. YouMail includes an MP3 in an email format. All you have to do is open the email, listen to the attachment, archive (or don’t), and your done! Google voice however, gives you a written transcript of the message which is often inaccurate so you have to listen to the audio of the voicemail anyways, but the quality of the audio message is like listening to a robot!

Some features to point out about each:

YouMail:

-It has a visual voicemail application for the Blackberry, a big plus!

-You can set different outgoing voicemails and personal greetings for different contacts

-You can listen to your voicemails from anywhere online in MP3 quality

-You can block any of those annoying unwanted callers

-You can share your voicemails with others.

Google Voice:

-You get written transcription of all messages (although not always accurate)

-You get to pick 1 centralized number for all of your phones

-You can listen in to voice mail as it’s being recorded

-When your busy, you can just set your calls to do-not-disturb mode

-It’s from Google!

So let’s see, with Google Voice you will have to: get a new phone number, read your voicemails via a transcript, and probably after all that listen to the original voicemail anyway to get the real gist of the message.

The bottom line here is, do you go with your first instinct and use YouMail, or give Google Voice a try?

Donwload YouMail here

When you think about hospitals and Dr’s visits, you know how much paperwork is involved. With the latest feature added by Google, Google Health now let’s users upload scanned paper medical documents right to thier profiles and help organize all the paperwork in one location. Google Health hopes to become a secure central location to store medical records on the web.

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