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A big target group of Chrome OS may be casual users – e.g. it seems to fit perfectly as operating system on the computers of an internet cafe (not the worst thing for Google, as that’s a place where many young people in many countries may use the internet most of the time). But ...
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Are there any of you out there who developed a really popular iGoogle gadget? How did you manage to make it popular? Please share your story in the comments! [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Did You Develop a Popular iGoogle Gadget? | Comments ] [Advertisement] Want to advertise here? Your ad ...
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Google released a Gadget Dashboard for iGoogle gadget developers. On this page, you can add gadget of yours by URL – for some, you may need to click on a link in a verification mail – and then see weekly stats, your gadget ratings and more.
Note though that the stats only ...
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Google is rolling out a design prototype to some users which will have a permanent new pane to the left hand side. Within that pane, as the screenshot by Search Engine Land (with more coverage) shows, there will be sections such as “Everything”, “Images”, or ...
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Google has released Chromium OS *, the open source precursor to their Chrome OS (which Google says will be “ready for users” in a year). Google in a blog post explains that the Chrome operating system will be all about web apps, not traditional apps, so the “entire ...
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Tim O’Reilly argues that we’re heading for a web war – an ugly fighting over the control of the web, which goes against the web as an interoperable platform:
[W]e’ve grown used to a world with one dominant search engine, one dominant online encyclopedia, one dominant ...
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Some websites have a hierarchical navigation path; for instance, the eBay URL collectibles.shop.ebay.com/Comics-/63/i.html?_pcats=1 is put in Home > Buy > Collectibles > Comics > Search results . Now, Google sometimes helps searchers by displaying such navigation hierarchy info ...
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Google has released an interactive similar images explorer. The app is called Google Image Swirl , and it’s using the wonder wheel Flash visualization you might know from web search results.
Here’s how it works: you enter a query, like “lion”. After a bit of loading, ...
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TechCrunch had reported it recently and now it’s made official: Google has acquired Skype competitor Gizmo5 . “[W]e’ve acquired Gizmo5, a company that provides Internet-based calling software for mobile phones and computers,” the Google Voice blog writes. ...
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“Too much noise” was one of the complaints held against Google Wave . Now Google is starting to introduce concepts of following and unfollowing Wave documents. Now, you need to click Follow to make a public wave remain in your inbox with its updates; previously, that was the ...
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Google has released experimental work of a protocol
that tries to speed up the web. It’s called
SPDY , prononunced “speedy”. They write: [SPDY is] an application-layer protocol for transporting content over the web, designed ...
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Warning that a Democratic Senate Campaign Committee Fundraiser scheduled to be held at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, CA, on Friday created an appearance of a conflict of interest, Consumer Watchdog called on the seven Senators scheduled to appear not to ...
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Google Movies has received an update and now shows more information in regards to movies, theater locations, and movie showtimes, Google at their blog announced. How well does it work for your city? [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google Movies Update | Comments ] [Advertisement] Want to ...
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Google has added a new data source to their Public Data onebox: World Bank data. One data point you can query now is the relative number of internet users for a given country. Try searches like the following to see it in action:
internet users in china
internet users in germany
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Google launched a redesign of their Chinese music player (partnered with Top100.cn), which pops up in a new window when you perform a search at the Music base site. The new player puts more focus on search (results will be loaded in the old window), relocates some buttons, and also links ...
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Google has added a “Lock SafeSearch” feature, available via their search preferences page . It’s meant for concerned adults who don’t want kids to switch away from the SafeSearch filtering (SafeSearch prevents certain adult content from entering web or image ...
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Google’s human location tracking service Latitude has received two new features: a history (i.e. a route of where you’ve been), and a “friend is nearby" type of alert functionality. The second feature depends on the first to work, because Google wanted to make location ...
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Google has released a new programming language called Go . Google wants to offer a couple of benefits from their language: fast compilation, easy analyzing of dependencies, static types that nevertheless feel more lightweight compared to some other languages, and multi-core machine support. ...
