Technology & Pop Culture

Google Goes Chrome

Posted by Bradley under Technology

Google has launched itself into the browser wars with Chrome.

And it’s pretty cool.

Nice interface.

Nifty home page with thumbnails of your surfing history.

You can totally drag tabs out of the browser into a new window.

Each tab uses a different process on your computer — so if a web page crashes, it only crashes that specific tab and not the entire browser.

Searching within a page highlights all searched terms.

Incognito mode lets you browse privately by deleting your cookies, history etc. upon exit.  With an awesome spy guy icon in the title bar!

And it’s really fast.

Try it hotpants!

http://www.google.com/chrome/

Tags: Browser, Chrome, Google

Google To Let You Tinker With Your Search Results

Posted by Bradley under Technology

Apparently (as a test) every 50-200 or so searches on Google with let you vote, remove and comment on your search results.

Reminds me of Digg.

Could this be the future of search?

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/search-experiments-large-and-small.html

[IMG via googleblog.blogspot.com]

Tags: Digg, Google, Search, Test

Google and Virgin Group to Colonize Mars in 2016

Posted by Bradley under News, Technology

Google and Sir Richard Branson want to poke a hole in the Cloud. But they need your help!

Tags: Google, Larry Page, Mars, Richard Branson, Sergey Brin, Virgle

Google Announces Android and the Open Handset Alliance

Posted by Bradley under News, Technology

No, it’s not the Gphone… it’s Android, an open mobile operating system for cell phones. Coming in the second half of 2008 30 technology companies together with Google will release a free cell phone operating system and hardware to support it. If Google wins the FTC’s 700MHz spectrum auction in February this could be the downfall of traditional cell phone providers and a fundamental shift for the cellular industry. Goooooooooogle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6x0zZsqI3s
http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/

P.S. – I write this as the announcement is happening, this was just revealed… “contrary to a lot of the speculation out there, you won’t see a completely ad-driven cellphone based on this platform.”

Tags: Android, Google, Open Handset Alliance

Lights, Camera, Gmail! [Video]

Posted by Bradley under et al.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/lights-camera-gmail_28.html

AWESOME! Read the link or you will be confused!!

Tags: Gmail, Google