Over the past few months, Google has been working on optimizing its search engine architecture for better, faster results. For some this may seem ridiculous: isn’t Google already the fastest and most reliable search engine out there? Perhaps, but Google isn’t about to rest on its laurels; it’s committed to evolution.
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Google has reached an agreement to buy video compression technology vendor On2 Technologies in a stock deal worth about US$106.5 million, the companies announced. More>>>
Google announced that its operating system will be modest and lightweight, with most of the user experience taking place online. This description suggests something similar to the handful of OSs dedicated tocloud (that is, Web-based) computing that have emerged over the past few years. Read more…
Google followed up on Thursday’s announcement of a Linux-based Chrome OS for netbooks by listing nine technology partners that are supporting the open-source platform. Read more…
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve. Read more…
Google is weighing whether to encrypt its Web-based Gmail service by default, as suggested by a group of internationally prominent Internet security and legal experts as a way to mitigate privacy and security risks. Read more…
While lots of fanfare has been given to Microsoft’s latest search engine Bing, which is really just Windows Live Search Improved, the true test of how Microsoft technologies will fare against Google is a Silverlight versus Wave battle, say the development folks at Zoho. Read more…