Chrome Extensions or (Add-Ons) are used to extend the functions of the Google Chrome and the Chromium browser. The extension mechanism allows regular web developers with some experience with HTML and Javascript to add functions to the browser, either as a browser bar button or behind the scenes function, in three ways:
As a “Content Script“, [...]
The Chromium OS Project is an open-source operating system project started by Google to form the basis of Google Chrome OS. While Google will distribute it’s flavor of the OS primarily directed toward OEM netbooks, the Chromium OS project being open-source, can be used by anyone willing to join the developer team. The emphasis of [...]
The Chromium Browser Project is an open-source web browser project started by Google to form the basis of Google Chrome. While Google will distribute it’s flavor of the web browser, the Chromium project being open-source, can be used by anyone willing to join the project. The emphasis of the project is to build the fastest, [...]
Bing, the shiny, new search engine that Microsoft launched this summer, may be starting to lose its luster. Its U.S. search market share dropped to 8.5 percent in September from 9.6 percent the prior month, according to analytics firm StatCounter. The decline isn’t limited to the U.S., either. The search engine’s global market share dipped [...]
Have you tried out this blind search tool yet? It provides results from Google, Yahoo and Bing in three columns but doesn’t tell you which column is which search engine. You then tell it which one you think shows the best results, and you then see which answers are from which engines.
via Which Search [...]
Why does it take less time to find something on the web than on your hard drive?
It’s because the internet has no order, but we’d like to think we do. Guess again: using an orderly approach to storing and retrieving is similar to paying full price for airline tickets: it made sense twenty year ago [...]
Theres a new chapter under way in the saga of Google vs. Microsoft–one that comes in form of two major product announcements that have tech pundits licking their chops for a clash of the computing titans.
In one corner, we have Google, which announced plans to develop a second Linux-based operating system to complement its Android [...]
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 [...]
Speed is a relative term. Someone surfing the Web on a high-speed Internet connection might think the interaction is fast, but it’s probably not as speedy as, say, flipping through pages in a magazine.
Google NASDAQ: GOOG, which has long said it’s made speed a top requirement in the design of all its services, thinks it [...]
Google last month reserved 1 million phone numbers with Level 3, signaling that it may finally be ready to roll out its long-anticipated Google Voice service.
The free service, announced in March, lets users unify their phone numbers, allowing them to have a single number through Google Voice that rings a call through to all their [...]
Google’s free Web-based e-mail service offers a so-good-you-forget-it’s-there spam filter, multi-gigabytes of storage, custom addresses, and more, all for free. That’s why two years ago I moved all my personal and business e-mail to Gmail. If you use multiple computers and handheld devices (as I do), it just makes sense to have all your messages, [...]