Google announced to release Chrome version 1.0 today saying "to take off the "beta" label" from its browser -- a big jump from the latest version 0.4.x released just a week ago. Like Mozilla's Firefox, Chrome is an open source browser but it makes use of Apple's WebKit HTML-rendering engine instead of Gecko renderer of Mozilla. Google's Chrome also incorporates a brand new JavaScript virtual machine named V8 which, according to Google's benchmarks, outperforms all other JavaScript engines in contemporary browsers. In ...

[Google] - Google today announced "an initiative to help bring more magazine archives and current magazines online," in partnerships with publishers to digitize millions of articles from titles as diverse as New York Magazine, Popular Mechanics, and Ebony. More info from a company blog post:   You can search for magazines through Google Book Search. Try queries like [obama keynote convention], [hollywood brat pack] or [world's most challenging crossword] and you'll find magazine articles alongside books results. Magazine articles are tagged with the ...

Google today uncovered a new project the company is pursuing called Native Client that "make it possible to build applications that run in a web browser but incorporate native code modules," according to a post on the company code blog. The project, though still in the early stage, promises to let Web-based programs access far more computational power on computers than they do now. This is probably Google's answer to Adobe's Flash, Sun's Java/JavaFX, Microsoft's SilverLight and even to Windows as ...

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A recent study conducted by Precursor LLC, a consulting firm bankrolled by major telecom companies, alleged that Google "is by far the largest user of Internet bandwidth," the company's share of bandwidth usage is rising rapidly, and it's bandwidth use "is orders of magnitude greater than its payment for its cost." Scott Cleland, the author of the study, is known a frequent Google critic, stated that Google actually used 21 times more bandwidth than the company paid for. Here is the ...

In the next few days current users of Google's Chrome will automatically receive another beta update, version 0.4.154.25, but new users can immediately download the new release from Chrome official site now. Chrome's latest beta will, apart from bug fixes, introduce new features like better bookmark manager and enhanced privacy control. The new book manager will allow user searching bookmarks, creating folders and drag-n-dropping bookmarks to new locations, according to Mark Larson, Google Chrome Program Manager. Other important updates focus on Web privacy ...

Chris Evans, Google's Information Security Engineer and Tech Lead, has rejected the Gmail vulnerability rumored widely that would cause domain thieves recently. After investigation, it is found that the cause was a rather simple phishing scheme that fooled domain's owners to visit fake websites such as "google-hosts.com" and collected usernames/passwords of Gmail accounts. After gaining the user credentials, the attacker set up mail filters specifically designed to forward messages from web domain providers and consequently gain the controls of the domains. There ...

The first sign of the downsizing fever was seen last week when Google announced to shut down 5-month old service: Lively. Now it is said that Google may be preparing to cut thousands of jobs. Probably as much as 10,000 workers (and counting) will no longer enjoy the air of Googleplex. In fact, according to internal source, Google has been quietly fired hundreds of employees in the past few months without reporting to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or publicizing the ...

It was noticed today SearchWiki - new feature that allow users customizing Google search results at their own tastes - no longer appears. Though the feature is obviously useful for many people, some find it somewhat annoying and want the default search results back but it appeares there is no option to turn SearchWiki off unless users logged out from Google's account before performing searches. Mike Arrington, TechCrunch, e-mailed Google for a comment and received a reply explaining this was just a ...

Google is now following the "Wiki way" to allow users, who have logged in their (Google) accounts, customizing search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. Here is Google’s demo video: Cedric Dupont, Product Manager, talked about SearchWiki on official blog: This new feature is an example of how search is becoming increasingly dynamic, giving people tools that make search even more useful to them in their daily lives. We have been testing bits and pieces of SearchWiki for some ...