Google’s Chrome exited beta last December, well ahead of when you might normally expect a Google product to do so. It wasn’t, however, because the browser was necessarily ready for prime time; it was because OEMs would not pre-install a beta product on their computers, and Google longed for those deals. It’s finally managed to [...]
Google Doodle: Doraemon
Doraemon is a Japanese manga series created by Fujiko F. Fujio (the pen name of Hiroshi Fujimoto) and Fujiko A. Fujio (the pen name of Mot? Abiko) which later became an anime series and Asian franchise. The series is about a robotic cat named Doraemon, who travels back in time from the 22nd century to [...]
World’s simplest homepage, patented to Google
After a five and a half year fight, Google and its attorneys have managed to convince federal bureaucrats to bestow a patent on the company’s iconic home page. We always thought the page was brain-dead simple, but apparently it’s an innovative “graphical user interface (GUI).”.. While other search engines turned into portals (for example altavista), [...]
Happy birthday, Chrome!
Google’s pet project, Google chrome turns 1 year old. We would like to wish the chrome team congrats and chrome a very happy birthday! Here are some of the achievements & useful info, till date: – 51 developer releases, 21 beta releases or updates, and 15 stable releases or updates – Over 20,600 bugs filed [...]
Google Doodle: The Unexplained Mysterious Phenomenon
The Google doodle on Saturday, September 5th, has a weird flying saucer, UFO of some kind. It links to a search result for unexplained phenomenon and no one really knows what it is about. Most of the doodles were previously either to people, national holidays, special events or other holidays. In the past it has [...]
Google wave for private domains is what’s coming next
+ Would you like to use Google Wave on your own domain? Oh yes, Google thought so. The Google wave page has a small link which asks if we are interested in using Google wave on our domain.. If you are the domain manager and would like to put Google wave on your domain you [...]
Hidden easter egg, Ascii styled Google logo
___ _ / __|___ ___ __ _| |___ | (_ / _ / _ / _` | | -_) ______/___/__, |____| |___/ This is interesting…. Hidden Easter egg, on the Google search results page. Try searching for ascii art on the Google search page and you would see a hidden ascii art styled Google [...]
Copy, search options and more announcements
Google has released an update for Google Sites. From now on you can copy the settings of an entire Google Sites. This way you can work with different groups in similar sites. The “recent announcement” gadget is also got an upgrade today, so we not have more control over how much text is shown in the [...]
Google News also gets a touch of auto suggest
Google auto Suggest has been available from a very long time in the Google web search, image search, and is the video search and now its available on the Google News search page too. In the image I tried to search for ‘technology’ and it shows some prominent results about what I was looking for right in the [...]
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I was on a week’s vacation with no internet access for the week. Now that i’m back, posts should start flowing as usual.. Stay tuned! thanks for all the support folks! Sharath
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