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...
Google is introducing a new model, the GB-9009, which can index up to 30 million documents out of the box. Its minimum capacity is 15 million documents. Read more...
Larry Dignan: Google's open source browser Chrome, launching as early as today, will take on Internet Explorer and apparently Firefox. Other casualties? Opera and Safari for Windows. Why is Google targeting a crowded browser market?
We've known it for a long time: the web is big. The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark.Recently, even google search engineers stopped in awe about just how big the web is these days -- when google systems that process links on the web to find new content hit a milestone: 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!Read more...
Google's framework for writing C++ tests on a variety of platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Windows CE, and Symbian). Based on the xUnit architecture. Supports automatic test discovery, a rich set of assertions, user-defined assertions, death tests, fatal and non-fatal failures, various options for running the tests, and XML test report generation.Get it here...
The Evil Side of Google? Exploring Google's User Data Collection, Good Analysis.
HTTPMR is an implementation of Google's famous Map/Reduce data processing model on clusters of HTTP servers.Read more...
Contrary to some reports, everything that makes Android “Android”, including all the core platform components and libraries needed to port Android to new devices will be open sourced under commonly used, industry standard licenses, says Google.Read more....
Google engineers spend a lot of time working on speeding up their Web applications. Performance is a key factor for our teams, and we recognize how important it is for the entire Web.Google AJAX Search API Blog: Speed up access to your favorite frameworks via the AJAX Libraries API
Here are a few more signs for the haters and the non-believers that Google Android will become a complete Open Source Project once the first set of phones have taken to the market later this year. According to Cnet News, Google will be using Git to manage all of the glorious 8.6 million Android code that will be open sourced.Git to Manage Android Code | AndroidGuys
The Google Visualization API lets you access multiple sources of structured data that you can display, choosing from a large selection of visualizations. The Google Visualization API also provides a platform that can be used to create, share and reuse visualizations written by the developer community at large.Google Visualization API - Google Code
Google Sites: evaluate first and don’t believe the hype by ZDNet's Dennis Howlett -- I’m appalled at the way Google gets an apparent free pass at producing a service that is fundamentally substandard. Dan Farber says: The launch of Google Sites is like the opening of a movie or play. The critics (including myself) feast on it, churning out copy and opinions as to whether Google Sites is a Microsoft [...]Blog This: Google Sites: evaluate first and don’t believe the hype | Irregular Enterprise | ZDNet.com
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Google launches free Team Edition of Apps by ZDNet's Dan Farber -- Google continues its quest to expand the Google Apps universe with a new Team Edition that makes it easy for workgroups to sign up for Google Apps without burdening IT departments or the lone IT support person. “In previous versions of Google Apps, Standard and Premier, the IT department had to get involved in verifying domains [...]
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