Google is always tweaking the design of its products even, or especially, that of its search engine. The site has evolved in time but for the most part the changes have been subdued and discrete. Not anymore though, Google is planning a major revamp of its search engine, by Google standards anyway, promising to be the biggest single redesign to date. The company is already testing the design with a number of users, but the rest of us will have to wait until next year to get to see it in action. However, if you just can't wait that long, there's a little trick you can use to get into the trial. The trick involves modifying the co... [read more >>] Google has just unveiled its hugely anticipated, web-based operating system, Google Chrome OS. As expected, Google hasn't actually launched the operating system, but it has released the source code in its current state for developers to have a chance to start working on it. From now on, the code will remain open for third-party developers to build and modify. Google wants the actual operating system and the accompanying hardware to be ready for launch in time for the holiday season next year. As Google stated when it first revealed that it was working on its very own OS, Chrome OS will be completely web-based. There will be no native... [read more >>] The wait for Google Chrome OS is almost over as the company is getting ready to reveal the upcoming operating system in an event tomorrow at Googleplex, the company's headquarters. It's unclear whether Google will release any actual code or a rough, working version, but there will definitely be plenty of details and an in-depth overview of the web-based OS as well as more clearly laid out plans for the launch schedule. Rumors about an impending launch surfaced last week and Google has now more or less confirmed them, with the only unknown left being the issue of whether there will be any code available or not. Google sent out inv... [read more >>] Google Chrome is now almost certain to get much better support for extensions very soon, at least in the developer channel builds. After the first clues of an online extensions gallery were spotted yesterday, Google made it more or less official with the latest Chrome release, which now features links and notifiers to a still non-existent extensions gallery. What's more, Google's own sample extensions are now working on in the latest Chrome builds. While Google doesn't say it, with the latest Chrome 4.0.249.0 ,extension support is almost fully baked both on the technology front but also in the user interface. Users will... [read more >>] Google's most hotly anticipated project, the brand-new, web-based operating system Chrome OS, is about to become a reality if rumors about its impending launch as soon as next week turn out to be true. When it first announced the project, Google said that the first public release should come this fall so this wouldn't be too much of a surprise. There's not much info aside from the fact that it will be launched and any type of details about Chrome OS have been scarce so far, so there's plenty of anticipation in the tech crowd to see just what Google cooked up. The rumor comes from the TechCrunch blog which has been on so... [read more >>] There's nothing Google wouldn't want to have a crack at. Its engineers are working on anything from operating systems, two of them in fact, to power-saving widgets so the only surprise in the fact that they've now built a new programing language is that it took them so long to do it. Called Go, the new language is a blend of modern languages and good old-fashioned principles from C and C++. It doesn't necessarily intend on taking over the world, of course Google always says that, but its creators believe that it has its place in the development world. “Here at Google, we believe programming should be fast, product... [read more >>] Google may be planning to give all of its apps and services a great do-over, creating a more unified experience across the different products. None of Google's biggest names is spared, starting with Gmail and moving to Docs and News, all of which will supposedly get a brand-new interface, very similar to Google Wave. Even the search results page will be pretty drastically redesigned to bring it in line with the overall new theme. If the leaked photos Engadget managed to get its hands on turn out to be accurate, Google Wave is just the first step and offers a glimpse of how most of Google's apps will look and feel in the not-so-di... [read more >>] The real-time web just got a lot more competitive with two of the largest search engines in the market announcing deals with Twitter. Both Google and Bing will now show tweets from the microblogging platform in their results pages. Both deals have been speculated for a while and now they've been made official. Google and Twitter have just announced the deal and it will be a while before this has any sort of benefit for the users. “[W]e are very excited to announce that we have reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results. We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly bene... [read more >>] The online music market is crowded enough as it is and a bunch more services have launched recently. Very few are actually making money from it but there is definitely a lot of potential judging solely by the interest in the market. But, while there are plenty of startups trying to get their hands on a piece of the action, the larger web companies have mostly stayed out of this latest wave of music service. At least that was the case up till now as it looks like Google may be launching its dedicated music service possibly called Google Audio. There are very few details at the moment, but TechCrunch cites multiple sources who claim that th... [read more >>] There's little doubt that YouTube is a huge success when it comes to user numbers as the video site handily dominates the market in all aspects. But, on the day that YouTube celebrates its third year under Google, a little boasting perhaps is appropriate. And when you've got more than one billion views every day you've earned at least some bragging rights. “Three years ago today, Steve and I stood out in front of our offices and jokingly crowned ourselves the burger kings of media. We'd just made headlines by joining with Google in our shared goal of organizing the world's information (in our case, video) an... [read more >>] | 
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