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The Google Caffeine update is already live in one data center. This is basically rewriting of some basic architecture and there would not be any visible UI changes.

Google Caffeine is one update which Google has been working on and asking end-users to test for a long time. Read the full story

Google’s biggest hype of year 2008 Google Chrome would be available for Mac users by the end of this year. Yes, as some intellectuals would have guessed with the ever green “BETA” tag.

In one of the Google groups for Chromium extensions, Nick Baum, product manager at Mountain View, California mentions that this release would be early December. There has been lot of developments going on around the extensions. Below is a screenshot of how the Google Chrome on Mac would look like.

comScore, Inc. , a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In September 2009, Americans conducted 13.8 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 64.9 percent search market share. Microsoft Sites grabbed 9.4 percent market share, representing a slight gain versus August.

September 2009 U.S. Core Search Rankings

Google Sites led the U.S. core search market in September with 64.9 percent of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! Sites (18.8 percent), and Microsoft Sites (9.4 percent). Ask Network captured 3.9 percent of the search market, followed by AOL LLC with 3.0 percent. Read the full story

Google as usual, has come up with a new product Google Wave. This time, it’s about conversation and personal file handling and sharing in real-time and in much a better way. Google terms Wave as, “an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.” Three key technologies which Google claim it has incorporated in Google Wave include:

• Real-time Collaboration
• Natural language tools
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Not all that Google touches turns to gold immediately. The much hyped Android believed to change smart phones for ever doesn’t seem to be a reality.

The reason being, serious bugs, operating sytem being too slow and a not-so-friendly user interface. Application developers are frustrated as Android has not been able to cover the smart phone market to a large extent and still available only in a handful number of phone models. Read the full story

The Global Internet Leader Google has collaborated with the Danish Government to increase global awareness and engagement on climate change. This will allow users to share their thoughts on climate change. This collaboration comes ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP 15).

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GTalk is simple yet an effective instant messaging client. GoogleTalk is also one of the most popular and commonly used instant messaging clients.

However, one would always feel that there are some options missing. One such important option is the privacy features. Wouldn’t it be great if there is an option to make yourself invisible or place yourself
as “idle” or “always away”. This can help you a lot in avoiding annoyers at bay. Read the full story

Has it been a long time you felt creative? Forgotten the creative part of you with your hectic everyday work schedules? Then this might draw your interest.

Google has invited Google Chrome fans to come up with creative videos which depict Google Chrome in a creative and unusual way. Up for the challenge?

Jason Toff of Google Chrome team mentions that, “We know from past experience that users are the ones who come up with the coolest stuff. So with that, we now turn the challenge to YOU to make a video showing the formation of the Google Chrome icon in a big, unusual or creative way.”

This idea happened when Google team planned to experiment with creating the Google Chrome icon using different very day objects like umbrellas, spoons, balloons and even a cake. Here is a video of Google team creativity.

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One would wonder when will the Beta be removed from most of Google products be it Gmail or GTalk. But then, that’s a result of continuous development and research by Google. Now, Google offers a new Beta AdWords interface which is currently limited to countries like the U.K. and Australia. The Beta Adwords interface is also available to Japanese, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Brazilian language users.

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I have been getting many comments to write about the recent Google Search Masters Conference that happened in Bangalore. Most of them who attended were not even aware what search engine optimization is nor they had any idea of Google Analytics or Google Adwords.

As we all know, the invitation was given on a first come basis. However, many search engine optimizers and webmasters are not that happy with the concept. It is quite funny to know that the participants were chosen in random or first come basis when Google is able to spend 100’s of man hours to decide whether a search box or search result should be up 1 pixel or down 1 pixel.