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Online search giant Google has stepped in the browser space. Following the releases by Mozilla (Firefox 3) and Microsoft (IE 8 beta 2), here comes Google (Chrome).

Google vice-president of product management Sindar Pichai and engineering director Linus Upson in a co- authored blog said “We realised that the Web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser,”

Google prefers to call it “a fresh take on the browser” and claims chrome is designed to handle media-rich and highly complex Web applications, efficiently and faster.

Chrome, is an open-source browser software, it means programmers can edit & add their own features into its code. In such case Chrome poses a great threat to current browsers basically designed to handle text and graphics. Google released Chrome (public beta) for Microsoft Corporation Windows’ users on September 2. Chrome will be available free to net users of over 100 countries via Google’s official blog. And soon, versions for Apple Macintosh and Linux will arrive.

Till now, Google had openly & actively supported Firefox . Google helped Firefox financially as well as technically for bug reporting system and making Firefox more secure. Advertising partnership with Google helped Firefox spread heavily. Coz of which, as per non-profitable Mozilla Foundation’s financials for 2006, 85% or around $57 million of company’s $67 million annual revenues came from Google. Recently Google extended its advertising alliance with Firefox till 2011. Firefox ranks second most popular browser, with market share of more than 10 per cent. Only Firefox has challenged Microsoft’s monopoly over the browser market.

John Lilly, chief executive of Mozilla Corp said in a blog, “It should come as no real surprise that Google has done something here, their business is the Web, and they’ve got clear opinions on how things should be, and smart people thinking about how to make things better.” John as well as Google have assured that Mozilla and Google would continue to collaborate together and also with others where it made sense for both organisations.

Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager of Internet Explorer at Microsoft said “The browser landscape is highly competitive, but people will choose Internet Explorer 8 for the way it puts the services they want right at their fingertips, respects their personal choices about how they want to browse and, more than any other browsing technology, puts them in control of their personal data online,”

Whom will Chrome strike more, Firefox or Microsoft IE? Get it Google (Chrome).

A prominent Indian newspaper report, refering ‘highly placed sources’, says that ‘Google has developed an offline version of Gmail’, Google’s famous email service, and is likely to be released within this year.

Gmail and e-mail have today become almost synonymous for many, with built-in features like a browser-based chat and other applications that have added to the traction.

Through Google Gears, just like Google Reader lets you work offline, GMail users will be able to browse, reply, save drafts and do everything that currently Gmail does online, in an offline mode even without an Internet connection.

The Google developing GMail Offline news is reported by a leading Indian newspaper though the Google spokeswoman in India officially denied such a thing.
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Google Mail, GMail, is a web-based email system. I have hated web-based email systems for many, many years. That said, I am going to confess that I actually like gmail. No, I don’t love it but I do like it.

Most web mail applications are pretty much the same. You see some message titles and from addresses, you can view, delete, respond or save in another folder. You have some limited amount of storage for your messages and when you run out you need to clean up your mess.

Some are prettier, some allow you to do things to multiple message at a time and some are more configurable. But, they just don’t present anything radically different. In fact, they convinced me there really wasn’t room for anything radically different until I started using GMail.

Figure 1 shows a piece of a screen shot of the interface. I think that is a good place to start our discussion. On the left under the Compose link you see a list of “places” you can display. This is almost like mail boxes but, for example, Starred refers to messages where Read the rest of this entry →

Roughly 140 kilometer from Mumbai, farmers are turning to technology to fight for their rights.

Four months ago, the farmers of Pen taluka in Raigad district were told the state government was acquiring their land to help build the 25,000 acre ‘Maha Mumbai Special Economic Zone’ (SEZ).

That’s when an activist of the SEZ Hatao Virodh Samiti, Arun Shivkar, logged on to Google Earth.

“We used Google technology to prove to the authorities that the land is fertile”, said Shivkar.

Shivkar says initially state authorities claimed that only a small portion of the earmarked land is fertile and that some parts of it is submerged by salty creek water, meaning lower compensation for the farmers.

But Google Earth has come to the rescue and its satellite pictures clearly indicate crop areas. This has helped farmers back their claims for higher compensation.

The technology has also brought together farmers from 45 villages to put up a common front and protest the acquisition of their land.

The ingenious ways in which farmers in Maharashtra are using Google Earth to fight for their rights is perhaps a testament to how technology is truly flattening the world.

One of the keys to the superiority of blogs for SEO purposes, is the speed with which new pages get indexed. This is your secret weapon to building a valuable website. If you post multiple times daily, and your pages are indexed quickly, you stand a real chance to grow you page view count quickly.

This is you advantage over any static website. The search engines like Google need to index new content as quickly as possible, so they can stay relevant. They seem to have a love for the blog’s rich content structure and timely updates.

You can leverage speed of indexing anomaly to your advantage by always reporting topics that are right here and now. If you’re talking about the latest subject, and your pages are being added quickly to the major search indexes, then you’re likely to become relevant in the minds of readers who happen upon your website. Search engine rankings almost always come down to the number of competitors for the term. If you write a page about a new product or service, there may be 10,000 or less occurrences of the phrase on documents in the entire index. In this case, a well-linked to blog will rank easily. If you do this for hundreds or thousands of terms, you can see how the traffic increases exponentially. It’s the process of updating which enables you to bring more and more traffic into the website.

So, in essence, keep it simple. Always talk about topically relevant stories. Put the desired keywords in your title and post often for better SEO. As your archive index grows, your search importance will grow along with it.