Users tend to have a feisty loyalty to their browser, so a recent study from AptiQuant both ruffled some feathers and stroked some egos. The study concluded that users of IE, especially IE 6.0 and 8.0, had a lower average IQ than users of other browsers. The only problem was the entire thing was as […]
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Yahoo Is Closing Down Site Explorer
Yahoo is something of an anomaly in the search engine world today. It’s one of the most popular search sites (the second most popular, in fact), if we choose to call it a search site at all. Certainly, users can conduct a search on Yahoo’s home page – and many do! – but all of […]
WebRTC to Bring Real-Time Chatting to Chrome
When we talk about real-time chat in today’s world, we’re not just thinking of instant messaging. Rather, the technology of the 2000s has allowed for voice and video chatting that – with delays that measure in the nanoseconds – let people talk as if they were face to face. Google is set to expand the […]
New Domain Extensions Allowed, Likely to Help Search Engines
We’re all fairly familiar with the domain name extensions (also known as the TLD, or top-level domain) of today’s web. The “traditional” version is .com, or in rare cases .org or .gov. However, a number of new extensions have also made their way onto the internet. These include the .mobi, .info, .biz, and .me. While […]
Major Upcoming Features in Google Chrome 13
Since Google Chrome is on a six-week release cycle, it’s unsurprising that news for the upcoming updates is already here. Nevertheless, it looks like Chrome 13 is worth getting excited about. Despite the unlucky number attached to its version, Google users should see increased security and speed with the new version. Here’s a brief rundown […]
Google Adds Two New Ways to Search: Voice & Image
The world of the web was once a text-based place – only. It was only in 1993 that we started getting a visual web at all, and from there it’s been a process of constant adaptation to ever more impressive media. As we’re gone beyond text in our websites, the search sites that guide us […]
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt Discusses Web Platforms
While Google has no shortage of veteran players – including numerous engineers and leaders who have worked for the most powerful companies in the industry – few can present quite as strong a portfolio as Eric Schmidt. Formerly the company CEO, brought on as the “adult supervision” to Larry Page and Sergey Brin while Google […]
Chrome 12 Hits Users, Improved Security and Privacy
Google Chrome has the fastest growth of all browsers and currently has over 160 million active users. That puts them at over 10 percent of the total web population in the U.S. and a substantially larger portion overseas. Part of the reason for the broad adoption of the fledgling browser is the release of frequent […]
Wahlman Predicts Google Chrome OS Phone
Google loves a lot of things. They love search. They love productivity software. They love being a monopoly. They love buying companies. They love mobile devices. Oh, and of course, they love operating systems. There was a large chunk of time where Google was actually working on the development of three separate operating systems: Android […]
Google WebP Image Format Steps Forward
Chances are you haven’t heard of the Google WebP image format. Don’t feel bad; it was only released in September of last year, and thus far it hasn’t received too much attention. However, the uses of WebP are quite evident, the format itself is improving, the way modern browsers decode the content is getting better, […]