Google’s party-crashing browser Chrome has officially dropped its Beta tag and is a fully fledged release.
Google posted the news this morning as Chrome took the odd step of leaving Beta (we covered not long ago that 45% of Google products are in Beta, including Gmail after 4 years!)
Today Google told us what the world has been looking for in the past 12 months: the annual Zeitgeist list has arrived.
The release of the list of the worlds most popular searches has steadily improved in popularity in years and this year even made the BBC News homepage.
As the year comes to a close, it’s time to look at the big events, memorable moments and emerging trends that captivated us in 2008. As it happens, studying the aggregation of the billions of search queries that people type into the Google search box gives us a glimpse into the zeitgeist — the spirit of the times.
Google have made the move this year to present their findings for country searches as well, so you can see what was top in the UK, US and even the Philippines. And it would seem that Sarah Palin has had her moment in the sun…
Fastest Rising (Global) Search Terms
I use my Gmail account to send myself reminders. I use my Gmail to make notes on certain subjects. I had to do this by sending myself an email (very egotistical). However, the days of that are now over!
Google have released a task manager widget for Gmail. This can handle to do lists and notes and appears as a pop-up within the window of your Inbox.
Google desktop has been customising users desktops for years, with the latest widgets enabling XP users to create Vista-esque sidebars, with clocks, docks and apps. However, after countless requests, Google has finally announced the release of a Gmail desktop widget.
Back in September, Google sounded out their intention to put more old newspapers online and available for search. This week they came a step closer to realising that mission as they purchased newspaper digitizing company PaperOfRecord.com.
SearchEngineWatch’s blog announced the deal on Tuesday and Nathania Johnson goes on to tell us more about PaperOfRecord.com:
As we enter December and get buried under Christmas marketing, Google have focussed just a little further ahead than most; New Year,
On December 1st Google launched the countdown to 2009 by stating that they’ll offer a tip a day, to promote all the things that you can achieve through Google’s services:
We’ll cover everything from today’s tip on “Gift ideas and holiday savings” to checking out your flight status with Google Search.
Anita Yuen, Group Product Marketing Manager
I’m aware that today is the 3rd and that means we’ve missed the first three reveals, but we didn’t miss that much. Day One offered us the aforementioned “Get gift ideas and holiday savings”. Day Two gave us “Personalize your gifts & holiday greetings” through the use of Google Docs. Today’s tip is that followers of the NFL, MLB, NHL and/or NBA can check teams fixtures and scores by searching the team name. Google used the LA Lakers as their example.
Lets hope the last 28 days are more exciting…
Google’s browser Chrome remains in Beta, but its still receiving updates. It was announced on the Chromium Announce Google Group that the gatecrashing browser is now at its 0.4.154.25 release stage, and that the new version has a Firefox-esque bookmark manager and a cleaner pop-up blocker as its main upgrades. Read the rest of this entry »
Google started out as a search engine. Slowly but surely, over the past 10 years, they have infiltrated many areas of our Internet life; email, blogging, video, finances, shopping and many more.
A lot of these things require a Google Account. Not everyone can use their Gmail account name for this and have to sign up for one. Some people do not know how to do this. And Just Google It steps in…
Last week Google launched the SearchWiki feature, “a way for you to customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results” as titled by Google, “a way to clutter your minimalist search results and throw away market share” as titled by Just Google It.
Although Google intended for this new tool to improve users search experience and enhance the relevance of the sites on offer, it has got a bit of a bashing around the Internet, not least from TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington in his ‘Google, It Wasn’t Broke’ blog rant. The main problem with SearchWiki is that once you’ve accepted to use it, Google offers you no way back, so we offer to show you how to turn it off.
Arrington advises his blog readers
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