Just Another Gadget Blog

Who likes slow websites? looks like google deosn’t. Google, other than there current effective website ranking methods, they have now announced that they will display results according to there site speed.

Internet Explorer has allot of problems which is creating groups of people going anti-ie. Webmasters also hate the browser for its backwards compatabilities. Google has joined this as they are going to stop Application support for the browser.  An email from GOOGLE.

In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.

We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.

Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.

What do you thick about this move by GOOGLE? pleese comment.

Google has risen to become the motherlord of internet and the tech world just a bit over a decade. Even in that short time, enough weird tidbits of information resulted that it makes an entertaining read. Perusing this list of ten interesting facts about Google will make you chuckle and scratch your head.

For Example, did you know that the original name for Google’s PageRank algorithm was “BackRub”? PageRank is probably better and less creepy. Have you ever used Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” button? Well, that button costs Google about $110 million per year, because it skips past the ads on the results page. Hit the link for the full list.

Which One is your Favorite?

[Top 10 Google Facts]

For all those Firefox users who have the pleasure of using the Add-on “SearchPreview” for Google, Yahoo and Bing results, this won’t be anything new.

Those using Internet Explore, Google Chrome or Safari good news, if you’re looking for a particular web page rather than a particular result, Google has added “Page Previews” to the top-left options bar to make that much easier. This will help you avoid clicking on sites that have registered good domains but are full of adverts.

Got to say though, I don’t know how often the low-resolution images are refreshed which may cause some concern.

[Source: Google Operating System]

google-ebook

Google is planning to release an ebook store with over 400,00 books online. You can either walk down to you local library to read a book or just google it. With google coming up with yet to say more books, there need not to worry about book availability in libraries. Amazon has a smiler service but unlike them google’s Ebook should be usable on any device.

Google Editions will utilise three business models;

• The first will allow consumers to purchase directly from Google EBooks. This model would gives Google a 37% share of the sale, with the rest going to the publisher.
• The second model would consist of purchases made from partner retailers, with Google getting 55% of the sale.
• The last model Google is looking at will have customers going directly to a publisher’s website to make purchases. No decisions have been made on the split for this option.

This service should be arriving early 2010 so, surfs up.