What is a browser?

There are some funny stats collected by a Google guy among his friends. People say "I know which Car i drive but when asked about which browser you use they are confused about web browsers — even though the browser is one of the most-used programs on computers.

To popularize Google Chrome and to bring awareness among web illiterates couple of Google Guys have launched a website whatbrowser.

The site gives equally simple text tutorials on how to change a homepage, a default search engine, and a default browser. Credit must go to the "folks" at Google for making these parts of the site accessible to the average Internet user, something that is difficult for a justifiably biased technology company to do.

How To's

• Change your homepage
• Change your search engine
• Change your default browser

The "Under the Hood" section of the site seemed like it might give the geekier among us some food for thought with regard to browser performance. It contained this history lesson of a browser timeline from Wikipedia and a series of diagnostic tests, mostly related to browsers' processing of JavaScript.

Graphs & Charts

• Graphical timeline of web browsers
• Javascript performance over time

And at the end they ask you to try a new browser

Latest Internet Stats from Google

Google is collecting internet stats from a number of third party sources covering a range of topics from macroscopic economic and media trends to how consumer behaviour and technology are changing over time.

But this is just in UK domain and not in other countries. Still, it provides some Global Facts. Some interesting facts are emerging out of this.

• Users are 1.5 times more attentive when browsing YouTube than when watching TV.
• 36% of UK consumers have bought a CD after watching a music video on YouTube.
• Shoppers have become suspicious of many TV ads: in a shoppers survey by Wall Street Journal, 78% of them said that TV ads no longer have enough information they need.
• There are 1.6 billion people online worldwide, representing nearly 24% of the world's population.

Till now Data is provided by the following vendors: B2Bonline.com, BARB, BusinessWeek, Coke, Commission of the European Communities, Comscore, Core Metrics, Datamonitor, Deloitte, The Economist, eMarketer, Enders Analysis, Eurostat, Film Distributors Association, Financial Times, Forrester, GFK, Google Insights for Search, Greenbee.com, Guardian, HarvardBusiness.org, Hitwise, IAB, IFPI, IMF, Internet Retailing, Internetworldstats.com, JP Morgan, KMPG, Media & Marketing, Mediascope Europe, Mindshare, Motorola, Net Imperative, New York Magazine, Nielsen, NMA, Ofcom, Ipsos MediaCT, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, QuickPlay Media Inc., Retail Week, Reuters, TGI Net, Times Online, TNS, Verdict Research, Wall Street Journal, WARC, YouTube, ZenithOptimedia, GM

Internet Stats: Google

Google Needs Your Internet Stats

Google is asking Let us know your Internet Stats. Anyone There??

https://services.google.com/fb/forms/internetstats/

Google Trends Goes Mobile

Google Trends, one of the very useful tool on the internet goes mobile. I think a lot of people forget it exists. While Twitter might get all the press, there's no single more valuable tool than Trends to gauge what's got the public's attention. Now that it has a mobile version, I am sure I will be using it more.


And it sounds very interesting. Indian version of Google Trends shows up in a different compared to the US version of the Google Trends.

Indian version still doesn't have  past trends data. US version shows links for Past Day, Week, Month.

What is Google?

Gathered some user comments from the Techcrunch article about "What is Google?".

Below are some comments.

1. It’s a lot more complex than it was years ago.
2. Google is an Internet Services Provider (not an ISP), in that they provide a wide array of Services available on the ‘Net…
3. Google is a browser isn’t it? It’s that internet thingy that you surf the web with and even buy things.
4. G is a monetary momentum monster.
5. “What Is Google?” The best place to search something
6. The largest monopoly that has ever existed with more power than any before it.
7. Google is a self reinforcing feedback loop where shareholders steal from advertisers in order to keep the stock price artificially inflated.
8. Google is a securities fraud and a monopoly that allows shareholders to control the share price via internet by clicking on paid search results.
9. !microsoft
10. I think Google is a company that collects, stores and helps create data, information and knowledge for others to search through or add to.
11. Google is master of all search engine.

Here is the Techcrunch article

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/31/google-ceo-eric-schmidt-interview-his-thoughts-on-search-books-news-mobile-competition-and-more/

Growth of Google

■ Launched in 2002, Google News aggregates breaking stories from media sources around the world.

■ Google Maps and Google Earth, launched in 2005, offer an interactive map of the planet.

■ Google's acquisition in 2006 of YouTube changed the media landscape.

■ Google's 2008 acquisition of online advertising company DoubleClick gave rise to objections that the sale would give the company a near-monopoly of the online ad market and widen its scope to collect users' personal data.

A Fascinating Concept from Google

"Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up."



Checkout this http://www.chromeexperiments.com/hosted/gravity/index.html

googlengoogle - Search Made Simpler

www.googleNgoogle.com

Guys, this has some interesting features. I think googlengoogle makes search simpler by providing useful options within a mouse click.

Easy option to search documents for students, teachers, professors, researchers, IT Guys, Lawyers, traders, analysts and soon...

With just one click get search results of past 24 hrs to 1 year. Wow Sounds Cool.

Explore the Ocean in Google Earth 5.0

Google Latitude - New Google Product

Ten Years of Google (Video)

Google Feedback

Is it possible to publish google bookmarks to my blog?

I think google doesn't have this feature yet.

Is it possible to publish google notebook contents onto my blog?

No its not possible as of now. I want to share a selective section of my personal information which i store on google to the whole world.

Is it possible to upload and share my personal videos onto google privately?

No its not possible.

Do we have a link from Picassa to publish images onto a blog?

No not till now. Hope so in future.

Feedback on Google Blogspot.

Google blogspot looks very outdated and old. Its needs to be re engineered and re invented.

Google Chrome

I have just tried out using Google Chrome. Its a nice browser in par with firefox and really beats Microsofts Internet Explorer.  Chrome has a long way to go. It will definetely be a huge success. 

All geeks will definetely use both firefox and chrome because they cant miss firefox and neither leave out the new chrome.

And intresting thing about chrome is it has its own Task Manager. You can kill a webpage which is not reponding. How nice it is. Instead of closing all the web browser. This should be a food for thought for firefox and IE. 

Google - It Invents.

Google Trends

Google trends is a very useful product from GOOGLE. Gives me the hottest happenings in my country web.

This is nice little useful thing from GOOGLE.

Google Music Trends

Google Music Trends

Google changing their Algorithm « Tech Manthan

Google changing their Algorithm « Tech Manthan