Sheri McLeish, a Forrester analyst also notes that Chrome is unable to compete with the other browsers.

Also, Chrome doesn’t exist for Mac OS and Linux users, two camps that contains technology enthusiasts. And apparently, large enterprises closed their doors to Chrome because of lack of features from their IT Departments.

There are, also some hindrances, Chrome has to fix aside from these two issues. This pertains to some, which consumers who don’t know about browsers. Also, questions like “do consumers really need another browser and would they offer new features that are better than other existing browsers?” are left unanswered.

Google had caused more trouble because Chrome cannot even work well in Google though they owned it because they did not inform their webmasters beforehand that they will adapt to their sites. McLeish is not very happy with the response that Chrome has got from the mass.

Should Google still want to pursue this project considering that their top competitors are continuing to soar high and improved?

IDC analyst Al Hilwa thinks that Google should stay in the game and not give up as well because a lot of marketing and research went into the planning of Chrome.

According to Brian Rakowski, a Google group product manager in the Chrome team, thinks that even though there is a lot of work to be done with regards to this project, the team is looking forward to the fun. He also adds that throughout history browsers take time to make it big and thinks that Chrome has done pretty well in a short span.

Google plans on offering searchers the ability to be able to see what Google music has to offer in their search results. Google also adds that one of the top 10 search terms of all time are the words “music” and “lyrics”. Google’s vice president of search, Marissa Mayer claims that most of the Google users love music and are mainly looking for music to download.

It can’t be denied that music is one the most searched terms in any search engine. This is because people love music, and they will find ways to get its lyrics. That is why Google wants to enter in to the online music market, which will cater to millions of music lovers. Currently, Apple still covers a wide area of online music market with around 70% of worldwide sales. Some European firms like Spotify begin to attain popularity.

More than 2 million users in the UK and more than 6 million across Europe now are using the free music-streaming service, which was, launched last year, 2008. That is why Google wants to enter into this kind of service. This is because most people now are searching and downloading different genres of music, which will satisfy them. Google’s new collaboration hopes to compete with the success of these services. Google is now offering a variety of free downloads of licensed tracks in China. They said that they are trying to look for potential partners in some other countries to get some new and varied music. Well, this could be a great shift with, regards to the improvement of Google. There will surely be a lot of new users that will subscribe to these new services especially to those music lovers and trendsetters. Google is making a lot of dynamic and competitive ways to maintain their image as one of the most used search engine nowadays.

Gmail lets Internet users write/send e-mail messages, archive documents/emails, chat online, and store contact lists.

Clarifying on the issue, Google Inc has posted a note stating that all e-mail service was working by 11 a.m. ET, and the problems have only caused email to slow down a bit, and it did not crash as some news reports had claimed. The company in its report further stated that “A problem with Google Contacts caused many Gmail users to experience slowness and degraded service for about an hour today.” “We’re sorry for the inconvenience. As usual, we’ll provide an incident report on the Google Apps Status Dashboard, where we also gave ongoing status updates as this issue progressed.”

As with the previous cases of Gmail outage, the current episode has also triggered an animated discussion/debate in the online community, especially among those who rely heavily on Gmail for their professional as well as daily personal communication. But this time around, fortunately, the outage was short lived, and before most of its users could knew about it, Gmail was able to put its defense back in place, inside an hour or so since the outage occurred. Perhaps, these days, Google Inc has become well versed in damage control management as well!

Many people are excited about Google Wave because it will recreate how people communication and do business online. Google unarguably will revolutionize collaboration and communication through this platform. Even if the creators have imparted a few vague details about Google Wave, from the looks of it, Google is on a mission to bring communication to a much higher level. Google Wave brings together chat, email, photo editing and live collaborative editing into a single, simple and interactive interface.

Google Wave Defined

First off, what is this Google Wave and why is everyone so excited about its release? Since there are a lot of articles in the web today and you won’t probably have enough time to read them all, here is the summary. Google Wave is a platform for real time communication. Every communication aspect is combined here such as email, social networking, instant messages, chat, wikis and project management. This integration will be used for a sophisticated client for in browser communication. It will now be easy for you to tag along your whole group of friends or even your business partners so that you can discuss anything that has happened on that day and even share files with them without too much trouble. Now, Google, the company itself describes this “wave” as conversations and documents with equivalent parts.

Google Wave Features

Now a lot of people are wondering what is so special about this Google Wave. Obvious enough, it is from Google and you what they say, when it comes from Google it must good. Because of its several features, we are immediately curious about it. Now let us take a look at some of them. First it is real time. This allows you to view what other people are typing on their keyboards, character by character. Another feature is its ability to be embedded on any blog you have created or any website. There are virtually no limitations here. Now, when it comes to the applications and the extensions of Google Wave, they are very much comparable to Facebook or the popular iGoogle gadget. If you are one of those site developers, you can build and create your own applications within these waves. When we speak of applications here, these can be anything starting from bots to those complicated real time games.

Onto the Wiki functionality, this interesting feature emphasizes that Google Wave is shared. In this case, every detail written can be edited by everyone. This being said, you will be able to correct misinformation and even add up to what the others have provided in case they have missed something. As an option, you can insert your own commentaries based on the developing conversations. Developers are also very much appreciative because of the fact that Google Wave is open source. This fosters innovation and implementation. Another aspect that you will find useful is the playback feature, which allows you to review what other people have said earlier.

Google is a company that enjoys playing around with ideas and allowing their fan base to test those ideas out before they actually implement them. Google Labs is an overall concept that allows them to get general ideas out for people to test and comment on and Gmail Labs is the same concept with the Google Mail service that people have been switching over to in a wholesale method across the entire way. The Google Toolbar has become a large enough part of the Google experience now that people working on the Google Toolbar software package feel that it is time to start taking that idea and applying it directly to Google Toolbar. The result has been the Google Toolbar Lab, which has already turned out the first two ideas for users to take a look at.

The first of these lab releases is a version of the Google Toolbar known as Google Toolbar with My Location. The basic premise of this is that it brings together the convenience that you get from the Google Toolbar and the excellent functionality that the My Location function has been displaying with people that know how to use it. The end result was that the Google Toolbar was available with My Location built right into it so that all you have to do in order to access the benefits of the My Location function is simply use the Google Toolbar that is always available right near the top of your browser window.

You can program the location in and then whenever you feel like using the My Location function, all you need to do is type in what you want to search for and My Location will function in the same way it would before. You can type in pizza and get a listing of all the pizza places close to you and of course you can do that with anything else that you might want to search for close to the actual location in question. The full functionality of My Location is there, but now it is also ultra-fast and ultra-convenient, thanks to the people that came up with the Google Toolbar Labs.

The simplified Chinese Toolbar is another example of a Google Toolbar Lab invention. The name is self-explanatory, as this toolbar represents the Google Toolbar in all its glory, with Simplified Chinese characters being used instead of English. It serves to make the web more international and that can only be a good thing for everyone involved in the long term.

“We are excited to announce the launch of a mobile version of Google Book Search, opening up over 1.5 million mobile public domain books in the US (and over half a million outside the US) for you to browse”, the company said.

The Internet search giant, in a post on Thursday on the Google Book Search blog, said mobile versions of the books could be read on devices such as the Apple iPhone or T-Mobile G1, which is powered by Google’s Android software.

“These new mobile editions are optimized to be read on a small screen,” Google said. “With this launch, we believe that we’ve taken an important step toward more universal access to books.”

To access the mobile version of Google Book Search a user needs to type http://books.google.com/m into the Web browser of their iPhone or Android phone.

Google’s announcement comes just days ahead of the expected unveiling by Amazon of a new generation version of its popular electronic book reader, the Kindle, at a New York press conference on Monday.

Amazon is also planning to make its online store of e-books for the Kindle available on mobile phones, the New York Times reported on Friday.

“We are excited to make Kindle books available on a range of mobile phones,” Drew Herdener, an Amazon spokesman, told the Times. “We are working on that now.”

The Amazon spokesman did not provide any further details. Google will initially only be offering books in the public domain — those which are not under copyright — for mobile phones.

Amazon, on the other hand, offers the latest releases and 230,000 titles in all, including 103 of the 112 current New York Times bestsellers.

What features should be added into Chrome to make it a better browser!

• Extension Support: Today, a browsers does not offer only surfing on the net. There are extensions for Firefox which makes it very easy to customize even for an average computer user. What Google should do here is not to call developers to build extensions for Chrome. Instead, they should make their browser to be compatible with the existing Firefox extensions.
• Customizable Skin: It would be another plus if users would be able to change UI of browser or download ready themes from Internet and setup it with one click.
• Did you know that Chrome does now work under Mac and Linux? If Google want to get a place in the browser market, they should consider releasing different builds for each operating systems.
• Support Mode: It is quite often that Firefox users have to switch their browsers to Internet Explorer or activate IEtab extension for certain web applications since they do not work with Firefox. Most of Webmasters started to build/re-structure their applications to make it compatible with Firefox. Chrome should find a way to prevent this problem in advance to make itself compatible with all applications.
• Flash Applications: One of the biggest problem that Chrome is struggling with is handling of flash applications. The page is becoming no-longer accessible when Flash cause a problem. This is a big problem for those who likes to play online flash games on Internet. There must be taken some certain steps to fix that problem immediately.
• Integration with Google Docs for documentation: That is hitting two birds with one stone. Google will definitely increase the usage of Docs if it would build all documentation on that application.
• RSS Support: No need to write anything about that. It definitely need to support RSS.

Source: Chip Online Turkey

proposal is not in the best interests of Yahoo! and our stockholders.

Many analysts expected a higher offer from Microsoft that would eventually lead to an agreement. But Microsoft intends to take its bid directly to Yahoo’s shareholders by authorizing a proxy campaign, instead of raising its bid.

During an interview, Microsoft founder Bill Gates told the Associated Press that his company is not privately negotiating with Yahoo over its $31-per-share buyout offer. According to field experts, Microsoft is ready to a lot to acquire Yahoo. But they are not going to pay more that 31 dollar while Yahoo asks 40 for a share.

An alone Google in the search and text advertising is not something very good. A combined Microsoft and Yahoo would provide real competition, and I fully support that since I would like to see an alternative to Google for search, ads and office applications. Yahoo and Microsoft might not be able to catch google in search technology , but there is real chance that they will provide a viable alternative to ad-sense and online advertisement market.

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