By James Furbush | September 2nd, 2008 | 5:46 am PDT
Jason Kottke has rounded up a nice little history behind Google’s supposedly new browser Chrome dating back to 2001. There aren’t any working demonstrations of it yet and there is no indication that it will conflict with the new three year deal they just signed with Mozilla to essentially fund Firefox, however Google has created a browser. It’s called Chrome and supposedly it rethinks the way that you use a browser. This is better than an operating system since most of the work people do on computers is through a browser and most of computing will be in server clouds within a few years. It also means there is little reason to use Internet Explorer, right?[Kottke]
This time they are rolling out a challenger to Wikipedia. It’s called Knol. It’s slightly different from the anything-goes Wikipedia in that the authors are identified by their real names (and verified), and that they can share in ad revenue if they choose to. The service initially features a lot of medical articles, which is coincidental because Medipedia also launched today. This medical wiki is backed by Harvard’s and Stanford’s medical schools. Wired has an in-depth look at Google’s latest plan to dominate the commodity of information.
By James Furbush | November 19th, 2007 | 12:50 pm PST
Blackle is a “new” search engine. Or rather, it’s Google with a face lift. The company behind the stupidly titled search engine, Heap Media (we want to make it clear that Blackle is not connected to Google, only that they are stealing their search engine), felt that by simply changing the screen from white to black Google would save a lot of kilowatts.
There are no facts to support this, except that using white apparantly takes more energy than using black.
Take the jump to read all about it from the company. MORE »
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