Google Goggles Searches by Sight
Among a flurry of mini mobile announcements today, Google announced a new application called Google Goggles designed to let you search Google using your Android device’s camera. Just point, shoot, and search.
The video above gives you a good idea of how it works—and how it doesn’t. In a nutshell, Goggles wants to take search beyond [...]
Google Public DNS Aims to Speed Up Your Browsing
Google today launched a new, free DNS service—called Google Public DNS—aimed at making your web browsing experience even faster. Here’s how it works:
For those of you who are unfamiliar with DNS (and it’s cool if you are—as long as DNS is working, most people never need to know what’s going on), Google offers an explanation:
Most [...]
Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download
Seriously, how awesome have the past few hours been? Engadget turns the design stakes up to 11, Google finally dishes the dirt on Chrome OS, and now you can even download the forthcoming software to have a fiddle with yourself.
It’s completely free, though you’ll need VMWare running atop a Windows, Linux or OS X [...]
Google Dashboard Provides a Top-Down Look at Your Google Use
Ever wanted to take a step back and look at all the Google apps and data you’re hooked into? Google’s offering that top-down view with Google Dashboard, a central clearinghouse for app settings, privacy information, and use statistics.
The main value to the average user at the Dashboard, reachable at google.com/dashboard when signed into a Google [...]
Google offers JavaScript programming tools
With a project called Closure Tools, Google plans on Thursday to start helping developers who aspire to match the company’s proficiency in creating Web sites and Web applications.
Google is a strong proponent of using JavaScript to write Web-based programs, part of its Web-centric ethos. Indeed, the company has pushed the language to its limits with [...]