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Googles Results Get More Personal With “Search Plus Your World”. Danny Sullivan characterizes this as “the most radical transformation” to Google’s search results – ever. Google+ users will see it first, but it will eventually roll out to anyone who logs into either Google.com or their Gmail account. In a nutshell, it will add “personal [...]

With the field test release of Google+ – the search engine giant’s new attempt to combat Facebook in the social website wars – there are a number of design updates taking place at various Google services. The above user interface design is a testing version of the new look for Gmail. The above is actually [...]

Chromebook. They don’t actually go on sale until June 15, but you can check out their specs (not too shabby, for network-connected devices) and make the decision about which one suits your particular needs. The (slightly) smaller of the two is the Acer Chromebook, shown here. The Acer Wi-Fi Chromebook is the smaller of the two, but [...]

Google To Lease Chrome Laptops for $20/Month [REPORT]. I like this idea – a lot. I tried (and failed) to get into the pilot testing program for Google’s Chrome OS-powered CR-48 notebooks. The CR-48, powered by the minimal browser-like Chrome OS, offers minimal power in terms of hardware – compared to multimedia or high-end market [...]

YouTube – Google Chrome: Dear Sophie. I defy Dads out there to NOT at least tear up when they watch this…

Google blames software update for lost Gmail data | Digital Media – CNET News. I must say this outage gives me pause.. I keep my main email on Gmail, as well as  a number extra accounts, for archives, notifications, and other uses, as well as a multitude of Gmail accounts I have setup over the [...]

So glad to hear that the Chrome for a Cause project did so much good during its short run – an amazing 60,599,541 tabs donated to charity! A total of $1 million dollars was donated to the charities, with the tabs and associated dollar amounts, as well the actual equivalent charitable items, shown by this [...]

Google’s Chrome community is making it very easy to do something good this Holiday Season. The new Chrome for a Cause extension will keep tabs (haha) on how many tabs you open while browsing the web every day between Dec. 15 and Dec. 19. At the end of each day, you can choose to contribute [...]

WindowsZone: OffiSync–Synchronize MS Office with Google Apps. Those of you either using or thinking of using the Google Apps online suite of tools will find this interesting. OffiSync, a free download, provides a toolbar for your Microsoft Office applications that allows instant access to your Google Apps document space. You can save to, and open [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZymAnGvqK4&hd=1] Hat tip to Jolie O’Dell, of Mashable, and her article Google Instant Adds Keyboard Navigation, International Expansion, for bringing to my attention. Users of Google’s new Instant Search feature will be glad to know that Google is intent on making it even “instanter” than it already is. The addition of Keyboard Navigation especially, which makes [...]