Google has taken steps to speed up website loading times before, but its new method is different. Google calls it Page Speed Service and it’s open to any webmaster that wants to give it a try. Google’s methods for speeding up the webpages are a bit sketchy though.
Read MoreGoogle is officially introducing AdWords Express, a faster and simpler way to start advertising online in under five minutes. Google first launched this product as Google Boost last October for a small number of local businesses. Since then, they’ve continued to improve the product and enabled all U.S. businesses new to online advertising to reach customers with ease.
Read MoreGoogle has announced that they are going to discontinue Google Toolbar for Mozilla Firefox 5.0 and newer versions. That's true that many Google toolbar features like searchbox, spell check, etc are built into Firefox but what about other useful features like Page translation, Auto-fill, Page sharing, Gmail notifications, etc?
Google announced in a blog post that the company will discontinue its Google Labs efforts. Bill Coughran, Google's senior vice president for Research and Systems Infrastructure, said the company has learned a lot by launching very early prototypes in the Labs. But he added that the company's "greater focus is crucial if we're to make the most of the extraordinary opportunities ahead."
Read MoreGoogle has begun rolling out a new social-networking photo service, dubbed Photovine. Though Google has said little publicly about Photovine, the service appears to be one in which consumers can take snaps from their phones and have them upload in a stream of pictures in the same way that tweets flow into Twitter. Presumably, if you subscribe to someone else's Photovine, you'll see their latest photos almost as soon as they shoot them.
Read MoreFollowing the first launch of Google Offers beta in Portland last month, Google is bringing great deals to the Big Apple and the Bay Area starting today. Subscribers who sign up at www.google.com/offers or via the new “Today’s Offer” tab in Google Shopper 2.0 for Android will start receiving emails with local offers in New York and the San Francisco Bay Area today.
Google Inc's Chrome Web browser has grabbed more than 20 percent of global market share, while Microsoft Corp's long-time leader Internet Explorer has slipped below 50 percent, according to Internet statistics firm StatCounter. A sevenfold increase in usage in the last two years is a boost for Google, which is trying to convert its dominance in Web search into operating systems and mobile software, bringing it into direct competition with Microsoft.
Read MoreGoogle said that it has temporarily disabled its Realtime search function in the wake of the introduction of its social network Google+. The feature was developed to integrate real-time data from Twitter and other social-networking sites. The option for the feature has been removed from the right side of Google's search bar, and the feature's Web page now contains a 404 message.
Read MoreGoogle has announced a few more social services that are currently undergoing field trials. The network of services is called Google+ and its aim is to make social networking a little more structured. Google recognizes that it can be difficult to be completely open on social networks because of the different types of relationships we tend to have with online “friends."
Read MoreGoogle Health and Google PowerMeter are both officially dead, the company confirmed. Google said that the two products were born out of a desire to help put more information at the fingertips of users, but neither saw the level of adoption that made them worth maintaining over the long term. As a result, the company is giving users an opportunity to download their information before shutting the services down for good.
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