Is your site loading half a second sooner? :)

Google claims that an improvement to the js file that literally millions of people use for their adsense ads will reduce an avg of half a second off each page's loading time. This will ultimately speed up the ENTIRE WEB!

The js file now lets pages be rendered while ads are loaded in a separate iframe.However the new method is only currently supported by chrome,firefox and IE8. This will roll out to other browsers soon!

Google Voice onto iPhones?

Google voice will soon be available into iphone as a web based application. The phone-management application will be remade as a stylized website.It is however unclear that Apple would reject a re-purposed Google voice application.
Web applications can be bookmarked on the iphone interface and will look like an app from an app store.You can browse available web apps, ranging from facebook to BPlayer and also visit a text heavy version of google voice on your iphone by pointing safari to google.com/voice/m

Google gets a Patent for Simplicity!!!

How do you get a patent for an text box and a couple of links? You'll have to ask Google, cause that's what they just did. It's website... it's a search engine.. it's a "Graphical user interface for a display screen of a communications terminal"!

The famous Google homepage, the epitome of simplicity, and widely praised for being so, is now patented. This proves once and for all that it is possible to get a patent for, a page design any 15 year-old with basic HTML skills could make. Get your right now! Will look good on that resume.

Their search results page, which itself couldn't get much simpler, had already been issued a patent back in 2006. This is sure to install some fear in any new search engine which aims for simplicity, move along, simplicity's taken, try something new. Overall a rather embarrassing patent for Google's profile.

Source: Digit

Microsoft takes on Google!!!

With the next revolution of the internet with Web 3.0 already dubbed as the “Semantic Web”. Google has been in the search field longer, and has much more data about people and their search patterns, so going semantic might not be as big a step for them. However if Microsoft has found the gaps present in the search engines of today and aims to create a search engine that fills all these gaps, they need to make sure not to introduce any gaps of their own.

The purse strings are loosening, and it appears as much as $80 to $100 million is likely to fall out, as Microsoft decides to boldly enter what is clearly Google's domain; Search. They intend to create a new search engine which they believe will show people what they've always been missing in search results. Although casual observer might ask “based on what experience”?

Search engines are the center of most people interaction with the web nowadays. For most, interaction with the Internet begins with the Google prompt, for many Google is synonymous for search. It is this giant that Microsoft aims not only reach parity with but also overtake. Is this even possible?

Google is a perfect example of a product that has sold itself, with people's attraction to it being more as result of it's usefulness than as a result of advertisement bombarded at them from all possible angles. With Microsoft's over $80 million advertisement budget for this venture, it wont be much of a problem for them to get people there, and with a name like “Bing” a few (including me) are sure to turn up just for the laughs. With Microsoft's hammer of money almost every nail becomes malleable. The question left to answer is how many people with stick.

Microsoft's is basing this search engine on data that people quite often don't refine search results enough, requiring multiple rounds of going back and forth with the search terms before getting the desired results. From what little information there is about “Bing” it seems to be a semantic search engine, with results that are sensitive to the context of the search terms stemming probably from their purchase of Powerset, which too was a semantic search engine.

Ref: Digit