Webs’ Random Ideas

Look whats happens when you do a Google Define search for the word weird, but spelled “wierd”.

So I have a couple good reasons to celebrate Google’s 10th birthday. For one, they have dramatically changed the way people work on the Internet and do their day to day Internet tasks. Searching on Google is incredibly easy but very efficient. They first time I searched with Google I was blown away. I couldn’t believe the first link that came up was the one I wanted.

Then I remember in the summer of 04 my sister told me about Gmail. I said I didn’t need another email address as I was already using Yahoo and was tired of having people switch me from one crappy client to another. She explained it was different and invited me (one of her friends worked at Google).

I tried it out and fell in love. I was floored that I was only getting a few spam messages a day and they were all going to my spam folder. Not only that none were false positives. When Gmail rolled around  I was instantly hooked with Google’s ability to create easy, lightweight, and blazing fast software. Now Chrome has solidified this opinion…

Now to celebrate go search like it’s 2001…

Click here to try it out!

I will write a review later…

All of us at Google spend much of our time working inside a browser. We search, chat, email and collaborate in a browser. And in our spare time, we shop, bank, read news and keep in touch with friends — all using a browser. Because we spend so much time online, we began seriously thinking about what kind of browser could exist if we started from scratch and built on the best elements out there. We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser. What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that’s what we set out to build.

On the surface, we designed a browser window that is streamlined and simple. To most people, it isn’t the browser that matters. It’s only a tool to run the important stuff — the pages, sites and applications that make up the web. Like the classic Google homepage, Google Chrome is clean and fast. It gets out of your way and gets you where you want to go.

One look at Google’s homepage is all you need to get the sense that a Google browser will be fast and minimalist. I love Firefox but I am not necessarily stuck in my ways. I don’t really care what browser I use as long as I get the features I want. So I’ll give it a go…