Google, the world’s largest search engine, and one of the biggest internet brands,is understood to be eyeing opportunities in the third generation of mobile telephony, or 3G, in India.
Sources in the industry say Google is looking at broadband wireless access(BWA) in the country and may participate in the auction with an Indian partner. BWA ia also known as Worldwide interoperability for Microwave Access, or WiMAX.
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Google has unveiled a new version of its search engine which it says will be faster and more accurate than ever before. This new architecture appears to include crawling, indexing, and ranking changes. For the first time, Google isn’t simply incorporating these changes into their existing infrastructure or replacing it. This search engine is called ‘Caffeine’. (check it here: www2.sandbox.google.com)
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The first shot in the Google Microsoft OS war has been fired. Looking at Google’s initial plans and ideas for implementation of the new OS, it’s pretty clear that it will be years before Google’s new open source OS is anywhere near a Microsoft competitor. But this announcement is clearly a shot across the bow of Microsoft, letting them know that change is coming. For years Microsoft has been sitting comfortably with its leading desktop market share. This isn’t just a Microsoft problem however. Sure, all OS developers both open source and proprietary have been bringing innovative ideas to computer users for years. Google, however, is looking to the future beyond the immediate future and planning to bring application development to the web where it dominates.

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Google Wave is a new model for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year. Here’s a preview of just some of the aspects of this new tool. A wave is equal parts conversation and document.People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

The service seems to combine Gmail and Google Docs into an interesting free-form workspace that could be used to write documents collaboratively, plan events, play games or discuss a recent news.

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Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate the seme amount amount of harmful carbon dioxide as boiling an electric kettle for a cup of tea,according to a new research quoted recently.

A typical search generates about seven grams of CO2 whereas an electric kettle generates about 15 gm. The Sunday Times quoted a Harvard Univercity physicist as saying. “A google search has a definite envoirnmental impact,” says Alex Wissner-Gross, whos research due out soon.
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Finally, Google has launched its exclusive web browser, Chrome! It is a nice looking, opera-style browser, with many functions.

As it is google’s product, One can imagine a good competition between Firefox and Chrome. Currently, most of the people are using firefox, but with the entry of this google product, I think it will bang the search engine market. The features of both the browsers are great still a good competition is expected.

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