Archive for "Chrome"

Chrome is quickly making up ground in the browser wars…and for good reason. It’s simple, fast and comes with some awesome extensions and add-ons.
I made the move across from Firefox to Chrome about 12 months ago and haven’t looked back.

If you’re a website owner, you might want to start using Chrome and these extensions to help monitor…

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Google have penalized their own Google Chrome website after it emerged that the URL was caught up in a paid links promotion, a violation of their webmaster guidelines.

The problem has arisen after Google paid Unruly Media, an international media agency, to get a number of paid bloggers to promote a video for its Chrome browser featuring a US flour…

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Many of you must have noticed it by now….

The new Google menu bar! We bet you’re wondering if this is just another Google design experiment? Well the news is that this redesign is here to stay (at least for a little while).

Google has bid adieu to its horizontal black navigation bar at the top of the page and…

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Back in Oct 2010 research by Chitika found that voice searches were responsible for 7% of Google mobile queries on the iPhone and 25% percent on Android devices. Now it seems that Google has given full attention to this bit of news by introducing voice search for Maps for mobile and desktop users.

Voice search includes a series of spoken…

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Google recently launched a new Chrome toolbar, Google Related, which shows you useful and interesting content related to your search while you browse the web.

As you roll the cursor over the thin bar along the bottom of your screen, Google will provide videos, maps, reviews and other information relevant to the search. Users can also share their…

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In an attempt to make the web faster, Google has launched the much-awaited Page Speed extension for Google Chrome. User can now receive Page Speed performance suggestions to enhance the speed of their sites directly from the Chrome browser.

Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to perform several tests on a site’s web server configuration and front-end code.…

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It’s hard to believe it has been two years since the Google Chrome browser was launched. Since then, there have been hundreds of extensions have been released by web developers (and Google itself) to add more functionality to the Chrome browser for its users.

We have already outlined our top 3 SEO extensions, but what about the favorite…

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To say that Google is a busy company is probably an understatement. Almost every week we hear of either a ranking update, a new Google project or webmaster tool.

2009 was certainly a busy year for Google; it left Yahoo! & Microsoft behind in terms of innovation (besides the new Bing search engine). Can you list all the new features…

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Firefox from Mozilla turned 5 this month, and celebrated by having achieved 25% of the global browser usage market share. NetMarketShare.com from Net Applications tracks global and local usage market share for browsers, operating systems, search engines and mobile systems.

“What an exciting milestone for Mozilla, particularly as we are celebrating five years of Firefox this week,”…

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Google is continually pushing the boundaries of web innovation and the latest project from the code team definitely does just that.

Their mission: To speed up the web.

How: By replacing HTTP with a new web protocol called SPDY (speedy).

Since 1996, HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) has been the standard protocol allowing web servers and computer browsers to connect and…

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