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It has been announced via the Linus Upson’s official blog that it is planning to launch it’s own operating system called Google Chrome OS.
The authors write: “It’s been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web—searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome—the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.” The new operating system based on Google’s 9-month-old Web browser will initially be targeted at netbooks Chrome, it is expected to begin running computers in the second half of 2010.
Now you can still download free a new web browser for Windows Google Chrome combined a minimal design with sophisticated technology which will help you to make the web faster, safer, and easier on Google.com
Anybody tried already Google Quick Search Box, an open source search box that allowed to search data on your computer and across the web. If yes, I’m interesting in your opinian. If not you can be getting started right now. Anyway it sounds good.
Features
It works as a location bar AND a search box – It’ll autocomplete URLs and you can use TAB to search any website using Site Search. The tab key has special functionality beyond just site search. It is equivalent to “search in this context”: you’ll see that the results of a contextual search include related items, contents, and actions. Calculation, Weather, and Definition one boxes will show up periodically. More are on the way. What else would you expect to see? If you enable it, spotlight results will show up. Usually these are relegated to the “More” section at the bottom of the window, but once you use these items, they’ll be learned and become much faster to access. The basics:
Search the web (Type “britney spears”) Start applications (Type “itunes”) Open websites (Type “wikipedia.com”) Search for contacts in Address Book (Type “Bob”) Find files on your computer (Type the filename) Find music (Type the name of a song or artist in your iTunes library) Definitions and more: “Define Word”, “Weather 94043″, “5 + 5″ What’s missing
QSB does not yet search Gmail QSB does not yet search Firefox Advanced features:
Type (TAB) to restrict your search to the selected results:
“wikipedia.com (TAB) toy” will return matches from wikipedia Type (TAB) to see actions for the selected results:
“CONTACTNAME (TAB) email” will show the “Email” action