Showing posts with label browsers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label browsers. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Is Cuil killing the Internet?


While the world gets excited over Google’s new open-source browser, Chrome, a new story is emerging about one of the Web’s next-generation utilities: Cuil, the search engine heralded as a “Google killer,” might just be taking out the entire Internet, one site at a time.

As TechCrunch’s Don Reisinger reports, Cuil’s Twiceler indexing bot is so bandwith-hungry that it’s shutting down sites all over the Web:

See the full article here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=338


Google announces new browser -- Chrome

Google will launch a Web browser called Chrome that will take on Microsoft’s chrome.jpgInternet Explorer and apparently Mozilla’s Firefox, which the search giant essentially funds.
  • Google’s browser will be open source;
  • Chrome will include a JavaScript Virtual Machine built from scratch;
  • Tabs will be moved around;
  • The browser has an address bar with auto-completion.
  • There’s a privacy feature like IE has;
  • And Google aims to be proactive about fighting phishing and malware attacks.
  • http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9847



Here is the link to read the comic book that explains the browser.
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080901/heres-the-google-chrome-browser-comic-book-hey-microsoft-kaa-pow/