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Exciting news for computer users, I hope I can get a copy of this for a review at some point on DLR.
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 [...]

Heh. Coop has a funny column about Google’s stock price. I wondered how in the hell it could be valued so high given what Google’s business is but these “analysts”…wow…they just went on and on and on about. Who in their right mind would have bought Google at $985? OMFG…talk about insane!
But [...]

I put up a review of Google Earth for the iPhone 3G. Check it out. Great app and it’s free!

There’s a new beta release out.
Google just released a new beta version of Chrome, Google’s first web browser, which addresses a number of issues we had noticed in earlier releases. Besides improving the performance and stability of a number of plugins, including Flash, Sliverlight, and Quicktime, as well as fixing some security issues, Google also [...]

Interesting stats about Google running more than 10.5 million web sites.
Apache once again shows the largest growth, gaining 463 thousand sites this month. ThePlanet.com gains 1.3 million sites this month — nearly all of which are running on Apache — but this includes a large number of ‘link farm’ sites that use .pl domains to [...]

Very cool app and it’s free.
Google Earth lets people virtually fly around a 3D view of the world made from satellite and aerial imagery mapped onto the planet’s mountains and valleys. The iPhone version reproduces this core experience, downloading imagery from Google’s servers as the perspective shifts and dotting the map with landmarks, photos, and [...]

Erick Schonfeld has a good round up of launch apps for Google’s Android phone.
The apps I use the most come with the device: Gmail, the Web browser, and Google Maps, in that order. The phone also comes with the Amazon MP3 store, which lets you buy songs and download them over the air directly onto [...]