New Internet Browser: Google's "Chrome"

Google released their own browser today. It's called "Chrome" and you can download it here.

There's no WOW! factor for me yet but it'll be interested to see if it gains a prominent market share. You can learn more about the application here.

Does a computer have a sense of humour?

Are you familiar with "Google Adwords"? This is the advertising feature that Google provides for anyone's web page. You simply install a little control and then it scans the words of each page and presents ads that are somehow related to the material.

While checking my e-mail this morning I had occasion to visit the "Spam" folder. To perhaps no surprise, I was presented with 3 recipes:

• Spam Quiche
• Spam Kebobs
• Spam Burritos

I'm not entirely sure that I'd like to try any of them!

Interesting New Development on Google

A friend of mine in Chicago is flying out to L.A. in a few days and will be trying a famous hot dog place called "Pink's". I decided to check it out on the Internet. So I went to Google and found myself here.

You'll notice that something looks a bit different from a normal search. Underneath the link is another one that reads "This site may harm your computer." I'd never seen this before. If you try going to the actual website, instead you're taken to a special page that provides a pretty severe warning. You're instead encouraged to visit StopBadware.org.

This is a very interesting development. Companies like Pink's Hotdogs are legit but there's something embedded in their website that is clearly frowned upon. Google isn't preventing you from going there but is raising alarm bells and making it much more difficult. With Google's market dominance, only a foolish website owner wouldn't change whatever is required to remove themselves from the blacklist.

I wonder if there'll be an uproar about this.