About Google, Google = Internet?
Google, one of the most popular search engines on the Internet. Anyone who has used computer and the Internet should have heard about Google.
Without search engines, the Internet would be like a whole lump of unorganized information. Search engines have organized everything and have been leading people to the information they are searching for. And, with Google being, I think the 1st and the best search engine in the world has done a great job in organizing every single websites and web pages, searching for the greatest, accurate and most popular content or information on the Internet. Google has been providing many free services to public like Google Maps, Blogger, Adsense, Adwords, Gmail and even YouTube.
As you can see, Google Inc’s service has been used by almost every single person in the world. Famous websites like YouTube, Gmail, Blogger and of course the most famous search engine Google, are all Google Inc’s property. It’s obvious that we can come to a conclusion. Without Google on the Internet, Internet would be like nothing to me. Imagine if one day, all Google Inc’s service have disappeared and there is no more Gmail, YouTube, Blogger or even Google, can you live without it? Well, maybe some of you might say yes. Without YouTube, you can select other sites like Myspace or Veoh. Without Blogger, you can find another blog hosting provider like WordPress.Without Gmail, you can use Hotmail or even Yahoo Mail. But, without Google, you can’t live without it! Google performs approximately 85% of searches made throughout the World Wide Web. And have you noticed how important Google is? You really can’t depend on other search engines with over-loaded index pages like Yahoo! or AOL.
Besides that, Google has influenced everybody too. The word “google” has become a verb. Nowadays, if you want to find more information about something, most people would tell you to “google” for it. The verb “google” means to perform a search throughout the Internet using Google search engine.
Google is improving day by day, and first, it’s the popular web browser – Google Chrome. Google Chrome has successfully attracted almost 30 million frequent users just in nine months. It’s minimal, simple and clean design was one of the main factor for it’s success. Google wanted to make everything to be faster, performs better and more lightweighted. But Google Chrome’s success isn’t going to stop Google from developing new service and products. If you have read this Google Introduces Google Chrome Operating System post, you would know that Google is now developing a new operating system, named Google Chrome Operating System. It’s objective is also to have the minimal design and more lightweight compared to the famous operating system, Windows. And once again Google is going to compete against Microsoft. The main reason why Google chose to aim for the market of netbooks is because PC are monopolised by Microsoft. Netbooks would be famous within years due to it’s small, light and portable features. Using Microsoft’s operating systems would be a heavy burden to netbooks and so, Google aimed for the market of netbooks with it’s simplicity and lightweight operating system.
Google has come in almost all parts of our lives in the World Wide Web. In the future, Google would be the Internet and the Internet would be Google. With Google competing against others in almost every single service in the Internet, it would be difficult for us to live without Google.
Review: Apple Safari 4
At last, Apple has finally released it’s web browser – Safari 4. They claimed Safari 4 as the fastest web browser in the world. But, is Safari 4 really the fastest browser in the world?
So, let’s start with the installation of Safari 4.
Nothing wrong… Next…
Agree… Next…
Choosing the directory to install the files… Nothing wrong… Next…
Installation is under progress…
At last, installation finished. The installation is quite simple as it is all pressing “Next”, “Next” and “Next”. All you need to configure is the installing directory and the option to install Bonjour.
After pressing the finish button, Safari 4 launched. The launching speed is fast and that’s what all Internet users hope to see. Of course, the launching speed depends on the speed of the computer too. My initial impression for this web browser was… “Wow! That’s what I call stylish!”
Safari 4 gave me a really great impression on it’s elegant, clean and stylish look. Everything looked nice and fresh. There are quite an amount of websites pre-loaded after installation. Popular websites like Youtube, Facebook, Google, Yahoo are all pre-loaded in this web browser in “Top Sites”. You don’t need to visit the designated site and bookmark it like what you did if you’re using Firefox or any other web browsers. But, this “Top Sites” feature is one of the features in Safari 4 I didn’t like. Those pre-loaded websites are simply too many… I think they should reduce the amounts of those websites. I’m getting headache watching all those sites and with some I’ve never come across before….
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Fortunately, Safari 4 allows you to customize it. It’s not like Google Chrome, facing difficulties just to customize something and sometimes it doesn’t even provide customization on some features. For example, Google Chrome doesn’t have the options to not to remember history of the websites visited. Although it provides “Incognito Window”, I still didn’t like it.
Although the features customization in Safari 4 doesn’t provide you like what Firefox provided, typing “about:config” and change almost everything… The features customization for Safari 4 is still acceptable. But, I found Safari 4 not that user-friendly… Especially bookmarking your favourite website. When you want to bookmark a site, this really annoying pop-up occurs, asking where you want to keep it. This thing really annoys me. I’m used to Firefox, just bookmark a website and just store it. I don’t want to go through those categorizing bookmarks process.
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Other than this, everything seems fine. Now, the most important part of all web browsers — Speed. In this modern era, everybody wants everything to be fast and effective. You don’t really hope to see people using Internet Explorer 8 and wait ages for the page to load right? Speaking frankly, the speed is quite fast for Safari. The speed it launches, loading scripts, images, flash applications, everything seems to be acceptable.
Now, it’s the end of this review. Hope you enjoyed it.
To download Apple Safari 4, please click here.
Review: Browser Wars
It’s the old and common topic in the world of IT… But, it is still quite a popular topic although it has been discussed throughout the world of IT. So, today I shall discuss this topic AGAIN…..
First, I believe almost all computer users in the world use Microsoft Windows operating system right? Then, Internet Explorer should be right inside your computer once you’ve installed Windows. Is the latest Internet Explorer 8 fast?
These are just my personal thoughts about IE8:
Although Microsoft has improved IE8, yeah, it’s obvious IE8 is faster in launching if compared to IE7, but, the same old problem still does appear… It’s loading speed of webpages. The loading speed of webpages is too slow. Loading Google in IE8 or IE7 needs more time if compared to other web browsers. Well, don’t blame it ony my Internet connection. Google homepage is so small in size and the loading only takes about a few microseconds. Yes! Microseconds! It doesn’t even need one second to load. IE8 is fast at launching… Yeah, I agree… But, the essential part of all web browsers we are comparing sure is the loading speed of a website. The speed of launching a program sure also relies on the speed of the computer. Yeah, it’s fast… But, so what if IE8 launches faster? It still doesn’t load websites faster… So, in my personal opinion, for those suckers who are still using IE8… Faster switch to another web browser!
Now, it’s Safari. Apple had just released it’s web browser Safari 4. Apple claimed that Safari 4 is the world’s fastest browser.
The interface of this web browser is really very elegant and very user-friendly. Apple really has done a great job on Safari 4. The launching speed of the program and the speed of loading websites really are fast. You should try this web browser.
To download Safari 4, please click here.
Next, it’s the web browser from Google. Google has also done a great job on this web browser, named Google Chrome. The clean, stylish and elegant look really does attracts many Internet users. The launching speed and the speed of loading websites are?? really great. It meets almost every requirement being the greatest web browsers ever built. But, the bad thing is, you won’t be able to customize the settings too much. As an example, I want the browser not to remember any history but there isn’t any option on this. Although there is an built-in incognito window, I still don’t like it. I want the default browser not to remember any history without having to open an incognito window. That’s what I don’t like about Google Chrome. Although I don’t like Chrome very much, Google Chrome is also quite reliable compared to that sucking IE8.
To download Google Chrome, please click here.
Opera, another good web browser developed. The elegant and well looking skin is just perfect like it’s name, Opera. If you are not satisfied by the appearance of Opera, you can change it through the “Appearance” option. Talking about the speed, it’s fast in both launching and viewing websites. Opera also has widgets available for you. You might want to try this browser, Opera.
To download Opera, please click here.
And next, it’s Mozilla Firefox. After reading so many articles written by different authors, I think all of them also came out with the same result. Firefox is still the best. Firefox is a free and open source web browser developed by Mozilla Corporation. And of course, I would definitely recommend you Firefox. You can customize almost everything. It has themes, add-on and other interesting and great stuffs available for you to download. Although Firefox is quite a memory hunger program, but you can still be able to run it without any problem on a decent computer.
To download Mozilla Firefox, please click here.
Conclusion:
Well, actually there really doesn’t have a thing such as “The best web browser in the world”. It really depends on a person’s thoughts or views. Just choose which web browser that suits you most. Thanks for reading.