Google is promoting their new browser Chrome on quite a lot of national homepages, from China to France to the US. In Germany, they temporarily advertised Chrome in the wrong place. Instead of a link below the search box mentioning the new browser, the red “New!” message was placed in the footer, the link text which led to Chrome reading “Advertising with Google”. I bet this made quite a few Germans scratch their head earlier today… (by now, it’s fixed). [Hat tip to Yinxue!]

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The Picasa desktop client has been released in version 3 with some changes, and Picasa Web Albums also saw a revamp with new features. For instance, there’s now an Explore tag which lets you visually discover new pics by others. An interesting new feature is Picasa’s face recognition. Google acquired image recognition company Neven Vision a while ago, and now Picasa got some of that technology, too*. Get started by logging in to Picasa Web Albums and clicking the “Try it” button below the Name Tags headline to the right. This will trigg …

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[Hat tip to Dave Shaw and SEOMoz’ 10 inexplicably weird search results for this result!]

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Today there was a comic book in my mail, sent by Google and drawn by no less than Scott McCloud, creator of the classic Understanding Comics. Within the 38 pages, which I’ve scanned and put up, in very readable format Google gives the technical details into a project of theirs: an open source browser called Google Chrome. The book points to www.google.com/chrome, but I can’t see anything live there yet. In a nut-shell, here’s what the comic announces Google Chrome to be: Google Chrome is Google’s open source browser project. As rumored before under the name of “Google Browser”, thi …

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From CNet: The auto-suggest feature of Google’s new Chrome browser does more than just help users get where they are going. It will also give Google a wealth of information on what people are doing on the Internet besides searching. Provided that users leave Chrome’s auto-suggest feature on and have Google as their default search provider, Google will have access to any keystrokes that are typed into the browser’s Omnibox, even before a user hits enter. What’s more, Google has every intention of retaining some of that data even after it provides the promised suggestions. A Google representative told CNET News that the company plans to store about 2 percent of that data — a …

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Nevon spotted above in the (men’s) toilet at the London Girl Geek Dinners 3rd anniversary event at Google London, August 28, 2008. The info is provided by Google’s Tech Stop (Tech Stop is one of Google’s internal services to provide computer help). Shown at the bottom of “Episode 1: Have You Defragged Recently?” is the intranet address http://go/techstopsurgery. A longer running series is Google’s “Testing on the Toilet”. Another flyer was ca …

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One of the prototype search results Google is currently testing shows a “Search options” link in the blue results bar. When you click it, a navigation bar expands to the left side, promising to limit results to pages created “anytime”, “past 24 hours”, “past week” and so on. There are also a couple of alternative result views to enable; “longer text”, “dates and places”, “images from the page”, and “publication date”. “Longer text” shows snippets beyond what Google normally displays in results. “Images from the page” includes little thumbnails, not unlike one of the views already available in the Google Experimental Labs. If you want to enable this experiment for you as well ( …

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Google announced their browser Google Chrome to be available on Tuesday, but their download page and tour was already partly available at gears.google.com/chrome/ just now, as Uval in the forum noticed. While the download itself didn’t work when I tried, I was able to extract some screenshots, from the frontpage but also the YouTube videos. And while the product tour videos themselves seemed to require a special group membership at YouTube, the video still previews are public and you can paste the video identifier into a URL like this one to see more high quality stills.

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Engadget has photos of what they say is going to be a mobile phone running Google-backed mobile system Android. The phone is T-Mobile-branded and produced by HTC (Taiwan-based High Tech Computer Corporation, a member of the — again Google-backed — Open Handset Alliance, as is T-Mobile), and comes with a slidable keyboard.* [Via Reto.] *The last HTC/ T-Mobile phone I had I gave up on due to low usability, but then again, it had Windows Mobile running on it.

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After downloading and installing Google’s new Windows-based browser Chrome — Google already revealed some background info via their comic –, like many of you, I gave it a first test run. A browser is the kind of thing you’ll end up using all day long, if you do end up using it. You don’t want it to get in the way at all, and yet you wish it has all the features you really think you need. Smaller interface usability hurdles sum up throughout the day, so it’s especially important that a browser is well thought out down to the details. On first glance, Chrome feels very light-weight. The tabs a …

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Google-owned YouTube announced they now allow you to upload subtitles for your videos. These will display in the video if the user expands the menu at the bottom right of the player to enable the captions, as in this CNet video. The supported formats for captions are Subviewer and Subrip (*.sub/ *.srt). To upload such a definition, visit your video’s edit page (accessible via Account -> My Videos) and switch to the Captions entry on top. For each video, you can also upload captions in several languages. It’s an important feature, but YouTube’s tools are often not the most innovative; in this case, an additional web-based captions editor from Yo …

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Google search result advertisers who sell products through Google’s Checkout program get the special benefit of having a visible icon next to their ad (”Your AdWords ads will stand out”, as Google says). This could be an incentive for sellers to use Checkout, as the Checkout program has been struggling in the past (judging from e.g. Google’s extensions of free usage for sellers). Now, Google has been seen experimenting with an even more colorful version of the Checkout badge, which in this case is placed in a pet food ad and reads “$5 off!”. It’s getting kinda cheap. The pet food, …

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Google search result advertisers who sell products through Google’s Checkout program get the special benefit of having a visible icon next to their ad (”Your AdWords ads will stand out”, as Google says). This could be an incentive for sellers to use Checkout, as the Checkout program has been struggling in the past (judging from e.g. Google’s extensions of free usage for sellers). Now, Google has been seen experimenting with an even more colorful version of the Checkout badge, which in this case is placed in a pet food ad and reads “$5 off!”. It’s getting kinda cheap. The pet food, …

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SUP stands for Simple Update Protocol (officially, anyway, though it’s perhaps an acronym or backronym for “what’s up” aka “’sup”). It’s a JSON-based meta format for RSS/ Atom feeds useful for websites that deliver a large number of feeds, like a blogging platform, so that services subscribing to that site’s RSS feeds only need to download a single file to check for updates, and then download the other individual feeds as needed. SUP was invented by the ex-Google employees Paul Buchheit and Gary Burd of (recently redesigned) social feed aggregator Friendfeed. There is no official documentation at the moment outside of the

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Google’s YouTube has a video identification system available to find copyrighted content. Google says there are currently 300 content-owning partners available who can be alerted by the system and who then face the choice of blocking the video, promoting it*, or getting a share of the ad revenues from YouTube (money from which the one who uploaded the detected video will not see a share, according to the New York Times, though I guess they can display some of their own links and so on in places like the video description snippet). Interestingly enough, Google says content owners participating here ch …

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