Quoted: Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

Comic overviewing Google's browser features. Conceptually sound, but ... will it blend? At least they're using a rendering engine that won't cause headaches for developers ...

Google Docs is now offline (via Gears) -- nice!

Obama on algorithms ... gotta be the first time any political candidate has used the term "bubble sort", EVER.

Quoted: The proceedings at Google are not unremittingly serious affairs. Mr. Schmidt asked Senator McCain, “How do you determine good ways of sorting one million 32-bit integers in two megabytes of RAM?” Immediately signaling that the question was asked in jest, Mr. Schmidt moved on. Six months later, Senator Obama faced the same question, but his staff had prepared him. When he replied in fluent tech-speak (“A bubble sort is the wrong way to go”), the quip brought down the house.

This is really pretty basic ... I guarantee you all of these companies are aware of the issue (as well as most 16 year old hackers). Of course, SSL impacts response time and scalability, so they cheat.

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Quoted: The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts.

Semi-official greasemonkey API for Gmail, sweet. Gmail Macros is already updated to use it.

Quoted: Greasemonkey is an integral part of the web experience for many experienced users. Google acknowledges that some people are going to change their own experience of our web applications regardless of what we do. Resistance, as they say, is futile. It would also be somewhat hypocritical. After all, a Google employee wrote Greasemonkey in the first place, another wrote these scripts to add functionality to Gmail, and a third wrote two books on the subject (and these docs).

Heh.

Quoted: What if Google had to design
their user interface for Google?

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