Instant Google Pages: fast searches via the Chrome browser
Instant Google Pages: fast searches via the Chrome browser
Internet speed up its research by minimizing the loading time of pages, without the user having to select a result.This is the definition that gave Google its new service called Instant Pages, associated with its browser Chrome .At a conference held in San Francisco, Amit Singh, head of Search Quality at Google, has disclosed some of the innovative features revolving around the dimension of pre-rendered.
“We have to save users valuable time, thanks to the auto [help function to the data entry by typing the query, note] coupled with the Google Instant. ”
A series of tests has revealed a gain of time and proved that the time necessary to load a page classic (700 kilobytes, containing Javascript, images and advertising) could be reduced by almost five seconds.And Amit Singh added: “When we launched this feature a few weeks ago, it was a little apprehensive about the relevance of the results. “For this technique pre-rendering algorithms based on calculating the relevance of the results based on queries.Instant Pages will function declined in 23 languages.It should be integrated into the next stable version of Chrome browser this summer.
Several other improvements are expected in the coming weeks.Speech recognition is now integrated in the default browser of Google .
A simple drag and drop enough to search from an image file.To demonstrate the power of his new service, Google has posted a video based on the comparison between the classic version of the search engine and its equivalent in Instant Pages.It sees a serious time saver and relevant results.Watch the video YouTube Instant Google Pages:
Death of the The Flock browser
Last January, the browser was purchased by the company Zynga – who created the popular game Farmville on Facebook. Zynga would actually take ownership of Flock workers and had never indicated a desire to keep the browser alive.
At one time, Flock was innovated by offering internet users to link their Facebook account, MySpace or YouTube to their browser and investors will have invested more than $ 15 million. In 2008, he earned an award for Webby Awards.
According to the TechCrunch site, at the height of its popularity , it was up to ten million users.
Flock is now recommending users to switch to Firefox or Chrome browsers. It does not slip but word of Rockmelt browser. Launched last December, it fills substantially the same functions as Flock, or surf the web while keeping an eye on their social networks. As was the case for Flock is built on the platform of Google Chromium.
Microsoft releases a preview of Internet Explorer 10
A year after announcing Internet Explorer 9 at its MIX10 conference , the Redmond giant reiterated the formula and unveiled April 12, 2011 first preview of its next browser to launch Mix11 . This platform preview 10 Internet Explorer is already available. Warning: this is not a full beta of the browser, but a simple demo of the display engine, with new tests .
The software was demonstrated during a keynote Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft’s vice president in charge of IE. Presentation during which he again emphasized the observance of standards and superior performance of 10 on IE browsers on other graphically rich sites.
Note also, during the demonstrations presented at the conference that 10 IE running on a machine with an ARM architecture, so no doubt … the future Windows 8 , which should ship as standard when the browser is launched.