With half the web development and online media community downloading Google's new "Chrome" browser, I shudder to think of the amount of bandwidth Google's servers must be dishing up right now. That said, if there is one company that has the infrastructure to handle it, it's Google. But what about "Chrome" itself? Well I've only had the pleasure of using Chrome for just under half a day now. There are so many over-hyped, yet under-performing, products released … read on »

In news that is no doubt melting servers around the globe (even Google's by the looks of things), Google has announced that tomorrow it will release a new browser - based on the Webkit rendering engine - named "Chrome". Google Blogoscoped made something of a unprecented media splash by prematurely releasing a 35 page "comic" about Chrome before its more offical anouncement. The comic was drawn by Scott McCloud, and goes into some of the browser's … read on »

Terri Wells at SEOChat goes quite indepth into Google's announcement that it will be able to index Flash files a lot more: Late in June Google and Adobe announced an arrangement whereby the search engine could now read and index Shockwave Flash files. The move has been hailed as a huge step forward, since Flash has up until now been invisible to the search engines – and therefore invisible to searchers. But this isn't quite the … read on »

Some interesting results regarding the web-searching habits of Asian web surfers (which includes Australia) has been released by comScore.  While us Australians are clearly dwarfed in numbers of total searches by our much more populous neighbours, we ranking somewhat highly for number of searches performed per month by visitor. There seems to be a correlation between overall economic development and the number of searches performed by an end user, with Korea, Japan and Singapore taking … read on »