Google provided a look inside its data center operations at the Google Data Center Efficiency Summit held Wednesday, 1st of April, in Mountain View, California.

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Google’s Gmail Labs is constantly developing new features and applications, and while many of the projects and releases may appear to be casual or random, the Lab’s Todd Jackson says there is a method to the madness.
“Labs is for Gmail to experiment with new features when we’re not really sure if they’ll be a hit,” [...]

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Google has created a new Web site that will give outside developers an opportunity to contribute to the development of the company’s products.
Google Code Labs already offers more than 60 application programming interfaces (APIs) and tools that are in their early stages of development, says Google’s Tom Stocky. Google will look to graduate APIs [...]

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Google has joined twitter and sent the first message, saying “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010″, translated as “feeling lucky”.
The account, written by an anonymous staff member identified only as “A Googler”, promises to bring official news and updates from Google. So far, the Google Twitter account has [...]

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Google’s popular e-mail service were hit by an outage on Tuesday.
The service went offline at 0930 GMT with Google saying it was “working hard to resolve this problem”. Professional users of Google mail are covered by a service level agreement that promises to be 99.9% operational in any calendar month.
Google directed people to its mail [...]

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Yahoo! and Microsoft announced that they will support Google’s technology for detecting duplicate pages on Web sites.
Web publishers will be able to use Google’s new Web standard, dubbed the Canonical Link Tag, to find the principal URL that search engines should be indexing. Companies doing business online sometimes have large sites with multiple URLs that [...]

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Ben Goodger, who leads the UI team of Google Chrome, presented today at the Webstock conference about browsers. He said that Google decided to build Chrome simply because “browsers suck”. Existing browsers were too slow (especially with javascript heavy apps), there are too many crashes, too easy to get pwned (security issues), and UIs were [...]

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Google Earth has just released version 5.0, adding maps of the ocean’s floor, historical imagery, and many more. The historic imagery lets to see how a location has changed over the years. Nice! The new ocean features integrate maps of the ocean’s floor along with videos from National Geographic with Google Earth.
Here is a video that shows the [...]

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University of Michigan engineers have set up a solar-powered satellite dish in Entasopia, Kenya, that provides the small village access to the Internet through several computers.
In many rural areas in Africa, mobile phones have become the main mode of communication. From 2002 to 2007, the number of Kenyans using cell phones increased almost tenfold to [...]

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Google has announced that one of its most requested features - offline support for Gmail - has been made available for testing.
The new feature, enabled after users download Google Gears, will make the online mail service more similar to desktop mail clients like Outlook.
Gmail engineer Andy Palay explained in a blog post that the new [...]

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