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Google’s Impressive “Conversational Search” Goes Live On Chrome
May 22nd
The “conversational search” that Google demonstrated at last week’s Google I/O conference is now available to users of its Chrome browser, and it’s a significant leap in how we use search engines. I’m 17 years now into writing about search, and I’ve seen all…
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Google Chrome Tips
May 12th
I started this blog post of Chrome tips in 2008. Even though this is a “hairball” post, some of these tips still work.
- control-shift-V will paste your selection as plain text
- control-shift-T will re-open the last tab you closed. You can repeat that to keep re-opening previously closed tabs.
- Hover over a tab to see the title for that page.
- shift-escape to bring up the Chrome process manager
- switch your default search engine: right-click in the Omnibox and select “Edit search engines…” . Select a search engine and click “Make Default”
- Chrome’s user-agent looks like “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.24 Safari/525.13″
- Click on a tab and drag it to reorder tabs. To move the tab to a new window, click on the tab and drag it away from the tab bar until a “ghost image” of the tab appears.
- Use control-tab and control-shift-tab to shift your tab focus
- The address bar (referred to as an “Omnibox”) in Google Chrome is very smart. You can use it to type urls or to run searches. Once you type a space after a word, the browser will assume that you want to run a search. Once you type a ‘/’, the browser will assume that you want to navigate to a url.
- Here’s another omnibox trick. Visit Amazon.com and do a search for anything (say, Terry Pratchett). Your browser will see that you did a search and will learn that it can search amazon. Now start typing in the omnibox until “amazon.com” is offered as a suggestion, and then hit tab. You will be offered the ability to search directly on Amazon for what you want. So you could type “am” to bring up the “amazon.com” suggestion, then hit tab and Chrome will say “Search amazon.com:” then if you type “Little Brother” and hit return, you’ll be taken directly to Amazon’s search results for Little Brother.
- On Firefox, you’d use control-l to move the focus to the address bar and control-k to move the focus to the search box. Both shortcuts work on Google Chrome. Note that control-k adds a ‘?’ to the beginning of the address bar/omnibox, which is a shorthand way to write “Do a search.” So entering “?tax codes” would do a search for [tax codes]. After you get the hang of the omnibox, you’ll find yourself just typing searches and hitting enter, because you don’t really need the ‘?’ in front.
- Toggle the display of a bookmark bar on and off with control-shift-B. Even if the bookmark bar is off, it will conveniently appear for you on the “New Tab” window.
- Google Chrome doesn’t offer Google Bookmarks functionality, but if you want to use Google Bookmarks with your browser, you can visit google.com/bookmarks and there’s a bookmarklet at the bottom of the page that you can drag up to your bookmarks bar.
- If you delete a tab by accident, open up a new tab with control-t. In the bottom right is a section called “Recently closed tabs” where you can retrieve a tab. That section only lists three recently closed tabs though. You can re-open up to 10 closed tabs with control-shift-T.
- To maximize the Google Chrome window, you can double-click in any unused/blank part of the tab strip
- An Incognito window isn’t just useful for buying gifts or private porn surfing. If you have two different Google Accounts (maybe a work account and a personal account), you can use Incognito mode to keep two browser windows open and the two windows can each use a different Google Account. Open an Incognito window with ctrl-shift-N.
- control-h will open a history window so that you can search over your browser history
- To help prevent phishing, Google Chrome will bold the hostname of the url in the address bar.
- Attach a file in Gmail with simple drag-and-drop.
- Google Chrome has some neat internal pages that you can access. In the address bar, try entering “about:memory” to get a great breakdown of Chrome’s memory statistics. Enter “about:version” to get version information about Google Chrome. Enter “about:dns” to see the time you’ve saved with DNS prefetching. Enter “about:plugins” to find out more about your browser’s plugins. And “about:stats” shows all kinds of information.
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Google Chrome & Android Will ‘Remain Separate for a Very Long Time’
Mar 25th
An Android-Chrome merger seems unlikely now that Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has publicly stated that there are no plans to combine the divisions, despite recent speculation that a merger was on the cards following personnel changes.
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Google Never Needed To Merge Chrome OS & Android For Both To Succeed
Mar 21st
Forget what you think you heard and whatever conjecture the Internet has been throwing around. Google’s Android and Chrome operating systems are not going to merge into one.
According to a report from Reuters, Google chairman Eric Schmidt said that the two operating systems may overlap features but will remain separate and distinct. Speculation arose earlier this month that Android and Chrome would merge when Google replaced Andy Rubin, the longtime head of its Android division, with Sundar Pichai, the manager of Chrome OS.
Prohibitive Technical Challenges
From a theoretical perspective, the move to merge Google’s mobile operating system and its desktop operating system has long made sense. Each OS could benefit from properties of the other and Google could streamline its device lineup by combining the two. From a business and technical perspective, folding Chrome into Android was never realistic.
Android uses the Linux kernel but is very Java-based, as the public learned in a big way last year when Oracle sued Google over the use of Java in Android. Chrome is mostly Linux based. While it is possible to merge the two kernels, the work behind a combination would have been daunting to the point of being prohibitive for Google to even bother.
Why would Google want to merge the two anyway? Android is the world’s most-used mobile operating system. It already has Chrome functionality as the default browser in most new devices such as the ability to sign in to your Google account, share search history and bookmarks. Chrome OS is a browser-based operating system that is tangential to the features that are offered in Android.
Room For Both To Grow
Google can continue to focus its efforts in Chrome OS towards laptops and notebooks, possibly tablets. Chrome OS competes in the realm of Microsoft’s Windows operating system. Despite declining PC sales, the market is still big enough to warrant Google’s attention with a dedicated operating system and Chrome is what Google has to bring to the fight.
The fact of the matter is that Android does not need Chrome OS to grow and succeed in the mobile market. Chrome OS has the potential to grow into a significant business for Google, regardless of Android. The two can work well in cohort while still maintaining individual identities.
Google’s game for both Android and Chrome OS is to get more people on the Web, using Google services such as search, Gmail and Maps. There is room for more than one operating system to fulfill that goal.
Top image: Chrome plated Android statue at Google campus from Paul Wilcox.
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Google Streamlines Search for Chrome on iPhone, iPad
Mar 5th
Google has improved the search and sharing features for its Chrome browser running on Apple’s iOS smartphone and tablet platform. Chrome’s update includes features that allow users to share web pages via email, messages, and Facebook.
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Google Chromebook Ads Popping Up on Chrome Start Pages
Feb 20th
Google is advertising new Chromebooks to some users for $249. While the ad is unobtrusive and momentarily makes the start page more interesting, users who have seen the ads aren’t impressed, especially those who can’t even buy one in their country.
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Google Chrome to Encrypt All Searches
Jan 22nd
Google’s Chrome web browser sends search results from its Omnibox – the box used to type in URLs – to Google. Now the web browser will use SSL to encrypt web search input before sending it to Google, whether or not users are signed into Google.
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Google Now: Coming To A Chrome Browser Near You?
Dec 10th
Rumors are surfacing that Google might be ready to migrate its predictive search service Google Now away from Android and make it available to all users of its Google Chrome browser. According to a post on the Chromium blog last week, developers have installed a “skeleton” for Google Now, which is the first towards integrating its notifications into the browser.
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Google Roundup: JAMs Fast with Chrome, Dumb Phones, and VC Up
Nov 9th
There’s been a lot of movement this week by Internet giant Google. Not the least of their most recent announcements, Google Chrome utility and speed have been approved fairly radically. However, a move by Google to engage emerging mobile markets may spell big gains client-conversion wise. So this week at Google, entertainment, speed, markets and [...]
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Search In Pics: Google Truck Containers, Chrome Switch Ball & Google Docks
Oct 12th
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Google Shipping Containers: Source: Flickr Google+ Swag Phone Kickstand:…
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