Google buys Picnik photo-editing website
On its official blog, Google announced yesterday that it had acquired Seattle based Picnik, an online photo-editing site.
Picnik was one of the first web sites to allow users to edit their photos online through a web browser rather than having to edit the photos in a PC based application.
Chrome web browser steals share from IE and Firefox
The Google Chrome web browser gained 0.6% of global market share in January from the previous month according to figures published today by NetMarketshare.
Total worldwide usage for Chrome was 5.2% in January, more than triple the 1.5% recorded in January 2009.
Latest release of Google Chrome features bookmark sync
This week on the official Google Blog, the company announced a new stable release of it’s Chrome web browser for Windows, which includes two of the browser’s most frequently, requested features: extensions and bookmark sync.
Extensions are little programs, created by developers, which add additional functionality to the Chrome browser. Currently there are over 1,500 extensions in the Chrome extensions gallery.
Google lets you store more at Google Docs
On the official Google Docs Blog this week, the company announced it would be rolling out the ability to upload all types of files to Google docs thereby giving users a free one gigabyte of online storage for all of their critical files.
Previously Google doc users could only store files in one of the Google Docs formats (i.e. Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentations).
Google adds nine more Canadian Cities to Street View
Google Street View, a feature of Google Maps and Google Earth that shows high-resolution street-level images, has added nine new Canadian cities to its roster.
The new cities from east to west include: St. John’s, Sherbrooke, London, Sudbury, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Nanaimo and Victoria.
2009 Year-End Google Zeitgeist: Canada
Each year, Google examines the billions of queries that people around the world have typed into Google search to discover the zeitgeist—the spirit of the times.
After filtering out spam and repeat queries, the fastest rising query throughout the world – when compared to how often it was used the previous year – was “michael jackson” while the fastest falling term was “Beijing 2008″.
YouTube adding 1080p video
On its corporate blog today, Billy Biggs, Software Engineer for YouTube announced that support for 1080p HD videos is on its way.
Starting next week, YouTube’s HD mode will add support for viewing videos in 720p or 1080p, depending on the resolution of the original source.
Top U.S. Search Providers for October
The Nielsen Company this week reported October data for the top search providers in the U.S. to no one’s surprise, Google leads the pack with over 6.7 billions searches.
Nielsen estimates that a total of 10.2 billion searches were conducted during the month with Google accounting for about two thirds (66.1%) of them.
