Google has added a new feature, Doc’s Gadget that enables users to find and access their Google documents straight from the desktop. “Google Docs is a free web-based suite that includes word processing, spreadsheets and presentation applications”. The new Docs gadget works with Linux and Windows versions of Desktop’s Gadgets.

Mozilla has had a pretty good relationship with Google, but it’s gotten worse since Google introduced it’s own browser, Chrome. Mozilla’s chief executive said ”
We have a fine and reasonable relationship but I’d be lying if I said that things weren’t more complicated than they used to be.”
The biggest competition that they are facing right now is browser speed in rendering Javascript content. Microsoft, Mozilla and Google are trying hard to beat their competition and all of them claim that their browsers are the fastest. When final version of IE 8 comes out, we’ll be able to benchmark Javascript rendering and fully compare all three browsers.

Just a few days after Google removed Beta from its Chrome browser, the company issued an update that fixes more than 30 bugs. Earlier this week, Google delivered Chrome 1.0.154.39, a developer-only build that has not been sent to all users through the browser’s automatic. None of the updates are related to security. All users can receive the update by setting their options to receive all updates including developer editions.

Google’s YouTube has rolled out a high-definition option for video and created new landing pages to make it easier to find popular video categories.

Recently Yahoo has agreed that it will delete personal data it collects after 3 months. At the same time MSN has agreed to delete their data after 6 months. Google currently deletes personal data after 9 months. Both Yahoo and MSN are putting pressure on Google to comply and decrease their privacy data retention times. It’s unknown if Google will comply, when in fact the majority of Google users do not mind their information collection. It’s be nice if all the major search engines provided us with the information that they collect. Perhaps then, we’d be more worried about what happens to our personal information that is collected.

YouTube which was bought by Google in 2006 for $1.65 Billions may finally hit the jackpot. Up until now, the revenues haven’t been too exciting. It’s partnership with Universal (the music record company) has aided tremendously.
Universal and other major label companies have a deal with YouTube, under which the recording companies post music videos on the site and share advertising revenue with YouTube. They also share revenue of music posted by other YouTube users. It’s a win-win situation.
According to source, the music giant will earn $100 millions in revenue from video streaming this year, and most of that money comes from YouTube.
Out of the top ten channels on YouTube, 7 are about music and number one is Universal with almost 3 billion views.

Google launched on Thursday one of a kind cross-language search feature.
“Cross-Language Enterprise Search works only with the Google Enterprise Search Appliance and will find internal documents written in any language, no matter what language was used to create the query. With more and more companies linking their global systems, by simply pointing the search engine to each system the cross-language feature will find the documents in any one of 34 languages.”

Google Chrome has been ahead of Microsoft’s new browser, Internet Explorer 8 since they were both launched.
It appears that Google Chrome is gaining ground while Microsoft IE8 is loosing it. It’s looking very promising for Google. Google Pack has Chrome set as the default browser, and we in the future Chrome will be pre-installed on computers. The anti-trust ruling against Microsoft over Internet Explorer paved the path for Google to be able to strike deals with the OEMs.

Google fixed and brought back the SMS feature in Gmail after a long downtime. The feature works exactly as it did before, but without the bug that they fixed

Gmail SMS only supports US carriers for now, but hopefully more support will be available soon.

The three month old browser, Google Chrome came out of beta. Google says the browser is ready for prime time.