Yesterday, Google has announced it officially that they will have their Operating System. Google has been competing Microsoft in many ways for quite long now. Google has started various projects over the years including Documents, Mobile, Search Engine and now the Operating System.

This shows that battle between Google and Microsoft is not new. Considering this, Ben Parr from mashable has performed some comparisons between Google and Microsoft, let’s have a look at a few highlights: Read the full story

Finally Google did it!!! According to Google’s official blog today, there new operating system “Google Chrome OS” will be released in the 2nd half of 2010. Of course as expected, this operating system will be Open source and available later this year.

Earlier this year Microsoft were bringing “Bing” live and were doing good so far. But now Google has really entered into the software giant’s house. This operating system would be as light as Google Chrome is. This OS is said to be for those who live their lives on web. Read the full story

Mashable’s Ben Parr has an interesting writeup on Google Wave, a new application unvieled at the second day of Google I/O conference and scheduled for release “later this year.”

Since its launch Google wave has become the developer’s dream.  The concept behind Google Wave is to “merge” all communications on the web at a single place. It can be you chatting your friends, writing emails, IM and various other software. The special ability to display the hybrid sequence of communication makes it more interesting. Google wave shows these conversations live in your browsers: you will see your friends type character-by-character. You can even disable the option to let others know you are typing something and suprise them with your instant messages Read the full story

What happens when you do a search that doesn’t have branding. Are you swayed by the branding of your favourite search engines? Take the Blind Search Engine Test.

Michael Kordahi, which I feel compelled to disclose is a Microsoft employee, has set up such an experiment, dubbed “BlindSearch” which you can try here.

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