The Teen Geek

Google Code Freeze

After Google's "Summer of Code", it looks like they're going into hibernation over the winter.

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Google Personalized Search

Two days ago Google unveiled the brand new “Personalized Search”.  It’s basically (another way for Google to find out everything about you) a new tool that uses your web history to provide you with more relevant search results.  For example, say you type in “Unique Websites” on Google Search.  Normally, you will come up with [...]

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Why Chrome is better than Firefox

This is the fourth blog in what is looking like becoming a full-blown debate comparing Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Original Post: Why Firefox IS better by Ziaix My original rebuttal, purely to show why he is wrong, no points of my own: Why Firefox in NOT better than Chrome Ziaix’s Counterattack

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Why Firefox is NOT better than Chrome

I recently read a blog post by someone that I know to be a very intelligent geek, who is also a frequent visitor to this site. This person is as far as I know normally very rational, and is certainly not the sort of person I would expect to write a blog post that is [...]

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Simplifying Google

As you may have already heard about somewhere, Google is experimenting with a new homepage. Google is well-known for being minimalistic, and for striving for simplicity. The idea that Google is now trying out is to remove most of the text from their already simple homepage. Before, Google’s homepage had eight words along the top left [...]

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The Truth About Chrome OS

Since the recent announcement  of  Google releasing their own operating system.  There’s been A LOT of hype about it and things are starting to get way, way, way out of proportion.  I just Stumbled Upon this article in Business Week, and the author made some very good points in it.  He reminds us that [...]

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