As soon as Google goes official with the Chrome OS, every tech people I know jumped into it. Each with his own comments, impressions and ideas on what was made available by Google so far. You've read about our earlier report as well as Google's own announcement . Now here's what other bright minds in the tech world have to say about the Google Chrome OS. Brad Linder of Download Squad : Google ChromeOS: It's basically a modified browser that runs web apps.

Yahoo just made its first step towards making search results more fresh and social with contents from news sources, photos, videos and most importantly Twitter. Yes, you read it right - Twitter. So starting today, when you do a search on Yahoo for the latest news you can see the news, photos, videos and Twitter tabs on top of the search results page. The Photos and Videos tabs will give you relevant images and videos culled from Yahoo! News.

For simple folks like me anticipating the release of Google Chrome OS any day now, sad to say you won't get a taste of it at least not in a year or so. But if you're a developer, today's Google announcement is for you.  Google has just made its Chromium Open Source Projec t  where  the consumer-side of Chrome OS will be built, available for developers and coders. The Chromim OS project which was released just now include current code base,

After graduating the feature "Find Similar Images" in Google Labs, here's a new experiment on finding and exploring images being offered by Google - Image Swirls. The idea behind Google Swirl is similar to the "Wonder Wheel" options that was recently introduced in Google Search Panel. Google Image Swirls builds on a new computer vision research which groups similar images together and present them in a fun way, which in this case is in "swirling" formation.

If you're paying attention to the green URLs which Google appends at the bottom of each results, you may have noticed something different recently. Google is currently enhancing this URLs to give not just the plain generic URLs but replacing it with hierarchical links that show the precision location of the page on a particular website.

Latest search market data from comScore show that both Bing and Google have gained in October while Yahoo continues its slump.  Google remained steady at the top with 65.4% market share from September's 64.9%. Bing on the other hand managed to post a 9.9% marker share from 9.4% in September. Meanwhile, Yahoo seems to be suffering, probably from Bing's gain with 18% market share in October from September's 18.8% data.

One of my favorite Google service - its online translation tool just got a newly streamlined layout . And along with the new site design are some great features that will make it faster and easier to translate words in 51 languages. In case you're living under the rock, Google Translate is an online tool that lets you automatically translate text and web pages into various languages. I use this service when covering netbook news in foreign languages including French,

Time Warner and AOL has officially announced the details of their separation.  According to the official press release , come Dec. 9, 2009 Time Warner stockholders on record as of November 27, 2009 will receive one share of AOL common stock for every eleven shares of Time Warner common stock they owned. Time Warner currently has a current market cap of $38 billion, putting AOL's implied value at $3.2 billion. Beginning Nov. 24, 2009,

In a recent interview with Google Engineer Matt Cutts, Web Pro News is reporting that Matt  may have hinted on the future of how Google may  rank websites. And guess what? It has something to do with how fast a website actually loads. During the interview Matt told Web Pro News: "I think a lot of people in 2010 are going to be thinking more about 'how do I have my site be fast,' how do I have it be rich without writing a bunch of custom javascript?

Google Analytics has just added AdSense for Feeds and Google Feedburner data to the items it monitors and analyzes. So, if you are using either of the two tools for feed advertising, you can now see how far your ad implementation are doing in terms of item clicks. Google Analytics will even provide you with additional information that may help you understand who Feedburner gives more traffic to your sites. If you're using AdSense for Feeds of Google Feedburner,

There's no doubt that many are anticipating the release of Google's Chrome OS. In fact, we've seen several "alleged" screenshots and what-have-you's relating to the Chrome OS before. But none of these proved to be official though. And we were told that Google Chrome OS was not to become available until fall of next year. But then, TechCrunch seems pretty convinced that the first build of the Chrome OS will be made available next week.

Google has introduced some improvements to its movie search vertical by adding more movie-related information to help users decide what movie to see and where's the nearest theater to watch it. So, if you're looking for information on where to possibly catch New Moon or Michael Jackson's This is It, you might want to check out the details at http://google.com/movies. From there you'd be given with various options to find the best place to watch those movies.

Parents who continues to worry that their kids might still encounter sexually explicit web sites even when they have Google's SafeSearch feature on can now rest easy. Google has just made SafeSearch safer with the introduction of a locking feature. The lock feature brings SafeSearch to the stricktest level of filtering that Google can possibly provide to users, says a post from the Official Google Blog. To activate this feature,

It doesn't matter whether Google took this long to do this, it is definitely all worth the wait. I'm talking about the integration World Bank development indicators to Google search. Google just announced that World Bank's 17 World Development Indicators which are previously buried deep within World Bank's database is now finally available to anyone using Google Search. Being in another development financial institution for several years now,

As if integrating Twitter to its search results was not enough, Microsoft announced today that it is also collaborating with Wolfram Alpha - thus bringing its computational knowledge to Bing's search results. The new feature will be rolled out in the coming days to U.S-based Bing users.

Again, Google has launched a new service that will either please or scare you. It's Google's Latitude's Location History and Location Alerts.  Location History tracks where you have been at any point in time, while Location Alerts notifies you whenever you are near a friends location - that way you can easily contact that friend and perhaps arrange a meet-up at a designated place. Google Latitude's Location History lets you store,

Microsoft is rolling out the new Bing Videos site aimed at bringing a new unified online video destination.  The new Bing Video site combines Bing's video search engine and MSN video site . In addition, the new Bing video site also lets you access videos across the web including those videos from MSN video, Hulu, ABC, and YouTube. This practically translates to over 900+ T.V.

Street View in Google Maps has completed capturing all 50 U.S. states as it has finally added street view imagery of Oahu and Maui in Hawaii .  Google has worked with the Hawaii Visitors and Conventions Bureau to bring high-resolution images of  Hawaiis best beaches and make it available for everyone to see.  With Hawaii now in Street View on Google Maps, you can now go on a virtual vacation,

The order of business for the three major search engines this coming Holiday Season is none other than  - Free Wi-Fi Internet access.  Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have recently announced their respective strategies in providing free Internet access in various places. For both Yahoo and Google, it's a totally free Wi-Fi Internet access while Microsoft will be offering it with a catch.

Google has officially announced that it is taking mobile display advertising provider in exchange for $750 million. This deal completes Google's mobile ad platform as AdMob's mobile display joins Google Mobile search ads and SMS. Here's what both companies have to say about the acquisition deal: "Mobile advertising has enormous potential as a marketing medium and while this industry is still in the early stages of development,