The Google Web site–and many of the company’s software programs–are loaded with gags, goofs, and Easter eggs that have helped Google maintain a fun-loving spirit in the cut-throat world of Web competition. Here’s a compilation of a few ones:

Thanks to Google Calculator, you can use the Google search box for serious number crunching–anything from converting currency to solving advanced maths equations. But things don’t always add up the way you…

For the last several months, a large team of Googlers have been working on a secret project: a next-generation architecture for Google’s web search. It’s the first step in a process that will push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions.

The new infrastructure sits “under the hood” of Google’s search engine, which means that most users won’t notice a difference in search results. But web developers…

Google Chrome has always been a little more than a browser: it’s optimized for running web applications, each tab runs as a separate process, the interface is minimalistic and there’s even a task manager. “We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser. What we really needed was not just a browser, but also…

If you’re a bit of a geek, and use the Firefox browser, you can already add Twitter search results to both Bing and Google via Greasemonkey. But it’s pretty rudimentary, just a list of the five most recent Twitter search results for that particular query pasted atop the regular results. Now, in a nod to the (so called) increasing importance of real-time search, Microsoft has started adding Twitter updates to…

Yes, as confirmed by Mozilla, they have officially released Firefox 3.5. My earlier post detailed about the features but now you can experience all of these yourself with the public release of Firefox 3.5. If you are a Firefox fan like me, am sure, by this time, you would have already upgraded your browser. Well, here are some more interesting facts about this magnificent organic software -

World wide real-time…

Google has created a Website for developers that is focused exclusively on making Web applications, sites and browsers faster. The site – code.google.com/speed grew out of Google’s decision to publicly share a set of best practices the search company has developed over the years.

Mozilla released Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 2, which you can download from Mozilla’s Web site. Release Candidate 2 is the first version of Firefox 3.5 that average users might want to run, since it’s faster and more stable than the beta versions were.

My last article on elaborated Google Wave which was launched in the Google I/O this year. What got washed out by the ‘Wave’ was another launch by Google at the I/O seminar called Google Web Elements.

Google Web Elements provide an easy way for you to add Google products to your website or blog. You can add content, such as news, Google Maps, and YouTube videos, along with features like social…

There’s just something about radio – that element of surprise, that anticipation of what’s coming next, that man-I-haven’t-heard-that-song-in-years sensation. That’s the promise of the new free Yahoo! Music iPhone app. Powered by CBS Radio, it lets you browse through 300+ stations within more than 20 genres (from Bollywood to Goth to Naughty Comedy). CBS RADIO crammed a lot of great features into the Yahoo! Music app so that you will…

In continuation to Swati’s post on Google Wave, this article attempts to give you some deeper insignts on Google Wave. Consider this as perspective on the very thought behind Wave -  At first there was good old email with petty 5 Mb inboxes. Then we moved to crowded chat rooms on Yahoo. All that seemed as stone age, when came a host of interactive web applications like Blogs and Social…