There’s almost too much news about Google to digest, but sifting through the latest I found reason to highlight these:
The Google browser: Google Chrome will be launched today, says the official Google Blog. But it’s more than a browser:
What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that’s what we set out to build.
In reality it’s an operating system for the web, says John Battelle. Hello Microsoft.
Ad Planner: Google tightens its grip on the advertising market. The New York Times mentions Ad Planner, a tool that sounds impressive:
Ad Planner is one element of a bigger product called a media dashboard that Google is working on. It would offer media planners a data-rich screen that would tell them where all the ads for a campaign were running, how they were doing and how much they had cost.
