Looking for Google Chrome news? You might wanna try Techmeme

Written on September 2, 2008 – 1:10 pm
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

Ok, so I won’t start complaining about the Techmeme echo chamber or anything like that. I don’t even feel that way about the tech news aggregator. I just want to show how excited the blogosphere is about Google’s initiative to enter the browser market. Or.., no, let me make one suggestions. Maybe Techmeme should consider to use doodles - like Google does - as well.

I hope you like that post!

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By David Petherick on Sep 2, 2008

Well, at least Nokia crept in there towards the end. ;-)

I think we’re going to like Chrome - I really hope there’s a Mac version today.

The live product announcement can be joined by linking here - and you can even get a reminder just before it starts at 11am PDT - see http://news.cnet.com/8301-1793.....025-2.html

There’s a download link for Google Chrome that works in the US (apparently) - certainly does not work here in the UK. Can anyone over check this out? http://gears.google.com/chrome/?hl=en

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By David Petherick on Sep 2, 2008

Just heard from US that the download link does not work at the moment. Thanks @tkunau

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By kafik on Sep 2, 2008

I want to try it! If it s simple as reach that so good luck but without me.

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By boris on Sep 2, 2008

it would be a BIG mistake to ignore mac users. Sure hope they won’t be that foolish…

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By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Sep 2, 2008

Incredible. It IS Windows only! Download it now: http://www.google.com/chrome

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By David Petherick on Sep 2, 2008

I’m using Chrome to browse this site on a Sony VAIO running XP. Loading of pages is noticeably smoother than other browsers, and I loaded what I knew to be a ‘bad site’ - it closed down without fuss separate from the rest. And it’s doing a spell-check nicely.

Live Press conference says that they are working hard on Mac & Linux versions, but no specific release date.

So far, apart from no Mac version, I like it.

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By Joop Dorresteijn on Sep 3, 2008

@screenshot Techmeme… Now that’s something I never seen before…

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