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Vio has taken the time and tried to compare Chrome’s performance to today’s major browsers. He’s been using TaskWriter (Sety‘s latest product) as a benchmark and the results are quite interesting: Chrome is the speediest, but FF3 is very close:

Chrome Benchmark

Google stepped up yesterday with two launches: a web browser (Chrome) and updated versions of PicasaWeb and Picasa 3 picture management software. I won’t comment much on Chrome, except that it seems very fast and wheel-like scrolling up doesn’t work on my laptop’s touchpad… and I miss the dedicated search box (I really do).

But the new PicasaWeb features something really cool: face recognition. It will analyze all your uploaded pictures and find faces, then group them together and ask for you to assign names/persons. This is not new, Riya’s been doing this for some time already, right? Yeah, but my experience with Riya wasn’t the greatest and I found it almost unusable while PicasaWeb simply… just works.

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From Google Blog:

We’ve known it for a long time: the web is big. The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. Over the last eight years, we’ve seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there. Recently, even our search engineers stopped in awe about just how big the web is these days — when our systems that process links on the web to find new content hit a milestone: 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!

Good thing they’re keeping their mojo in the clouds:

Google Trends is now available for website visits too. And it works for .ro as well, so fight’s on:

Via Google Blogoscoped!

Seems that Google has updated its Translate service to include many more languages. Among these is also Romanian, and the results are pretty damn hilarious.

Pare că Google a actualizat Traduceţi sale de serviciu, pentru a include mai multe limbi. Printre aceste este, de asemenea, română, şi rezultatele sunt destul de naibii de hilar.

And now backwards:
Se pare ca Google si-a actualizat serviciul Translate (traduceri) pentru a include mai multe limbi. Printre acestea este, de asemenea, romana si rezultatele sunt al naibii de distractive.

It seems that Google had updated service Translate (translation) to include more languages. Among them is, too, Romanian and the results are damn fun.

Now everyone should be able to enjoy Zoso (original).