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Google Chrome OS - a Windows-killer in the making?

If anyone was ever in doubt over Google’s ongoing efforts to dominate the internet world, its most recent announcement - that it is launching its own operating system - is sure to remove any uncertainties. Google Chrome OS was revealed last night in an official blog post by Sundar Pichai , who said that the new operating system was “[Google's] attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.” Google Chrome OS is described as a “new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel”, and is designed for people who spend most of their time on the web, with application developers using the web as the platform. And since it’s an open source project, applications created for Google Chrome OS will also be able to run on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux, according Pichai

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Aardvark helps you search for friendly answers

With recent changes in the searchiverse like the release of Microsoft’s ‘decision engine’ Bing , the re-rebranding of Ask Jeeves and the launch of Hunch - a search engine that helps you find what you’re looking for by asking a series of questions - you’d be forgiven for thinking that the search market is looking particularly flooded at the moment. And that’s before we even mention Twitter’s new search functions, Google’s recent preoccupation with real-time search and Facebook’s experimentation in the same vein. However, a busy playing field never stopped any business bent on success, and so new search service Aardvark has waded into the battleground

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Aardvark helps you search for friendly answers