New Google Chrome only New Tab Extension: Get it here Setup a three-panel view of your favorites, closed tabs and customize your backgrounds and colors, and you can add notes right on the page. You can also move bookmarks around on the page. via: LifeHacker

Google to get into the ISP business with an ultra fast fiber network called “Google Fiber for Communities”. They are calling for State and local governments to get a hold of Google to beta test ultra fast internet. See the video

Tip Jar is a collection of money saving tips submitted and voted on by the web community. Google decided to help us by setting up a list of money saving tips that users can vote on. The best money saving tips will have the highest votes.

Google has been very concerned about Net Neutrality and they are providing tools so that users can determine if ISPs are blocking or throttling certain applications such as using traffic shaping and network prioritization practices. Like the practices Cox is testing out. Measurement Lab (M-Lab) Google and it's partners New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute and the PlanetLab Consortium released ...

Google ended the year with 63.5 percent market share versus 58.5 percent in January 2008. The chart above tells a better story. It comes from the comScore 2008 Digital Year In Review, and shows the share of raw number of search queries in the U.S captured by the five major search engines. All the competitors are flatlining, except Google’s ...