Mountain View (CA) – Being Google has its advantages, of course – for example the ability to completely remove certain pages that accidentally went online, were stored in the search engine’s cache and may reveal more information than Google intended to.

Google’s search engine cache has become one of the most valuable research features of Google Search, since it enables users to travel back in time and find pages that may not exist anymore. Dell has made its experiences in the past with unannounced products that were apparently put online for test purposes and got indexed before the company removed such pages again. Or, remember the recent controversy about the age of Chinese gymnasts whose published age on cached pages did not match their currently published age?

A similar hiccup apparently happened to Google itself when it briefly published the download of the new Chrome browser at http://gears.google.com/chrome/?hl=en exactly at 12:00 am PST, earlier today. A search for “Google Chrome” and “Google Gears” points to a cached page, which, however, is not available anymore. It may have been an intentional leak or an accidental leak, but the fact that the page has been removed from the search engine cache as quickly as it was published may raise eye brows here and there.      

Anyone who wants to see a preview of the browser can jump over to Google Blogoscoped, which managed to grab a few screenshots of the browser, before the page disappeared. These images in fact reveal that Chrome will have a user interface that is reduced to a minimum and focus on an “omnibar” search auto-completion feature, a homepage that has tiles of nine homepages, applications that are usually accessed through the browser, but can be added as applications to the Windows Start Menu as well as anonymous browsing support and a Download manager.

I saw that and it pissed me off

Sep 02, 2008 10:25     

First
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got the download!

Sep 02, 2008 10:37     

I have downloaded a copy earlier from there and placed it on http://www.memac.com I'm not sure if thelink is there anymore. gchrome rocks!
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The Chrome Effect

Sep 02, 2008 18:58     

If three-quarters of people are using IE, no wonder so many people are so excited. It's about time someone re-hauled the browser dinosaur. This interesting article talks about the effect on Windows and Microsoft.
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I have found one too

Sep 03, 2008 00:42     

It was an article of problogger.net which was way around for 2 years now and it was transferred on another place in probloggers site. Still google index the old place for the article and i got an error message when i visited it.
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http://downloadgooglechrome.net/

Sep 03, 2008 17:38     

You can download the fullpack as well: http://downloadgooglechrome.net/
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one small step for man... thats about it

Sep 04, 2008 21:57     

getting excited over nothing, i did notice the script engine about 6 to 7 times faster than opera or firefox, almost 10 times faster than IE, ofcourse this is an exaggeration as IE and opera still have the best visual feed back, firefox is a mess and chrome feels laggy, safari well i was quite happy not having to test yet another browser... they're trying to dominate the internet, as in the whole thing. why didnt they just go all out and start adding transitions like IE since they're going to surpass them soon anyway and have the market to themselves. fukin flash, plz browser makers implement some rudimentary object manipulation to make adobe obsolete, but then again...

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freudian slip

Oct 01, 2008 09:50     

eye browse - he-he-he
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