Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation
and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

So basically the deal is I have 23 invites that I don’t need, if you want one leave a comment. People I recognise are more likely to receive invites but otherwise its on a first come first served policy!

What is a wave?

A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.

A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

Google are releasing a new upgrade to their search engine in the coming months. You can test this at the moment yourself by going here. The new engine, codenamed Caffeine by Google, is aimed at delivering faster, more accurate and more comprehensive results.
Search tests done by Mashable.com show that the new search engine is significantly faster!

New Google:

Old Google:

As you can see here its over double the speed of the old Google!

New Google is FAST: It often doubled the speed of Google classic.

New Google relies more on keywords: SEO professionals, your job just got a lot harder. The algorithm’s definitely different. It has more reliance on keyword strings to produce better results.

Search is moving into real-time: Being able to get info on breaking events is clearly a priority for Google and Bing. With both Twitter and Facebook launching real-time search engines, they needed to respond.

It’s partially a response to Bing: At least, that’s how we feel. This new search has a focus on increasing speed, relevancy, accuracy, and the index volume, things that Microsoft really hit on when it released Bing. It feels as if Google “Caffeine” is meant to shore up any deficiencies it may have when compared to Microsoft’s offering, though it’s been in the works long before Bing launched.

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.

So finally we know Google has been going into the Operating System market. This has been on the tables for Google for quite a long time, we’ve all discussed the pro’s and cons of it. But did any of expect a netbook os?

I wonder will it be Linux based. And how similar will it be to ‘GOS‘ ?