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Wrap up of Google I/O 2012 Day Two

Yesterday, Google conducted the second keynote for their 2012 I/O conference. Google started off the conference by telling the press that Google Chrome has 2.3 billion users. They gave us some other stats such as that, on Chrome, there have been 60 billion words typed, 1 terabyte of content downloaded, and 13 years of time saved through the speed of Chrome every day. The first thing they announced was that there will soon be Google Chrome available on the App Store for iPhones and the iPad 2. On the browser, tabs can be stacked up, closed with gestures, and flip between tabs quickly by dragging them side by side. You can sync all of your bookmarks and history across all your devices with Chrome on them, so you can pull up the page you left off on quickly. Google also unveiled Google Drive for iOS and Chrome OS. There is new and improved searching for Google Drive that is very intuitive. In the new searching, you can search for certain documents by words in them or by what it is. Google Drive now analyzes the file to see which one you want to pull up. For example, if you have a picture of an Apple Store receipt, you can search Apple Store receipt and Google Drive will analyze your documents and pictures to find the right one. You can also save documents to be viewed offline for even easier access. with Google Drive, you can also share documents with people and give certain people rights to edit the document, comment on the document, or to view the document. Offline editing has now been added to Google Documents now too. You can edit it offline and when you get back online it will automatically update it across all of your devices. Next, Google started talking about their Chromebooks.

Google has now made many improvements to their Chrome OS Chromebooks. The new Chromebooks have been made faster, now have an app based interface (like a regular computer operating system), and they have a cloud app ecosystem, Google Drive. Chromebooks are now going to be available in over 100 Best Buy stores and in Dixon's in the United Kingdom. Google then did a "behind the scenes" look at the Glass demo yesterday.

The behind the scenes look at the demo was probably not as exciting as yesterday's demo, because we have already seen it and were expecting it. The look was basically the demo from yesterday from more points of view. Google finished off the keynote with the anti-climatic note from Sergey Brin will keep the public posted on their progress with Glass and that he is hoping it is going to lead to some really "exciting". Google also continued the giveaways by giving everyone at the keynote a Samsung Chromebox for their Chrome OS needs. Want more information on the happenings of Google's second 2012 I/O keynote? Check out the source links for more information.


Source: Engadget
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