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Submission + - Google Chrome, the Google browser

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Philipp Lenssen
Philipp Lenssen writes: "Google announced their very own browser project called Google Chrome — an announcement in the form of a comic book drawn by Scott McCloud, no less. Google say Google Chrome will be open source, include a new JavaScript virtual machine, include the Google Gears add-on by default, and put the tabs above the address bar (not below), among other things. I've also uploaded Google's comic book with all the details (details given from Google's perspective, anyway... let's see how this holds up). While Google provided the URL www.google.com/chrome there's nothing up there yet."
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Submission + - Google Translation Center for human translations

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Philipp Lenssen
Philipp Lenssen writes: "Discovered earlier today, the Google Translation Center is Google's service to "request, provide, and review translations." (You likely won't be able to sign in, and parts of the program are already removed again.) This site is not directly connected to Google's machine translation efforts — at least not on the surface, though it does utilize some of Google's existing translation tools — but seems to be a marketplace in the making to connect those looking for translations with those offering translations. However, several people in blog posts and comments argued that one of the motivations for Google to offer this service may be to feed their statistical machine translation system more input... to achieve better automated results in the future."
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Submission + - Google News Adds (Special) Comments

Submitted by Philipp Lenssen
Philipp Lenssen writes: Google News now allows individuals or organizations who are mentioned in news stories to add comments. (I've posted some screenshots.) "Our long-term vision is that any participant will be able to send in their comments, and we'll show them next to the articles about the story. Comments will be published in full, without any edits, but marked as 'comments' so readers know it's the individual's perspective, rather than part of a journalist's report," Google writes in the official Google News blog. Comments (for the US version of Google News only, right now) need to be sent to news-comments@google.com and will then be manually approved to verify that the sender is indeed who they claim they are. You can check out a live example at Google News.

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