David Levy is a professor at my alma mater, and was my graduate school adviser. Excited to see him presenting at Google.
Google has released its own browser: Chrome http://www.google.com/chrome
ARS Technica Reviews: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080901-google-opens-up-new-front-...
One of the most impressive technical innovations that Google has brought to Chrome is a multiprocess design.
So if you are surfing to myspace and it crashes your browser... you don't have to worry about filling out that job application for the 3rd time. you can just close the tab for myspace and be done with that unholy cest pit.
A new internet search site Cuil (http:www.cuil.com) has lauched. They claim to have indexed 3x's the number of pages as google and 10x's as many as live.com. Impressive numbers, but I'm not sure they have it just right yet.