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Goolge Chrome Gets a Touch Interface

- By - Source : ConceivablyTech

Touch will come to everything soon one day!

You can simply swipe the screen to the right and left to access more than one screen, you can drag applications from one screen to another and you can add as many screens as you need.

The feature, which is available in the latest nightly builds of Chromium clearly caters to touch devices such as tablets, which is somewhat strange as there is no Chrome browser for Android (yet). It is somewhat difficult to use on a regular PC via a mouse and the need for such a feature may be questionable especially if you are using a 22-inch or 24-inch screen. However, it is an interface that is much more app-centric and reduces the importance of the URL bar to a research tool: The websites and apps you use most frequently will be access via an app icon.

It is unclear when this feature will actually make it into Chrome, but we notice that Google has already rolled out the second version of the new tab page layout. It's unlikely that we will see this feature in Chrome 11, which is in the developer phase and Chrome 12, which is only available as nightly builds (Chromium). Chrome 13 may be a good guess. ConceivablyTech also noted that Google is looking for ways to reduce the file size of Chrome, add more cloud features and a web app launcher.  

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roflmaonow 03/23/2011 2:17 AM
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What's a Goolge?

PudgyChicken 03/23/2011 2:44 AM
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Erm... Since Android is Google based, wouldn't the built in browser technically be Chrome? Confusing.

oneblackened 03/23/2011 2:49 AM
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Goolge? Seriously?

Would you guys mind proofreading a bit?

joytech22 03/23/2011 3:11 AM
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They should hire me to edit their documents and correct any mistakes.
Hurr durr.

Now on topic, It would be awesome if touch screens we're cheaper.

AidanJC 03/23/2011 3:34 AM
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"Now on topic, It would be awesome if touch screens we're cheaper."

I hope you are aware of your error.

shineon2010 03/23/2011 3:39 AM
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lol funny

Anonymous 03/23/2011 3:40 AM
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"Now on topic, It would be awesome if touch screens we're cheaper."

If they hired you to edit their documents they'd make mistakes in punctuation instead of spelling.

natmaster 03/23/2011 3:59 AM
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What has happened to tomshardware? Seems like all the articles these days have horrible typos, unparsable sentences, and incorrect information. I've been reading toms for almost ten years and it used to be my favorite source of hardware information.

oldbluekid 03/23/2011 5:13 AM
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Goolge LOL!

ta152h 03/23/2011 7:04 AM
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Goolge, Google. You end up the same place. Just the first way you end up there looking stupid.

Hellbound 03/23/2011 7:05 AM
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Almost every article of late has an obvious mistake. I'm starting to think they are doing this on purpose.

_Cubase_ 03/23/2011 7:18 AM
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Hellbound :
Almost every article of late has an obvious mistake. I'm starting to think they are doing this on purpose.



Yah, LOL. Combine all the mistakes and it spells out the phrase: "Send help!"

ta152h 03/23/2011 7:24 AM
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_Cubase_ :
Yah, LOL. Combine all the mistakes and it spells out the phrase: "Send help!"



You have to take the good with the bad. They produce a new article every week day, and sometimes with extra volume, comes mistakes. Admittedly, this is a pretty embarrassing one.

The question is, would you rather get fewer articles, or have to put up with the admittedly difficult to understand (in that it could be made, and then pass the editor as well) misspelling like "goolge". Probably, most people would take the mistakes because, while disturbing, they don't really change much in real terms, or render the information completely useless.

Griffolion 03/23/2011 10:15 AM
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Once you go Chrome, you go deaf.

back_by_demand 03/23/2011 10:29 AM
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I can imagine the article writers spotting a few typos, then thinking "should I correct that?"

Then further thinking, "nah, bunch of assholes only complain endlessly anyway instead of actually debating the content, so why should I bother?"

nullifi 03/23/2011 2:16 PM
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TA152H :
You have to take the good with the bad. They produce a new article every week day, and sometimes with extra volume, comes mistakes. Admittedly, this is a pretty embarrassing one.The question is, would you rather get fewer articles, or have to put up with the admittedly difficult to understand (in that it could be made, and then pass the editor as well) misspelling like "goolge". Probably, most people would take the mistakes because, while disturbing, they don't really change much in real terms, or render the information completely useless.



I would gladly take a few high quality articles a week, instead of endless junk. I know, we need a spam filter for articles. You have a browser addon that parses articles, and if there's obvious mistakes it flags it as spam and we never have to read it. We need a spam filter for comments too, but that's another story.

RavnosCC 03/23/2011 3:32 PM
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Isn't this a news post, not a full-fledged article?

Just sayin'.

ta152h 03/23/2011 3:43 PM
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nullifi :
I would gladly take a few high quality articles a week, instead of endless junk. I know, we need a spam filter for articles. You have a browser addon that parses articles, and if there's obvious mistakes it flags it as spam and we never have to read it. We need a spam filter for comments too, but that's another story.



You think a typo like "Goolge" makes it junk? Not that I'm not suitably disgusted and surprised this could make it past the editor, but if you read your own remark, you'd realize how bizarre it is.

Again, I'm not defending the mistakes, but Goolge didn't change your understanding of the article. You understood it, and it didn't, by itself make it junk. That's my point.

The other stuff is entirely subjective. What you consider a high quality article might be entirely different from what someone else does. It's hard to appeal to everyone. If you write a formal style article (which they don't do at all here), it's going to appeal to a small group and they will love it, but it's going to be very dry because most of the readers here are very non-technical, and would not enjoy it. For better or worse, this has become a site for game players, not for computer people, and computer hardware as it relates to games is what this crowd is after. There are no doubt some old readers when Tom's was more of a computer hardware site, but that's not the current reality, and I'm not sure they'd ever want to go back to that. There are probably more readers this way, and they have to cater to this less technical group with articles that appeal to them. So, the informal, dummied-down approach, and articles of this type necessarily are what they need to produce.

To put it another way, do you think they would have more people interested in a step by step analysis of the Bobcat's integer pipeline, or Crysis 2 benchmarks? I think we know the answer to that, and it would be overwhelmingly so.

Even so, I agree this type of mistake shouldn't make it on the web page, ever, and someone isn't doing their job well. But, even with that, what is the impact? Not much, really.

Anonymous 03/23/2011 5:33 PM
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goolge

eddieroolz 03/23/2011 5:46 PM
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Perhaps useful for the Chrome OS tablets? That's the only use I can think of.

brett1042002 03/23/2011 5:56 PM
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oneblackened :
Goolge? Seriously? Would you guys mind proofreading a bit?



UH OH, GRAMMAR POLICE!!!

Seriously, the author is human like you. People make mistakes. Get over it.

bv90andy 03/23/2011 8:13 PM
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Touch will come to everything soon one day!

dstigue 03/23/2011 8:35 PM
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Will touch come to me? I'm lonely :[ haha!

mayankleoboy1 03/26/2011 3:23 AM
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bv90andy :
Touch will come to everything soon one day!



AMEN