Where do you always go when you need to search for something? This will vary from person to person, but most people resort to Google.

Google has been around for several years now and has risen to the top in searches. Not only is it the most used, but it is always being updated and enhanced to (hopefully) be even better each time. Improvements on top of improvements. Every once in a while they come out with something that is a failure. Not a complete failure, but more of an unsuccessful tool. More often than not however, it is always a fine addition, whatever it may be.

This time Google has enhanced our on the go lives! Google is already friendly to the cell phone, but now you can use it just the same as at home. Google was basically the same as searching at home except for one thing, its search suggestions.

Personalized Suggest has been launched in the US, and saves your search history. You can of course deactivate this in your Settings panel in your google account, but if you do want this, it can prove to be quite handy. Let’s say you’re looking for a restaurant and you did a search at home. Maybe you didn’t write the information down, or whatever the case, you’re on the way to the place and can’t find it so you need its phone number. If your account is synced for your mobile phone, you can just go through the search history and find it. Ingenious!

It’s amazing how something so simple could really make searching so much easier.

Good job Google.

Twitter went down this morning, Thursday for about two hours due do a denial of service attack. This isn’t the first time Twitter has been attacked by someone, in fact it happens all of the time.

There are hundreds and thousands of bots and people out there that use Twitter to spam everyone. There are strict rules set when you register your account to help prevent this from happening, but people still manage to do it. For instance, one of the things that will happen is if you try to register too many accounts from one IP address, it will lock them all down and make them unavailable to the public. They are deemed spammy and denied access to. To regain control of your account(s), you must file a Ticket within your account, which is a call to their attention that it should not have been blocked. Service happens much more quickly if you file it while you are logged in, rather than filing a ticket outside of the account explaining the issue with all of your Twitter accounts. They send you a response email with your information in it, but unfortunately there is no way to follow up on the ticket when you sent your ticket without being logged in. This creates a few issues, especially when it comes to needing your account back in a timely manner.

This issue doesn’t really come up too often as most people only have a need for one Twitter account. This does however make it a pain for people with the intention to spam all of Twitter, which makes it a cleaner and safer community for us! With all of the spam floating around, there’s no telling when you click on something what it’s going to do. It could go to a harmless site, or to one that is dangerous and you manage to find a virus.

Twitter seems to be a little buggy here and there, but nearly everything is that has that many members on it. It’s bound to run into a few issues, especially with the extensive spamming issues. These alone could bring their whole server system down. It’s commendable that they were even able to get it back up and running as fast as they did.

Makes you wonder how many people were panicking when they couldn’t tweet about their breakfast muffin’s deliciousness.

Google Chrome was designed for people who basically live on the internet. It is optimized for supreme web performance. As it advertises: http://www.google.com/chrome Fast start-up, Fast loading, Fast search. It is completely free to use and has caught the attention of many people, with it becoming their favorite browser. But what is that news of an operating system based off of Google Chrome?

Google has decided to create an operating system with the same goals in mind as Chrome had – optimal web performance. The OS, like the browser, is being designed for people who live on the web. Google explains in their Official Google Blog that the operating systems that run these browsers, whatever they may be, are on operating systems that were not designed for the internet. As a direct result of this, it causes the browsers to act sluggish at times and are bogged down by systems that have too much going on already.

And so, we get their new OS.

Google’s intention is to aim their new OS at netbooks. It is going to be a lightweight operating system and would function perfectly on these tiny laptops. With the popularity of the netbook coming to light, surely people will be interested in an operating system that light just like the netbook.

What about compatibility with the programs you need? Of course! Google fully intends to make their new OS compatible with anything you may need to use on your computer. What’s the point in having an OS that can’t run anything that people already use?

It sounds like Google has a good idea of what they need to do next. They are already the top in search, and keeping people interested in their browser, so why not strive for the top in operating systems as well?

Bring on the OS!