Has Google Become Too Impersonal?

It's been a while since Google's start in 1996 as a research project at Stanford by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. A lot has changed over the years with Google's rapid growth and development. The verb "to google" is in the dictionary meaning "to perform a web search". People have come to rely in Google for just about everything. From finding their way using Google Maps, to surfing the web with Google Chrome...and everything in between.

So what will become of Google's personal side? Google relies heavily on automation, and this is where the problem lies. People are not automated, and over the years I'm seeing more situations where Google's handling of "people", not "bots" is failing.

If you have any opinions or actual responses from Google (positive or negative, please post your comment.

IE 9 Previewed at Professional Developers Conference 2009

Microsoft president Steven Sinofsky presented a very early version of IE 9 at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2009.

Some things to note about Internet Explorer 9:

Performance
Microsoft explained how they examined how similar sites actually tax browsers in different ways. For example, Microsoft is architecting IE 9 to handle script-heavy and non script-heavy sites properly.

Interoperability standards
Microsoft plans to add adherence to web standards in IE 9, which they have continued to neglect in all previous versions.

Hardware acceleration
Microsoft has moved the IE rendering engine from GDI to DirectX.