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Google introduces +1 button to its users

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 01:38 PM PDT

Google is constantly doing its best to improve its search engine and one of its latest features just introduced is the +1 button. There have been all sorts of rumors related to this button, but since this button is available for experimental use, we decided to share more information about it.

Basically, +1 button allows you and your friends to like a certain webpage that is listed in your search results. This makes searching a bit easier, since you'll be able to see how many and which friends liked that particular link. According to Google, we can use +1 button with our search results or ads, and in the future, we'll see +1 button on other sites as well, so we can like the pages that we're reading instantly with a single click.

We have to notice that +1 button looks quite familiar to that of Facebok’s, but so far, it's in experimental phase, so if you want to try it out, you'll need to sign up for it with your Google account.

[via Ubergizmo]

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Firefox 4 surpasses Internet Explorer 9 market share in a day

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 12:29 PM PDT

War between browsers is still going on, and after the release of Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4, here are some stats about the browsers’ market share. Internet Explorer 9 was boasted before its release and it has gained quite an audience but will that be enough to compete with Firefox 4?

According to the stats, it seems that Firefox 4 surpassed Internet Explorer 9 market share easily in just one day. According to stats, Firefox 4 currently holds 1.95% of the global market share while IE 9 holds 0.87% of market share. One of the main reasons for low market share of IE 9 is that IE 9 isn't compatible with Windows XP. As for other browsers, IE 8 is still the dominant browser and it holds 29.99% of the market share. In second place, there's Firefox 3.6 which still holds 24.43% of the market and Chrome 10 in third place.

Currently Internet Explorer holds 45% of the market, but according to StatCounter, its position is declining gradually. Who knows, after the success of Firefox 4, maybe Firefox will become the dominant browser someday?

[via Ubergizmo]

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Firefox 4 surpasses Internet Explorer 9 market share in a day