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Google Gears is Launched

Posted by samzenpus on from the google-google-google dept.

Mister Inbetween writes "Google is rolling out a technology designed to overcome the major drawback faced by all web-based applications: the fact that they don't work without an internet connection. Google Gears is an open source technology for creating offline web applications that is being launched today at Google's annual Developer Day gatherings around the world."

6 of 265 comments (clear)

  1. Re:WARNING: Goatse in Link above. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Done ;-}

  2. Re:What's the Point by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    <sarcasm>
    yes becouse traditional applications work everywhere regardles of platform

    </sarcasm>

    This is a wierd day, trolls modded interesting :/
  3. Re:Link? by SEWilco · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was referring to the /. article. We don't RTFA here.

  4. Re:Link? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    At Google we recognize that this is a serious problem for you slashdotters: article summaries frequently omit any link to the webpage in question. But not to worry: we've got engineers hard at work on a new technology that will allow anybody to search for pages on the web.

    Larry & Sergey

  5. No thanks by z-j-y · · Score: 2, Funny

    I cannot work without internet. How am I supposed to check slashdot from time to time?

  6. Re:What's the Point by Daengbo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually, his three were OpenBSD, Beos, and ReactOS. His apps will target the elite top .01% of the market.

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