The next version of Google is almost ready. The months’ long secret project code named Caffeine is available for testing. It runs on next generation infrastructure and in Google’s own words

It’s the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions.

The new version as of now runs under the current version and you will not notice any major differences.  But if you look from a research or analysis angle certainly you will find great differences. (Forget the UI). Try the new Google though: http://www2.sandbox.google.com

Here are the results:

1. For almost all searches the new engine is at least 40% faster
2. With fastness comes more results, approximately more than 10% more coverage.(Indexing)
3. Page Rank for many searches show obvious changes. Relevant searches have moved on top pushing irrelevant ones down south. Check your site for the page rank and be ready for the new Google Search.
4. 

My favourite feed reader FeedDemon is not so cute now. Reason –>The synchronization have shifted from Newsgator to Google.

What this means to you is:

You cannot synchronize your accounts to NewsGator and Google Reader is the official backend synchronization option. Though initially I was surprised by Google Reader’s robustness, all my tempo immediately died down when I saw an Ad in the left side bottom of the newsgator main window.

It’s annoying to see an Ad continuously in some program like Reader were we put our eyes most of the day . But it’s great gain for Google as it has got a fantastic facelift for it’s reader with FeedDemon’s desktop option.

What’s still ON?

1. NewsGator will continue to develope & update FeedDemon (for free as usual)
2. FeedDemon synchronization ends by 31st August. –>You should move to Google Reader if you want synchronization.

Procedure described by FeedDemon guys is for switching the Synchronization is:

GMail goes ga ga.  Now you can access your GMail offline even when you don’t have internet. The only requisite is that you should have Google Gears installed for your browser.

Here are the Steps to activate your Offline GMail account

1. Sign in to Gmail and click ‘Settings’.
2. Click the ‘Labs’ tab and select ‘Enable’ next to ‘Offline Gmail’.

3. Click ‘Save Changes.’
4. In the upper righthand corner of your account, next to your username, there will be a new ‘Offline’ link. Click this link to start the offline synchronization process.

5.”Install offline access for Gmail” will pop up. Click Install. This will install Google Gears also and re-start your browser.

6. Based on your email volume, Offline Gmail will download email that is newer than 5 years old excluding Spam & Trash.

TIP:

1.To evade browser restart you can install Google Gears from http://gears.google.com/.
2. Google Chrome browser have Gears already installed.

What can you do in offline Gmail

1. You can do everything except sending & receiving new mails.
2. If you compose and press send, the mail will be sent when you connect it to the internet.

How do I know if Gears is installed on a computer I am using?

1.Visit the page http://gears.google.com/. That page will clearly tell you whether Gears is installed or not.
2. Check the Add/remove programs

Flaky connection mode
An interesting feature is the useful flaky connection mode, by this you can:
1.Access the mail that’s stored locally on your computer, regardless of your connection status.
2.This makes it much faster to read and send mail, while you’re on a slow or flaky connection.
3.Your account will continue to sync in the background when it’s able to do so, with no disruption to your experience.

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