Google's newest merger of search and social is upon us, find out what this means for you.

On January 10, 2012, Google rolled out its latest endeavor to incorporate social aspects directly into its organic search results. This is nothing new to search engine results pages (SERPs), as Bing has been partnered with Facebook for some time now.  However, as the market share leader, Google’s announcement crystallizes the need for a comprehensive social strategy to complement search optimization efforts.

Recently, Google has announced that it will withdraw support for the H.264 video codec in lieu of its newly acquired On2 technology, which supports the WebM VP8 and Ogg Theora codecs. What does this mean for your future web video experience?

While this does sound like alien language, our crew is going to break down the logistics and discuss if Google Chrome is essentially promoting or undermining the open web. Read on and then decide for yourself.

So the beta of Google’s new search engine, Caffeine, is out and open to the public now since August 10, 2009, which makes it a perfect time to pick the brain of Mightybytes developer Amit about how it sizes up so far—tall, grande, latte-style—to Google’s current engine and Bing.com.

Google has introduced their own operating system for desktop systems and netbooks.

Speed, simplicity and security and the tenets around which they are building this new OS, which is based on the Chrome browser. The goal is to get users started up and on the web within a few seconds and provide a minimal interface that doesn’t get in the way of user experience. The underlying security architecture is being rewritten so users shouldn’t have to deal with viruses and endless security updates as well.